Written answers
Tuesday, 29 March 2022
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Commissions of Investigation
14. To ask the Taoiseach the number of commissions of investigation under the remit of his Department currently ongoing in the State; the cost of each commission to date; and the projected costs...
- EU Meetings
17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the most recent European Council meeting. [12776/22]
- Ukraine War
33. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent conversation with the Prime Minister of Ukraine. [12777/22]
- Northern Ireland
40. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Shared Island Dialogue on Sport. [12778/22]
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell
82. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she expects to receive the final report of a scoping exercise in relation to the death of a person (details supplied); and...
- Court Orders
83. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she intends to pursue changes to bail conditions for those who have previously committed an offence while out on bail; and if...
- Local Community Safety Partnerships
84. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an update will be provided on the Local Community Safety Partnership pilot in County Longford; and if she will make a...
- Courts Staff
85. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the recruitment of a county registrar in County Mayo in view of the retirement of the outgoing registrar; and if...
- Departmental Policies
86. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way that the new policy approach for areas of severe disadvantage, which are suffering the ravages of drug dealing, has been...
- Electronic Tagging
87. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans for the further rolling out of electronic tagging of criminals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16211/22]
- Domestic Violence
88. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for the provision of domestic violence refuges in counties in counties Cavan and Monaghan; if a funding stream is...
- An Garda Síochána
89. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda recruits who have attested to date in 2022; and the number estimated to attest for the remainder of 2022....
- Ukraine War
90. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she agreed on behalf of Ireland with the decision that non-Ukrainian citizens affected by the Russian invasion cannot avail...
- Victim Support Services
91. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department provides funding for victim organisations; if so, the purpose of this funding; and if she will make a...
- Crime Prevention
92. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to target the problem of repeat criminal offenders with multiple convictions; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Naturalisation Applications
93. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures that are being taken to address the number of naturalisation applications that are being processed for more than...
- An Garda Síochána
94. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of arrests and seizures related to Operation Copóg in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Local Community Safety Partnerships
96. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the evaluation process of the three local community safety partnerships pilots which are currently run in...
- Departmental Policies
97. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the status and engagements of the Drogheda Implementation Board; the recommendations contained...
- Prison Service
98. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cells in the prison estate that do not have in cell sanitation; the prisons in which these cells are situated; the...
- Departmental Projects
99. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that is being made on the green town project; the number of vulnerable families that the programme is assisting;...
- Domestic Violence
100. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action she is taking to combat domestic violence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16191/22]
- An Garda Síochána
101. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will respond to recent allegations from organisations representing sex workers of Garda intimidation and abusive...
- Ukraine War
102. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an update will be provided on the work her Department is undertaking to formalise the status of persons arriving in Ireland...
- An Garda Síochána
103. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in Cork City; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16199/22]
- Family Law Cases
104. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in implementing recommendations of the Report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice and Equality on...
- Court Judgments
105. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action her Department will take to address the issue of non-engagement by undersheriff's offices in regard to Circuit Court...
- Immigration Policy
106. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will amend the regularisation of long-term undocumented migrants scheme to include everyone in need of regularisation in...
- Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell
107. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status and details of the progress of the scoping inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied); and if she will...
- An Garda Síochána
108. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status and details of the progress of the GSOC investigation into the death of a person (details supplied); when the...
- Departmental Schemes
109. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the Community Safety Innovation Fund; the way that communities can access funding under the scheme; and if she...
- Prison Service
110. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will examine the provision of an open step down prison for women in Ireland recognising the positive rehabilitative and...
- Local Community Safety Partnerships
111. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she plans to roll-out a community safety partnership in every county; and the role the community safety innovation fund...
- An Garda Síochána
112. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current strength of the Garda Reserve; the number of female and male members respectively; and if she will make a statement...
- Victim Support Services
113. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress being made in implementing supporting a victim’s journey; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Sentencing Policy
114. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she intends to introduce legislation to increase the penalty of conspiracy to murder to life in prison; the reason that...
- Joint Policing Committees
115. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she plans to review the current plans for joint policing committees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16202/22]
- Crime Data
116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the recent incidents of car thefts in areas of Cork city in recent weeks; if she has numbers...
- Local Community Safety Partnerships
117. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the way the pilot community safety partnerships are progressing; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Residency Permits
118. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the options that are open to gain permanent residence for a Columbian national currently resident on a study and work visa; and...
- Crime Prevention
119. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she is taking to address assaults on frontline workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16245/22]
- Departmental Strategies
120. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the Ballymun a Brighter Future Report, in the context of her youth justice strategy; and if she will make a...
- Diplomatic Representation
121. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if staff at the Russian embassy are monitored for possible subversive activities. [16016/22]
- Closed-Circuit Television Systems
122. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an update will be provided on the regulations and funding for Garda and community CCTV; and if she will make a statement on...
- Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
123. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way that An Garda Síochána is strengthening the resources it deploys to tackle violence against women; and if she...
- Courts Staff
124. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she plans to appoint additional judges with a view to clearing the current backlog of cases before the Courts Service. [16217/22]
- Deportation Orders
125. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the deportation notice against a person (details supplied); if she will revoke this notice;...
- An Garda Síochána
126. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost to date since 25 February 2022 of providing an additional Garda presence in the environs of the Russian...
- National Security
128. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will be reviewing security policy in view of the current international situation. [16093/22]
- An Garda Síochána
129. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in Carrigaline; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16200/22]
- Departmental Strategies
131. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the third national strategy to tackle domestic, sexual and gender-based violence; when the strategy will be...
- Prison Service
133. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will order the full rolling out of the Traveller in Prison Initiative by a charitable trust (details supplied) across...
- Departmental Schemes
135. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the discussions that have taken place within her Department and with other key Departments...
- Crime Prevention
136. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which drug-related crime and increase in the use of drugs is being noted with a view to a serious crackdown on...
- Prison Service
140. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the disciplinary action that Irish Prison Services staff may potentially face at work as a result of being subject to a barring...
- Jury Service
141. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will review the practice of not paying travel expenses for those called for jury duty considering the current cost of...
- Domestic Violence
142. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of plans to provide domestic violence refuge space in County Roscommon given that it is one of the nine counties...
- Ukraine War
143. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an update will be provided on the efforts of her Department to support Ukrainian refugees fleeing war; and if she will make...
- Crime Prevention
144. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action that is being taken to tackle drug crime, especially in view of recent seizures in Tallaght, Dublin 24; and if she...
- Road Traffic Offences
145. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the development of a citizen reporting portal for road traffic offences to enable persons to upload photographic...
- Ukraine War
146. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she is taking to ensure that Ukrainian refugees are able to enter Ireland and regularise their position; and if she...
- An Garda Síochána
147. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí currently assigned to the drugs unit in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if she will make a statement...
- Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
148. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will reform the immigration system to protect the victims and survivors of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence...
- Prison Service
149. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when full family visits will recommence in the prisons across the country in view of the general lifting of restrictions in...
- Domestic Violence
150. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 161 of 17 February 2022, the status of the promised implementation plan in which the...
- Ukraine War
151. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the work of her Department in assisting persons from Ukraine who have arrived in Ireland through Shannon...
- Closed-Circuit Television Systems
152. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in preparing legislation relevant to community based CCTV; the likely timeline for the enactment of this...
- Court Procedures
153. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to improve the operation of the criminal trial process for victims; and if she will make a statement on...
- Departmental Investigations
154. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1453 of 21 April 2021, if she has since discussed the new information that was brought to...
- An Garda Síochána
155. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a full public inquiry, or in the alternative, an investigation conducted by an outside policing agency will be carried out...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Departmental Data
156. To ask the Taoiseach the number of retail businesses in Ireland by region in each of the years 2011 to 2021 inclusive in tabular form. [16409/22]
- Census of Population
157. To ask the Taoiseach the plans that are being put in place to allow those that are homeless, including rough sleepers and those living in cars to complete the 2022 census. [16426/22]
- Official Apology
158. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of all State apologies he has issued since he assumed office. [16206/22]
- Cabinet Committees
159. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Social Affairs and Equality will next meet. [16020/22]
- Northern Ireland
160. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Shared Island Dialogue on sport. [16210/22]
- Departmental Contracts
161. To ask the Taoiseach 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 company; the...
- Census of Population
162. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide contact details for local co-ordinators for the upcoming Census in April 2022 for counties Cavan, Monaghan and Meath to deal with local Census...
