Written answers

Tuesday, 26 April 2022

  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Electric Vehicles
      92. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that he has taken to ensure that residents of apartments and duplexes can access electric vehicle schemes and install electric...
    • Compulsory Purchase Orders
      94. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will instruct the M20 team to provide written assurance to residents along the chosen route whose homes will not be subject to a...
    • Public Transport
      96. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given to continuing the proposed Metro from St. Stephen’s Green to Rathfarnham or Firhouse in the Dublin...
    • Departmental Investigations
      99. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of commissions of investigation under the remit of his Department currently ongoing in the State; the cost of each commission...
    • Legislative Programme
      103. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the legislation and regulations for e-scooter use will be in place given recent reports of further delays; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Strategies
      104. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made towards action 100 of the National Disability and Inclusion Strategy 2017-2021 (details supplied). [21098/22]
    • Electric Vehicles
      105. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the roll-out of electric vehicle charging points in County Mayo. [21096/22]
    • Ferry Services
      106. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions that his Department has taken in view of dismissal of staff by a company (details supplied); if his Department has undertaken...
    • Haulage Industry
      107. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to extend the €100 weekly payment per vehicle for the haulage industry; if he plans to amend and update the diesel...
    • Fishing Industry
      108. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will meet with a person (details supplied) to discuss the case of a former fishing vessel which was purchased in the Netherlands in...
    • Rail Network
      109. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will commit to a feasibility study to investigate the reopening of the Navan to Kingscourt rail line; and if he will make a...
    • National Development Plan
      110. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way that the rising cost of construction will impact major transport infrastructure projects in the National Development Plan; and if...
    • Park-and-Ride Facilities
      111. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 13 of 3 March 2022, the progress made to date on the roll-out of park and ride facilities in...
    • Electric Vehicles
      112. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his targets for the deployment of electric vehicle charging points in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21088/22]
    • Public Transport
      113. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 28 of 3 March 2022, the timeline for the upcoming review of the Galway Transport Strategy; the...
    • Bus Services
      114. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on significantly increasing the LocalLink budget to serve significant sites of Ukrainian refugees in local areas. [19261/22]
    • Road Safety
      115. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details regarding the costs of the new average speed camera system on the M7 Motorway; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Ukraine War
      116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his officials are represented within the newly-established Ukraine unit within the Department for Children, Equality, Disability,...
    • Airport Policy
      117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way that he plans to improve security check waiting times across Irish airports; the additional resources that will be provided to...
    • Public Transport
      118. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the preferred locations for the proposed Metro North underground stations have been selected; when work will commence and be completed...
    • Road Network
      119. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a further financial allocation will be made during 2022 to local authorities for the non-national road network; and if he will make a...
    • Rail Network
      120. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the research that has been carried out for his Department in relation to increase in usage that occurs on non-urban railways lines as...
    • Electric Vehicles
      121. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the ownership and maintenance model that is intended for infrastructure developed from the Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure...
    • Aviation Industry
      123. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will detail the outcome of any discussion that he or his officials have had with a company (details supplied) in relation to...
    • Rail Network
      124. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will seek to have the Western Rail Corridor included in the TEN-T programme in advance of the publication of the all-Ireland...
    • Transport Policy
      125. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which adequate provision has been made or is being made to meet the commuter requirements throughout north Kildare now and...
    • Road Safety
      127. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the installation cost of the new average speed camera system on the M8 and if his Department has carried out a...
    • Transport Policy
      129. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the Connecting Ireland review following the recent public consultation; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Electric Vehicles
      130. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the provision of electric vehicle charging points in the greater Dublin area; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Bus Services
      131. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether the estimated €98 million spent to date on the Dublin BusConnects project that relates to planning, surveys...
    • Parking Provision
      132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he has taken to prevent non-disabled persons parking in disabled parking bays given that the penalty point system does not seem...
    • Transport Policy
      133. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the safeguards that are in place to ensure that all new investment into active travel is used on active travel projects that are built to...
    • Road Projects
      135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Coonagh-Knockalisheen Road, Limerick following the receivership of a company (details supplied); if an alternative...
    • Haulage Industry
      136. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that his Department is taking in relation to consolidation of road freight deliveries across the freight sector in order to...
