Written answers

Tuesday, 22 March 2022

  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      12. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expand the eligibility for the fuel allowance payment. [14837/22]
    • Pension Provisions
      15. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the projections for the annual collection of funds under an auto enrolment pension scheme; if it is proposed to deploy these...
    • Ukraine War
      17. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures that her Department is taking to support Ukrainians arriving in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      18. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will amend the eligibility criteria for the fuel allowance to take those with occupational pensions into account. [14856/22]
    • Ukraine War
      19. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the response of her Department to the Ukrainian war crisis; the measures that are being taken to ensure that all applications...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      20. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to address the rate of jobseeker’s allowance for young people following her Department’s report...
    • Domestic Violence
      21. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications, grants and refusals under new measures to assist victims of domestic violence to access rent...
    • Ukraine War
      22. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the resources that are being made available to local Intreo offices to help host families of Ukrainian individuals coming to...
    • Departmental Reports
      23. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the recommendations relevant to her Department within the Cost of Disability in Ireland report; and if she will...
    • State Pensions
      24. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timescale for the Government response to the recommendations of the Pensions Commission with particular reference to an...
    • Employment Schemes
      25. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of the companies that have won the tenders for the provision of local employment services to date in the State;...
    • School Meals Programme
      26. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the hot school meals programme. [14878/22]
    • Ukraine War
      27. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the additional supports that will be allocated to each Intreo office for those arriving from Ukraine; and if she will make a...
    • Employment Support Services
      28. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the tender process for all public employment services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14819/22]
    • Ukraine War
      29. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on the social welfare supports offered and accessed by persons and families that are fleeing the Ukrainian...
    • Employment Schemes
      30. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures her Department is taking to assist and support migrants to access employment; the way in which such measures are...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      31. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons applying for assistance with energy costs under the exceptional needs payments scheme by applications,...
    • Employment Schemes
      32. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of companies and employers that registered and took part in the Jobs in Ireland 2022 event which her Department...
    • Artists' Remuneration
      33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to ensure that disabled artists in receipt of the disability allowance or the blind pension can avail of the new...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      34. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions she will take to urgently address spiralling coal costs to support families facing huge pressures; and if she will...
    • State Pensions
      37. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce a dedicated State pension for long-term family carers to ensure that they receive a full pension...
    • Employment Schemes
      38. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures that her Department is taking to assist and support persons who find it difficult to gain employment; the way in...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      39. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a commitment will be given to carry out an investigation into the high rate of refusal for the disability allowance; and if...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      40. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions she will take to prevent lone parents being forced into court to seek maintenance in order to retain income...
    • Departmental Strategies
      42. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the planned priority measures for 2022 under the Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Code
      43. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will prepare options to expand the eligibility and rates for the fuel allowance given the rapid increase in fuel...
    • Pension Provisions
      44. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the salaries and pensions paid out to special advisers to Ministers and Ministers of State in her Department in 2020 and 2021,...
    • Ukraine War
      45. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if social welfare payments including the living alone allowance and the fuel allowance will be impacted by those offering to...
    • Social Welfare Code
      46. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to an additional bonus fuel allowance payment given the dramatic increase in fuel prices; and...
    • State Pensions
      47. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps that she will take in relation to the recent review of pension age that recommended not moving the pension age to...
    • Ukraine War
      49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the role that local Intreo offices are playing in facilitating Ukrainians coming to Ireland under the Temporary Protection...
    • Employment Schemes
      50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress regarding implementation of Budget 2022 measures to support employment opportunities for people with...
    • Regulatory Bodies
      51. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has made any contact with the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities in respect of a moratorium on disconnections....
    • Social Welfare Code
      52. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends increasing the payment of the energy element of the household benefits package in order that the real...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      54. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to amend the back to education scheme payments to take into account time spent on the pandemic unemployment...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      55. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of commissions of investigation under the remit of her Department currently ongoing in the State; the cost of each...
    • Employment Support Services
      56. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 82 of 3 February 2022, the details of any analysis carried out to date by her Department...
    • Pension Provisions
      57. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the pensions auto-enrolment system including plans to consult with the general public; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Code
      59. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration is being given to index linking social welfare payments which would help mitigate the impact of inflation....
    • State Pensions
      60. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is preparing to make provision for the roll-back on the decision to increase the retirement age; and if she...
    • Departmental Strategies
      62. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timeline for developing a communications campaign to highlight the ability of people to retain key social welfare supports...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      64. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider a policy in which families living in emergency accommodation can access exceptional needs payments to pay...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      65. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to financially recognise the efforts of those in receipt of the carer’s allowance during the Covid-19...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      66. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current procedure to avail of enhanced illness benefit for Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14822/22]
    • Social Welfare Code
      67. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is carrying out means assessment reviews of carers given that the new arrangements of Budget 2022 are being...
    • State Pensions
      70. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration is being given to including foster carers under the State pension for long-term carers recommendation from...
    • Employment Schemes
      71. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to carry out a review of the JobPath scheme when it ceases; if findings from a review will be used to inform...
    • Departmental Contracts
      73. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of the contracts with all third-party operators that engage on behalf of her Department in 2021 and to date in 2022;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      75. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will rectify the situation in which those on pandemic unemployment payments over the course of the pandemic do not now...
    • Employment Rights
      78. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps her Department is taking to uncover, address and reduce bogus self-employment from a social insurance perspective,...
    • Employment Schemes
      79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the impact of the increase in the wage subsidy scheme for people with disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Pensions
      80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the report of the Commission on Pensions; the expected timescale for Government decisions on its...
    • Employment Schemes
      81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of roles that have been filled in the Work Placement Experience Programme; the cost of the scheme to the Exchequer...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      82. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to including assistance for broadband connection as part of the household benefits package; and...
    • Departmental Reports
      83. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for the implementation of the recommendations of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      84. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid by her Department in 2021 and to date in 2022 under the heading of medical equipment; and the breakdown by...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Consultations
      87. To ask the Taoiseach the number of external consultant reports commissioned by his Department in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022; the cost of same; the company involved;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      88. To ask the Taoiseach the cost incurred by his Department for the supply of Covid-19 related face masks and face coverings since March 2019 to date; and the name of the supplier involved....
    • Traveller Community
      90. To ask the Taoiseach the actions that his Department has taken to implement the relevant recommendations from the Oireachtas Joint Committee report on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller...
    • World Economic Forum
      91. To ask the Taoiseach if he or officials from his Department have engaged in any form of communication with the World Economic Forum or representatives of the World Economic Forum including by...
    • Departmental Staff
      92. To ask the Taoiseach if the next Secretary General of his Department will be appointed through open public competition and under the Top-Level Appointments Committee process; and, if not, the...
    • Census of Population
      93. To ask the Taoiseach his views on the Central Statistics Office automatically assigning male or female sex to those who choose not to declare on the 2022 census form. [15065/22]
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Work Permits
      95. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the length of time it is taking his Department to process work permit applications (details...
    • European Union
      96. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if discussions are being held at European Union level to ensure security of supply of steel products from third countries in which no...
    • Middle East
      97. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total value of dual-use exports to Israel and Palestine for the period of 2017 to date. [13883/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      98. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the cost incurred by his Department for the supply of Covid-19 related face masks and face coverings since March 2019 to date; the...
    • Trade Missions
      100. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current schedule for trade missions for 2022; if adjustments will occur considering the ongoing fuel crisis; and if he will make...
    • Traveller Community
      101. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment he actions that his Department has taken to implement the relevant recommendations from the Oireachtas Joint Committee report on Key...
    • World Economic Forum
      102. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he or officials from his Department have engaged in any form of communication with the World Economic Forum or representatives of...
    • Fire Safety
      103. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 165 of 15 September 2021, if his Department has completed its review of the public consultation...
    • Employment Rights
      104. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that can be taken against employers that did not give the 18 March bank holiday to staff; if his attention has been drawn...
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      105. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that can be taken in cases in which a State funded organisation (details supplied) ignores a recommendation from the...
    • Job Creation
      106. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the opening of a factory (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14335/22]
    • Ukraine War
      107. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are plans to engage with various professions, sectors and employers to ascertain if the qualifications of Ukrainian...
    • Company Closures
      109. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department is being kept informed regarding the proposed closure of a factory (details supplied); when production at this...
    • Ukraine War
      110. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Ukrainian refugees arriving in Ireland will be provided with work permits in cases in which it is suitable and appropriate to...
    • Legislative Process
      111. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 203 of 28 September 2021, if he will address this issue by way of legislation or statutory...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      113. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures that he is taking to safeguard SMEs from the debilitating increases in energy prices which will force many to close...
    • Job Losses
      114. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the 30-day waiting time for receivership of a company (details supplied) in County Limerick will be waived in order that employees...
    • Work Permits
      115. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of a work permit application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14790/22]
    • Employment Rights
      116. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his strategy to tackle mandatory retirement clauses in existing employment contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Work Permits
      117. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a critical skills application by a person (details supplied) will be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Enterprise Policy
      119. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding issues in relation to a minimum wage agreement for the security industry raised in correspondence (details...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the cost incurred by his Department for the supply of Covid-19 related face masks and face coverings since March 2019...
    • Postal Services
      122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to provide rural postmasters with a retainer in order to secure the future operations of rural post offices...
    • Ukraine War
      123. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the plans the Government has in place to protect persons living in Ireland from the fallout from a nuclear disaster if...
    • Traveller Community
      124. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions that his Department has taken to implement the relevant recommendations from the Oireachtas Joint Committee...
    • Energy Conservation
      125. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a product (details supplied) is not being funded under the scheme for the insulation of houses; if so, the reason...
    • Energy Policy
      127. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on a test site (details supplied) off the coast of Belmullet, County Mayo; the progress that has been...
    • Offshore Exploration
      129. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of existing offshore licensing extensions currently under consideration by his Department; the length of...
    • World Economic Forum
      130. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he or officials from his Department have engaged in any form of communication with the World Economic Forum or...
    • Departmental Budgets
      131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the breakdown for the current and capital budget allocations for each subhead of the Revised Estimates for 2022. [14218/22]
    • Energy Policy
      134. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the new microgeneration scheme will be published; when renewable energy communities will be able to take part and...
    • Energy Conservation
      136. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider a scheme of retrofitting for the elderly who rely on the State pension and do not have access to...
    • EU Directives
      137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a comprehensive statement on the European Commission enforcement case (2012) 4028 regarding...
    • Traveller Community
      138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the electricity rebate will be passed on to members of the Traveller community who pay electricity bills directly to...
    • National Oil Reserves Agency
      139. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the figure collected from National Oil Reserves Agency levy annually; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Natural Gas Grid
      140. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he will publish the study on the potential use of the decommissioned Kinsale and Seven Heads gas fields for carbon...
    • Energy Conservation
      141. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current waiting time for a survey to be done on a property regarding the warmer homes scheme (details supplied);...
    • Departmental Funding
      142. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the Exchequer directly or indirectly funds an organisation (details supplied); if so, the cost to the Exchequer of...