- Departmental Contracts
163. To ask the Taoiseach the number of contracts that his Department has with a company (details supplied); the location, nature, value and type of contract in each case. [15394/22]
- Census of Population
164. To ask the Taoiseach the reason that there is a question on the Census form asking for the number of bedrooms there are in a person’s house (details supplied). [15782/22]
- Undocumented Irish in the USA
166. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the issue of the undocumented Irish in the United States of America with the President of the United States; and if this matter was raised with other...
- Departmental Data
167. To ask the Taoiseach the number of retainers his Department has with outside organisations; and the cost of each retainer in tabular form. [16159/22]
- Departmental Consultations
168. To ask the Taoiseach the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his Department in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in...
- Departmental Data
169. To ask the Taoiseach the average hourly other labour costs of the category clerical, sales and service employees in the NACE Rev 2 category of wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Work Permits
177. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will review the State’s employment policy which permits non-EEA citizens to work as carers in hospitals and nursing...
- Energy Prices
178. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the work that the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council is undertaking to interrogate the...
- Flexible Work Practices
179. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when legislation will be commenced and the expected completion date in respect of blended working; and if he will make a statement on...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
180. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the Government’s position on the recently proposed compromise text put forward by some European Union countries, the United...
- Work Permits
181. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when employment permits will issue to persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16037/22]
- Departmental Data
183. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of retainers his Department has with outside organisations; and the cost of each retainer in tabular form. [16148/22]
- Work Permits
184. 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. [16325/22]
- Departmental Functions
185. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff assigned to the digital economy policy unit of his Department; the work undertaken by the unit since it was...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
186. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports that are in place for a small business (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16350/22]
- Departmental Consultations
187. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his Department in each of...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
188. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will take a public position supporting the necessity for the TRIPS Agreement for the Prevention, Containment and Treatment of...
- Employment Rights
189. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if an update will be provided on a new employment regulation order for the security industry; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Staff
190. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of civil servants in his Department currently on secondment to the private sector; if he will list the entities that they...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Energy Policy
191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether Ireland’s indigenous off-shore hydrocarbon assets should be considered as a development...
- Departmental Strategies
194. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the Demand Side Strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15917/22]
- National Broadband Plan
196. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that all houses in the Burrow peninsula, Portrane, County Dublin have not been included in the National...
- Post Office Network
197. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the work of the interdepartmental group, which was established to, inter alia, examine the feasibility of...
- Energy Prices
203. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the anomalous situation which gives rise to significantly higher gas prices in...
- Energy Policy
204. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of proposals to regulate district heating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15960/22]
- Departmental Schemes
205. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the farm tyre waste recycling scheme will be reintroduced in order to allow farmers the opportunity to recycle their...
- Energy Policy
208. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which the issue of fuel security in Europe has been discussed during exchanges with his European Union...
- Departmental Schemes
209. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes completed in County Monaghan and County Cavan, respectively under the Better Energy Warmer Home...
- Departmental Data
210. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of retainers his Department has with outside organisations; and the cost of each retainer in tabular form....
- Departmental Schemes
211. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if clarification will be provided regarding the situation concerning the energy retrofit grant as it relates to...
- National Broadband Plan
212. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the impact of the omicron variant of Covid-19 in relation to the delivery of the National Broadband Plan, specifically,...
- Post Office Network
213. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide certainty to postmasters regarding future support for the post office network before the end of...
- Renewable Energy Generation
214. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
- Electricity Grid
215. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount EirGrid paid to demand side units to reduce consumption in order to alleviate pressure on the grid over the...
- Departmental Consultations
216. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his...
- EU Directives
217. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the Broadband Cost Reduction Directive 2014/61/EU specifically in regard to article 8 and new buildings...
- Official Engagements
220. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of all official engagements and meetings attended by him and Ministers of State within his Department...
- National Broadband Plan
221. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of houses passed under the national broadband plan to date per county; and if he will make a statement on...
- Renewable Energy Generation
222. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if homeowners or businesses which use solar panels and provide surplus electricity to the grid will receive a payment...
- Departmental Staff
223. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of civil servants in his Department currently on secondment to the private sector; if he will list the...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Public Sector Pay
224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 72 of 9 March 2022, the manner in which the remuneration of the CEO of the Port of Cork diverged...
- Ukraine War
225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Ukrainian drivers’ licences are transferable to Ireland; if not, if there are plans to make them transferable; and if he will...
- Departmental Schemes
226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Government will pay the €100 per week to milk trucks that are not registered with a haulage licence that are exempt given...
- Road Network
227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the body responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of roads (details supplied) as Galway County Council has advised that these three...
- Aviation Industry
228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his position on a fifth freedom permit application from an airline (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Rail Network
229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a report on progress with regard to the provision of a rail spur to Shannon Airport from the main Ennis-Limerick rail...
- Departmental Schemes
230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the new financial support scheme announced for hauliers of €100 per lorry per week in the wake of the fuel...
- National Car Test
231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions his Department is taking to reduce the backlogs in waiting lists for the national car test, NCT; and if he will make a...
- Air Services
233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the incentives he will offer to any airline that is willing to reinstate the direct flights from Donegal Airport to Glasgow and also to...
- Rail Network
234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress that has been made on the provision of a rail stop at Crusheen, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Public Transport
235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagement he has had with Irish Rail regarding the inability to book all train travel online given the increased costs associated...
- Rail Network
237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will request Irish Rail to begin the process of automating the 12 remaining manual level crossings on the Limerick to...
- Road Network
238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to deal with the current condition of tertiary roads in County Galway; if funding will be increased to address the issue; and...
- Transport Infrastructure Ireland
239. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the checks and balances that are in place to ensure the financial health of a company before Government road contracts are awarded by...
- Departmental Data
241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of retainers his Department has with outside organisations; and the cost of each retainer in tabular form. [16161/22]
- Electric Vehicles
242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to concerns related to the electric vehicle home charger grant administered by SEAI (details supplied);...
- Departmental Strategies
243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress that has been made towards action 100 of the national disability and inclusion strategy 2017-2021 (details supplied). [16343/22]
- Rail Network
244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of train stations, including DART stations, which have lifts by county; his plans to upgrade the accessibility of train...
- Departmental Consultations
245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his Department in each of the...
- Public Transport
246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request the National Transport Authority, NTA, to ensure a minimum level of service of three trains per day is implemented for...
- Ukraine War
248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is planned to equip Ukrainian refugees with leap cards for travel while here, or to instruct the Department of Social Protection to...
- Departmental Schemes
250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of including coaches and buses in the €100 emergency support scheme that has been introduced for licensed...
- Electric Vehicles
252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to introduce an income cap for electric vehicle grants to ensure funding is targeted at those who need financial help the...
- Córas Iompair Éireann
253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 204 of 22 March 2022, the number of submissions received on this SI; the details of the persons or...
- Cycling Facilities
254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that future cycle lanes are segregated and protected from cars where possible; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Ukraine War
255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that are being taken to provide Ukrainian refugees with access to driving licences; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Staff
256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of civil servants in his Department currently on secondment to the private sector; if he will list the entities that they are...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Reliefs
257. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a policy issue raised by a person (details supplied) regarding health expenses associated with additional diet expenses for coeliacs; if he is...
- Housing Schemes
258. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered extending the help-to-buy scheme to the purchase of existing homes in certain circumstances. [15831/22]
- Tax Data
260. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of reducing excise duty on home heating oil to €0 per 1,000 litres to the end of August 2022 and the end of December 2022...
- Tax Code
262. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of communications he or his Department have had with the European Commission with respect to the rate of VAT applied to fuels and household energy...