    • Public Transport
      137. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of plans to introduce 50% fares for under-24s and students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20888/22]
    • Aviation Industry
      138. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if legislation can be enacted to stop airlines overcharging Ukrainian refugees fleeing to Ireland for unprinted boarding passes and extra...
    • Ports Policy
      139. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that he is taking to improve the sustainable transport access and infrastructure at all ferry ports (details supplied); and if...
    • Haulage Industry
      140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which hauliers that transport their own goods, sand and gravel can apply for the new diesel allowance as they do not need a...
    • Airport Policy
      141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is concerned regarding travel delays caused by staffing shortages given the importance of Dublin Airport for business connectivity...
    • Rail Network
      142. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to provide ringfenced funding to Iarnród Éireann to reduce and eventually eliminate unmanned manually operated farm...
    • Electric Vehicles
      143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the lifetime costs of electric versus fossil fuel vehicles justifies recommending to public bodies under his auspices to switch...
    • Road Projects
      144. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the plans to upgrade the N11, M11 Junction 4 to Junction 14; the timeframe for the works; and if he will make a...
    • Electric Vehicles
      145. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that are being taken to increase the uptake of the electric vehicle public charge point grant; and if he will make a statement...
    • Public Transport
      146. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagements that he has had with public transport providers on combatting antisocial behaviour on public transport services; and if...
    • Ukraine War
      147. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if arrangements will be put in place to ensure persons fleeing the war in Ukraine are able to exchange their driving licence for an Irish...
    • Rail Network
      148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to increase the frequency of services on existing rail lines within Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Road Projects
      149. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the east west link which is urgently needed in the north east; the most recent engagements his Department has made on this...
    • Environmental Policy
      150. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the initiatives that he is undertaking in 2022 to reduce the carbon footprint of the transport sector in Ireland; and if he will make a...
    • Haulage Industry
      151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider extending the recently announced Government support for the haulage sector to address cost pressures arising from...
    • Bus Services
      152. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to install new bus shelters in south west County Cork. [21099/22]
    • Transport Policy
      153. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has assessed the potential to move travel requirements to a service model by using sharing platforms, vehicle sharing and ride...
    • Airport Policy
      154. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Regional Airports Programme 2021-2025. [21095/22]
    • Road Projects
      156. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for delivery of the Northern Ring Road. [21042/22]
    • Rail Network
      157. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the benefits that more focused strategic planning to ensure a minimum level of rail services and standards for rural and...
    • Electric Vehicles
      158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to extend the SEAI grants scheme for electric vehicles to smaller and lighter electric vehicles, including e-bikes and e-cargo...
    • Rail Network
      159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the all-Ireland strategic rail review will be completed; if he will request the conclusion on well-developed projects such as the...
    • Public Transport
      160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that he is taking to make public transport more affordable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21068/22]
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Civil Service
      163. To ask the Taoiseach the rationale behind the establishment of the Civil Service Accountability Board; the date it was established; the names of the members of the board; the chairman and...
    • Departmental Staff
      164. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff within his Department who are based and working with the European Union in Brussels; the present roles and responsibilities of the staff; the posts...
    • Defibrillators Provision
      165. To ask the Taoiseach if defibrillators are installed in all offices and buildings accessible by the public in his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit....
    • Departmental Contracts
      166. To ask the Taoiseach the total value of consultancy contracts awarded to an organisation (details supplied) for work with his Department and bodies under auspices of his Department in each...
    • Census of Population
      167. To ask the Taoiseach the purpose of a new question in the Census forms relating to the number of bedrooms in a home (H5); the reason this new question was included on the Census form; and if...
    • Departmental Meetings
      168. To ask the Taoiseach the dates on which groups (details supplied) chaired or co-chaired by the Secretary General of his Department met from June 2020 to date in 2022. [19419/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      169. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide the details of the name, salary, position and roles of persons who are being paid for by his Department for secondment to another public, private or...
    • Civil Service
      170. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide the Civil Service Management Board terms of reference. [19563/22]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      171. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit run apprenticeship programmes or are directly engaged in the training of apprentices; if...
    • Departmental Staff
      172. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons employed by his Department and bodies under the aegis of his Department with a rate of pay below the living wage of €12.30; and the role...
