Written answers
Wednesday, 6 April 2022
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Departmental Policies
1. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a trial of a basic income model will be supported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18558/22]
- Work Permits
2. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason that processing times for new permit application for trusted partners has slowed considerably (details supplied); the...
- Farm Inspections
3. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of farm safety inspectors employed; the level of farm safety inspections in each of the past five years in tabular form; and...
- Health and Safety
4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Health and Safety Authority inspectors recruited in 2021 and to date in 2022; the number expected to be recruited in...
- Employment Rights
5. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans for the ratification of the International Labour Organisation Convention 190, Elimination of Violence and Harassment in the...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Departmental Policies
6. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will respond to proposals (details supplied) in respect of a wider response to the rising cost of living; and if he...
- Litter Pollution
7. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the efforts his Department is taking to tackle littering and fly-tipping of take-away bags which are a blight on the...
- Departmental Schemes
8. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if pre-pay energy customers are required to place €30 credit on their pre-pay cards before they can receive the...
- Air Quality
9. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the Clean Air Strategy; and if it is planned to increase the monitoring of air quality under the strategy....
- Renewable Energy Generation
10. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 59 of 14 December 2021, the status of the preparation of the finalised terms of...
- Environmental Schemes
11. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the timeline for the introduction and implementation of the retrofit scheme; and if he...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Electric Vehicles
14. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to regulate e-scooters on public roads and footpaths considering the risk associated with such vehicles being used by young...
- Air Services
15. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify a fifth freedom permission in air navigation regulations for airline operators from outside of the European Union when...
- Haulage Industry
16. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 20 of 2 December 2021, the progress that his Department has made regarding the use of a facility...
- Road Projects
18. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the second bridge and southern relief route for Newbridge, County Kildare; the recent progress on same; his plans...
- Ferry Services
20. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Government has received representations from the United Kingdom Secretary of State for Transport regarding a bilateral agreement...
- Bus Services
21. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the arrangements that have been made through the LocalLink service and the NTA to provide extra, necessary transport to refugees from...
- Public Transport
23. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an up-to-date estimate of the annual cost of providing free public transport. [18724/22]
- Electric Vehicles
24. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of Electric Vehicle grants provided in quarter one 2021 and in quarter one 2022; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Airport Security
25. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a recent audit by the Irish Aviation Authority has resulted in a recalibration of security equipment at Dublin Airport and greater...
- Traffic Management
26. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding that has been drawn down by Kerry County Council for traffic calming and pavement improvement works at a location...
- Bus Services
27. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the costs to date of the BusConnects programme; his views on whether the €90 million spent to date under non-bus...
- Department of Finance
- Departmental Contracts
29. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the names of all companies supplying private security and cleaning services in all Departments including the cost of private...
- Illicit Trade
30. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will direct the Revenue Commissioners to investigate black market sales of dogs including canine semen. [18451/22]
- Tax Reliefs
32. To ask the Minister for Finance if the principal private residence relief on capital gains tax allows persons to maintain principal private residence relief in circumstances in which they...
- Oireachtas Committees
33. To ask the Minister for Finance if a copy of the briefing books provided to the Governor of the Central Bank and accompanying officials in advance of their recent appearance before the Select...
- Tax Data
34. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of Russian nationals or employees of Russian-owned companies that availed of the Special Assignee Relief Programme in each of the past three years;...
- Tax Code
35. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce reforms to allow anyone who is solely reliant on the State pension to defer payment of the local property tax until the sale of their...
- Tax Reliefs
36. To ask the Minister for Finance if a recent move has been made to apply VAT to candles; if any relief can be made for candles used in religious rites; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Credit Unions
37. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 279 of 29 March 2022, the amount that has been paid out by the Credit Institutions Resolution Fund by way of resolution...
- Tax Code
38. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a reduction in VAT on heat pumps and solar panels to encourage the investment by homeowners into same; and if he will make a statement on...
- Tax Rebates
40. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person can apply for a second VAT reclaim under S.I. No. 428/1981 - Value-Added Tax (Refund of Tax) (No. 15) Order, 1981 for an upgraded appliance if they...
- Tax Reliefs
43. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is planned that all superannuation contributions will continue to attract tax relief at the marginal rate of tax except for contributions to the proposed...
- Tax Data
44. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated amount that would be raised by the imposition of a tax on SUVs weighing over 1800kg by adding €10 per additional kilogram to the retail...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
46. To ask the Minister for Finance if the persons who were in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment in 2020 and 2021 may still have a tax liability pending; and if he will make a...
- Tax Data
47. To ask the Minister for Finance the respective costs to the State of applying a reduced VAT rate of 13.5% or of 9% to the supply of services by writers, composers and performing artists or of...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Departmental Offices
48. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will establish an ombudsman for older persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18535/22]
- Public Sector Pay
49. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if all Government cleaners, service officer, service attendants and linked grades at all points of their pay scales are in receipt of a...