- Revenue Commissioners
263. To ask the Minister for Finance if he receives regular reports on the speed of processing tax claims by the Revenue Commissioners and on the number of phone calls to their network which fail...
- Tax Rebates
264. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to allow bus and coach operators reclaim VAT on fuel costs; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the competitive advantage that...
- Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
265. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of vacancies by job title currently in the Office of Comptroller and Auditor General; when it is planned to fill each of these vacancies in tabular...
- Departmental Data
266. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of retainers his Department has with outside organisations; and the cost of each retainer in tabular form. [16150/22]
- Tax Reliefs
267. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 63 on 9 March 2022, if the Revenue Commissioners intend to update to section 5 of part 23-01-36 in order that the...
- Tax Yield
268. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount raised through the carbon tax to date by year in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16172/22]
- Departmental Consultations
269. To ask the Minister for Finance the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his Department in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and...
- Banking Sector
270. To ask the Minister for Finance if the senior executive accountability regime to deliver heightened accountability with the banking system as outlined in the Programme for Government has...
- Housing Schemes
271. To ask the Minister for Finance if circumstances or an exemption exists whereby a first-time buyer (details supplied) can be eligible for the help-to-buy scheme; and if he will make a...
- Tax Exemptions
272. To ask the Minister for Finance if the circumstances in relation to a partnership (details supplied) meet the criteria for the taxation exemption on land leasing; and if he will make a...
- Tax Rebates
273. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has examined expanding the diesel rebate scheme to include other fuels such as compressed natural gas; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Public Sector Staff
278. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of staff who are employed in the Central Bank; the number who are specifically employed in the Registry of Credit Unions; and if he will make...
- Credit Unions
279. To ask the Minister for Finance the amounts paid into the Credit Institutions Resolution Fund by credit unions; the amount paid out of the fund to support credit unions in each year since...
- Departmental Staff
280. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of civil servants in his Department currently on secondment to the private sector; if he will list the entities that they are working for in each...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- National Lottery
281. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that when purchasing a ticket for the National Lottery Euromillions online the National...
- Departmental Data
282. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of retainers his Department has with outside organisations; and the cost of each retainer in tabular form. [16156/22]
- Office of Public Works
283. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when buildings (details supplied) were last occupied; his plans for their future use; the timeline for same; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Staff
287. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of civil servants in his Department currently on secondment to the private sector; if he will list the entities that they are...
- Departmental Consultations
288. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his Department in each of the...
- Coastal Erosion
289. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide funding under the coastal erosion risk management measures to repair and protect the public walkway known as the...
- Public Sector Pensions
290. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons who are in receipt of a public and civil service pension who are over the ages of 66, 68 and 70 years. [16565/22]
- Energy Conservation
291. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a schedule of offices his Department use by location and include the display energy certificate, DEC, rating for...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Departmental Strategies
292. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress that has been made towards action 75 of the National Disability and Inclusion Strategy 2017-2021 (details supplied)....
- Sports Organisations
294. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider engaging with a club (details supplied) and Cork City Council to resolve the issues the club is having in...
- Údarás na Gaeltachta
295. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the development being constructed, the planning permission authorising the works, the purpose of the construction...
- Departmental Data
296. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of retainers her Department has with outside organisations; and the cost of each retainer in tabular form. [16160/22]
- Tourism Schemes
297. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide details of the extent of payments made under the strategic tourism transport business continuity scheme; the...
- Departmental Schemes
302. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the most recent details of funding awarded to successful applicants of a programme (details supplied) in tabular form; the details...
- Departmental Consultations
304. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within her Department in each...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
305. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to an ongoing appeals process (details supplied); her views on this matter; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Staff
306. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of civil servants in her Department currently on secondment to the private sector; if she will list the entities that...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- International Agreements
307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that Ireland is yet to ratify the Nagoya Protocol, a supplementary agreement to the Convention on Biodiversity,...
- Homeless Persons Supports
308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the implementation of the recommendations of the Interim Report on Mortality in Single Homeless Population...
- Ukraine War
309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration can be given to providing emergency modular homes for Ukrainian families on donated private land; and if he...
- Departmental Licences
310. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a foreshore licence will issue to a club (details supplied) in County Kerry; if the licence will commence from date of...
- Housing Schemes
311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if those availing of the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme are required to take out mortgage protection with one company;...
- Departmental Schemes
312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an application was submitted by Cork City Council for full retrofitting of the entire Churchfield area; and if this was...
- Vacant Properties
314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has considered a compulsory sales order as part of measures to tackle vacancy as an issue; and if he will...
- Local Authorities
315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of the waiting times in each local authority for the processing of a housing application by a member...
- Departmental Schemes
317. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects his Department to issue approval on outstanding applications for thermal upgrades for houses in Moyross,...
- Departmental Regulations
319. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the updating of regulations to allow for plebiscites to change place names. [15988/22]
- Property Registration
320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm the registration of a judgement mortgage (details supplied) by the land registry office. [16074/22]
- Water Services
321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding for a group water scheme (details supplied) in County Kerry will be provided in 2022; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Data
322. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of retainers his Department has with outside organisations; and the cost of each retainer in tabular form. [16154/22]
- Vacant Properties
323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has a record of the number of vacant residential properties currently in the possession of banking...
- Water Quality
324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the changes that are expected to be made to SI. 79/2008 to ensure compliance with the 2006 EU bathing water directive; and if...
- Housing Provision
330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of housing commencements broken down by apartments, houses and duplexes in each of the years from 2016 to...
- Housing Schemes
332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average capital and current expenditure costs for one, two and three bed social housing houses and apartments delivered by...
- Departmental Reports
334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the 2021 social housing output report will be published. [16312/22]
- Commercial Rates
335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of the rates refund applying to vacant commercial property in respect of each local authority in tabular form;...
- Departmental Consultations
336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his Department in...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the future plans for the medically supervised shielding units created as part of the HSE and Dublin Region...
- Emergency Accommodation
339. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of inspections carried out by the Dublin Region Housing Executive in 2021 as part of the National Quality Standards...
- Traveller Accommodation
340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps taken and progress made since July 2019 following the report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation; and if...
- Housing Schemes
341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 355 of 28 July 2020, if he plans to amend the tenant purchase scheme to allow for...
- Wildlife Regulations
342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to grant a derogation from the closed season for the hunting of wood pigeons in order to ensure that crops are...
- Departmental Reports
343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of the external reports commissioned in 2021; the cost of each; the external reports that were...
- Departmental Surveys
344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 257 of 8 March 2022, the local authorities that have commissioned hedgerow surveys at...
- Local Authorities
345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of additional staff that have been provided to local authorities in the past 12 months to support the delivery of...
- Official Engagements
346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of all official engagements and meetings attended by him and Ministers of State within his Department during the...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Middle East
347. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the proposals contained in a recent report (details supplied); his views on whether the proposal that...
- Passport Services
348. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application by a person (details supplied) will be processed urgently by his Department; and if he will make a statement on...
- Foreign Birth Registration
349. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a foreign birth registration application will be processed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Passport Services
353. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the passport renewal for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15815/22]
- Foreign Birth Registration
362. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether there is an undue delay in processing foreign births; the length of the current processing time; the number of foreign...
- Human Rights
363. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether Ireland can genuinely be a credible and effective actor and have international influence by continuing to raise human...
- Foreign Birth Registration
365. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a foreign births registration application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15934/22]
- Departmental Data
372. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of retainers his Department has with outside organisations; and the cost of each retainer in tabular form. [16151/22]
- Passport Services
373. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the processing times for applications for passports; the current number of applications that await...
- Departmental Programmes
375. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Ireland-Palestine scholarship programme runs on a yearly basis; and if so, when applications will open for the next round of awards;...
- 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. [16313/22]
- British-Irish Co-operation
377. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 338 of 25 January 2022, if he has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Northern...
- Foreign Birth Registration
378. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a foreign births' registration application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Passport Services
379. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason a new court order proving dispense of guardian's consent is being requested when the original court order has been supplied in...