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      175. To ask the Taoiseach when he will publish his diary for quarter 1 of 2022 on the website of his Department. [19976/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      176. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit facilitate internships by students engaged in full-time or part-time further and higher...
    • Data Protection
      178. To ask the Taoiseach his views in relation to the process of data collection and handling of census forms that the Data Protection Commissioner should investigate if, in fact the current...
    • Departmental Funding
      179. To ask the Taoiseach if funding (details supplied) that has been allocated has been drawn down and spent; if there has been a follow up or appraisal on the funding given under the various...
    • Social Dialogue
      181. To ask the Taoiseach the new models of sectoral engagement created by the social dialogue unit of his Department. [20977/22]
    • Data Protection
      184. To ask the Taoiseach if a piece of surveillance technology (details supplied) is being used by his Department or any agencies under his remit in view of the fact that there are security and...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Departmental Data
      185. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total amount of IDA grants received by a company (details supplied) from 2018 to date in 2022 inclusive broken down under the...
    • Departmental Staff
      187. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide the details of the name, salary, position and roles of persons who are being paid for by his Department for...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      188. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit run apprenticeship programmes or are directly engaged...
    • Departmental Staff
      189. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons employed by his Department and bodies under the aegis of his Department with a rate of pay below the living...
    • Low Pay Commission
      190. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 13 of 10 February 2022, the status of the examination by the Low Pay Commission and the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      191. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 77 of 10 February 2022, the status of his engagement at European Union and World Trade...
    • Low Pay Commission
      192. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 33 of 9 February 2022, if he has received the report by the Low Pay Commission and the ESRI of...
    • Official Engagements
      193. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of any bilateral engagement he has had with his counterparts in Saudi Arabia in 2021 and to-date in 2022; if, in the...
    • Work Permits
      194. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the introduction of a digital nomad visa in Italy; if his Department is considering the...
    • Departmental Staff
      195. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline all of the secondment arrangements within his Department; the conditions related to such secondments; and if he...
    • Fuel Prices
      197. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has considered ways to make consumers aware of the prices of petrol in a centralised database prior to purchasing to help...
    • Departmental Staff
      198. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons currently employed in his Department who have been seconded in from the public sector; the number of...
    • European Council
      199. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the Government's position on the establishment of an European Union social imbalances procedure as discussed in the Council...
    • Work Permits
      200. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which a Sri Lankan citizen may come to Ireland to work (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Regional Aid
      201. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason that the Drogheda Urban electoral area was excluded from the recently published Regional Aid map for Ireland; and if he...
    • Site Acquisitions
      202. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the precise location of a site (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20289/22]
    • Energy Usage
      203. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the special measures his Department is taking to reduce energy usage in the scenario in which members of the public are being asked...
    • Employment Rights
      204. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the timeline for the ratification of the International Labour Organisation Convention No. 190 on violence and harassment in the world...
    • Departmental Staff
      205. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a schedule of special advisors attached to him and Ministers of State in his Department since 2020 to date in...
    • Departmental Funding
      206. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if funding (details supplied) that has been allocated has been drawn down and spent; if there has been a follow up or appraisal on...
    • Departmental Data
      207. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of labour-related accidents due to sleep apnoea recorded in the State in each of the years 2017 to 2021, inclusive in...
    • Departmental Staff
      208. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff within his Department who availed of a secondment from January 2019 to date on the basis that it was not the...
    • Departmental Reports
      209. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will implement the recommendations of the Duffy Cahill report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20780/22]
    • Employment Rights
      210. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on abolishing the mandatory retirement age in some sectors of the economy and particularly in the area of community...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      211. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the most recent occasion on which the IDA visited County Carlow; the number of new jobs that have been created by the IDA in the past...
    • Departmental Appointments
      212. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the recruitment of a full-time replacement as South East Regional Manager; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Company Closures
      213. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 162 of 7 April 2022, if it is possible for arbitration to take place in cases in which a...
    • Energy Prices
      214. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the Enterprise Forum last met; if the forum has discussed rising energy costs within the industry sectors; and if he will make a...