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there is any statutory impediment or conflict of interest for an officer of An Taisce becoming a trustee or director...
    • Departmental Budgets
      145. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the carryover of €57.9 million from 2021; the details of the programmes from which it came in...
    • Energy Conservation
      147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the number of homeowners on the warmer homes scheme waiting list; and the average time...
    • Fuel Prices
      148. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that residential customers consuming gas through a district heating system...
    • Energy Prices
      151. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures that he is taking to safeguard charities and community groups from the debilitating increases in energy...
    • Energy Policy
      152. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the expected timeframe for the roll-out of district heating. [14766/22]
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      153. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when feedback tariffs will be introduced for solar, micro-wind and micro-hydro energy projects; the reason for the...
    • Energy Conservation
      154. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are minimum standards laid down for the heat pumps to be installed to be eligible for grant aid for the...
    • Waste Management
      155. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a national waste management strategy has been developed in conjunction with Ireland 2040 plans. [14926/22]
    • Post Office Network
      158. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the Inter-Departmental Working Group on post offices that was set up in 2021; and if he will make a...
    • School Facilities
      159. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of a broadband connection for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Bus Services
      160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a matter regarding bus stops at a location (details supplied) in County Kildare will be examined; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Driver Licences
      161. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will allow those who have a pending status for their GNIB card to renew their driver licence. [13845/22]
    • Public Transport
      162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a group (details supplied) is calling on the National Transport Authority to act on...
    • Driver Test
      163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the percentage of driving test pass rates by test centre since March 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13872/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      165. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost incurred by his Department for the supply of Covid-19 related face masks and face coverings since March 2019 to date; the name...
    • Bus Services
      167. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a bus stop is planned for Ballinglanna, Glanmire and Dunkettle, Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13923/22]
    • Driver Licences
      168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a driving licence will be issued to a person (details supplied) who applied on 16 July 2021 for a foreign licence exchange from a...
    • Electric Vehicles
      169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to expand and increase funding to the electric vehicle toll incentive scheme to allow for the expansion of the scheme beyond...
    • Local Authorities
      170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the specific active travelling funding allocated in 2021 to Westmeath County Council (details supplied). [13952/22]
    • Driver Licences
      171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 222 of 3 February 2022, when a reply will issue from the Road Safety Authority (details supplied);...
    • Traveller Community
      172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions that his Department has taken to implement the relevant recommendations from the Joint Committee on Key Issues Affecting the...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a proposal by the Dublin Airport Authority to impose a drop-off charge for persons being brought to...
    • Driver Licences
      174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is mandatory to have a government services card to apply for a driver licence; and if he will reverse the policy and allow citizens...
    • Bus Éireann
      175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason online booking was unavailable on route 64 Bus Éireann's Donegal to Galway on 3 March 2022; the operational issues which...
    • Airport Policy
      177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he and his Departmental officials will meet a cross-party delegation from Derry, Strabane District and Donegal County Council as soon...
    • World Economic Forum
      178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he or officials from his Department have engaged in any form of communication with the World Economic Forum or representatives of the...
    • Rail Network
      179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that additional funding is allocated to the National Transport Authority for 2023 to allow for the provision of an...
    • Public Transport
      180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase the fixed payment notice for taxis that refuse to carry assistance dogs or guide dogs; and if he will make a...
    • National Car Test
      181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons on the current waiting list for an NCT test appointment; the measures that his Department will take to reduce this...
    • Electric Vehicles
      185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to address the difficulties facing electric car owners who do not have private driveways and whose front doors open out onto...
    • Road Projects
      186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expected timeline to complete the N2 Clontibret to the border road scheme; the funds that have been allocated and expended to date;...
    • Haulage Industry
      188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the assistance his Department will provide to the haulage sector who are greatly impacted as a result of the recent rise in fuel costs...
    • Fishing Industry
      190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if fishing vessels above 15 m in length overall must not switch off their automatic identification system and thereby impair their...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Aer Rianta International, as a subsidiary of the Dublin Airport Authority, currently operates or oversees retail spaces in Russian...
    • Hedge Cutting
      193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is financial assistance available to landowners who are requested to undertake substantial works to cut back roadside trees and...
    • Bus Éireann
      194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of buses in the Bus Éireann fleet, excluding the school transport fleet, as of 31 December 2019, 31 December 2020 and 1...
    • Aviation Industry
      195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to so-called ghost flights being flown from Dublin Airport; if he is concerned at the climate impact of...
    • Public Transport
      196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department or the NTA will consider waving the requirement for new taxi vehicles to have clear glass at the rear of their vehicle...
    • Electric Vehicles
      198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding provided to each relevant local authority under the public charge point scheme in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form....
    • Public Transport
      200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update in respect of the development of a tax saver travel pass that will provide for those who are now in a...
    • Taxi Licences
      201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that a local hackney licence application was turned down in areas (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Measures
      202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the use of section 38 of the Road Traffic Act 1994; the regularity with which this mechanism is used; if his attention has...
    • Road Tolls
      203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will consider a monthly cap on toll charges for daily commuters who pass through a toll twice a day every day in view...
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position in relation to the signing of a statutory instrument to give effect to the changes agreed in the CIÉ regular wages...
    • Road Safety
      205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider the introduction of a reduced speed zone outside all schools and childcare facilities; and if he will make a...
    • Bus Services
      206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if more urgency will be given to rolling out a bus route (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14773/22]
    • Driver Licences
      208. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Road Safety Authority expects to conclude consideration of licence exchange agreements with several non-EU licensing...
    • Fuel Prices
      209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his Department's policy with regard to uncertainty with fuel prices leading to very difficult trading conditions for private operators in...
    • Ukraine War
      215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has engaged with Polish authorities regarding Ireland sending buses and airplanes to transport Ukrainian refugees to Ireland; and...
    • National Transport Authority
      217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Transport Authority can provide a gender breakdown of its Cork office. [14949/22]
    • Local Authorities
      218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a specific funding allocation has been drawn down by a local authority (details supplied); if so, the details of the funding that was...
    • Road Projects
      220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a decision will be made on the route selection for a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Electric Vehicles
      221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to expand the electric small public service vehicles grant to driving instructors and schools in order to give learner...
    • Driver Licences
      222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to ensure the resumption of walk-in appointments for renewing driving licences. [15070/22]
  • Department of Finance
    • Fuel Prices
      224. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps that are being taken to ensure that motorists are not paying unnecessarily high prices for petrol and diesel, and to ensure that cuts in excise...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      225. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost incurred by his Department for the supply of Covid-19 related face masks and face coverings since March 2019 to date; the name of the supplier...
    • Tax Code
      227. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will include petrol and diesel fuel in the 13.5% VAT rate; and the rationale for not already reducing VAT on transport fuels. [13949/22]
    • Fuel Prices
      228. To ask the Minister for Finance if additional supports will be available to small businesses to assist with the cost of fuel, particularly for those that operate trucks and additional...
    • Banking Sector
      230. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagement his Department has had with banks to ensure that older persons who have difficulties with technology are supported as these institutions remove...
    • Fuel Prices
      231. To ask the Minister for Finance if serious consideration is being given by his Department to reducing excise duty on fuels considering the fuel crisis and the additional hardships being...
    • Traveller Community
      232. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions that his Department has taken to implement the relevant recommendations by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller...
    • Tax Data
      233. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue raised through excise duty, carbon and non-carbon components, on home heating oil disaggregated by fuel type in each of the years 2017 to 2020....
    • Tax Credits
      235. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will consider a tax credit for owner occupiers of defective homes in Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14037/22]
    • Banking Sector
      236. To ask the Minister for Finance if any virtual asset service provider has been successfully registered with the Central Bank to date; if the Central Bank has published guidelines on the...
    • Ukraine War
      237. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the net economic or social benefit that Russian business entities provide to Ireland outside of a small group of specialised accountancy...
    • Tax Code
      238. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will address the current VAT regime that charities are subject to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14128/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      240. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider allowing private healthcare operators including pharmacies to make a tax-free payment to staff on a once-off basis without the payment...
    • World Economic Forum
      241. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or officials from his Department have engaged in any form of communication with the World Economic Forum or representatives of the World Economic Forum...
    • Ukraine War
      243. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review section 110 provisions given that Russian companies outside of the banking sector accounted for over 60% of the €35.5 billion in...
    • Housing Schemes
      244. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of all loans approved and drawn down and projects funded in tabular form; the number of units in each project; and the average cost to purchase or...
    • Banking Sector
      246. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of his Department's engagement with an organisation (details supplied) with regard to the status of bank debt versus State debt in the affordable...
    • Ukraine War
      247. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has raised the issue of IMF debt cancellation for Ukraine as part of the international assistance to Ukraine. [14365/22]
    • Tax Yield
      248. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount of transactional tax paid on gaming in 2019, 2020 and 2021; the proportion in each year paid in respect of online and retail activity; the...
    • Banking Sector
      249. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider requesting that banks reduce or end returned direct debit charges given the rising cost of living and the struggle experienced by some in...
    • Credit Unions
      250. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will establish a policy taskforce which was requested by an organisation (details supplied) to enable the delivery of the programme for Government...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      251. To ask the Minister for Finance the average waiting times for the Revenue Commissioners' jobs and pensions phone helpline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14420/22]
    • Tax Code
      261. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason an annuity pension in the case of a person (details supplied) appears to be taxed at a higher rate; if a review will be undertaken to ensure that...
    • Ukraine War
      262. To ask the Minister for Finance the supports that are in place or being considered to allow Ukrainians fleeing the conflict in circumstances in which they are staying with an Irish family to...
    • Tax Code
      264. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the proposal on the reform of VAT rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14620/22]
    • Electric Vehicles
      267. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has decided on the BIK rules which will be applied to electric vehicles after the current exemption expires; if he will ensure that the lower...
    • Tax Credits
      269. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the situation in relation to the home carers tax credit (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14917/22]
    • Fuel Prices
      270. To ask the Minister for Finance if, he will examine the current reimbursement rates (details supplied) for travel connected with business and work for employees given rising fuel costs; and...
    • Housing Schemes
      271. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will amend the help-to-buy scheme in order that potential homeowners can avail of it to purchase second-hand homes; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tax Code
      272. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will waive capital gains tax on second-hand homes which could be brought to the market or willed to family members to help the housing crisis; and if he...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Traveller Community
      273. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actions his Department has taken to implement the relevant recommendations from the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Key Issues...
    • Legislative Measures
      274. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actions taken in relation to the amendment put forward by Government in November 2020 to the River Shannon Management Agency Bill...
    • Heritage Sites
      275. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the timeframe for the completion of works at a premises (details supplied) in County Cork; the works that have taken place between 2015...
    • World Economic Forum
      276. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he or officials from his Department have engaged in any form of communication with the World Economic Forum or representatives of the...
