Written answers
Wednesday, 23 March 2022
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Departmental Contracts
1. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has engaged a company (details supplied) in respect of the services it provides from 2011 to date in 2022; the number of times he...
- Public Sector Staff
2. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of full-time IT security managers employed by IDA Ireland in 2020, 2021 and to-date in 2022, in tabular form. [15220/22]
- Job Losses
3. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps his Department has taken with a company (details supplied) to support employees and subcontractors impacted by a...
- Fuel Prices
4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports that are currently available for bus and coach operators given the increase in fuel costs; and if he will make a statement...
- Departmental Contracts
6. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of contracts that his Department has with a company (details supplied); the location, nature, value and type of contract in...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Climate Change Policy
7. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will ensure that second-level students have an input into the just transition process and in particular in an...
- Fuel Poverty
8. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to tackle fuel poverty given the severe financial difficulties caused by recent price increases; and if he will...
- Renewable Energy Generation
9. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration is being given to introduce tax and or other incentives for the delivery of renewable energy projects to...
- National Broadband Plan
10. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when an area (details supplied) will be able to avail of efibre broadband. [15173/22]
- Departmental Contracts
11. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has engaged a company (details supplied) in respect of the services it provides from 2011 to date in 2022; the...
- Energy Conservation
12. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 160, 161 and 162 of 2 November 2021, if he will request the SEAI to provide the...
- Departmental Staff
13. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of full-time petroleum exploration specialists working in his Department as of 14 March 2022. [15228/22]
- Energy Prices
14. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the electricity credit; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Energy Policy
15. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures he plans to take to secure Ireland's energy supply in view of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the...
- Renewable Energy Generation
17. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures he plans to take in the short-term to increase Ireland’s renewable energy supply. [15285/22]
- Exploration Industry
18. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of licences for gas exploration in or in the vicinity of the Corrib gas field that still subsist and when...
- Departmental Contracts
20. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of contracts that his Department has with a company (details supplied); the location, nature, value and type...
- North-South Interconnector
21. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if matters raised in correspondence by a local authority (details supplied) will be reviewed; if these concerns will be...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Driver Licences
22. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount being paid to a contractor to process payments for the National Driver Licence Service (details supplied). [15126/22]
- Aviation Industry
24. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of fifth freedom applications he has received from an airline (details supplied) in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022; the routes...
- Fuel Prices
25. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the supports that will be made available to taxi drivers in view of rising fuel prices particularly considering the new supports announced...
- Departmental Contracts
26. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has engaged a company (details supplied) in respect of the services it provides from 2011 to date in 2022; the number of times he...
- Bus Services
27. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passengers on each Local Link route in County Kilkenny in each week for the past 12 months. [15205/22]
- Bus Éireann
28. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passengers that travelled on Bus Éireann route 14 Limerick to Killarney in both directions in 2021 and to-date in 2022,...
- Public Transport
29. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of tickets sold for the Dublin to Galway train line in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and...
- Rail Network
30. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Transport Authority will provide the necessary funding to replace the roof on platforms 5, 6 and 7 at Connolly Station....
- Aviation Industry
32. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when licenses (details supplied) will issue from the Irish Aviation Authority given that some aircraft engineers have been waiting for...
- National Transport Authority
33. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost to the State and all agencies under his Department and the local authority and the reasons for that cost up to 15 March 2022 of...
- Departmental Data
34. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of journeys taken in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022 on each public bike scheme operated in the State; and the number of...
- Public Transport
35. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an exact date for the implementation of fare structures (details supplied). [15254/22]
- Departmental Expenditure
36. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of capital investment allocated to each programme (details supplied) within transport Vote 31 subhead B5 public transport...
- Rail Network
38. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the proposed upgrades to be carried out on the Athenry to Galway railway line; the sources of funding for this work; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Contracts
39. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of contracts that his Department has with a company (details supplied); the location, nature, value and type of contract in...
- Road Network
40. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if matters raised in correspondence by a local authority (details supplied) will be reviewed; if these concerns will be addressed; if a...
- Department of Finance
- Banking Sector
41. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will request banks not to impede access to mortgages for those workers that would ordinarily be approved for the pandemic unemployment...
- Departmental Contracts
42. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has engaged a company (details supplied) in respect of the services it provides from 2011 to date in 2022; the number of times he has engaged this...
- Tax Code
43. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department plans to review the current small tax benefit particularly around the stipulation allowing businesses to claim tax against one voucher for...