    • Human Rights
      216. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the work of his Department on the second national action plan on business and human rights. [21153/22]
    • Research and Development
      219. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if in order to be eligible for IDA Ireland RD&I grant support the R&D activity must be conducted in Ireland; and if...
    • Employment Rights
      220. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the delivery of a new employment regulation order for security guards; and the timeline for same....
    • Data Protection
      221. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a piece of surveillance technology (details supplied) is being used by his Department or any agencies under his remit in view of...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      222. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider putting in place further measures to improve environmental performance in the SME sector through greater resource...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Rental Sector
      223. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps his Department intends to take to promote energy efficiency in rented homes; if his attention has been drawn...
    • Energy Prices
      224. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagement he has had with electricity and gas companies in relation to proposed increase in prices; if he has...
    • Environmental Policy
      225. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider bringing forward legislation to regulate light pollution; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Environmental Schemes
      226. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the deep retrofit scheme will be in place and ready for contractors to begin work; and if he will make a statement...
    • State Bodies
      229. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are no one stop shops listed on the SEAI websites that the SEAI...
    • Electricity Generation
      230. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that guidelines on the planning, design, construction and operation of small-scale hydroelectric schemes and...
    • Environmental Impact Assessments
      231. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a plant (details supplied) will require an environmental impact assessment under the EIA Directive of the EU. [19276/22]
    • Waste Management
      232. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will list the extended producer responsibility schemes that are in place for recovering waste material funded by...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      234. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he expects that pylons will be erected and wind energy generated in a maritime area (details supplied); and if he...
    • Electricity Generation
      235. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when his Department will allow microgenerated electricity to be sold to the State; the reason for the delay regarding...
    • Environmental Schemes
      236. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of applications waiting to be approved under the warmer homes scheme; the current average wait time for...
    • Offshore Exploration
      238. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 129 of 22 March 2022, the reason that a licence (details supplied) is omitted...
    • Environmental Schemes
      241. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of a matter regarding an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      242. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will advise on a matter (details supplied) raised in correspondence in relation to windfarm developments; and if...
    • National Broadband Plan
      243. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the acceleration of the roll-out of the National Broadband Plan in 2022 to catch-up with the recently...
    • Environmental Schemes
      245. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the SEAI one-stop-shop complete home energy upgrade service (details supplied) will be available given that the...
    • Departmental Policies
      246. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider placing a price cap on standing charges from utility companies; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Post Office Network
      247. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is in a position to provide clarity on the timing and intention of Government regarding publishing a plan on...
    • Departmental Staff
      250. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide the details of the name, salary, position and roles of persons who are being paid for by his...
    • Environmental Schemes
      251. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his proposals to reduce the unacceptable waiting time for works to be carried out under the better energy warmer homes...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      252. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit run apprenticeship programmes or are...
    • Departmental Staff
      253. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of persons employed by his Department and bodies under the aegis of his Department with a rate of pay below...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      255. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number and total value of solar photovoltaic grants provided in 2021; the average grant provided; and if he will...
    • Departmental Priorities
      256. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that the 2021 estimates for the energy transformation programme outlined in the estimates under the Budget...
    • Departmental Staff
      261. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the salaries and expenses paid to advisers, Ministers and or Ministers of State in his Department in 2020, 2021 and to...
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      262. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has given consideration to implementing a programme similar to the Shared Rural Network as was recently rolled...
    • Post Office Network
      264. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 59 of 3 March 2022, if he will contact An Post given that the issue has not been...
    • Data Centres
      265. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there is a moratorium on data centre applications in the Dublin region; the position of Eirgrid on new data centre...
    • Energy Policy
      266. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department is currently assessing an alternate method to deliver the €200 rebate payment to those...
    • Mining Industry
      267. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of an application for a prospecting licence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Fuel Prices
      268. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider establishing a national and independent investigation into price competition and supply logistics...
    • Environmental Policy
      270. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of ban on smoky fuel (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19981/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      271. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit facilitate internships by students...
    • Fuel Prices
      273. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a supply of 2 million litres of agricultural green diesel for the farm and forestry contractor service will be...
    • Climate Change Policy
      275. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the Government will establish a national just transition commission without delay (details supplied). [20052/22]
    • Energy Policy
      278. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20124/22]
    • Electricity Generation
      279. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the average percentage share of the overall electricity generation produced by projects under the renewable electricity...