    • Civil Service
      277. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the Civil Service travel rates will be reviewed given rising inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14552/22]
    • An Garda Síochána
      278. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a plan has been made for the sale or repurpose of the Dalkey and Kill o' the Grange Garda stations; and if he will make a statement...
    • Northern Ireland
      279. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the administrative arrangements in place for the roll-out of the PEACEPLUS programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Sector Staff
      280. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the decision by the Mayor of London to introduce menopause leave for staff at London’s City Hall; if a similar...
    • Heritage Sites
      282. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he has taken to improve ventilation for staff who work in the basement area of a building (details supplied); if his attention...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      283. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are any options for persons who have survived serious illness including cancer to continue working for a limited number of...
    • Office of Public Works
      284. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of all statues of persons in parks managed by the OPW in Dublin by the name of the statue and park in which it...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Social Media
      285. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will introduce measures to make social media platforms more responsive and accountable for hate speech and crime online...
    • Arts Policy
      286. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports available to newly established seasonal musical theatre and pantomime groups that are not eligible for the live...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      288. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the cost incurred by her Department for the supply of Covid-19 related face masks and face coverings since March 2019 to date; the...
    • Raidió Teilifís Éireann
      290. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has signed off on the revised strategy for RTÉ 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13930/22]
    • Departmental Funding
      291. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding streams exist through her Department to support locally organised diversity and equality events; and if she will make a...
    • Traveller Community
      292. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the actions that her Department has taken to implement the relevant recommendations from the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Key...
    • World Economic Forum
      293. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she or officials from her Department have engaged in any form of communication with the World Economic Forum or representatives...
    • Film Industry
      295. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the films which received section 481 funding in each of the years 2019 to 2021; and the amount of funding for each film. [14399/22]
    • Legislative Measures
      296. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will include a provision on the regulation of digital marketing of breast milk substitutes in the Online Safety and Media...
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      297. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department or any agency funded by her Department require that any director of a charity whose term of office exceeds nine...
    • Tourism Promotion
      298. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she plans to ask Fáilte Ireland to reopen a tourism information office at Dublin Airport; and if she will make a statement...
    • Sports Funding
      299. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the review of the Large-Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14893/22]
    • Swimming Pools
      301. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she is taking to provide funding to public swimming pools to enable all young people to avail of the facilities; and if...
    • Arts Policy
      302. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she is taking to ensure that the supports offered under the live performance support scheme 4 are being distributed as...
    • Greenways Provision
      304. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding that has been provided by her Department and a statutory body for a project (details supplied) in each of the past...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Local Authorities
      305. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans that are in place to recruit extra staff for local authorities to deal with the unprecedented level of demand for...
    • Water Services
      306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when maintenance payments will be made available to three group water schemes (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he...
    • Rental Sector
      307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is legislation in relation to the prohibiting the practice of landlords requesting and then withholding a refund of...
    • Fire Service
      308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of the retained fire services’ staffing which included recruitment and retention of staff and...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 278, 279, 283, 285, 290 and 291 of 14...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the cost incurred by his Department for the supply of Covid-19 related face masks and face coverings since March 2019 to date;...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review by the National Parks and Wildlife Service will be published. and if he will report on his work on this...
    • Traveller Community
      314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions that his Department has taken to implement the relevant recommendations from the Joint Committee on Key Issues...
    • Defective Building Materials
      315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the report by the Inter-Departmental Working Group to Examine Defects in Housing will be published; the progress of the...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if advice will be provided in relation to matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to solar...
    • World Economic Forum
      319. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he or officials from his Department have engaged in any form of communication with the World Economic Forum or...
    • Energy Policy
      320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will develop guidelines for the development of battery stations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the National Homeless Action Committee will meet to consider and make recommendations on whether or not HIQA should be...
    • Construction Industry
      322. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the recourse that a consumer has in cases in which shoddy building work has been carried out on their home and in which the...
    • Water Services
      323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will announce the 2022-2024 multi-annual rural water programme funding for County Mayo; and if he will make a...
    • Legislative Reviews
      324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline of the review of the Electoral Acts; when it will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • National Biodiversity Plan
      325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the new National Biodiversity Plan will include recommendations proposed by the new Citizens’ Assembly on...
    • Climate Change Policy
      326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is actively examining seabed grass mapping in Ireland to determine its potential for carbon storage; and if...
    • Housing Provision
      327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Donegal County Council is proposing to demolish a number of houses in a...
    • National Monuments
      328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will investigate the ownership and current structural status of a national monument (details supplied); the funding that...
    • Building Regulations
      329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to amend the Building Regulations Part B (Fire Safety) to allow for cross-laminated buildings to go higher than 10...
    • Housing Schemes
      330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm his Department's social housing means assessment policy, specifically regarding the assessment of savings...
    • Local Authorities
      331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will be issuing instructions on section 254 licences to local authorities as in previous years; and if he will make a...
    • Ukraine War
      332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Ukrainian nationals fleeing the war into Ireland will be able to apply for social housing support and to access HAP during...
    • Housing Provision
      333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of social housing leased properties held by the National Asset Residential Property Services ; the breakdown...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the mid-term review of the Traveller accommodation programmes is to commence; the guidance that has been issued to local...
    • Housing Policy
      335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his Department's engagement with an organisation (details supplied) with regard to the status of bank debt...
    • Housing Schemes
      336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if cash purchases or lump sum purchases above a 10% deposit are permissible under the local authority tenant purchase scheme....
    • Heritage Projects
      337. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if additional funding will be allocated to local authorities to facilitate the compilation of community-led village designs...
    • Planning Issues
      338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider fast tracking the planning process for garden offices given that they could be used as short-term...
    • Housing Provision
      340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the capital cost ceilings for Wexford County Council for turnkey and acquisitions; and if he will indicate...
    • Ukraine War
      341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Government in conjunction with the local authorities will re-establish, support and resource the community response...
    • Housing Schemes
      342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans and the timeline for the review of the HAP limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14592/22]
    • Housing Policy
      343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the discussions he has had on, and the timeline he has put in place for, the promised review of the social housing income...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the programmes or funding in place for local authorities to acquire homes in order to prevent homelessness; and if he will...
    • Housing Provision
      345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the impact that the lack of social housing is having on lone parents and their children...
    • Ukraine War
      346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will produce a roadmap for supporting all persons arriving in Ireland from Ukraine, in conjunction with...
    • Tax Reliefs
      347. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is anything in the defective blocks scheme or in the proposed legislation to underpin same that will preclude...
    • Housing Schemes
      349. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects an increase in the amount of funding available to local authorities for grants for persons with disabilities...
    • Housing Policy
      350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has plans to offer downsizing options to persons looking to move out of privately owned large homes; if so, the...
    • National Planning Framework
      351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there has been an update from his Department to local authorities in relation to the connection to the local area and the...
    • Water Quality
      353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 29 September 2021, his assessment and response to the report; and if he will make...
    • Energy Prices
      356. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the issue of tenants in apartment complexes being charged commercial rates for energy...
    • Housing Schemes
      357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the new affordable housing schemes will be rolled out in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Housing Policy
      360. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to review the house price limits for local authority mortgages in view of the rising cost of new homes. [15109/22]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Foreign Policy
      361. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if steps are being taken to expel the Russian ambassador from Ireland. [13635/22]
    • Passport Services
      362. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); the progress to date in the processing of the application; if all...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      374. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the cost incurred by his Department for the supply of Covid-19-related face masks and face coverings since March 2019 to date; the name of...
    • Passport Services
      376. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13924/22]
    • Foreign Policy
      377. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a complaint has been received from the Russian Embassy in Ireland following an attack on its property on 7 March 2022; the response of...
    • Traveller Community
      378. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions that his Department has taken to implement the relevant recommendations from the Joint Committee on Key Issues Affecting the...
    • Irish Aid
      381. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a schedule of the humanitarian partners that have received humanitarian assistance funding and the amounts provided to...
    • Ukraine War
      382. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if services are available for persons who want to send medication to specific persons in Ukraine with whom they may be in contact. [14087/22]
    • Visa Applications
      384. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will request an update from the Irish Consulate in the Philippines in relation to a visa application by a person (details supplied);...
    • World Economic Forum
      387. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he or officials from his Department have engaged in any form of communication with the World Economic Forum or representatives of the...
    • Ukraine War
      389. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the supports that Ireland will provide to the Moldovan Government to help it with supporting refugees; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      391. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a foreign birth registration application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14313/22]
    • Irish Aid
      392. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will match funding from an organisation (details supplied) to support persons with cystic fibrosis in Ukraine. [14340/22]
    • Rockall Island Ownership
      393. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of negotiations with the British Government to restore access to the waters around Rockall for Irish fishermen; his views on...
    • Northern Ireland
      394. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of negotiations with the British Government on the legal status of Lough Foyle; if his attention has been drawn to the negative...
    • Passport Services
      395. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the processing of a passport application by a person (details supplied) will be finalised; the reason for the delay in processing this...
    • Foreign Policy
      399. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of diplomats from the Russian Federation that have been afforded diplomatic status in Ireland. [14458/22]
    • Consular Services
      410. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are plans to open a new Irish Consulate General office in Luxor City, Egypt.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14541/22]
    • Ukraine War
      416. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will contact the Moldovan Government to assess the immediate needs of financial assistance, technical assistance and humanitarian...
    • Human Rights
      418. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will use its seat at the United Nations Security Council to raise the plight of the people of Tibet; if Ireland will specifically...
    • Passport Services
      419. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the date that a passport which has less than three months to expire is deemed invalid and cancelled; if it is the date on which a new...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      421. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking to promote a message of peace in Yemen in the EU and to the UN. [14716/22]
    • Ukraine War
      423. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide humanitarian relief and assistance to help with the refugee crisis in Moldova following the Russian invasion of Ukraine;...
    • Passport Services
      431. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a consent form issue for passport applications by persons (details supplied) has been resolved; if further documentation is outstanding...
    • Human Rights
      436. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the main locations for human rights abuses worldwide have been identified by the United Nations or the European Union;...
    • Passport Services
      437. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will consider utilising the post office network to enable proper scrutiny of first-time passport applicants in view of many...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces
      440. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to ensure that in the new Defence Forces structure that emerges from the recommendations of the Report of the Commission of the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      443. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the cost incurred by his Department for the supply of Covid-19 related face masks and face coverings since March 2019 to date; the name of the...
    • Traveller Community
      445. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the actions that his Department has taken to implement the relevant recommendations from the Joint Committee on Key Issues Affecting the...
    • Defence Forces
      446. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has considered meeting a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14021/22]
    • Air Corps
      449. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total strength of Air Corps personnel; the number of qualified military pilots, cadet pilots in training, qualified military aircraft...
    • Naval Service
      450. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Naval Service operations and patrols which have been cancelled to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • World Economic Forum
      454. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he or officials from his Department have engaged in any form of communication with the World Economic Forum or representatives of the World...
    • Naval Service
      455. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of persons who failed Naval Service drug testing in February 2022; the consequences of this; and his plans to address drug use in the...