- Tax Rebates
44. To ask the Minister for Finance if VAT reclaim on fuel costs will be considered for bus and coach operators given the current prohibitive costs of fuel which is having a severe impact on...
- Departmental Contracts
45. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of contracts that his Department has with a company (details supplied); the location, nature, value and type of contract in each case; and if he...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Departmental Staff
46. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will put a system in place to allow for the recruitment of personnel to work in paid or unpaid employment in Government Departments...
- Public Sector Staff
47. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 43 of 2 February 2022, the reason that a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary was refused...
- Departmental Contracts
48. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has engaged a company (details supplied) in respect of the services it provides from 2011 to date in 2022; the number of times he...
- Freedom of Information
49. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he plans to include additional bodies or companies that receive Exchequer funding to be included under freedom of information...
- Office of Public Works
50. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of full-time OPW staff by job title currently working in Trim Castle; the number of vacancies by job title; and when each of...
- Fuel Prices
51. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Revenue Commissioners will be instructed to increase the standard mileage allowance for HSE staff to account for the rising price...
- Departmental Contracts
52. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of contracts that his Department has with a company (details supplied); the location, nature, value and type of contract in...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Sports Funding
53. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide a detailed outline of the reasons a club (details supplied) were unsuccessful in their application for sports...
- Departmental Contracts
54. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has engaged a company (details supplied) in respect of the services it provides from 2011 to date in 2022; the number of...
- Tourism Funding
55. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason that independent tourism providers cannot avail of the tour operators business continuity scheme for 2022; the reason...
- Departmental Contracts
56. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of contracts that her Department has with a company (details supplied); the location, nature, value and type of contract...
- Pleanáil Teanga
57. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir le plean teanga Bhearna agus Chnoc na Cathrach atá faofa ag an Aire le...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- School Facilities
58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter with regard to public access to outdoor facilities (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Urban Development
59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the national town centre first office; when the office will be established; the location of the office; the...
- Departmental Contracts
60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has engaged a company (details supplied) in respect of the services it provides from 2011 to date in 2022; the number of...
- Vacant Sites
61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of the vacant site levy that was collected in 2021 compared to demands; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Rail Network
62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding approved under the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund for the upgrade of the railway line from Athenry to...
- Water Quality
63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Irish Water’s plan to eliminate trihalomethanes in public drinking water supplies by the end of 2021 has been...
- Departmental Contracts
64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of contracts that his Department has with a company (details supplied); the location, nature, value and type of...
- Housing Schemes
65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the financial supports that are available for a family that is in inappropriate accommodation which it owns and which is no...
- Planning Issues
66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the membership of the Planning Advisory Forum. [15490/22]
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Passport Services
68. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport card can be posted to a person (details supplied) in view of the fact that the passport card is printing and that they have...
- Foreign Birth Registration
69. 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. [15162/22]
- Departmental Contracts
70. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has engaged a company (details supplied) in respect of the services it provides from 2011 to date in 2022; the number of times he has...
- Passport Services
71. 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. [15194/22]
- Diplomatic Representation
72. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Irish Embassies that are scheduled to be refurbished in 2022. [15221/22]
- Foreign Policy
73. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the extent of the violent suppression of democracy in Bahrain; if there is a reason that Ireland is silent...
- EU Membership
76. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the application for membership of the European Union submitted by Georgia was discussed at recent meetings of the Foreign Affairs Council;...
- Departmental Contracts
77. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of contracts that his Department has with a company (details supplied); the location, nature, value and type of contract in each...
- Foreign Conflicts
79. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of the bilateral engagement he has had with his counterparts in Saudi Arabia with regard to bringing about an end to the ongoing...
- Department of Defence
- Departmental Contracts
80. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has engaged a company (details supplied) in respect of the services it provides from 2011 to date in 2022; the number of times he has...
- Air Corps
81. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a new Air Corps apprenticeship will be launched in the second quarter of 2022. [15212/22]
- Naval Service
82. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when the contract for the replacement of LÉ Eithne will be put out to tender. [15213/22]
- Defence Forces
83. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 55 of 10 March 2022, the reason that inductions are so low given the number of applications; if he will...
- Departmental Contracts
84. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of contracts that his Department has with a company (details supplied); the location, nature, value and type of contract in each case;...
- Defence Forces
85. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will consider reopening army barracks such as Dún Úi Neill, County Cavan, a modern army facility which was closed in 2012, in...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Teaching Council of Ireland
86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the Teaching Council will implement the lifting of the five day rule for payment of student teachers order to accommodate student teachers in...