    • National Postcode System
      282. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 196 of 7 April 2022, if this Eircode can be expedited to help accommodate a...
    • Departmental Priorities
      284. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce rules on noise governing the use of bird scarers or crow bangers; and if he will make a...
    • National Broadband Plan
      285. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a progress report on the roll-out of the National Broadband Plan; the number of properties...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      286. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the €75 support for persons with long-term medical incontinence to help meet the average annual cost of...
    • Energy Usage
      287. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the special measures his Department is taking to reduce energy usage in the scenario in which members of the public are...
    • Fuel Poverty
      288. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views in relation to the health impact arising from fuel poverty; his further views on the need for greater...
    • Electricity Generation
      290. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress that has been made to date in bringing forward legislation to facilitate micro-generation of electricity...
    • Environmental Schemes
      291. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that there are far more grants available to the SEAI one stop shop scheme (details supplied). [20339/22]
    • Departmental Funding
      294. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if funding (details supplied) that has been allocated has been drawn down and spent; if there has been a follow up or...
    • Environmental Schemes
      295. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland grant for batteries relative to PV panels has been discontinued;...
    • Fuel Poverty
      303. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration will be given to the implementation of an energy guarantee under which all older persons over the age...
    • Energy Policy
      304. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department is working with local government to identify barriers to progress of community energy projects and...
    • Environmental Schemes
      305. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the complete range of energy efficiency grants available from the SEAI for home improvements and retrofits under the...
    • Electricity Grid
      306. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of households that use pre-pay meters for their energy requirements; the number of these that are older...
    • Fuel Prices
      308. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration will be given to the ring fencing of a supply of 200 million litres of agricultural green diesel and...
    • Turf Cutting
      309. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated number of households that purchase turf from commercial operators for domestic heating; and if he will...
    • Environmental Schemes
      310. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if any consideration has been given to prioritising retrofits for households that still burn solid fuels for heating...
    • Departmental Funding
      311. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if additional funding and personnel will be provided to Eirgrid and the Commission for Regulation of Utilities to...
    • National Broadband Plan
      312. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department is considering extensions of the rollout of the National Broadband Plan to accommodate commercially...
    • Electricity Generation
      313. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if electricity companies are currently paying customers for surplus solar energy being fed back onto the grid; the...
    • Fisheries Protection
      317. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he received the draft management plan from Inland Fisheries Ireland in relation to a number of lakes including...
    • Air Quality
      318. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the support he can offer to residents in Glanmire who are raising issues with air quality. [20919/22]
    • Departmental Funding
      320. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding for the Environmental Protection Agency research activities for the past three years in tabular form; and...
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      323. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress that is being made as regards to reviewing the policy position on the development of private wires and...
    • Environmental Policy
      324. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department intends to introduce further legislative measures pertaining to existing industrial emissions licence...
    • Air Quality
      325. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way that he intends enforce the new air quality regulations; if such enforcement will carry criminal or civil...
    • Natural Gas Grid
      327. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to explore proposals for the installation of a floating storage and regasification liquified natural gas...
    • Departmental Data
      328. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the breakdown of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland National Energy Research Development and Demonstration...
    • Data Protection
      329. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a piece of surveillance technology (details supplied) is being used by his Department or any agencies under his...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      330. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when fibre broadband will be rolled out in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Environmental Policy
      332. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in respect of the Government’s strategy on fast fashion will...
    • Post Office Network
      333. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); the steps he is taking to support the post...
    • Energy Policy
      334. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the State has started to repurchase coal from the Cerrejón mine in Colombia; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Housing Schemes
      335. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether grants can be made available for financing self-builds that are classed as eco-friendly homes; and...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Parking Provision
      336. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Kilrane State Facility site will be opened up to provide additional HGV parking to alleviate traffic congestion at Rosslare...
    • Energy Policy
      337. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the progress of the Irish Maritime Development Office in its assessment of ports to facilitate the offshore renewal...
    • Departmental Funding
      338. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when his Department plans to increase roads maintenance funding to local authorities; if his Department has conducted a review as to the...