- Ombudsman and Information Commissioner
50. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of nursing home complaints dealt with by the Ombudsman in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18533/22]
- Flexible Work Practices
51. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a trial of a four-day working week will be introduced on a voluntary basis in the Civil Service; and if he will make a statement on...
- Public Procurement Contracts
52. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to procurement procedures at an organisation (details supplied); if any appropriate measures have been...
- Community Development Projects
54. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a site (details supplied) will be handed over to a community enhancement group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18863/22]
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Departmental Schemes
55. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an exemption was granted to her Department in the case of the live performance restart grant scheme from the requirement under...
- Sports Funding
56. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme will open for new applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Schemes
60. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of music entertainment business assistance scheme applications that have been approved; the number that have been paid...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Housing Schemes
67. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if discretion can be used in which an application for a local authority home loan has been submitted by a single applicant and...
- Planning Issues
68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing units that applied for planning that are being held up by judicial reviews; and if he will make a...
- Fire Safety
69. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current average length of time from application of a fire certificate to receiving it; the number of housing units that are...
- Planning Issues
70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to review the various section 28 guidelines referenced in recent judgements (details supplied) in particular the...
- Housing Provision
73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of proposals from each of the local authorities and from the Land Development Agency for housing developments,...
- Housing Policy
74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will include an assessment of outgoings to be taken into account when calculating a tenant’s rent contribution;...
- Property Registration
76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current average wait times to have property registered by the Property Registration Authority; and if he will make a...
- National Monuments
77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the financial support available to Kildare County Council to provide a monument at the former county home in Athy; and if he...
- Housing Policy
78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the process for checks when a council tenant is being transferred to another property; and if they are Garda vetted. [18564/22]
- Departmental Funding
80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on a funding allocation (details supplied); if the project has commenced and the associated...
- Housing Policy
81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which wood-frame houses are likely to become a solution to part of the housing problem in the future; and if he...
- Legislative Measures
85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for the commencement of section 212 of the Local Government Act 2001; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Housing Schemes
86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will increase the maximum grant threshold for the housing aid for older people and the mobility aid for people with...
- Departmental Policies
88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some if not all local authorities have effectively prohibited local authority...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Common Travel Area
89. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had contact with his counterpart in the UK in relation to measures that would be implemented to enforce a proposed obligation on...
- Passport Services
90. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason that a new application for a passport made by a person (details supplied) on 7 December 2021 for a child is still being processed;...
- Common Travel Area
92. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views and those of his Department on section 81 of the nationality and borders Bill which is before the British Parliament, in particular...
- Passport Services
94. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed and expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18583/22]
- Common Travel Area
95. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made representations to the UK authorities in relation to proposals to oblige residents in this State who are not Irish or UK...
- Passport Services
96. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will issue on time for a child (details supplied) to travel on a school trip; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Education and Skills
- Schools Building Projects
99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update regarding the provision of a general-purpose room at a school (details supplied); the capital applications that have...
- School Staff
101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 285 of 10 March 2022 and given the incorrect information provided in response, if she will provide an...
- Educational Disadvantage
102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional DEIS support such as schools completion and home school liaison supports will be provided to a school (details supplied); and if...
- Tax Reliefs
103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is in a position to open up a more flexible taxsaver scheme with regard to teachers that are either moving jobs for new...
- State Examinations
104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provision that is being made for teachers that will have to work over the Easter holidays to provide support for leaving certificate students...
- Special Educational Needs
105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action that will be taken to ensure that a child (details supplied) is able to access the education they need. [18515/22]
- Educational Disadvantage
107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) all of whose principal feeder schools have DEIS status, has not been awarded DEIS status; when the...
- Teaching Qualifications
109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students on a course (details supplied) could be given an option to carry out a two-week Gaeltacht immersion session required for their course...
- Departmental Staff
110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all relevant staff under the remit of her Department have been trained in on circular CI 48/2018; and if she would be concerned if this was...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to the fact that the recent Covid-19 grants to schools and centres of further education will expire this term, the amount of these funds...
- Education and Training Boards
117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that some education and training boards withheld a percentage of the ICT grant funding allocated...
- Departmental Funding
118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide assistance in a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18641/22]
- Special Educational Needs
119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of post-primary school pupils presently accommodated in an special class (details supplied); the number of children on a waiting list...
- School Accommodation
127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Gaelcholáistí school places currently available across Dublin 1, 7, 9 and 11; the future demand that is anticipated by...
- School Transport
129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 452 of 29 March 2022, if an application (details supplied) to Bus Éireann school transport for...
- School Accommodation
130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the resources that her Department is making available for schools that will be expected to accommodate children fleeing Ukraine...