- Grant Payments
87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on a remote area grant for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15136/22]
- School Accommodation
88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the need for additional classroom accommodation in a school (details supplied); the initiatives her Department...
- Departmental Contracts
89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has engaged a company (details supplied) in respect of the services it provides from 2011 to date in 2022; the number of times she has...
- Schools Building Projects
90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for new secondary schools in Cherrywood, County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15242/22]
- School Patronage
91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for Gaelcholáistí and non-denominational secondary schools in the south County Dublin area; and if she will make a statement...
- Schools Amalgamation
92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department received the inquiry from the school authority regarding the process for school amalgamations further to a response; the...
- Education Policy
95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement her Department has had with the patron or board of management of a school (details supplied) with regard to the participation of...
- School Staff
98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a second SNA will be allocated to a school (details supplied) given the exceptional circumstances of the case; and if a positive outcome will...
- School Costs
99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider providing additional funding to schools to deal with their significantly increased energy bills which are putting a strain on...
- Schools Building Projects
100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans to construct a new ASD unit for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15277/22]
- School Staff
101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will appoint an exceptional teacher to a school (details supplied) as a matter of urgency given the range of issues and demands facing...
- School Accommodation
102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that staff toilets and a secretarial office are excluded from recent works approved by her Department...
- School Transport
103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Butlerstown to Tramore school bus route is included in the changed school bus guidelines announced recently as part of the recent cost of...
- School Staff
104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a school (details supplied) has had an infant class teaching post removed despite having a classroom available and a large...
- School Enrolments
105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the once-off reductions in new enrolments in junior infants in some schools in 2021 due to Covid...
- Departmental Contracts
106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of contracts that her Department has with a company (details supplied); the location, nature, value and type of contract in each case;...
- Schools Building Projects
107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for providing an extension to the deadline for submitting stage 2B for a school (details supplied). [15425/22]
- School Management
108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will consider making provision for representatives of a union (details supplied) to have an input into school boards of...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Payments
109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if financial assistance will be made available to a person (details supplied) in County Cork who will be accommodating six...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the refusal of pandemic unemployment payments to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
- Social Welfare Schemes
111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when in-person assessments will resume for those applying for disablement benefit; the reason that these assessments have not...
- Departmental Programmes
113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons enrolled in the activation and family support programme; and the amount of funding allocated to the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent on child benefit since 2017 by year ; the number of recipients of child benefit since 2017 by year; and the...
- Social Welfare Payments
115. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors who served in the role prior to 1 July 2008 are not...
- Departmental Contracts
117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has engaged a company (details supplied) in respect of the services it provides from 2011 to date in 2022; the number...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
118. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which her Department can support workers (details supplied) who entered a 30-day collection redundancy period...
- Social Welfare Payments
119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she expects an increase in the demand for social welfare payments in 2022; if she is satisfied that these...
- State Pensions
121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which satisfactory provision continues to be made for those retiring at 65 years of age; the recent progress in...
- Youth Unemployment
122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she and her Department continue to monitor youth unemployment levels; the extent to which such levels...
- State Pensions
123. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she expects to be in a position to address the pensions issue for persons that have gaps in their...
- Social Welfare Payments
124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which waiting times for payments in respect of means-tested applications compare with contribution related...
- Social Welfare Appeals
126. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of decisions to refuse for jobseeker’s allowance, illness benefit and disability that have been overturned...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the Departmental regulations or legislation which govern and guide deciding officers when assessing medical evidence...
- Social Welfare Code
131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps taken by her Department to ensure equity and fairness for all social welfare applicants with particular reference...
- Social Welfare Payments
133. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of invalidity pension applications received by her Department since 2012 to date; the number of applications...
- State Pensions
134. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of persons currently in receipt of the State (contributory) pension; the extent to which this number is...
- Social Welfare Payments
136. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of recipients of child benefit payments; the extent to which this has fluctuated over the past two years and...
- Departmental Contracts
137. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of contracts that her Department has with a company (details supplied); the location, nature, value and type of...
- Social Welfare Benefits
138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the financial supports that are available for a family that is in inappropriate accommodation which it owns and which is no...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
139. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a person (details supplied) was refused the benefit payment for persons over 65 years of age; and if she will...
- Social Welfare Benefits
140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to offset the rising cost of living for persons on fixed incomes particularly pensions and welfare payments; and if...
- Social Insurance
141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has or will pay full PRSI contributions for all those who were in receipt of the pandemic unemployment...