    • Insurance Industry
      339. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the anomaly within the system that allows Ukrainian nationals to drive in Ireland on their own...
    • Driver Test
      340. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons awaiting a driving test in each test centre in tabular form. [19226/22]
    • Road Projects
      341. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) with regard to the Glengarriff to Kenmare road, N71; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Electric Vehicles
      342. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will investigate the possibility of providing a financial incentive to motorists to convert their petrol and diesel...
    • Driver Licences
      343. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Ukrainian truck drivers who have come to Ireland cannot legally work as truck drivers...
    • National Car Test
      344. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to address the current backlog in NCT tests given that wait times are currently up to four months in some test centres; and his...
    • Airport Policy
      345. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he plans to take to reduce the inordinate queues that are occurring on a daily basis at Dublin Airport; and if he will make a...
    • Military Aircraft
      346. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an aircraft (details supplied) was approved by his Department to transport United States soldiers or arms or munitions through Shannon...
    • Bus Services
      347. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will allocate funding for safety works on a bus corridor (details supplied). [19382/22]
    • Pension Provisions
      348. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of negotiations on CIÉ pensions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19427/22]
    • Bus Éireann
      349. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that Cavan bus station is closed; if he will contact Bus Éireann to ascertain when it will reopen; and if he will make a...
    • Aviation Industry
      350. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that an airline has applied for fifth freedom air traffic rights (details supplied); and if...
    • Departmental Staff
      351. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the details of the name, salary, position and roles of persons who are being paid for by his Department for secondment...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      352. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit run apprenticeship programmes or are directly engaged in...
    • Driver Test
      353. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an earlier driving test date can be provided to facilitate a person (details supplied) in County Donegal requiring a test for...
    • Ports Policy
      354. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the establishment of a Port Co-ordination Group within his Department to support Irish ports to be ready for the...
    • Bus Services
      355. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the provision of an adequate bus stop pole which has been greatly delayed at Fernslough, Killickaweeny, Kilcock, County...
    • Departmental Staff
      356. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons employed by his Department and bodies under the aegis of his Department with a rate of pay below the living wage of...
    • Departmental Schemes
      357. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applications under the eSPSV22 scheme; the number that were successful; and the number of remaining grants available. [19671/22]
    • Road Signage
      358. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will supply data on the amount of funding allocated to each local authority for the provision of safe passing of cyclists signage;...
    • Bus Éireann
      359. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an online ticket booking facility is available for the Bus Éireann routes 345 and 323; if not, if he will direct Bus Éireann...
    • Departmental Policies
      360. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the practice considering the value of a document such as a log book for a car of posting these documents without advising the owner of...
    • Departmental Staff
      362. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the salaries and expenses paid to advisers, Ministers and or Ministers of State in his Department in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in...
    • Road Safety
      363. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will legislate for direct vision standards in HGVs to ensure the safety of pedestrians and cyclists using public roads and...
    • Departmental Staff
      364. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline all of the secondment arrangements within his Department; the conditions related to such secondments; and if he will...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      365. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department had a role in sanctioning DAA International to sign a deal to manage Jeddah Airport in Saudi Arabia; if human rights...
    • Penalty Points System
      366. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will identify the offences in which penalty points were issued for the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      367. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the impact on workers' rights of the Dublin Airport Authority offering jobs in cases in which applicants have to be...
    • Fuel Prices
      369. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to alleviate the fuel costs been experienced by taxi drivers; and if there are plans to increase the set charge that...
    • Tax Collection
      370. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will reintroduce a system (details supplied);; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19928/22]
    • Electricity Supply Board
      371. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to price increases for electric car owners to avail of ESB charging points; if he has liaised with ESB on...
    • Bus Services
      372. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when will the youth travel card come into effect for those that operate commercial buses; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Staff
      373. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit facilitate internships by students engaged in full-time or...
    • Driver Licences
      376. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the process for a person to obtain a driver certificate of professional competence for a category D driving licence; the current waiting...
    • Electric Vehicles
      377. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the national charging infrastructure strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20093/22]
    • Public Transport
      379. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will examine the frequency of transport services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20133/22]
    • Cycling Facilities
      380. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans that are in place to improve cycling infrastructure in the Dublin 13 area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20145/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      381. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions that have been taken to ensure proper ventilation on public transport to avoid transmission of Covid-19; and if he will make...