- School Facilities
131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the ownership and history of a former school (details supplied) will be clarified; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18737/22]
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Community Welfare Services
132. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a community welfare office in Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon will be resuming clinic appointments; the number of...
- Social Welfare Payments
133. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on a query in relation to the living alone allowance (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Appeals
134. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons waiting on an oral appeal hearing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18527/22]
- Social Welfare Benefits
135. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will restore the fuel allowance to cover 32 weeks of the year and widen eligibility for the payment; and if she will...
- Social Welfare Payments
137. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on the disability allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Schemes
138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered whether a maintenance recovery unit could remove the need for repeated Family Court hearings and ensure...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
139. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the fuel allowance in order that the presence of a person receiving community employment payments after a...
- Pension Provisions
140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review of the pension entitlement for a person (details supplied) can be carried out; and if she will make a statement...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of claims submitted and the number of persons that have received enhanced illness benefit for Covid-19; the number...
- Departmental Funding
142. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to provide additional financial supports to organisations that are supported by the community employment scheme...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
143. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 141 of 23 February 2022, if a guarantee will be given that no applicant will be...
- Pension Provisions
144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for the 0.5% fee cap attached to the State auto-enrolment pension scheme; if her attention has been drawn to...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Ukraine War
145. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of the Departments that were involved in the Ukraine unit that was recently...
- Childcare Services
146. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has been in contact with small childcare providers to discuss concerns with the new core funding model for...
- Children in Care
149. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to a situation in Youghal, County Cork (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Assisted Decision-Making
150. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 will be fully commenced; and if he will make a statement...
- Children in Care
151. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that a company (details supplied) has been refused tender to accept young persons into their care by...
- Parental Leave
152. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when parental leave (details supplied) given the increase in leave in July 2022 needs to be taken; and if he...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
153. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if funding will be made available to assist ECCE providers with the rising running costs. [18675/22]
- Childcare Services
154. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if funding will be made available to assist childcare providers with the cost of insurance. [18676/22]
- Department of Education and Skills
- Education and Training Boards
155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all staff working in the education and training board sector have been informed by their relevant board that if they are working in the post...
- Education Schemes
156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of extending SUSI fee cover to part-time students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18522/22]
- Student Accommodation
157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a large number of students have lost out on securing on-site campus accommodation in the University of Limerick for the next...
- Research and Development
158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a status update will be provided on the Next National Research and Innovation Strategy 2021-2027; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Education Policy
163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated increase in Exchequer spending that would be required to bring Ireland in line with the OECD average for spending on higher...
- Third Level Fees
164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated amount it would cost to reduce the student contribution charge by €1,000; the estimated amount it would cost to abolish the...
- Technological Universities
165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to form a new consortium in relation to forming an additional technological university with DKIT and or another higher...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total annual student contribution charge to each consortia-led apprenticeship for each phase in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Education Policy
172. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if, in the context of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022, consideration has been given to the establishment of a...
- Visa Applications
173. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address visa difficulties experienced by a person (details supplied). [18428/22]
- Human Trafficking
174. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reports of human trafficking received by gardaí in each of the past ten years; the number of persons charged...
- Departmental Schemes
175. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the recent European Commission recommendation urging member states to immediately repeal existing investor...
- Departmental Bodies
178. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons employed at the Legal Services Regulatory Authority by grade in tabular form; and if she will make a...
- Work Permits
180. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the options open to a person (details supplied) in view of their circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Ukraine War
181. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if all those who have fled Ukraine and are seeking refuge will be welcomed in the same manner to Ireland regardless of their...
- Residency Permits
182. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way that a person (details supplied) can proceed to get an extension to their residence permit; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Programmes
183. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 781 of 14 March 2022, if she will provide the information; and if she will make a...
- European Union
185. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the right of family members of European Union citizens under European Union Directive 2004/38/EC to accompany an...
- Road Safety
186. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the development of an online portal for the submission of video footage of dangerous driving, as committed to in...
- Department of Health
- Hospice Services
187. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of delivering 30 new public palliative care beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18536/22]
- Hospital Services
188. To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals in which fluorescence microscopy and thromboelastography are available for diagnostics and treatment; if such technology is being used to detect...
- Organ Donation
189. To ask the Minister for Health if the proposed human tissue Bill providing the legal basis for an opt-out system of organ donation will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
190. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a child (details supplied) is waiting to receive surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18429/22]
- Hospital Staff
191. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against medical, nursing, midwifery and other health and social care professionals in the Mater Misericordiae Hospital in 2021...
- Abortion Services
204. To ask the Minister for Health the identity of the successful bidder for the tender to conduct research into the views of service users and service providers on the operation of the 2018...
- Home Care Packages
205. To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange an urgent home help care package for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18465/22]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
206. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount which the State spent on personal protection equipment during the pandemic which either never arrived or was not fit for use when it arrived;...