    • Defence Forces
      456. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 15 of 10 March 2022 and the terms of reference for the independent review to examine the effectiveness of...
    • Civil Defence
      459. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to concerns regarding the lack of access to a river (details supplied) making it difficult for a Civil Defence...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Transport
      461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she plans to take to mitigate the impact of runaway fuel costs on school bus operators; if her attention has been drawn to the fact...
    • Education Policy
      462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a plan in place to undertake an assessment of school places available for Ukrainian refugees; the measures that are being put in...
    • School Admissions
      463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions her Department is taking to ensure the availability of co-educational school placing at primary school level in the Dublin 8, 10 and...
    • School Staff
      465. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the recently brokered deal in the Workplace Relations Commission for school secretaries and caretakers pay and conditions is accepted, if...
    • School Admissions
      466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made to date in relation to a section 29 appeal by a person (details supplied); when a decision will issue; and if she...
    • Special Educational Needs
      467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the primary and post-primary schools in an area (details supplied); and the number of pupils, teachers, SNAs and annual State funding by school...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost incurred by her Department for the supply of Covid-19 related face masks and face coverings since March 2019 to date; the name of the...
    • School Admissions
      471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) will be offered a school placement in September 2022. [13942/22]
    • Education Schemes
      472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total funding allocated in 2022 for professional development services for primary school teachers in reading recovery; and if she will make a...
    • School Admissions
      473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action she can advise parents to take in the case of a child who is due to start school in September 2022 but where a place in a...
    • School Facilities
      474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) in County Leitrim. [13984/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of proposed new ASD units that will open in secondary schools in Ballincollig, County Cork in September 2022. [13985/22]
    • Oideachas trí Ghaeilge
      477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén dul chun cinn atá déanta ar an mbeartas don oideachas lán-Ghaeilge a chur le chéile; cathain a fhoilseofar...
    • Defective Building Materials
      478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of works that have been undertaken to remove pyrite from some or all of the school buildings at a school (details supplied)...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action that has been taken in relation to a change in legislation to make it easier for schools to install solar panels. [13995/22]
    • Traveller Community
      480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions that her Department has taken to implement the relevant recommendations from the Joint Committee on Key Issues Affecting the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      481. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Cork will be successfully relocated to facilitate September 2022 enrolment; if the planning authority...
    • School Admissions
      482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if advice will be provided in relation to a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to the availability of...
    • School Facilities
      483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an appeal for assisted technology for a child (details supplied) has been decided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14121/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special classes that are situated in schools in Rathcoole, County Dublin; and the action her Department is taking to increase the...
    • Education Policy
      486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools in the Dublin 8, 10, 12 and 20 areas; if these are co-educational; the patronage under which they operate; the...
    • Defective Building Materials
      487. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if eligibility for school transport will be extended to families moving to temporary homes outside the catchment area of their school while their...
    • Schools Building Projects
      488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the development of a new building for a school (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • World Economic Forum
      489. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she or officials from her Department have engaged in any form of communication with the World Economic Forum or representatives of the World...
    • Education Policy
      490. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that she will put in place for children and their families coming from Ukraine who will be entering the education system here; if...
    • Departmental Schemes
      491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the ex-gratia scheme for survivors of childhood sexual abuse in day schools; if the scheme is still open for...
    • School Transport
      492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department or the relevant body under her aegis will review the circumstances whereby a number of children from Kilteel, County Kildare...
    • School Accommodation
      493. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a rental arrangement has been entered into with a school in Nenagh, County Tipperary and the local Catholic diocese; the length of time this...
    • School Patronage
      496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the State has entered into agreements in which a bishop can choose a school's patron in a reconfigured school; and the role parental...
    • Special Educational Needs
      497. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional schools in the Dublin 6, 6W and 12 areas that have made a decision to open or already have opened an ASD unit; and if...
    • School Facilities
      502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if sewerage works qualify under the summer works scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14346/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school building project (details supplied). [14395/22]
    • School Staff
      505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that no full-time on-site behaviour therapist has been appointed to a school (details supplied) despite calls from staff and parents....
    • Special Educational Needs
      506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an application for additional services at a school (details supplied) will be approved; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Examinations
      507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider reviewing the junior certificate examinations for 2022 to take into account the fact that three years of post-primary...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a school (details supplied) has not been included in the new list on the DEIS schools programme; and if she will make a statement...
    • School Accommodation
      509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for additional accommodation by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14455/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans for a permanent site for a school (details supplied); if a site has been identified to date; the timeline for the permanent...
    • School Accommodation
      513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of all schools in Galway city and county in respect of which her Department pays a lease for the use of the school buildings in...
    • Schools Building Projects
      514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of plans for a major new primary school project on the site of the former school building (details supplied); if this...
    • Special Educational Needs
      515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an autism class has been proposed for a school (details supplied). [14486/22]
    • School Facilities
      516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that the pupils of a school (details supplied) are still without high-speed broadband even though this school has been able to connect...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application has been received from a school (details supplied) for roof repairs; and if it can be processed as a matter of urgency. [14546/22]
    • Educational Disadvantage
      518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the qualifying criteria for DEIS status can be outlined giving the different categories of qualification and the selection process involved;...
    • Schools Building Projects
      520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress in the development of a school (details supplied); when she expects that the new building will be complete; and if she will make a...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the objective evidential basis for the reason that certain schools (details supplied) were not elevated to DEIS band 1 status from DEIS band 2 in...
    • Schools Building Projects
      522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress in the development of the new primary school (details supplied); when she expects the new building to be complete; and if she will...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that a school can appeal the decision not to be included in the expansion of the DEIS programme which her Department announced; and if...
    • Special Educational Needs
      524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options that are available for the family of a child (details supplied) who has not been able to secure a place for the 2022-23 term in the...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding will be approved for the renovation and improvements to the buildings at a school (details supplied); when the funding will be...
    • School Transport
      526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if supports are currently being considered to assist Ukrainian children fleeing the crisis to gain access to the school transport system; and if...
    • School Enrolments
      527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school places in schools in north county Dublin and Fingal for children starting secondary school in 2022. [14623/22]
    • School Transport
      528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the school transport grant for parents of children with additional needs will be increased in line with increases in fuel costs; and if she...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered adding a school (details supplied) to her Department’s recently expanded DEIS programme; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the programme of works that is in place to establish new schools; the project plans for each school; the way her Department monitors progress...
    • Special Educational Needs
      531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications made by schools for special needs assistants; the number refused, appealed and the number of successful appeals; and...
    • School Facilities
      532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if appropriate non-negligence insurance was put in place by her Department relative to a matter (details supplied); if her Department will now...
    • School Enrolments
      533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected figures for the primary school population in Moate, County Westmeath, for the next five years; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      534. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a school (details supplied) was not included in the recent expansion of the DEIS programme in view of the fact that this is a...
    • School Transport
      535. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she, in consultation with Bus Éireann, will remove the nearest school requirement for the school transport scheme given the difficulty...
    • School Admissions
      536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 147 of 23 February 2022, when the parents of a student (details supplied) can expect the results of their...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      537. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the appeals process for schools that did not receive DEIS status in the recent DEIS expansion announcement; when the appeals...
    • Schools Building Projects
      538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received documents from the successful tender bidder on a project (details supplied). [14730/22]
    • Schools Complaints Procedures
      539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has received an ex gratia appeal from a former pupil of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Patronage
      540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for school patronage transfers; the way the wishes of parents, families and communities will be considered; the measures that will be...
    • School Enrolments
      541. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a local school place can be accommodated for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14763/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an exception will be made in the case of a child (details supplied). [14764/22]
    • Educational Disadvantage
      543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to a query regarding the DEIS status of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14771/22]
    • Disadvantaged Status
      545. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if DEIS urban 1 status will be applied to a school (details supplied); and if a positive response will be expedited. [14800/22]
    • School Accommodation
      546. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider an application for additional accommodation by a school (details supplied); when a decision will be made on this...
    • School Transport
      548. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the need for a school bus to cover an area (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Staff
      550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when wages will be paid to a teacher (details supplied) who was absent due to illness in County Galway despite the fact that they returned to...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) who is seeking assistance with a postgraduate certificate in education issue....
    • Schools Building Projects
      552. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of plans for a major primary school project at Newtownsmith, County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14901/22]
    • School Staff
      553. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if increments for time spent teaching in a primary school and a VEC can be awarded towards the salary of a secondary school teacher (details...
    • Special Educational Needs
      554. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a request from a school (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14946/22]
    • School Enrolments
      555. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be permitted to employ an additional teacher in order that the significant waiting list can be honoured....
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      556. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to ensure a national school (details supplied) has access to broadband. [15047/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a young person (details supplied) can access an ASD unit place in a secondary school in their locality. [15048/22]
    • School Enrolments
      559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has issued guidance to schools in relation to the enrolment of Ukrainian refugees; if schools will need to apply their existing...
    • School Staff
      560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is allocating additional funding to schools for the provision of teachers of English as an additional language or whether existing special...
    • Schools Building Projects
      561. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 438 of 1 June 2021 459 of 22 February 2022, if she will facilitate a meeting between her Departmental...
    • Home Schooling
      562. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who classified under category C of the home tuition grant scheme from 2018-2021 (details supplied); and the expenditure in...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      563. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any options for persons who have survived serious illness including cancer to continue working for a limited number of hours per...
    • School Accommodation
      564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of rent that has been agreed to be paid to the Catholic church for the use of a school (details supplied) in Nenagh, County Tipperary;...
    • School Patronage
      565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a similar arrangement has been in place for the other almost one dozen schools nationwide that were reconfigured from Catholic patronage to...
    • School Accommodation
      567. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that a school (details supplied) should take to apply for additional accommodation following its designation of DEIS status; if a...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      568. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to ensure accessibility in applying for the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance, in...
    • Social Welfare Code
      569. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reconsider the time period for which the fuel allowance is granted; and if the allowance will be extended by a...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      570. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider allowing persons to apply for the fuel allowance if the only household members who are not in receipt of...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      571. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the claim for partial capacity benefit by a person (details supplied) will be reconsidered. [13862/22]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      572. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an invalidity pension application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      573. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress that has been made to date in the determination of an appeal against a decision to stop a carer's allowance...
    • Pension Provisions
      574. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there will be a 4% PRSI charge for occupational pensions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13875/22]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      575. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13876/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      576. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost incurred by her Department for the supply of Covid-19 related face masks and face coverings since March 2019 to...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      578. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on the review of the decision on an application for carer’s allowance by a person (details...
    • Ukraine War
      580. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to establish an Intreo office and / or social protection office at Dublin Airport, Rosslare port and Dublin port in...
    • State Pensions
      581. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason persons (details supplied) would suddenly have their qualified adult pension withdrawn completely after 20 years;...
    • Traveller Community
      582. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions that her Department has taken to implement the relevant recommendations from the Joint Committee on Key Issues...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      583. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the breakdown of the domiciliary care allowance applications and refusals by age over the past two years; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      584. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if extra consideration is being given to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children with additional needs who are...