    • Driver Licences
      382. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current position and application procedures for Ukrainian refugees to obtain an Irish driving licence; and if he will make a...
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      383. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the CIÉ pension freeze; if plans are in place to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Driver Licences
      384. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a passenger licence (details supplied). [20203/22]
    • Road Safety
      386. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of road deaths and collisions attributed to sleep disorders; and the number of road deaths and collisions attributed to sleep...
    • National Car Test
      388. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the proposed new NCT centre for Shannon, County Clare; will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20220/22]
    • Driver Test
      389. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons on waiting lists for a driving test at each of the test centres nationwide; the average waiting time nationally at...
    • National Car Test
      390. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a company (details supplied) that runs the National Car Testing centres is intending to...
    • Public Transport
      391. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the issues experienced by users of the Luas red line serving the west Tallaght, Citywest and Saggart...
    • Departmental Funding
      392. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding (details supplied) that has been allocated has been drawndown and spent; if there has been a follow up or appraisal on the...
    • Bus Services
      393. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to provision of bus service in Waterford; and if he...
    • Legislative Measures
      394. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider introducing a law to make it compulsory for motorists to have a first aid kit and fire extinguisher in their...
    • Haulage Industry
      395. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if online certificate of professional competence courses will be offered for heavy goods vehicle drivers; and if he will make a statement...
    • Legislative Measures
      396. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to introduce legislation which would allow local authorities to regulate the use of horse drawn carriages on public roads....
    • Driver Licences
      397. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a policy change will be made to allow driver licenses from the United States of America to be transferred to an Irish drivers’...
    • Rail Network
      398. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider a request by an organisation (details supplied) to include the Limerick to Ballybrophy via Nenagh railway line on the...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      399. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review correspondence from (details supplied); if he will address the concerns raised; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Electric Vehicles
      400. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when grant information will be available for the heavy goods vehicle transport market to encourage the transition from traditional fossil...
    • Departmental Staff
      401. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of staff within his Department who availed of a secondment from January 2019 to date on the basis that it was not the...
    • Departmental Funding
      402. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding funding for a project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20664/22]
    • Electric Vehicles
      403. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has discussed with his colleague the Minister for Finance ways to overcome VAT and custom barriers on electric vehicle imports now...
    • Marine Accidents
      404. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will publish the report completed by a person (details supplied) in 2010 into much needed reform of the Marine Casualty...
    • Road Projects
      406. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe for a decision to fund the N11 and M11 upgrade taking into account the hiatus on planning permissions for residents in the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      407. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the terms and conditions for the draw down of his Departments safety improvement scheme and regional roads grants by local...
    • Electric Vehicles
      408. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will introduce a grant aid scheme for persons that wish to purchase a second-hand electric vehicle. [20812/22]
    • Bus Services
      411. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to bus providers limiting their transport routes from the greater Dublin area to Dublin airport and the...
    • Greenways Provision
      412. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the south Kerry greenway will commence; and the amount he expects it will cost by completion. [20833/22]
    • Road Projects
      413. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to put a road by-pass of Thurles on the national development plan by this Government. [20837/22]
    • Driver Licences
      416. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 249 of 29 March 2022, if he will provide an update on engagements regarding the Temporary...
    • Road Projects
      417. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update regarding progress on the Killaloe Bypass/Shannon Bridge Crossing/R464 Upgrade indicating if the...
    • Electric Vehicles
      418. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has examined introducing a scrappage scheme for older more polluting cars to encourage the purchase of new electric vehicles; the...
    • Bus Services
      419. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of communities with a population greater than three hundred will receive a time times daily bus service under the new...
    • Electric Vehicles
      420. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of charging points for public use for electric vehicles by county; and his plans for the provision of further public charge...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      421. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reasons for and output from the substantially increased research budget for Transport Infrastructure Ireland and the Conference of...
    • Driver Licences
      422. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a decision has been made on a local area hackney licence application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will...
    • Coast Guard Service
      423. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will publish the Irish Coast Guard Search and Rescue Aviation Project business case prepared by companies (Details supplied); if...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      424. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to develop infrastructure at Rosslare Europort and the Port of Waterford in order to capitalise on the development of offshore...