- Departmental Consultations
380. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his Department in each of the...
- Ukraine War
382. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will offer its support to Ukraine by sending independent human rights monitors to monitor the rights compliance at the borders of...
- Passport Services
384. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport applicant that cancels a passport application can avail of a refund. [16479/22]
- Foreign Birth Registration
387. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a foreign birth registration application by a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon given that this application was...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces
389. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the closed Columb Barracks, Mullingar, County Westmeath has been considered as potential accommodation for those fleeing the war in Ukraine....
- Burial Grounds
390. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will consider meeting with a person (details supplied) who has requested the rededication of a grave. [15978/22]
- Defence Forces
391. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the process for members of the Defence Forces returning from duty meeting their family at Dublin Airport has changed; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Data
392. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of retainers his Department has with outside organisations; and the cost of each retainer in tabular form. [16146/22]
- Departmental Consultations
393. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his Department in each of the years...
- Ukraine War
394. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if any consideration has been given to sending military equipment to Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16392/22]
- Defence Forces
395. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the process and criteria for a non-commissioned officer to be retrospectively promoted; and the number of occasions that same has happened in...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Departmental Schemes
396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of including the school bus sector in the €100 emergency support scheme that has been introduced for licensed hauliers;...
- School Transport
397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter in relation to Bus Éireann school transport (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [16567/22]
- Schools Building Projects
398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposed new school building for a school (details supplied) following a grant of planning permission in 2020. [15821/22]
- School Accommodation
399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will reconsider a decision made for the location of prefabs in the case of a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if...
- Departmental Schemes
400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an emergency works grant can be approved for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Teaching Qualifications
401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options that are available to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15882/22]
- School Staff
402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the hardship being experienced by teachers who surrender full-time teaching posts for personal reasons such as...
- Education Policy
404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process by which children can opt out of religion classes in school; and if the process differs between school levels or settings. [15944/22]
- Education Schemes
405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a school (details supplied) was not included as part of the 11 additional schools in County Mayo in the recent expansion of the...
- Ukraine War
407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being taken to ensure that primary and secondary schools have adequate supports and resources to provide Ukrainian children...
- Education Schemes
409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that the independent appeals process takes into consideration a school's (details supplied) circumstances as the only school...
- Ukraine War
410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional resources will be allocated to a school (details supplied) which has enrolled 30 Ukrainian children in the school in recent weeks;...
- School Staff
411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to address the significant increase in demand for substitution in recent weeks given the high number of Covid cases and...
- Special Educational Needs
412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the special education teaching allocation of a school (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she is satisfied that the current special...
- State Examinations
413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a third language is compulsory as part of the choice for students for the leaving certificate examination (details supplied); and if she will...
- School Accommodation
414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if new classroom accommodation has been sanctioned for September 2022 for a school (details supplied). [16071/22]
- School Transport
415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing a school transport system for the Dublin area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16077/22]
- State Examinations
418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans that are in place with regard to a student contracting Covid-19 before or during State examinations; when she expects to publish...
- Ukraine War
419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional resources that will be provided to primary schools to assist the staff to deal with the arrival of Ukrainian refugees; and if she...
- Departmental Data
421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of retainers her Department has with outside organisations; and the cost of each retainer, in tabular form. [16147/22]
- Education Policy
422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an intradepartmental working group established in regard to planning for the development of a new policy for Irish-medium education...
- Educational Reform
423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expected timeframe for the review of national and international literature; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16165/22]
- School Accommodation
426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of all active school accommodation projects in County Mayo, in tabular form; the details of projects currently under...
- Special Educational Needs
429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proactive measurers that are currently being taken by her Department to ensure that all post-primary schools have special classes in view of...
- School Patronage
431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the review of the decision that was made in 2021, to defer the patronage process for a new secondary school in the Drumcondra, Marino,...
- Schools Building Projects
432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an ongoing building project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16362/22]
- Grant Payments
433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a grant for funding will be provided for a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16367/22]
- Departmental Consultations
434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within her Department in each of the years...
- School Transport
436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the recent meeting between her Department officials and members of a transport organisation (details supplied) regarding the...
- Capital Expenditure Programme
437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding allocated under the large scale capital programme for each of the years 2022 to 2025, as per the agreed capital ceilings outlined in...
- School Accommodation
438. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding allocated under the additional school accommodation scheme for each of the years 2022 to 2025 as per the agreed capital ceilings...
- Education Schemes
439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) was not selected for inclusion in DEIS; if this decision will be reviewed; and if she will make a...
- School Enrolments
444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in the case of schools refusing enrolment access to student applicants, the correspondence should state clearly that they have been placed on...
- Education Policy
445. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the situation of a person (details supplied) will be examined; if her Department will intervene to ensure that provision is made for such...
- School Transport
446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when, given the dramatic rise in transport costs, the school transport scheme rates will be reviewed to ensure that the vital assistance it...
- School Accommodation
447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update regarding an additional school accommodation application by a school (details supplied) for renovation of an old...
- School Facilities
448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for emergency works or the summer works scheme has been made to erect a boundary fence between (details supplied); if this...
- Special Educational Needs
449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the parent of a child with special educational needs can self-refer to the National Council for Special Education or with a special...
- Education Schemes
450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the appeals process will open up in respect of schools that were not included in the recent extension of the DEIS school programme; if there...
- Special Educational Needs
451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a request by a school (details supplied) for an exceptional review of its SNA hours with the National Council...
- Education Policy
454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average timeline for an exceptional review to be completed. [16722/22]
- School Facilities
455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the pilot workshops on trauma informed approaches from the National Educational Psychological Service have been delivered; and if the national...
- Departmental Staff
456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of civil servants in her Department currently on secondment to the private sector; if she will list the entities that they are working...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Benefits
457. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to the Exchequer if the living alone allowance was to be extended to retired single public and civil...
- Social Welfare Appeals
458. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal against a decision to cease a carer's allowance payment in respect of their spouse in the case of a...
- Social Insurance
459. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of each social insurance and social assistance payment in 2021, in tabular form; the total...
- Disability Services
460. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the difference in the means test for the blind pension and the disability allowance; her plans to standardise...
- Parental Leave
461. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of providing an additional two week parent’s leave and benefit; the cost of increasing the leave...
- Social Welfare Payments
462. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way that an alleged overpayment has occurred in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
- Social Welfare Appeals
463. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a late appeal will be accepted and an oral hearing will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if...
- Social Welfare Payments
465. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a social welfare payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Welfare Schemes
466. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the child benefit until the end of the school year in cases in which a child reaches 18 years...
- Pension Provisions
467. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review of the invalidity pension application by a person (details supplied) will be carried out. [15875/22]
- Social Welfare Schemes
468. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if new recruitment is underway to provide support teams to work with incoming refugees from Ukraine; the categories being...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
469. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the funding provided with respect to the employment wage subsidy scheme for 2022; the level of funding that has been drawn...
- Gender Recognition
470. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the progress on the recognition of non-binary persons in the collection and collation of personal data...
- Personal Public Service Numbers
471. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a PPS number will be issued in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Fuel Prices
472. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider a work-around for people who qualify for fuel allowance who rely on district heating systems for their...
- Personal Public Service Numbers
473. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive an appointment to apply for a PPS card; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Benefits
474. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a carer’s allowance application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [16038/22]
- Protected Disclosures
475. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will be provided with a copy of documents; if these documents were provided to her internal...
- Departmental Schemes
476. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if epilepsy will be considered as a qualifying condition in order to qualify for the free travel scheme; and if she will make...
- Social Welfare Payments
477. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the case of a person (details supplied); if she will expedite the payment; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Offices
479. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of retainers her Department has with outside organisations; and the cost of each retainer in tabular form. [16158/22]
- Social Welfare Benefits
481. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined and advice issued; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Expenditure
483. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within her Department in...
- Departmental Data
484. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of application claims for illness benefit nationally; the length of time for processing applications; and if she...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
486. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending social welfare eligibility to stamp 1 visa holders, particularly in cases of serious illness...