- Ambulance Service
210. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times that ambulances were involved in road traffic collisions in each of the past ten years and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
211. To ask the Minister for Health when additional resources will be provided to deal with the unacceptable waiting list for services in counties Cavan and Monaghan (details supplied); and if he...
- Primary Care Centres
212. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a primary care centre (details supplied). [18513/22]
- Health Service Executive
214. To ask the Minister for Health the plans of the HSE for the building on Main Street, Rathcoole, County Dublin that currently hold the Four Districts Day Centre and the site that it sits on;...
- General Practitioner Services
215. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners accepting new medical card patients in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18521/22]
- Hospital Facilities
216. To ask the Minister for Health if an update will be provided in relation to the capital proposal from Ballina District Hospital to the HSE in relation to additional beds; and if he will make...
- Medicinal Products
218. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the shortage of HRT medication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18531/22]
- Nursing Homes
219. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of establishing a nursing home regulator; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18534/22]
- Health Services
220. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the work being done to address younger onset dementia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18537/22]
- Departmental Projects
223. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the efforts by his Department to improve the supports available to provide alternatives to online access to public services; and if he...
- Nursing Homes
224. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new public nursing home beds that have been made available in each of the past ten years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Funding
225. To ask the Minister for Health if he will establish an age in place support fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18546/22]
- Mental Health Services
226. To ask the Minister for Health the current average waiting time for urgent and non-urgent patients that are waiting on an appointment with the child and adolescent mental health services in...
- Care Services
227. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a residential centre (details supplied) has been refused for a tender to accept young people into its care; and if he will make a statement on...
- Health Service Executive
228. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria used in the early assessment of the special needs of a child under the new system of triaging children operated by the HSE; and if the form of...
- Abortion Services
229. To ask the Minister for Health the number of maternity hospitals and maternity units which provide surgical termination of pregnancy; the number of surgical terminations of pregnancy carried...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
230. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the high incidence of admissions that the hospitals are currently experiencing along with the calls from nurses and doctors...
- Hospital Appointments Status
231. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an ophthalmology appointment given that this person is waiting for four years or more for this...
- Mental Health Services
232. To ask the Minister for Health if he has met the clinical director or other lead personnel of the inpatient mental health facility in St. Stephen’s Hospital in Glanmire given recent...
- Disability Services
234. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a risk assessment and respite service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18619/22]
- Ambulance Service
236. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a road accident casualty in an area (details supplied) a week ago waited over three hours for the arrival of...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
237. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the Covid-19 Digital Certificates for persons who have received a fourth vaccine dose; if they must seek a corrected or updated...
- Disability Diagnoses
238. To ask the Minister for Health if the children with disabilities who received a preliminary team assessment instead of an assessment of needs will be called back for an assessment of need in...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
239. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 4 of 31 March 2022, if the Mater Hospital, Dublin is no longer accepting long-Covid patients to its clinic; if the three...
- Hospital Facilities
240. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the 50-bed construction project at the Sacred Heart Hospital, Roscommon; when the planning application will be submitted; and if he will...
- Hospital Services
245. To ask the Minister for Health the policy of his Department regarding men and women sharing multi-bed wards in public hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18720/22]
- Hospital Charges
246. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an up-to-date estimate of the annual cost of abolishing hospital charges and of extending free general practitioner care to the whole...
- Hospital Appointments Status
247. To ask the Minister for Health if a surgery appointment will be scheduled for a person (details supplied). [18731/22]
- Hospital Staff
248. To ask the Minister for Health if a funding application has been received by his Department for the appointment of the four outstanding epilepsy nurse specialist posts committed to as part...
- Nursing Homes
249. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Act 2021; when all aspects of the Act will be commenced including the provision regarding the rental...
- Disease Management
250. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date of the ME chronic fatigue syndrome working group established by the HSE; the membership of the group; when it last held a meeting; the...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Greyhound Industry
251. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of fines and or penalties that have been issued by greyhound coursing clubs since 2015 for failure of an agent to notify...
- Agriculture Schemes
255. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers that put land into the REAP scheme in 2021 are able to leave the scheme without penalty in order to grow cereals on that...
- Animal Passports
257. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of compliance notices issued in respect of the failure of owners to chip their horses since January 2013, in tabular form;...
- Forestry Sector
258. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which it is expected to reach published targets on forestry; when the plan commenced; when it is expected to achieve...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Control of Dogs
263. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to introduce regulation and a database for non-greyhound stud sire dogs, that is, companion dogs. [18453/22]
- Departmental Funding
264. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the up-to-date position in relation to the development of a facility (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Library Services
265. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if funding is available for community libraries; and if Cork City Council has applied for this for Blackpool library. [18464/22]
- Departmental Funding
266. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on a funding allocation (details supplied); if the project has commenced and the associated timeline on...
- Offshore Islands
267. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when tenders will be sought for the provision of a helipad on an island (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