- Social Welfare Payments
142. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to address the barriers for individuals applying for parent’s benefit including digital...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Departmental Contracts
143. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has engaged a company (details supplied) in respect of the services it provides from 2011 to date in 2022;...
- Disability Services
144. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to establish a working party to investigate the needs of persons living with Huntington’s...
- Childcare Services
145. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if sufficient considerations have been given to inflationary pressures being experienced by the childcare...
- Rights of People with Disabilities
146. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to establish a standalone Ombudsman to investigate breaches of the United Nations Convention on the...
- Child and Family Agency
147. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the action being taken to reduce the waiting time for cases being dealt with by social workers at Tusla relative...
- Birth Certificates
148. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeframe for granting access to the original birth certificates of those seeking information on the details...
- Childcare Services
149. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the Hungarian policy of the grandparent's childcare fee (details supplied); if his Department plans...
- Departmental Contracts
150. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of contracts that his Department has with a company (details supplied); the location, nature, value...
- International Protection
151. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on providing a quarterly refugee accommodation pipeline report to the Oireachtas Committee on...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
152. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of purpose-built early learning and care services that will be built in 2022, 2023 and 2024 through...
- Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
153. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to establish a specialist tracing team with ring-fenced resources as recommended in a report (details...
- Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
154. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagement he has had with the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, with regard to the implementation of...
- Community Development Projects
155. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timelines for any potential funding stream in 2022 for community centres and community facilities; and if he...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Grant Payments
156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide information regarding the scholarships or grants that are available in Ireland for a Palestinian student who is hoping to...
- Departmental Contracts
157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has engaged a company (details supplied) in respect of the services it provides from 2011 to date in 2022; the number of times he has...
- Third Level Education
158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of alternative education settings, including Youthreach and related schemes, that have a canteen. [15227/22]
- Departmental Contracts
159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of contracts that his Department has with a company (details supplied); the location, nature, value and type of contract in each case;...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Residency Permits
160. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an application for permission to remain in the State by a person (details supplied) will be processed, given that the...
- Departmental Contracts
161. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has engaged a company (details supplied) in respect of the services it provides from 2011 to date in 2022; the number of...
- An Garda Síochána
162. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of cash seized by gardaí in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [15222/22]
- Citizenship Applications
166. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of applications for citizenship by persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15240/22]
- Ukraine War
167. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has committed to establishing a reception centre for refugees at Shannon airport similar to the one established at...
- Citizenship Applications
169. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the naturalisation case of a person (details supplied) will be examined given that they are currently unable to represent...
- Departmental Contracts
170. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of contracts that her Department has with a company (details supplied); the location, nature, value and type of...
- Department of Health
- Hospital Staff
171. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the appointment of a dietitian post to the oncology day unit in Cavan General Hospital (details supplied); and if he will make...
- Departmental Bodies
172. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support the request to establish a working group under the joint auspices of the National Dementia Office and the Integrated Care Programme to...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
173. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will qualify for the bonus payment for health care workers or part thereof; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15119/22]
- Medical Aids and Appliances
174. To ask the Minister for Health if a mobility scooter will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15129/22]
- Nursing Homes
175. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the Fair Deal Scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15130/22]
- Mental Health Services
176. To ask the Minister for Health if there have been additional resources allocated to the child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS,, to help deal with the sharp increase in referrals...
- Disease Management
177. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to implement a specialised unit facility that will have a multi-disciplinary team to deal with Huntington’s disease in Ireland; and if he will...
- State Claims Agency
178. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 457 of 21 February 2022, the breakdown of values across each of the years since 2003; and if he will make a statement on...
- Abortion Services
179. To ask the Minister for Health if an expert advisory group has been appointed to support an independent chair (details supplied) with the three year review of the operation of the Health...
- Departmental Contracts
180. To ask the Minister for Health if he has engaged a company (details supplied) in respect of the services it provides from 2011 to date in 2022; the number of times he has engaged this...
- General Practitioner Services
181. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a report (detail supplied); if his attention has been drawn to this issue; the actions he is taking on this issue; and if he will make a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
182. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) working in a section 39 residential setting for persons with intellectual disabilities with Covid positive patients will receive...
- Mental Health Services
183. To ask the Minister for Health the date his Department was first informed of the intention of CHO 4 HSE management to close a centre (details supplied); if he will identify the staff members...
- Departmental Bodies
187. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to establish a working party to investigate the needs of persons living with Huntington’s disease and their families; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Services
188. To ask the Minister for Health the funding that has been made available to Beaumont Hospital for neurology and neurosurgery services in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in...