- Departmental Policies
488. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to providing exemptions for specific types of savings within means testing for carer’s...
- Employment Schemes
489. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 25, 28 and 86 of 22 March 2022, if she will clarify any meetings that she or her...
- Social Welfare Payments
491. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the proactive actions that have been taken to inform recipients of payments made by bank transfer that due to the closure of...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
493. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider reviewing the eligibility for social welfare on the binary basis of days worked and consider a...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Departmental Strategies
494. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress that has been made towards action 104 of the National Disability and Inclusion Strategy 2017-2021...
- Departmental Bodies
495. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the International Protection Accommodation Services have established a presence at Cork Airport. [16421/22]
- Departmental Expenditure
496. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of funding provided by his Department to an organisation (details supplied); if his attention or that...
- Departmental Schemes
497. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to carry out a review of the foster care allowance; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Data
498. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children deemed at risk who have not been allocated a social worker in County Meath; and if he...
- Children in Care
500. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that children who are under the care of Tusla and that are placed under private family...
- Childcare Services
502. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 577 of 22 February 2022, when Pobal will publish data into establishing if...
- Burial Grounds
503. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the former site of the St Patrick's refuge and laundry, Dún Laoghaire, which currently has a planning...
- Child and Family Agency
505. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount spent on services for families experiencing relationship and marital breakdown by Tusla between 2014...
- Departmental Data
506. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of retainers his Department has with outside organisations; and the cost of each retainer in tabular...
- Legislative Programme
507. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 668 of 22 March 2022, if the heads of a bill to give effect to remaining...
- Departmental Consultations
508. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his...
- Child and Family Agency
510. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average waiting time for Tusla fit for purpose inspections; the number of inspections that are being carried...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
511. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can investigate a case of a new private creche early childhood education facility (details supplied) due...
- Departmental Policies
512. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has considered any steps to increase the amount of childcare support for children under 12 months of age...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
514. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will clarify the situation in respect of fee caps being linked to core funding in the early child...
- Departmental Schemes
515. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the scheme to compensate those affected by illegal birth registrations is limited to one institution;...
- Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
516. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 74 of 27 May 2021, when the report of the Collaborative Forum of Former...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Departmental Schemes
517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position of trainees on further education and training courses provided in Education and Training Boards that have come off social welfare...
- Departmental Policies
518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will allow Irish students who have been accepted to begin studying medicine in Ukraine in the next academic year beginning September 2022...
- Departmental Schemes
519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial supports that are currently available for a student who has a primary degree but wants to return to education to secure a masters....
- Third Level Costs
520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the inequality which exists in the funding of PhDs with a large number having to self- fund while many others...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that third-level student attending the Technological University Dublin, Tallaght campus have concerns...
- Further and Higher Education
522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the chairpersons of Higher Education Authority funded higher education institutions; the terms of office of each; the number of terms served by...
- Departmental Data
523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of retainers his Department has with outside organisations; and the cost of each retainer in tabular form. [16152/22]
- Further and Higher Education
524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 68 of 8 March 2022, the number of students enrolled in higher education institutions who would be eligible...
- Departmental Consultations
525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his Department in each of the years...
- Grant Payments
526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase the earnings threshold for the receipt of SUSI grant in view of the current inflation and the extraordinary increase in the...
- Institutes of Technology
527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide detailed breakdown of the total cost of external professional legal advice provided to the office of a person (details...
- Ukraine War
528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure those arriving in the State from the conflict in Ukraine will have their professional qualifications recognised, particularly...
- Departmental Staff
529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of civil servants in his Department currently on secondment to the private sector; if he will list the entities that they are working...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Citizenship Applications
530. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current staffing levels of the section responsible for the processing of citizenship applications; and the plans there are...
- An Garda Síochána
531. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drug detection dogs trained to use their senses to detect illegal substances that are available in each Garda...
- Residency Permits
535. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the best route to progress an application for long-term residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she...
- An Garda Síochána
536. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí who were assigned to stations in County Meath in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022,...
- Citizenship Applications
545. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current waiting times for citizenship applications broken down by European and non-European economic area applicants in...
- Naturalisation Applications
548. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of naturalisation applications; the number that are waiting more than 18 months; and if she will make a...
- Ukraine War
550. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if new recruitment is underway in bodies which fall under the remit of her Department to provide support teams to work with...
- Courts Service
551. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of section 47 assessment and reports that have been challenged to the regulatory body of the assessor. [15969/22]
- Visa Applications
552. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have availed of the Ireland investor visa in the past three years; and the nationalities of each....
- Ukraine War
553. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will clarify if Ireland is accepting the entry of people fleeing Ukraine who do not have Ukrainian or EU citizenship;...
- Departmental Data
554. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the salaries and pensions paid out to special advisers to Ministers and Ministers of State in her Department in 2020 and 2021,...
- Commissions of Investigation
555. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of commissions of investigation under the remit of her Department currently ongoing in the State; the cost of each...
- Family Reunification
557. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the family reunification unit has received all details to enable a decision to be made regarding the spouse of an Afghan...
- Citizenship Ceremonies
558. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to increase in-person citizenship ceremonies in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16075/22]
- Departmental Strategies
559. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in reforming the youth justice system by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- An Garda Síochána
561. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of competitions that were held for sworn Garda members to join divisional drugs units in 2021 and to date in 2022,...
- Citizenship Applications
564. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a recently naturalised Irish citizen is permitted to apply for citizenship elsewhere without jeopardising their Irish...
- Departmental Data
565. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of retainers her Department has with outside organisations; and the cost of each retainer in tabular form. [16155/22]
- Prison Service
566. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the number of Irish Prison services staff who have been subject to safety orders, barring orders or...
- Citizenship Applications
567. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16298/22]
- An Garda Síochána
568. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a contract for works on Leighlinbridge Garda station has been awarded by the Office of Public Works; if a date for when the...
- Direct Provision System
571. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider allowing all persons in direct provision to work given the new refugee programme for those fleeing war in...
- Immigration Support Services
572. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the provision of a new immigration unit at Shannon Airport which is being developed in conjunction with...
- International Protection
573. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the processes that are being put in place to allow partners of Ukrainian citizens who are non-Ukrainian citizens and non-EEA...
- An Garda Síochána
574. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 635 of 22 February 2022, if she has received further information from An Garda...
- International Protection
575. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons to date that have applied for the current undocumented scheme; and the breakdown of those within the...
- Departmental Contracts
576. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within her Department in...
- Legislative Programme
577. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has any law reform plans in relation to the rights of cohabiting couples, specifically the Civil Partnership and Certain...
- International Protection
578. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the avenues available to Afghan refugees who wish to have their family members join them from Afghanistan in Ireland in view...
- An Garda Síochána
580. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí allocated to counties Carlow, Kilkenny and Waterford over the past five years; the number of Garda...
- Ukraine War
581. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if arrangements have been made to provide a reception centre for Ukrainian refugees arriving at Rosslare Europort that allow...
- Crime Prevention
582. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the initiatives that are being taken to tackle dog theft; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16556/22]
- Legislative Reviews
583. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe for the review of the arms licensing laws to be completed; the purpose of the review; if consultation with...
- Residency Permits
585. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider the issues raised in correspondence by person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Crime Prevention
586. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which the revised updated bail laws are being utilised in the battle against criminal gangs involved in drug...
- Prison Service
590. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of prisoners currently incarcerated throughout the country; if all or many occupy shared or unshared cells;...
- An Garda Síochána
593. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of Gardaí available throughout the country on a full-time basis; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Crime Prevention
599. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which hate speeches, hate crime and racism continue to be addressed in all areas throughout the country without...
- An Garda Síochána
600. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of promotional appointments to be made within An Garda Síochána; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Staff
601. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of civil servants in her Department currently on secondment to the private sector; if she will list the entities...
- Department of Health
- Public Sector Pay
602. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 72 of 9 March 2022, the manner in which the remuneration of the CEO of a company (details supplied) diverged from the...