    • Social Welfare Code
      586. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 515 of 1 March 2022, if she will clarify the definition of chargeable period; if she...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      587. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address social welfare funding concerns regarding the provision of white goods for tenants in properties...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      588. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the services and licences whereby a citizen must have a Government services card. [14070/22]
    • Social Welfare Inspections
      589. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of overt and covert social protection inspections conducted by her officials in the past 10 years to date. [14094/22]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      591. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for maternity benefit in 2017, 2018 and 2019, by county; and the overall cost per year by county...
    • Citizens Information Services
      592. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way that reasonable accommodation and a phased return of employees following a period of certified sick leave under...
    • Social Welfare Code
      593. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the situation in which self-employed people are being transitioned to the jobseeker's...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      594. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a person (details supplied) in County Clare has not yet received the €5.00 increase for all social...
    • World Economic Forum
      597. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she or officials from her Department have engaged in any form of communication with the World Economic Forum or...
    • Ukraine War
      598. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if those who have fled Ukraine to avoid the war but did so ahead of the EU Temporary Protection Directive will be eligible to...
    • Social Welfare Code
      600. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to extending the availability of the domiciliary care allowance to children aged between 16...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      601. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way that children aged over 16 years of age are currently assessed for the disability allowance from a means-testing...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      602. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of the domiciliary care allowance in 2021; the number that transitioned to the disability allowance...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      603. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that community employment schemes providing drug rehabilitation services are...
    • State Pensions
      605. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase the State pension by a minimum of €15 to assist the elderly with the rise in the cost of living,...
    • Social Welfare Code
      606. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider increasing the threshold for means tested fuel allowance. [14297/22]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      608. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of exceptional needs payments applied for in the past three years by county; the number that were successful in...
    • Social Welfare Code
      610. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that children with disabilities are not eligible for the free travel scheme; and if she will consider extending...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      611. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the working family payment renewal for a person (details supplied); when the payment will recommence; and if...
    • Social Welfare Code
      614. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if plans are in place to extend illness benefit to persons that are self-employed; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      615. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports offered to those suffering with long Covid; if they are entitled to long-term illness benefit given the impact...
    • Ukraine War
      616. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is any provision for putting in place a database of language skills of Ukrainian refugees arriving in Ireland; and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      621. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of installing a defibrillator in each INTREO public office; and if she has considered introducing such...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      622. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is an update available on an illness benefit application by a person (details supplied) as clarifying medical...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      623. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is monitoring the impact of recent cost of living measures with a view to their effectiveness given both...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      625. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration is being given to increasing the household benefits package supports given the increase in energy costs; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      626. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of unique recipients of the pandemic unemployment payment by county; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      627. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that working lone parents who are employed for over 30 hours a week and...
    • Ukraine War
      628. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will produce a roadmap for supporting all persons arriving in Ireland from Ukraine in conjunction with...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      629. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that those who are working over the age of 66 are not entitled to claim the...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      630. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the retirement agreement reached with community employment supervisors that was accepted by unions (details supplied) in...
    • Pension Provisions
      635. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a State pension (non-contributory) claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [14804/22]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      636. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14871/22]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      637. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to review eligibility criteria for the fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14827/22]
    • Departmental Contracts
      638. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the engagements she has had on the tender for local employment services. [8701/22]
    • Youth Unemployment
      639. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to tackle youth unemployment rates. [7030/22]
    • Redundancy Payments
      641. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she will take to ensure that redundancy is paid to those who are being laid-off in relation to reforms to the local...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      642. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an invalidity payment review for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Policies
      643. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the implementation of recommendation 11 of the report by the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      644. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a person (details supplied) has not been facilitated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14940/22]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      645. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for the refusal to grant illness benefit to a person (details supplied); the entitlements the applicant can...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      646. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if clarification will be provided regarding the situation of persons in receipt of the disability allowance and their...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      647. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the avenues that are available to community employment supervisors that are not eligible or satisfied with the terms of the...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      648. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will allow apprenticeships to be considered as full-time education to allow those in receipt of payments such as the...
    • Pension Provisions
      649. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will respond to a query raised in relation to recoupment of an overpayment of a pension (non-contributory) (details...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • International Protection
      650. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if we will examine the possibility of Ireland and the European Union initiating a refugee programme for Tibetan...
    • Departmental Funding
      651. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding options available to an organisation (details supplied) that is endeavouring to organise events in...
    • Ukraine War
      652. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the person or body to which enquiries (details supplied) should be directed; if a scheme is being introduced for...
    • International Protection
      653. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of the Irish Refugee Protection Programme vetting of programme refugees; if he will provide a broad...
    • Disability Services
      654. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he and his Department will support the independent living movement with particular reference...
    • Childcare Services
      655. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of qualified childcare workers who are available to be recruited; the number who are being trained;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      658. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the cost incurred by his Department for the supply of Covid-19 related face masks and face coverings since March...
    • Ukraine War
      660. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way that all offers of accommodation to Ukrainian refugees will be collated and compiled; and if he will...
    • Departmental Funding
      661. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if funding streams exist through his Department to support locally organised diversity and equality events; and...
    • Traveller Community
      662. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions that his Department has taken to implement the relevant recommendations from the Joint Committee on...
    • International Protection
      663. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Syrian and Afghan citizens who have been granted leave to remain in Ireland under the recently...
    • Juvenile Offenders
      664. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons who died while in juvenile detention in each of the past ten years; and the breakdown of...
    • Child and Family Agency
      667. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Tusla employees sacked or dismissed in each of the past ten years and to date in 2022, in tabular...
    • Legislative Programme
      668. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will publish the work-life balance directive heads of Bill. [14102/22]
    • World Economic Forum
      669. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he or officials from his Department have engaged in any form of communication with the World Economic Forum...
    • Direct Provision System
      670. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address a matter regarding the death of a person (details supplied); and the steps he is taking to...
    • Ukraine War
      673. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 380 of 8 March 2022, the position regarding the request for tender issued...
    • Childcare Services
      675. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of the proposed core funding scheme for childcare; if it includes a price freeze; if he will ensure...
    • Children in Care
      676. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to review the rate of fostering allowance paid to foster carers as recommended by the working group...
    • Direct Provision System
      677. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of refugees and asylum seekers that are currently resident in Balseskin direct provision centre; the...
    • Childcare Services
      683. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of childcare service closures notified for 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      684. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the provision his Department has made to increase capacity in the 0 – 2.8 years age group in early years...
    • Childcare Services
      685. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when was the last review of the level of allowances paid to foster parents; and if he plans to carry out another...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      687. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a manager with a level 6+ qualification and 18 years’...
    • Guardians Ad Litem
      688. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the development of a guardian ad litem service in Ireland following the 2020 allocation of funding...
    • Departmental Properties
      689. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if progress has been made identifying a location for the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown domestic violence refuge;...
    • Childcare Services
      690. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of new childcare and early years provider registrations in each of the years 2019 to 2021; and the...
    • Ukraine War
      691. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if accommodation can be urgently sourced in Cork city and county for Ukrainian refugees. [14658/22]
    • Asylum Seekers
      694. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No.552 of 1 March 2022, the number of the 115 young adults to whom Tusla is...
    • Childcare Services
      695. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of a national childcare scheme application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Housing Provision
      696. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he anticipates the creation of the HAP equivalent payment for refugees as outlined in the White Paper on...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      697. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the significant problems that currently exist in the smaller ECCE-only sessional preschools and the...
    • Medical Cards
      698. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the enhanced medical card will be issued regarding the redress scheme proposed for mother and baby home...
    • Children in Care
      700. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children in State care that were referred to hospitals, clinics or general practitioners for...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      704. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) attending training as a carpentry apprentice with SOLAS will be investigated; if it will be ensured...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      705. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost incurred by his Department for the supply of Covid-19 related face masks and face coverings since March 2019 to date; the name of the...
    • Ukraine War
      707. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the needs of Irish medical and dental students in Ukraine (details supplied); if a support process can be put in place to...
    • Traveller Community
      708. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions that his Department has taken to implement the relevant recommendations from the Joint Committee on Key Issues Affecting the...
    • World Economic Forum
      709. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he or officials from his Department have engaged in any form of communication with the World Economic Forum or representatives of the World...
    • Ukraine War
      710. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is taking measures to ensure that those who had started third-level education in Ukraine can complete their qualifications...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      713. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of all members of the National Apprenticeship Alliance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14195/22]
    • Departmental Funding
      714. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the SUSI grant department used the Revenue Commissioners net or gross income figure as part of their income calculations for the purposes of...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      716. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he has taken to reintroduce tiling apprenticeships under the remit of SOLAS given the high demand for adequately qualified tilers in...
    • Ukraine War
      721. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provision that is being made to accommodate those students who have returned to Ireland from the Ukraine and who can no longer continue with...
    • Departmental Funding
      722. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of restoring the SUSI grant back to pre-2011 budget rates. [14559/22]
    • Fuel Prices
      723. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the poverty students are experiencing due to the increase in fuel cost given that many students drive to...
    • Ukraine War
      724. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students’ studies that have been directly disrupted by the war in Ukraine; and the status of his Department’s work on...
    • Language Schools
      726. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to ensure interim list of eligible programmes, ILEP, rules are adequately enforced; if he will bring forward proposals to...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      727. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the workforce demand figures relating to apprenticeship numbers. [14768/22]
    • Public Sector Pensions
      729. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any options for persons who have survived serious illness including cancer to continue working for a limited number of hours per...
    • Departmental Funding
      730. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he received correspondence from this Deputy on 9 March 2022 in relation to parents of Irish citizens who hold a stamp 4 and cannot access...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Legislative Measures
      731. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are plans to bring forward any amending legislation and or regulations in light of the Data Commissioner finding...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      732. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost incurred by her Department for the supply of Covid-19-related face masks and face coverings since March 2019 to date;...
    • Visa Applications
      734. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given by her Department for a visa waiver for family members of Irish citizens who are currently...
    • Ukraine War
      735. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans for persons arriving from Ukraine to have their documentation expedited in order for them to access social protection...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      736. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures that are in place to ensure the safety of ambassadorial and diplomatic staff and the premises from which they...
    • Traveller Community
      737. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the actions that her Department has taken to implement the relevant recommendations from the Joint Committee on Key Issues...
    • Stardust Fire
      738. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update regarding a legislative proposal to address concerns in relation to jury selection and income...
    • Visa Applications
      739. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a visa in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14030/22]
    • Prison Service
      740. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who died while in prison in each of the past ten years and to date in 2022; and if a breakdown can be...
    • An Garda Síochána
      744. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí sacked or dismissed in each of the past ten years and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [14055/22]
    • Visa Applications
      745. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the financial and employment contributions that non-European Union students have made during long periods of study...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      746. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of persons that have been granted a certificate of naturalisation pursuant to section 16 of the Irish...
    • Family Reunification
      750. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the case of a person (details supplied) will be considered on humanitarian grounds and a wider family reunification...