- Departmental Funding
189. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide funding for research into multiple sulfatase deficiency. [15216/22]
- Health Services Staff
190. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time ocularists employed by the HSE in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and the locations in which the ocularists are...
- Hospital Services
191. To ask the Minister for Health the number of flash electroretinograms tests carried out at the Mater Hospital in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [15218/22]
- Hospital Staff
192. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultant neurologists with a special interest in migraine working in the public health services in each of the past two years; and...
- Health Services Staff
193. To ask the Minister for Health the mileage rates or motor expenses in place for public health nurses; the provisions that are provided for in their contracts of employment considering their...
- Abortion Services
194. To ask the Minister for Health the person or body that has been awarded the contract to undertake research with service providers of termination of pregnancy services as part of the...
- Medical Cards
195. To ask the Minister for Health if medical card holders should be charged for tests (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15235/22]
- Disabilities Assessments
196. To ask the Minister for Health when an assessment of needs will take place for a child (details supplied) in Dublin 11; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Disability Services
198. To ask the Minister for Health the number of individualised family service plans that have been issued and accepted by each individual children’s disability network team by CHO area....
- Covid-19 Pandemic
199. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review correspondence (details supplied); the mechanism or procedure being put in place for same; the way that staff might be contacted if eligible...
- Health Services
200. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review correspondence (details supplied); if this is a matter his Department is reviewing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15278/22]
- Cannabis for Medicinal Use
201. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the Medical Cannabis Access Programme clinical review will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15393/22]
- Departmental Contracts
202. To ask the Minister for Health the number of contracts that his Department has with a company (details supplied); the location, nature, value and type of contract in each case; and if he...
- Patient Forums
203. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to engage with a group (details supplied) to discuss future services and improvements for patients; if consideration has been given to proposals in...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
204. To ask the Minister for Health when full particulars, eligibility and terms and conditions for the assessment panel in relation to the Covid recognition payment scheme will be published; and...
- Hospital Appointments Status
207. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for the ENT hospital in Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15427/22]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
208. To ask the Minister for Health the Covid-19 safety protocols that are still in place to protect people with disabilities; if he plans to introduce measures specifically to ensure the safety...
- Health Services
209. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine a request regarding funding (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15441/22]
- Transport Costs
210. To ask the Minister for Health if he will carry out a review into the travel expenses of public health nurses and community RGNs as a matter of urgency given the increases in fuel costs...
- Health Services Staff
211. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1055 of 31 March 2021, the entire duration in weeks experienced by the CHO4 staff member referred to in the response from...
- Health Services
212. To ask the Minister for Health the funding and supports available in each CHO to support home births; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15502/22]
- Disability Services
213. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide his response to the recommendations in a report (details supplied) concerning progressing disability services for children and young people....
- Covid-19 Pandemic
214. To ask the Minister for Health if national community care network carers will be entitled to the healthcare workers bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15510/22]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
215. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the full list of the categories of eligible workers who are entitled to the healthcare bonus payment. [15511/22]
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Forestry Sector
216. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of proposals in relation to matters (details supplied) regarding forestry licensing; and if he will make a statement on...
- Departmental Contracts
217. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has engaged a company (details supplied) in respect of the services it provides from 2011 to date in 2022; the number of times...
- Forestry Sector
218. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department issued 70 more licences to Coillte than to the private sector for February 2022; if this trend will continue in...
- State Bodies
222. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of vacancies by job title currently in the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority; when each of these vacancies will be filled...
- Agriculture Industry
223. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans in relation to a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15273/22]
- Animal Passports
224. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will examine the issuing of animal passports by a society (details supplied). [15274/22]
- Animal Welfare
225. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will liaise with a society (details supplied) and ensure that it allows DNA investigations into their ponies; if their ponies...
- Harbours and Piers
226. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide assistance in relation to a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15281/22]
- Departmental Contracts
227. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of contracts that his Department has with a company (details supplied); the location, nature, value and type of contract...
- Agriculture Schemes
228. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers that applied for the BEAM scheme in 2019. [15431/22]
- Nitrates Usage
238. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1999, 2000 and 2001 of 19 January 2022, if the information regarding chemical fertiliser...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Departmental Contracts
239. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has engaged a company (details supplied) in respect of the services it provides from 2011 to date in 2022; the number of times...
- Departmental Schemes
241. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the timelines for any potential funding stream in 2022 for community centres and community facilities; and if she will report on the...