- Special Educational Needs
603. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are no on-site therapists for children with special needs at a school (details supplied); if he will...
- Hospital Appointments Status
604. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who has been awaiting cataract surgery at University Hospital Limerick for more than 18 months; and if he...
- Ukraine War
606. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set up a system by which general practitioners are allocated to large accommodation centres in which Ukrainian refugees are currently residing; and...
- National Maternity Hospital
607. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the expenditure on the list of completed works and work in progress in relation to the €51.2 million spent on the enabling works for...
- Pharmacy Services
611. To ask the Minister for Health if there was a separate business case or analysis to justify the public expenditure on an enhanced pharmacy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Hospital Appointments Status
612. To ask the Minister for Health when a public patient (details supplied) will be given an outpatient appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15788/22]
- Medicinal Products
613. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) had their entitlement under their medical card for a specific drug for chronic migraine withdrawn; if the matter...
- Health Services
614. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding provided by his Department and the HSE to an organisation (details supplied); if his attention or that of his predecessor and that of...
- Dental Services
616. To ask the Minister for Health when an orthodontic appointment will issue to a person (details supplied). [15794/22]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
617. To ask the Minister for Health if the administrative staff in the acute adult mental health unit, Mayo University Hospital who have worked on site in a clinical environment throughout the...
- General Practitioner Services
618. To ask the Minister for Health the postgraduate training post intake in general practice in each of the years 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
- Health Services Staff
621. To ask the Minister for Health the number of non-consultant doctor training posts allocated to central practice trainee in each of the years 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular...
- Health Services
622. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 327 and 328 of 25 November 2021, if he will provide a breakdown of the figures for CHO2 for each composite area within...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
632. To ask the Minister for Health if matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to the €1,000 bonus for healthcare workers will be examined. [15820/22]
- General Practitioner Services
633. To ask the Minister for Health the date for the commencement of the expansion of the free general practitioner care scheme for children under seven years of age that was announced as part of...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
634. To ask the Minister for Health if the Covid-19 bonus payment for healthcare workers in a clinical environment throughout the pandemic will be extended to Covid-19 community swabbers; and if...
- Ambulance Service
635. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of ambulance response times in County Wicklow in 2021 and to date in 2022, by municipal district in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
636. To ask the Minister for Health when home healthcare workers will receive the €1,000 pandemic recognition payment that was promised; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Medicinal Products
639. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to make wegovy available to medical card users in the future if medically indicated by a doctor in the treatment of weight loss and obesity; and if...
- An Garda Síochána
640. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the pressure being put on members of An Garda Síochána to respond to calls for help from young persons with mental health issues or...
- Hospital Services
641. To ask the Minister for Health the number of rooms at accident and emergency departments that are specifically for the use of patients presenting with mental health issues. [15895/22]
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
642. To ask the Minister for Health if a response will issue to queries in relation to Ennis General Hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15899/22]
- Hospital Services
643. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to a query (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15900/22]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
644. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 201 of 26 January 2022, if he has further considered including home help and home care workers in the pandemic bonus...
- Health Services
645. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the public health nurse service at a centre (details supplied) in Dublin 11; the number of staff currently on the team at this location...
- Departmental Properties
646. To ask the Minister for Health the plans for a property (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15923/22]
- Primary Care Services
647. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that developmental services are continued for a family (details supplied) at Clonbrusk primary care centre, Athlone, County Westmeath. [15936/22]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
648. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria under which frontline staff are being selected for the Covid bonus payment; the reason that certain cohorts of frontline healthcare workers have...
- Disabilities Assessments
649. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an autism spectrum assessment for a person (details supplied). [15940/22]
- Ukraine War
650. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the health services that have been put in place to support Ukrainian refugees in County Kildare and specifically in Newbridge in terms of...
- Disease Management
651. To ask the Minister for Health if he will establish a working group to investigate the needs of persons living with Huntington’s disease; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
652. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list for orthopaedics in Merlin Park University Hospital, Galway. [15971/22]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
654. To ask the Minister for Health when the €1,000 payment as announced on 19 January 2022 for healthcare workers will be paid. [15975/22]
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
655. To ask the Minister for Health the precise work done to date by the HSE and his Department to comply with the rules governing public spending on State capital projects in respect of the...
- General Practitioner Services
656. To ask the Minister for Health the plans he has to address the shortage of local general practitioners in east Galway with a number of former general practitioners retiring many residents...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
657. To ask the Minister for Health the core and once-off budget allocated to and the expenditure of the National Treatment Purchase Fund in each of the years 2016 to 2021, inclusive; the amount...
- Disability Services
658. To ask the Minister for Health if a series of matters (details supplied) will be examined regarding children's disability network team services in north County Kildare; and if he will make a...
- Health Services
659. To ask the Minister for Health the financial supports that will be made available to treatment centres (details supplied); if he will review the attached breakdown of the cost and loss...
- Gender Recognition
660. To ask the Minister for Health the progress on filling staffing vacancies in the provision of healthcare and mental healthcare for transgender adults and young people; and if he will make a...
- Health Services Staff
663. To ask the Minister for Health if work placements will be provided for physiotherapy students (details supplied) in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15999/22]
- Nursing Homes
664. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be released under the nursing home support scheme for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16003/22]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
665. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the €1,000 Covid bonus payment for healthcare workers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16029/22]
- Disability Services
666. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on his efforts to reduce the waiting list for early intervention in speech and language therapy in County Meath; and if he will make a...
- Abortion Services
669. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has carried out any risk assessment research into the operation of telemedicine abortion in Ireland, particularly in relation to the...
- Departmental Bodies
670. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to establish further cross-departmental strategic workforce advisory groups; if so, the number of groups and areas of focus that will be...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
671. To ask the Minister for Health when he will act on the commitment to give a recognition payment of €1,000 to eligible front-line health and ambulance workers; and if he will make a...
- Disability Services
672. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting an assessment of needs in County Tipperary; the average length of time waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Mental Health Services
675. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for an assessment and therapies from CAMHS; the average length of time waiting; the number of therapists available; the number...
- Nursing Homes
676. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the meetings which have taken place to date to design a scheme through which the properties of persons in nursing homes with support under...
- Dental Services
677. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the recently announced waiting list plans for dental treatment to address the urgent needs for a person (details supplied); and...
- Vaccination Programme
678. To ask the Minister for Health when the Novavax vaccine will be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16061/22]
- Nursing Homes
679. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the fair deal scheme to ensure that the scheme recognises the increasing cost pressures for the provision of nursing home care,...
- Health Services Staff
680. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce equivalent pay for staff providing equivalent care in the nursing home sector considering the current disparity in costs between the...
- Departmental Investigations
681. To ask the Minister for Health the number of commissions of investigation under the remit of his Department currently ongoing in the State; the cost of each commission to date; and the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
682. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the public waiting list in County Mayo for ophthalmology, cataracts, knee and hip replacements/orthopaedics and urology, respectively in...
- Hospital Staff
683. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to put in place a working group on HSCP and physio recruitment and career progression similar to that which exists for nurses. [16109/22]
- Disabilities Assessments
685. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the HSE has completed the process of assessing children registered with Western Care who have been transferred over to the direction and...
- Health Services
686. To ask the Minister for Health the strategy his Department has in place for the management of epilepsy in Ireland; the extra investment he has provided for in epilepsy care since taking...
- Health Services Staff
687. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commit to appointing extra epilepsy nurse specialists to cater specifically for epilepsy and epilepsy management in the community; and if he will...
- Home Help Service
688. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a case (details supplied) regarding home help hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16117/22]
- Official Engagements
689. To ask the Minister for Health if he visited any health facilities during his recent visit to Austin, Texas in the United States of America for St. Patrick’s Day events; and if he...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
690. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in County Monaghan and County Cavan that are on a waiting list for urology paediatric surgery; the average wait time; and if he will...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
691. To ask the Minister for Health the income received by each hospital group from the National Treatment Purchase Fund in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Services
692. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a child (details supplied); if it will be ensured that an operation will be scheduled for the child; and when...