    • World Economic Forum
      751. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she or officials from her Department have engaged in any form of communication with the World Economic Forum or...
    • Ukraine War
      752. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if those who have fled Ukraine to avoid the war but did so ahead of the EU Temporary Protection Directive will be able to...
    • Visa Applications
      754. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a join family non-EEA national spouse visa application by a person (details supplied) will be processed given that it has...
    • Work Permits
      755. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) can have their work permit which was granted under an international protection order extended...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      756. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a naturalisation application by a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Work Permits
      757. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the date in March 2022 as indicated in the stakeholder engagement that the interdepartmental group reviewing the atypical work...
    • National Security
      758. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has any information suggesting that Russian officials based in the Russian embassy in Ireland are involved in illegal...
    • Asylum Applications
      760. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person who became undocumented on 18 March 2018 just a few weeks after the cut off 31 January 2018 will be allowed to be...
    • Ukraine War
      761. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Government is liaising with the Ukrainian Embassy with regard to the verification of credentials, qualifications and...
    • An Garda Síochána
      762. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda cars and vans allocated to each Garda District in Dublin in 2021 and to date in 2022; and the number of...
    • Family Reunification
      764. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process by which an Irish person who is normally resident in Ireland can apply for a visa for their unmarried partner to...
    • State Properties
      765. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans for the future use and or disposal of Thornton Hall; if she has received an updated valuation of the site; and the...
    • Asylum Applications
      766. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an Afghan admission programme application by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; when a decision will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      767. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current situation in regard to the use of quarantine measures for new committals to prison including whether such measures...
    • Property Management Companies
      770. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are guidelines and controls regarding the establishment of property management companies; if procedures are in place...
    • Visa Applications
      771. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for visa in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she...
    • Ukraine War
      772. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will produce a roadmap for supporting all persons arriving in Ireland from Ukraine in conjunction with other...
    • Immigration Policy
      774. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if those who travelled to England and used a valid bus pass with a photo which is a valid from of travel documentation when...
    • Departmental Schemes
      776. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a schedule of the overall applications that have been made by Russian nationals under the Immigrant...
    • Residency Permits
      778. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Family Reunification
      779. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a submission from a person (details supplied) has been received; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14953/22]
    • An Garda Síochána
      780. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deaths by year in or following Garda custody or contact since the creation of GSOC including but not limited to...
    • Departmental Schemes
      782. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications from and visas awarded to Chinese investors applying through the Immigrant Investor Programme,...
    • Asylum Applications
      783. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications received under the Afghan Admissions Programme; the number of these deemed admissible; the number...
    • Departmental Data
      784. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Syrian, Afghan, and Ukrainian citizens who have been refused entry into the country annually in each of the years...
    • Residency Permits
      785. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she is taking to address problems for first-time applicants for Irish residence permits in securing online...
    • Ukraine War
      786. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Ukrainian refugees, adults and children that have been taken in by county; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Department of Health
    • Health Services
      787. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the DRIVE initiative in Cork. [14466/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      788. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to engage with various professions, sectors and employers to ascertain if the qualifications of Ukrainian nationals are acceptable here to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      790. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the HSE to continue to fund long-Covid occupational therapy services in St. James’s Hospital which are currently set to cease in...
    • Dental Services
      792. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to dentists from the Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Services
      793. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff currently employed in each of the children's disability network teams by role in County Cork. [13811/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      794. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13820/22]
    • Health Service Executive
      796. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 662, 663 and 664 of 15 February 2022, the most recent valuation of each building and the date of the valuation; the date...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      798. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13834/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      799. To ask the Minister for Health if staff in Covid-19 vaccination centres will be included in the Covid-19 recognition bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13846/22]
    • Hospital Admissions
      800. To ask the Minister for Health if a long stay bed will be sanctioned in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13849/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      801. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently expedite the allocation of a piece of equipment to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [13851/22]
    • Disability Services
      802. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made in recruiting physiotherapists for a school (details supplied) who can perform respiratory and postural drainage for children with severe to...
    • Mental Health Services
      804. To ask the Minister for Health the other doctors who were referred to in a report (details supplied); the number of doctors that this involved; if they are still working for the HSE; the...
    • Disease Management
      806. To ask the Minister for Health if he will establish a working group on Huntington’s disease under the joint auspices of the National Dementia Office and the Integrated Care Programme;...
    • Hospital Admissions
      807. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1593 of 19 January 2022, the definition of, evidence of ASD in this context; the clinical purpose of knowing the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      808. To ask the Minister for Health the current wait time to see a paediatric rheumatologist in Children’s Health Ireland, Crumlin as a private patient and as a public patient; the longest...
    • Hospital Staff
      809. To ask the Minister for Health when the third rheumatologist is due to start at Children’s Health Ireland, Crumlin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13867/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      810. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who are currently waiting for a rheumatology MRI, MRI with contrast and MRI under general anaesthetic with contrast at Children’s...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      811. To ask the Minister for Health the average number of tobacco cigarettes and e-cigarettes smoked per day by Irish smokers in each of the years 2015 to 2021; the extent to which Irish rates...
    • Departmental Bodies
      812. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to establish a health and social care advisory unit within his Department as proposed by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      813. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and when they will receive an appointment. [13877/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      814. To ask the Minister for Health the cost incurred by his Department for the supply of Covid-19 related face masks and face coverings since March 2019 to date; the name of the supplier...
    • Disability Services
      816. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time equivalent posts allocated to each role by children's disability network team in Cork city in tabular form. [13943/22]
    • Nursing Homes
      817. To ask the Minister for Health his views on policy issues raised by a representative organisation (details supplied) relating to nursing home charges and the financial pressures on private...
    • Medicinal Products
      818. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider the inclusion of the drug melatonin for reimbursement in the drug payment scheme given that it is being prescribed by the medical...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      819. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) has been waiting a long time for an appointment in Cavan General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      820. To ask the Minister for Health when training and accreditation for medical practitioners to fit and remove long-acting reversible contraception will recommence in view of the stated...
    • Medicinal Products
      823. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the ongoing issues in relation to the availability of HRT patches; the plans he has to address the issue; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      824. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioner practices with capacity to accept new patients in counties Longford and Westmeath in tabular form. [13972/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      825. To ask the Minister for Health if the pro-rata payment in relation to the €1,000 Covid bonus to healthcare workers will mean less favourable treatment for those relief staff who...
    • Disability Services
      826. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are provided by the HSE to adults diagnosed with autism. [13988/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      827. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department plans to create a follow-on clinic for those ageing out of a service (details supplied); and if so, when the service will commence. [13989/22]
    • Hospital Services
      828. To ask the Minister for Health if the guidelines that are given to maternity hospitals by the HSE in relation to access of fathers and birthing partners are guidelines only; and if it is the...
    • Traveller Community
      829. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that his Department has taken to implement the relevant recommendations from the Joint Committee on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller Community...
    • Health Services
      830. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 731 and 732 of 22 February 2022, the CHO areas for which national independent review panels have been completed or are...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      832. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the publication of the review of the standard operating procedure for assessment of need; if he will provide copies of the interim reports...
    • Abortion Services
      833. To ask the Minister for Health the way that the ongoing engagement between his Department and the HSE on telemedicine abortion is progressing; and the way the continuation of telemedicine...
    • Primary Care Centres
      835. To ask the Minister for Health when an audiology service will be provided at the primary care centre, Tuam, County Galway; the staffing complement for the centre; the recruitment...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      836. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the fact that medically vulnerable persons are still at risk of serious Covid-19 disease especially now that all restrictions have been lifted; if...
    • Hospital Procedures
      837. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times in each of the past ten years in which a surgery has resulted in the removal of a limb or organ which was not intended for amputation or...
    • Hospital Admissions
      838. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients to be seen by each hospital group in each of the past ten years. [14043/22]
    • Hospital Services
      839. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 333 of 3 March 2022, the number of incidents reported to the National Incident Management System in each of the past five...
    • Health Services Staff
      840. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons sacked or dismissed by the HSE in each of the past five years by job title or category; and the reason for their dismissal or sacking in...
    • State Claims Agency
      841. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid out in compensation claims by each hospital in the State in each of the past ten years in tabular form. [14046/22]
    • Patient Transfers
      842. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that patients recently admitted to the Mater Misercordiae University Hospital were transferred to the Mater Private...
    • Clinical Trials
      843. 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 clinical...
    • Eating Disorders
      844. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE is planning on an external recruitment drive, as in the past, in order to progress the clinical programme on eating disorders; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      845. To ask the Minister for Health the podiatry waiting list by location and waiting time by month in County Donegal in January 2021 and January 2022; the number of HSE podiatry clinics held...
    • Nursing Homes
      846. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will re-instate the medical officer to a nursing home (details supplied); and the reason for the withdrawal of the service; and if he will make a...
    • Medicinal Products
      847. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the situation regarding melatonin not being covered by the medical card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14080/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      849. To ask the Minister for Health if the once-off payment of €1,000 to healthcare workers will be paid to front-line staff at Cancer Care West (details supplied); if not, the reason...
    • Ambulance Service
      850. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the planned provision of a new ambulance base for Kilrush, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14085/22]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      851. To ask the Minister for Health the guidance note, circular, memo or document which sets out the approach for handling queries or applications for assessment of need or referrals to the...
    • Food Industry
      852. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied) in relation to the marketing practices of the formula milk industry; his plans to act upon the...
    • Health Services Staff
      853. To ask the Minister for Health the reason general nurses cross over to work in the different disciplines such as mental health and intellectual disability but the opposite does not happen...
    • Health Services
      855. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently awaiting appointments for podiatry services in County Wexford; the number of persons on the waiting list in January 2021; the...
    • Health Services Staff
      856. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies for podiatrists in County Wexford; when these vacancies will be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14113/22]
    • Disability Services
      857. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive the support and services required from the HSE. [14114/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      858. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied); the measures he is implementing to reduce waiting lists and times to access primary care...
    • Disability Services
      859. To ask the Minister for Health the action his Department is taking to ensure the provision of full and timely services to children with disabilities in an area (details supplied). [14118/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      861. To ask the Minister for Health if the canteen staff in the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, Dublin and other hospitals are included in the €1,000 bonus for front-line...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      862. To ask the Minister for Health when front-line workers can expect to receive the €1,000 bonus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14124/22]
    • Medical Cards
      863. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card application by a person will be processed (details supplied); the specific outstanding documentation that is required; and if he will make...
    • Mental Health Services
      865. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds in child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, that are filled or unfilled on a weekly basis from January 2020 to date in 2022 by...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      866. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated number of persons in Ireland with long-Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14139/22]
    • Health Services
      868. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be provided with treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14142/22]
    • World Economic Forum
      869. To ask the Minister for Health if he or officials from his Department have engaged in any form of communication with the World Economic Forum or representatives of the World Economic Forum...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      870. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14173/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      871. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce an assistive technology passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14174/22]
    • Hospital Staff
      872. To ask the Minister for Health when a new chairperson will be appointed to chair talks on a new consultant public only contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14175/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      874. To ask the Minister for Health the number of advanced nurse practitioners working in the public system broken down by those working in primary, community and acute settings in tabular form;...