- Vaccination Programme
693. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a HPV vaccine for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16139/22]
- Disability Services
694. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); the measures that can be put in place to assist them; and if he will make a...
- Legislative Reviews
695. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the precise steps he took in sourcing and inviting his eventual appointee to apply for the role of chair of the review of the abortion law....
- Departmental Data
696. To ask the Minister for Health the number of retainers his Department has with outside organisations; and the cost of each retainer in tabular form. [16153/22]
- Health Services Staff
697. To ask the Minister for Health the way he plans to address the funding discrimination being applied in the resourcing of nursing home residential care under the fair deal scheme; and if he...
- Health Services
699. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults currently waiting for respite services in County Mayo that include planned respite, overnight respite at home, regular...
- Citizens' Assembly
702. To ask the Minister for Health if reports in the media (details supplied) of crack cocaine being freely available in a Limerick housing estate will influence his recommendations on the scope...
- Health Strategies
703. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to implement the World Health Organization’s International Code of Marketing Breastmilk Substitutes in domestic law; and if he will make a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
704. To ask the Minister for Health the way that public sector workers who were seconded from their contracted roles to front-facing roles in vaccination centres will be treated for the purpose...
- Hospital Appointments Status
705. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16306/22]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
706. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will engage with unions to finalise the process for the payment of the €1,000 Covid bonus in order that healthcare workers are rewarded...
- Mental Health Services
707. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for selling rather than renovating Millfield House community mental health residence in Blackpool, Cork; the price paid for the property; the...
- Health Services
708. To ask the Minister for Health the total cost to the HSE of its use of Garnish House to date; and the projected additional cost for the remainder of 2022. [16327/22]
- Vaccination Programme
709. To ask the Minister for Health the number of CHO4 mental health service management staff that were offered priority first dose Covid-19 vaccinations in January 2021 ahead of patients and...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
710. To ask the Minister for Health if the €1,000 payment to healthcare workers will be finalised without further delays in the process. [16329/22]
- Health Services Staff
712. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dietitians employed by the HSE in each CHO in tabular form. [16335/22]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
714. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients awaiting an appointment with a psychologist in adult mental health services, Drogheda; if patients are awaiting an assessment or for...
- Hospital Services
715. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the statement by the Taoiseach that there should be an elective-only hospital facility provided in the mid-west; and if he will make a statement...
- Health Services Staff
716. To ask the Minister for Health when a new child psychiatrist will be appointed to the mid-west area; his plans to deal with the long child psychology waiting lists in the area; and if he...
- Hospital Services
717. To ask the Minister for Health if initiatives are being taken to extend the hours of operation of diagnostic facilities in hospitals in order to cope with the post-Covid-19 surge in needs....
- Departmental Consultations
718. To ask the Minister for Health the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his Department in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and...
- Hospital Appointments Status
719. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16386/22]
- Disease Management
720. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will support the request to establish a working party to investigate the needs of people living with Huntington’s disease and their...
- Health Services Staff
721. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the situation whereby section 38 funded staff working overnight only get paid the sleepover rate which is the minimum wage...
- Health Services
722. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Irish patients suffering from sleep apnoea, by HSE CHO area in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16395/22]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
723. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Irish patients who are waiting for a sleep disorder screening appointment; the way this has been affected by Covid-19; and if he will make a...
- Health Services Staff
725. To ask the Minister for Health the number of sleep medicine consultants who are currently employed by the HSE. [16398/22]
- Health Strategies
726. To ask the Minister for Health his strategy to create a national clinical sleep disorders strategy. [16399/22]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
727. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include other workers in the Covid recognition payment that have also had to attend work throughout the lockdown periods such as those within the...
- Mental Health Services
728. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 655 of 15 February 2022, if the figures provided include the consultation liaison CAMHS and intellectual disability CAMHS...
- Healthcare Policy
730. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the Regulation of Psychotherapy and Counselling under the Health and Social Care Professionals Act...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
731. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set out the full particulars, eligibility and terms and conditions regarding the Covid-19 recognition payment for frontline public sector healthcare...
- Departmental Reports
735. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the as yet unpublished follow up report on mortality in single homeless population that was to be funded by his Department and the HSE as a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
736. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the future plans for the medically supervised shielding units created as part of the HSE and Dublin Region Housing Executive Covid-19...
- Disability Services
737. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies by job title in the children's disability network teams in CHO5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16449/22]
- Health Services Staff
738. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies that currently exist in County Wexford across psychiatry, psychology, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, counselling...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
741. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the €1,000 pandemic frontline bonus; the engagements to date with unions; the expected timeframe in which healthcare workers will receive...
- General Practitioner Services
743. To ask the Minister for Health the detail of his plans to provide locum cover for rural based general practitioners to cover for unavoidable absences; if he is developing a plan to establish...
- Health Services
744. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who are on a form of health waiting list including in primary care, community care, acute care, disabilities, mental health and other...
- Disability Services
746. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff at grade level currently employed in each of the 91 children’s disability network teams; the number of posts assigned to each...
- Hospital Staff
747. To ask the Minister for Health the number of positions at Cavan General Hospital that are vacant, unfilled or filled on a temporary basis at staff grade level in tabular form; and if he will...
- Medicinal Products
774. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19-related antiviral medications purchased by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16522/22]
- Departmental Legal Cases
779. To ask the Minister for Health the number of separate court cases taken against the HSE in relation to the Disability Act 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16527/22]
- Departmental Staff
783. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff employed in his Department and the HSE working in public relations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16531/22]
- Departmental Contracts
784. To ask the Minister for Health the total cost of any outsourcing carried out by the HSE to engage in public relations and-or assist in the launch of publications, strategies or plans from...
- Ambulance Service
785. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff employed by the National Ambulance Service, broken down by staff category, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Health Service Executive
786. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operating systems, software programmes or databases used by the HSE where the company providing the service cannot provide technical changes,...
- Hospital Equipment
787. To ask the Minister for Health the range of hospital equipment that may need to be replaced or upgraded to protect the health system from a cyberattack; and if he will make a statement on...
- Hospital Staff
788. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital consultants employed on Sláintecare contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16537/22]
- Ministerial Responsibilities
790. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospitals he has visited since becoming Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16539/22]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
791. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients waiting for hip replacements, by wait times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16540/22]
- Departmental Offices
794. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to create an office for health and social care professionals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16543/22]
- Departmental Equipment
795. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE or computers used by his Department operating on outdated operating system (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Legal Cases
797. To ask the Minister for Health the number of court cases in which he or the HSE was cited in relation to the Disability Act 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16546/22]
- Disabilities Assessments
798. To ask the Minister for Health his response to a recent High Court judgment in respect of preliminary team assessments under the standard operating procedure for disability assessments; and...
- Departmental Legal Cases
800. To ask the Minister for Health the total legal cost to the State of all court cases taken in relation to the Disability Act 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16549/22]
- Health Services Staff
802. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to offer a job guarantee to health graduates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16551/22]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
803. To ask the Minister for Health the targets that have been set for each individual hospital group and each individual hospital in relation to reducing acute waiting lists; and if he will make...
- Mental Health Services
805. To ask the Minister for Health the position of the person who is responsible for clinical governance in each CAMHS unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16554/22]
- Health Service Executive
806. To ask the Minister for Health the number of senior HSE clinician and non-clinician officials responsible for clinical governance who have faced sanction following disciplinary procedures...
- Covid-19 Tests
808. To ask the Minister for Health if in relation to the HSE website and the instructions for symptomatic persons in relation to ordering antigen tests, his views on whether the phrasing...
- Health Services
809. To ask the Minister for Health the opening date for a facility (details supplied) in County Cork; and the way the application process for jobs at this facility will be advertised. [16562/22]
- Mental Health Services
810. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for CAMHS. [16563/22]
- Eating Disorders
811. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide assurances that the Mount Carmel eating disorder service will be open to the public in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Dental Services
812. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm when a person (details supplied) will receive an orthodontic appointment. [16573/22]
- Health Services
814. To ask the Minister for Health when a review will be completed in order that payment may issue to a person (details supplied). [16580/22]
- Pharmacy Services
815. To ask the Minister for Health the reason he has not accepted the recommendation made by an organisation (details supplied) on rules to regulate the operation of pharmacies in respect of the...
- Disability Services
816. To ask the Minister for Health the way the HSE will ensure clinical and operational governance in identifying relevant stakeholders with the required knowledge and skills who will represent...
- Tobacco Control Measures
817. To ask the Minister for Health when the pre-legislative scrutiny report of the public health (tobacco and nicotine inhaling products) Bill 2019 will be available for public release; and if...
- Ukraine War
820. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to treat the trauma experienced by children arriving from Ukraine who are displaced because of war; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Eating Disorders
821. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that are in place to increase inpatient adult beds capacity in St. Vincent's University Hospital for eating disorders; and if he will make a...
- Health Service Executive
824. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16662/22]
- Care Services
825. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the introduction of a national statutory support scheme for the licensing and regulation of home care providers. [16668/22]
- Hospital Appointments Status
828. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16700/22]
- Departmental Staff
829. To ask the Minister for Health the number of civil servants in his Department currently on secondment to the private sector; if he will list the entities that they are working for in each...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Animal Carcase Disposal
830. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied with the current regulations in place for the operation of domestic animal cremation services; if he plans to...
- Special Areas of Conservation
831. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the hectarage of farmland designated as protected and subject to actions requiring consent; the average holding size by county; and...
- Farm Costs
832. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagements he has had with fertiliser producers in Ireland in relation to a way to alleviate the crisis facing farmers regarding...
- Agriculture Schemes
834. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered adjusting the requirement in TAMS resulting in farmers being unable to participate in the micro-generation...
- Pigmeat Sector
835. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of pig farmers who are Bord Bia quality assured and send more than 200 pigs to slaughter per annum, by county, broken down...
- Forestry Sector
836. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of agroforestry plots planted per year since 2012, by county; his proposals to increase same; the targets associated with...
- Agriculture Industry
842. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the additional abatement impact expected through replacing 65% of straight CAN with protected urea or other protected nitrogen...
- Departmental Expenditure
844. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount expended to assist with the provision of slurry storage on tillage farms, proposed allocation under the CAP Strategic...
- Organic Farming
845. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the target for organic conversion by year until 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15905/22]
- Bord Bia
847. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of ring-fenced funding provided to Bord Bia for the marketing of organic produce; the amount expended by Bord Bia on the...
- Forestry Sector
848. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated amount of direct savings in megaton CO2 equivalent that will be achieved by 2030 through afforestation in 2021; and if...
- Organic Farming
850. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current hectarage of land under, or in conversion to, organic farming; the associated reduction in fertiliser use expected as a...
- Teagasc Activities
851. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost associated with the proposed review of the Teagasc marginal abatement cost curve per action 303 of the climate...
- Agriculture Industry
852. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to consult with an organisation (details supplied) on action 306 of the climate action plan to scope out policy on a...
- Organic Farming
854. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has a strategy to increase the procurement of organic produce by Departments, State agencies or public bodies; if...
- Agriculture Industry
855. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the targets for increasing the percentage of the suckler beef herd recording cow and calf weight in each of the years 2022 to 2030;...
- Organic Farming
856. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of public and private farm advisers providing advice in relation to organic farming; the number who are being upskilled in...
- Assisted Animal Reproduction
857. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of surgical artificial inseminations carried out on greyhounds between 2019 and 2021; and the number of those...
- Greyhound Industry
858. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce regulation and a database of stud dogs. [15920/22]
- Forestry Sector
859. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of afforestation licences issued by his Department in 2021 that exceeded the agreed timeframes set out in the...
- Greyhound Industry
861. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a full grant (details supplied) that was approved by a State body will be paid; when his Department will sanction this grant...
- Animal Welfare
862. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the regulations that are in place to prevent (details supplied); if additional regulations are needed in this area; and if he will...
- Food Industry
863. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which the issue of food security in Europe has been discussed during exchanges with his European Union colleagues in...
- Departmental Staff
864. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of full-time archaeologists directly employed by his Department on 21 March 2020 and 21 March 2022, in tabular form; and...
- Departmental Data
865. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of retainers his Department has with outside organisations; and the cost of each retainer, in tabular form. [16144/22]
- Fishing Industry
867. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will initiate a full and comprehensive review of the current allocation methodology for the Irish hook and line mackerel...
- Brexit Supports
881. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any allocations made from the Brexit Adjustment Reserve fund to capital improvement works at State-owned and local authority-owned...
- United Nations
882. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on Ireland's support, including financial, to the United Nations Committee on World Food Security; and if he envisages a...
- Food Industry
886. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the rising costs of raw materials such as wheat for the bakery sector on top of already rising...
- Agriculture Schemes
887. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way that a person (details supplied) can apply for a grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16353/22]
- Animal Diseases
888. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current situation regarding the vaccinations of dogs coming into the country; and if his Department has put measures in place to...
- Departmental Consultations
889. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the external consultancy organisation or provider that delivered diversity and inclusion training within his Department in each of...
- Agriculture Schemes
890. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures implemented to alleviate the financial burden placed on farmers due to rising fertiliser costs. [16390/22]
- Timber Supply
892. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that his Department will take to protect the Irish market from an increase in market prices for timber (details supplied),...
- Agriculture Schemes
893. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that livestock units which were matriculated regarding the basic income support for sustainability scheme differ from the...
- Departmental Data
894. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average time it takes from when an appeal is lodged to the date of hearing; the average time from the date of a hearing until a...
- Agriculture Schemes
895. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 750 of 8 March 2022, if it is intended that farmers will be able to identify which stream of...
- Agriculture Industry
896. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 2027 of 19 January 2022, when he expects to report on value for cultivation and use trials for...
- Agriculture Schemes
898. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will commission a socioeconomic impact assessment on the results of re-wetting 105,000 ha of farmed drained peat; and if he...
- Veterinary Services
899. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers are allowed to hold some veterinary medicine products such as mastitis tubes on-farm under new veterinary regulations and...
- Forestry Sector
900. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the targeted number of afforestation licences for 2022; the number issued to date; the number his Department expects to issue on...
- Animal Diseases
902. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his position regarding the extension of the 16-week derogation for housing free-range layers in response to annual outbreaks of avian...
- Forestry Sector
905. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 746 of 8 March 2022, the year that Irish forestry would have become projected be a net emitter...
- Horse Racing Industry
906. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 749 of 8 March 2022, the number of blood, urine and hair samples tested for doping by the Irish...
- Agriculture Schemes
907. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the BPS and organic farming scheme operate on separate mapping systems; the reason for such; if it is intended in the future to...
- Departmental Data
909. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of horticultural peat imported to the State in tonnes, by year, in each of the years 2016 to date; and if he will make a...
- Forestry Sector
911. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his departmental officials have held any meetings specifically to address the decline in afforestation applications; if so, the...
- Pigmeat Sector
913. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has reviewed a jointly developed pig stability fund proposal (details supplied) which was commissioned by organisations; if he...
- Departmental Staff
914. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of civil servants in his Department currently on secondment to the private sector; if he will list the entities they are...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Tourism Funding
915. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the grants that are available to expand a business providing holiday pods in Kilcar, County Donegal; the full details for the grants...
- Departmental Bodies
916. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated full-year cost of recruiting two additional full-time senior case managers at higher executive officer level for the...
- Departmental Data
917. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of retainers her Department has with outside organisations; and the cost of each retainer, in tabular form. [16157/22]
- Ferry Services
918. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will ensure that a ferry service is provided for Dursey Island as a replacement for the cable car service, which is due to stop...
- Departmental Consultations
919. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the external consultancy organisation or provider that delivered diversity and inclusion training within her Department in each of the...
- Departmental Staff
920. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of civil servants in her Department currently on secondment to the private sector; if she will list the entities they are...