    • Mental Health Services
      877. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the Galway Community Café, the free out-of-hours adult mental health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14180/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      880. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the CORU registration process for psychotherapists under the Health and Social Care Act 2005: the cost involved in the regulation of CORU; and if...
    • Disability Services
      881. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a child (details supplied) is waiting 10 months for a wheelchair; and if he will address matters raised in correspondence. [14184/22]
    • Emergency Departments
      882. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency department attendances at Cavan General Hospital in each of the years 2012 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Hospital Admissions
      883. To ask the Minister for Health the number of attendances to the minor injury unit in Monaghan Hospital from 2010 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Services
      884. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to extend the daily opening hours of the minor injury unit in Monaghan Hospital; if he plans to open the unit at weekends; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Charges
      885. To ask the Minister for Health if a patient is exempt from hospital bills if they have been admitted into hospital due to Covid-19-related issues. [14212/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      887. To ask the Minister for Health if an organisation will be considered for the recognition payment for frontline healthcare workers (details supplied);; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      888. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [14225/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      889. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the inquiry and terms of reference for the drug sodium valproate, the disability package for those affected by sodium valproate; and if he will...
    • Nursing Homes
      890. To ask the Minister for Health if public respite beds are available at private nursing homes (details supplied). [14239/22]
    • Vaccination Programme
      891. To ask the Minister for Health the updated timeline regarding the HIQA health technology assessment on a varicella vaccine; the frequency with which he is updated on the assessment process;...
    • Hospital Staff
      895. To ask the Minister for Health his position regarding funding for a training post (details supplied); the reason that the funding was refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Staff
      897. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a replacement for a vacant ophthalmologist post at St. Joseph’s care centre campus, Longford. [14250/22]
    • Health Services
      898. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that all children have not been transferred to Athlone in the absence of an ophthalmologist post as was done on previous occasions at St....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      899. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment; the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14253/22]
    • Health Strategies
      901. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of plans to increase breastfeeding supports including the recruitment of lactation consultations across all hospitals; and if...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      904. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the €200 million provided to the HSE to address waiting lists and waiting times for acute and community services that...
    • Health Strategies
      906. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of introducing free contraception for women aged 26 to 28 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14304/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      908. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of reducing the monthly drug payment scheme threshold by €2, €5, €10 and €15; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Vaccination Programme
      909. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full annual cost of making the HPV vaccine available free of charge to all persons up to 25 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      910. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the case of a person (details supplied) and the feasibility of a drip being provided at their home address; and if he will make a statement...
    • Mental Health Services
      911. To ask the Minister for Health if he will visit the Owenacurra Health Centre in Midleton, County Cork and instruct the HSE not to close the centre but to improve it and retain all the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      925. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of making the flu vaccine available free of charge for all medical card holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14331/22]
    • Dental Services
      927. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full annual cost of providing free dental care to all children under 6 years of age under the Smile agus Sláinte policy proposals; and if he...
    • Organ Donation
      929. To ask the Minister for Health when the human tissue Bill including the commitment to bring in soft opt-out organ donor consent will be fully enacted. [14341/22]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      930. To ask the Minister for Health when financial support for all those seeking IVFR treatment including those with cystic fibrosis will be provided. [14342/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      931. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) will have to wait over two years for a hospital dental appointment for two extractions and other work in Cork; and if he...
    • Hospital Services
      932. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that University Hospital Waterford continues to remain the most significantly underfunded model four hospital in the country versus its peers; the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      933. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding for the elective outpatients department and the 12-bed day ward at University Hospital Waterford (details supplied); the status of the...
    • Hospital Services
      934. To ask the Minister for Health the reason he failed to respond or accede to a request (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14371/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      935. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the Covid-19 recognition payment; when it will be paid; the frontline workers and healthcare workers that will be included in the scheme; the...
    • Disability Services
      936. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the additional 375 posts created in children’s disability services in the past two budgets as outlined in Dáil Éireann on 8...
    • Health Services Staff
      937. To ask the Minister for Health the number of senior grade posts that will be appointed to children’s disability services as indicated in Dáil Éireann on 8 March 2022; the...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      938. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who have been referred for further assessment after receiving a preliminary team assessment under the standard operating procedure for...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      942. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases that have been taken against the State in each year since 2005 under the Disability Act 2005 for overdue assessment of need; the amount in...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      945. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for surgery. [14394/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      946. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who are waiting for surgery related to a condition (details supplied); and the general waiting times for this procedure across the...
    • Health Services
      947. To ask the Minister for Health the treatment plan that is in place for a person (details supplied); and if they will be recommended for in-patient treatment in view of the circumstances....
    • Nursing Education
      948. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the significant shortfall in nursing applications through the CAO process for the coming year; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Strategies
      949. To ask the Minister for Health if his work with his Northern Ireland counterparts to develop an infant and young child feeding in emergencies preparedness plan for the island of Ireland will...
    • Hospital Staff
      950. To ask the Minister for Health the average number of hours which medical consultants and doctors work per week in public hospitals. [14405/22]
    • Health Services
      951. To ask the Minister for Health when a person will receive support (details supplied). [14408/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      953. To ask the Minister for Health the best route for counselling services to volunteer aid to Ukrainian refugees and to hire incoming skilled workers in this field; if assistance is available...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      954. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive an appointment; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14440/22]
    • Health Strategies
      955. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the appointment of an independent clinically based addiction nurse to the addiction national oversight committee. [14443/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      956. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive an appointment for a colonoscopy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14445/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      957. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients currently waiting on the colonoscopy waiting list at University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14447/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      962. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14452/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      963. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients currently on the cataract waiting list broken down by each hospital in the South South West Hospital Group area; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      965. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can transfer from working at Beaumont Hospital to Naas General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14482/22]
    • Hospital Investigations
      966. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the investigation into the cremation scandal in Cork University Maternity Hospital given the investigation was to conclude in November 2021....
    • Health Services Staff
      967. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff employed in the Cork Central Children Disability Network Team; the measures that will be put in place to fill vacancies and to reduce...
    • Health Services
      968. To ask the Minister for Health his Department’s plans for funding long Covid clinics; and the supports that are available for those suffering with long Covid. [14489/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      969. To ask the Minister for Health the way that he defined exposed healthcare settings in the context of the Covid €1000 bonus; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Tusla...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      970. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to review the guidance for special needs schools such as a school (details supplied) to recommend the continued wearing of masks in classrooms...
    • Ukraine War
      971. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered putting in place regional trauma centres for Ukrainian child refugees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14516/22]
    • General Practitioner Services
      974. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposal announced in Budget 2022 to extend an automatic entitlement to free general practitioner visit cards in 2022 to children under eight...
    • Proposed Legislation
      975. To ask the Minister for Health if he has or will engage with the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to seek a provision of the regulation of the digital...
    • Disability Services
      976. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that financial assistance for a talking device for a child (details supplied) was refused; if the application will be reconsidered; and if he will...
    • Home Help Service
      977. To ask the Minister for Health the status of home support for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14534/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      978. To ask the Minister for Health if a licence to prescribe medicinal cannabis can be issued for a person suffering from chronic pain; if the product can be accessed on prescription through a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      979. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update in relation to the payment of Covid-19 bonuses for HSE workers; and when these will be processed and provided to workers. [14554/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      980. To ask the Minister for Health if a date has been scheduled for surgery for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14558/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      981. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a request for a wheelchair adjustment by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14561/22]
    • Nursing Homes
      982. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that there is an equal level of pay to nursing homes for residents in the fair deal scheme regardless of whether the nursing home is public...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      983. To ask the Minister for Health if section 39 disability service providers will be included in the €1,000 Covid recognition payment particularly those working in an organisation...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      984. To ask the Minister for Health the status of surgery for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14601/22]
    • Hospital Staff
      985. To ask the Minister for Health if funding for an additional 100 neurology nurse specialists will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14609/22]
    • Primary Care Services
      986. To ask the Minister for Health if there are supports for parents of children awaiting primary care assessments in Fingal; the number of children on waiting lists for assessments in Fingal in...
    • Hospital Staff
      988. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive the proper position title and payment commensurate with their role, training and extensive experience;...
    • Health Services
      989. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times nationally for those seeking a prescription for pre- exposure prophylaxis through the HSE for HIV prevention; the waiting time between making...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      990. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered the recommendations of the International Covid Blood Cancer Coalition impact statement; if these will be implemented; and if he will make...
    • Medicinal Products
      991. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the availability of Sotrovimab to immunocompromised patients here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14635/22]
    • Hospital Staff
      994. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the recruitment of 17 additional neurology nurses for St. Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      995. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); if the appointment will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Proposed Legislation
      997. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the long promised human tissue bill is fully enacted in early 2022 including the commitment to bring in a soft option out organ donor...
    • Departmental Data
      998. To ask the Minister for Health the number of business cases that have been submitted to his Department by an organisation (details supplied); the date that each application was received; the...
    • Departmental Contracts
      999. To ask the Minister for Health the number of contracts won by an organisation (details supplied) in each of the HSE CHO areas; the commencement, end date and value of each contract; and If...
    • Hospice Services
      1000. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for University Hospital Limerick becoming a DAFNE-accredited diabetes centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14655/22]
    • Hospital Staff
      1001. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of whole-time equivalent consultant endocrinologists, dietitians, advanced nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, staff nurses and...
    • Health Services
      1002. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline he is working towards for the creation of the virtual national diabetes register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14657/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      1003. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered putting in place a scheme to incentivise newly qualified medical graduates from Irish universities to stay and work in the health service...
    • Disability Services
      1004. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to difficulties in accessing speech and language therapy and occupational therapy in CHO area 7; and the actions his...
    • Health Services
      1005. To ask the Minister for Health if progress has been made in implementing a diagnostic centre to service CHO area 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14670/22]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1006. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects HIQA to complete its health technology assessment of the HPV vaccine catch-up programme for secondary school students who were previously...
    • Health Services
      1009. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are in place and that are planned for persons who attended the Admire clinic in Cherry Orchard, Dublin for ADHD when they turn 18 years of...
    • Health Services Staff
      1010. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the lack of specialists in Huntington’s disease services in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1011. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the waiting time persons in Limerick are experiencing for cataract operations in University Hospital Limerick forcing them...
    • Gender Recognition
      1012. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the inordinate waiting times for assessments at the National Gender Service and the alternative, costly routes transgender...
    • Health Services
      1014. To ask the Minister for Health the funding streams and core funding that are open for recovery colleges. [14695/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      1015. To ask the Minister for Health the supports that are in place per CHO for peer educators in mental health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14696/22]
    • Emergency Departments
      1017. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons aged 75 plus and under 75 who were waiting greater than 24 hours at an emergency department in February 2022 and to date in March 2022;...
    • Hospital Admissions
      1018. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can be moved to the Peamount Hospital St. Brid's unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14701/22]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1019. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of increasing each of the income limits for the general practitioner visit card by €5 and €10; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Charges
      1020. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of removing paediatric outpatient charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14703/22]
    • Ukraine War
      1022. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will produce a roadmap for supporting all persons arriving in Ireland from Ukraine in conjunction with other Government Departments and...
    • Hospital Staff
      1023. To ask the Minister for Health the number of neurology nurse specialists that are assigned to the Mater Hospital, Dublin; the number recommended given the catchment area; his plans to...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1024. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding funding for ceiling hoists (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14726/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1025. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the pandemic bonus to front-line workers at Cancer Care West; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14751/22]
    • Departmental Policies
      1026. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an outline of the proposed terms and conditions differences between the Sláintecare public-only contract and an existing type a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1027. To ask the Minister for Health if the pandemic special recognition payment will be limited to payment of staff that worked between 1 March 2020 and 30 June 2021; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1028. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for their surgery; the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14755/22]
    • Health Services
      1029. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to reopen a rehabilitation centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14769/22]
    • Disability Services
      1031. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that supports services for an autistic child (details supplied) have been stopped; when they will recommence; the cause of this interruption;; and...
    • Medical Research and Training
      1033. To ask the Minister for Health the number of non-EU doctors who applied for a place on higher surgical and clinical training in the past five years; the number who were successful in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1034. To ask the Minister for Health if a person who worked in an acute hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic will be entitled to the €1,000 Covid recognition payment; and if he will make...
    • Home Help Service
      1036. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to increase the number of home carers to alleviate waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14785/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1038. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for children who require follow-on cardiac surgery in the Mater Hospital, Dublin following a previous surgery which resulted in an...
    • Health Services Staff
      1040. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time audiologists assigned to each primary care centre in CHO area 6 as at 31 December 2020 and at 1 March 2022, in tabular form. [14815/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1041. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for bariatric surgery as of 28 February 2022. [14816/22]
    • Health Services
      1042. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements he has made to reinstate full child health screening and developmental checks and to retrospectively screen all children who have missed any...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1043. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a detailed list of the gender reassignment procedures that have been carried out within the St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group from 1...
    • Medicinal Products
      1051. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make paxlovid available to high-risk patients including blood cancer patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14899/22]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1059. To ask the Minister for Health the number of fourth Covid-19 vaccines which have been administered to immunocompromised persons; the estimated size of this cohort; the steps he is taking to...
    • Health Services Staff
      1060. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will request the HSE to review the travel expenses that public health nurses and community general nurses receive due to the increase in...
    • International Agreements
      1061. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the WHO proposal for an international treaty to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response; if there are plans to engage with INB...
    • General Register Office
      1062. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the measures to combat the delay in the issuing of birth, death and marriage certificates in County Kildare; the average wait...
    • Home Help Service
      1063. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; if an increase in home help hours will be expedited for them given the circumstances; and if he...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1064. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that are currently on the waiting list for a DEXA bone scan in a hospital (details supplied) by one, three, six and 12 months in...
    • Hospital Equipment
      1065. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a new DEXA machine provided to a hospital (details supplied) has not yet been set up for the medical team to use despite this new equipment being...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1066. To ask the Minister for Health when the emergency department task force last met given the present difficulties with hospital overcrowding; if an organisation (details supplied) has called...
    • Emergency Departments
      1067. To ask the Minister for Health the average weekly trolley count within the nine model 4 hospitals nationally for the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14948/22]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1068. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to conduct a national awareness campaign in relation to osteogenesis imperfecta to help raise awareness among the general public of the condition;...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1069. To ask the Minister for Health the budget allocated to the National Immunisation Office in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022; the breakdown of same based on Covid-19 and...
    • Medicinal Products
      1071. To ask the Minister for Health the amount and percentage of the amount spent on medicines by the State that related to generic medicines; his plans to increase the use of generics in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1075. To ask the Minister for Health if employees of an organisation (details supplied) will be eligible for the once-off €1,000 pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      1077. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14971/22]
    • Health Services
      1078. To ask the Minister for Health the total annual spend on the delivery of age-appropriate oncology palliative care services for children, adolescents and young adults between the ages of...
    • Medicinal Products
      1079. To ask the Minister for Health the orphan medicines that are reimbursed by the State in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022, including the date of the HSE Drugs Group...
    • Hospital Services
      1080. To ask the Minister for Health the rate of theatre utilisation in University Hospital Limerick, Dooradoyle in 2019 and 2021, respectively; the rate of theatre utilisation in Ennis, Nenagh...
    • Home Care Packages
      1081. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which it is intended to provide a comprehensive home care infrastructure throughout the country in the future; his views on the body that might...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1082. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive a date for surgery. [15007/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1083. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision has been made to include homeless and social care workers in the Covid recognition scheme as they are now included in the death-in-service...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1084. To ask the Minister for Health when surgery will be scheduled for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if they will be provided with a date for same; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1085. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that persons are unable to obtain a Covid-19 recovery certificate based on a positive antigen test unless the test has been obtained and paid for...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1086. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [15022/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1087. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the €1,000 Covid bonus payment to nurses, health and social care workers in the Intellectual Disability Service that...
    • Departmental Reports
      1088. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has completed the review of a report (details supplied) in respect of the drug reimbursement process; when this report and the key...
    • Health Services
      1089. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to provide chiropody services for public patients in Bandon and Kinsale, County Cork. [15051/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      1090. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to review adult mental health services in view of the systematic issues identified with the South Kerry CAMHS; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      1091. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 825 and 826 of 1 February 2022, the precise specialisms in adult mental health psychology and the exact criteria...
    • Health Services
      1093. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure the availability of respite beds in Bantry General Hospital. [15055/22]
    • Disability Services
      1094. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking in response to the plans to sell off facilities for persons with physical and intellectual disabilities (details supplied); and if he...
    • Health Services
      1096. To ask the Minister for Health the status of feeding eating, drinking and swallowing impairments pathways for assessment and treatment in CHO4. [15058/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1098. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15076/22]
    • Dental Services
      1099. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the work of the office of the Chief Dental Officer including the numbers employed in the office; the financial allocation to...
    • Disability Services
      1100. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists and speech and language therapists in the CHO5 and CHO3 areas in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, by area. [15082/22]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1104. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has liaised with the health and education authorities on increasing places in third-level institutions for the training of radiographers and...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1105. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider introducing a scheme similar to the farming equipment and technology fund in the United Kingdom that subsidises...
    • Forestry Sector
      1106. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of afforestation approvals his Department must issue in each week from 1 March 2022 to 31 December 2022 in order to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1107. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost incurred by his Department for the supply of Covid-19 related face masks and face coverings since March 2019 to date; the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1109. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applicants or members of the REAP scheme who have applied for afforestation approval under the afforestation grant and...
    • Forestry Sector
      1110. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of ash dieback RUS licences his Department plans to issue in March and April 2022; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Budgets
      1114. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of the forestry budget within his Department for 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13933/22]
    • Forestry Sector
      1115. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the targets of his Department for the planting of forestry in 2022 considering that in order to merely keep the national forestry...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1122. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the expenditure by the Forest Service of his Department is in line with the budget for the month of February 2022 thereby...
    • Traveller Community
      1124. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions that his Department has taken to implement the relevant recommendations from the Joint Committee on Key Issues Affecting...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1125. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 372 of 27 January 2022, if he will provide an update on the status of the review; and if he...
    • Land Issues
      1128. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when does the land change from agricultural land to commercial land for the purposes of valuation and succession where agricultural...
    • World Economic Forum
      1129. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he or officials from his Department have engaged in any form of communication with the World Economic Forum or representatives of...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1130. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive their GLAS payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14238/22]
    • Animal Diseases
      1131. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of samples that were taken to be tested for TB annually in 2019, 2020 and 2021; the breakdown of the samples taken for...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1133. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers required to make payment to his Department arising from the BEAM scheme; the average payment; the average...
    • Departmental Reports
      1135. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the 21 recommendations from the Mackinnon report of November 2019 that have been implemented; the status of those which have not;...
    • Departmental Data
      1136. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of pig herds in the State in brackets of 0-99, 100-199 and 200-299, by county; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Funding
      1137. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details on the amount of funding provided to an organisation (details supplied) in each of the years from 2018 to...
    • Animal Welfare
      1139. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of calls received by his Department's animal welfare helpline by county from 2018 to 2022, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Fisheries Protection
      1141. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to seek an extension of the existing Irish territorial waters’ zone from 0-6 miles out to 12 miles and the existing...
    • Fishing Industry
      1142. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of negotiations with the British government to restore access to the waters round Rockall for Irish fishermen; if he...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1144. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if has considered increasing the use of seaweed as fertiliser to tackle the shortage of fertiliser; and if he will make a statement...
    • Forestry Sector
      1146. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the plans for Killegar forest in the wake of the decision not to sell it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14595/22]
    • Departmental Schemes
      1147. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce a system whereby the disposal of animal remedy and vaccine bottles can be done in an environmentally friendly...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1148. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the criteria set out by his Department to recognise farm organisations or a representative body for farmers; when this criterion was...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1149. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied);; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14729/22]
    • Forestry Sector
      1152. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will consider a submission (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14797/22]
    • Departmental Policies
      1153. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there will be a tightening of the legislation in relation to the registration and tracking of horses and ponies (details...
    • Animal Slaughtering
      1154. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average kill out percentage of each grade of cattle, that is, E, U, R, O and P based on slaughter and dissection studies...
    • Fishing Industry
      1156. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will establish a commercial inshore hook and line fishery for bass including a quota in Tralee Bay. [15042/22]
    • Natura 2000
      1157. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the implementation of the mitigation measures outlined within the Forestry Programmes Natura Impact Statement (details...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1161. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a long overdue transfer of entitlement will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Proposed Legislation
      1162. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there is a commitment, expressed or implied made in the Programme for Government 2020 to enact legislation within the lifetime of...
    • Regeneration Projects
      1163. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a town regeneration officer will be assigned to Ballyhaunis, County Mayo under the town centre first programme; and if she will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1164. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the cost incurred by her Department for the supply of Covid-19 related face masks and face coverings since March 2019 to date; the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1166. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there is a fund or grant system available to help communities construct community centres; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Traveller Community
      1167. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the actions that her Department has taken to implement the relevant recommendations from the Joint Committee on Key Issues Affecting...
    • World Economic Forum
      1168. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she or officials from her Department have engaged in any form of communication with the World Economic Forum or representatives of...
    • Rural Schemes
      1169. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the eligibility for town and village renewal scheme funding under which funding for village design statements can be provided will...
    • Ukraine War
      1170. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will initiate outreach to local communities via the community response fora in relation to the provision of information and...
    • Rural Schemes
      1171. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason that community and parish books cannot be funded through the LEADER programme (details supplied); if the new round of...

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