    • Public Transport
      425. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the roll-out of the Connecting Ireland plan; if the Connecting Ireland transport plan for rural Ireland can be expanded to...
    • Coast Guard Service
      427. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the tender for the Coast Guard search and rescue operations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21025/22]
    • Road Projects
      428. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will make funding available for the Oberstown Cross road upgrade works, Oberstown, Tara, County Meath given that the...
    • Greenways Provision
      429. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the progress of greenways in County Meath, including the funding provided to date and the timelines for completion; and if...
    • Driver Test
      431. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for the waiting time by centre for NCT, driver theory test and driving tests. [21029/22]
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      434. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the discussion that he has had with Iarnród Éireann in relation to the planed disposal of lands in the CIE works to facilitate...
    • Rail Network
      435. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Luas extension to Lucan will proceed; the timeline involved; and the reason for the delay. [21038/22]
    • Public Transport
      436. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if European public transport systems are being reviewed and considered in the implementation of the new Connecting Ireland plan; and if...
    • Driver Test
      437. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the National Driver Licence Service, NDLS, mandatory requirement that driving test candidates must confirm taking an antigen test...
    • Electric Vehicles
      438. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given to implementing a new electric vehicle grant for businesses that install charging points; and if he will...
    • Road Projects
      441. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the planned upgrade works on the N4 route at Rathowen and Ballinalack, County Westmeath. [21081/22]
    • Ukraine War
      442. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a role for the Local Link service to ensure Ukrainian refugees have adequate transport; the support that local link will...
    • Legislative Measures
      443. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the schedule now being followed in respect of legislation to deal with the control of scramblers; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Bus Services
      444. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if traffic usage data has been collected and feasibility studies conducted on BusConnects plans for Cathedral Road, Cork. [21173/22]
    • Data Protection
      455. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a piece of surveillance technology (details supplied) is being used by his Department or any agencies under his remit in view of the...
    • Transport Policy
      456. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied that travel reduction targets for the transport sector in general continues to be attainable; and if he will make a...
    • Rail Network
      458. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he expects commuter rail passenger numbers to increase when the lines are upgraded; and if he will make a statement...
    • Aviation Industry
      460. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent of any ongoing assistance being provided to the aviation sector post-Covid given the pressures experienced by airlines during...
    • Transport Policy
      462. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his vision for the future for enabling the transport sector to meet its obligations while complying with international agreements...
    • Driver Licences
      468. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will include heavy goods vehicle owners who primarily transport their own goods and therefore do not possess a road haulage...
  • Department of Finance
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      469. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on a primary medical certificate appeal for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19327/22]
    • Revenue Commissioners
      470. To ask the Minister for Finance if an issue with the Revenue Commissioners history for a family (details supplied) in County Laois will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tax Credits
      471. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons availing of the single person child carer credit. [19357/22]
    • Departmental Schemes
      474. To ask the Minister for Finance the considerations that his Department has had for persons who, as a previous homeowner have availed of the help-to-buy scheme as a partner but the...
    • Tax Code
      475. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full year cost of abolishing the VAT on automated external defibrillators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19366/22]
    • Tax Data
      477. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount of revenue raised via the carbon tax in each year from 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and the breakdown of the areas in which the tax...
    • Credit Unions
      478. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to enable the credit union movement to grow as a key provider of community banking in the country; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Staff
      481. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the details of the name, salary, position and roles of persons who are being paid for by his Department for secondment to another public,...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      482. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit run apprenticeship programmes or are directly engaged in the training of...
    • Departmental Staff
      483. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons employed by his Department and bodies under the aegis of his Department with a rate of pay below the living wage of €12.30; the...
    • Tax Code
      484. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will support the introduction of a VAT exemption on low-emission slurry spreading equipment purchased by farmers; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Residency
      485. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 226 of 31 March 2022, if it is unlawful to give specific weighting to the presence of a person in the State on any...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      486. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 225 of 31 March 2022, the manner in which information on the number and value of refunds of compromise penalties is...
    • Tax Credits
      487. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider offering tax credits for owner-occupiers affected by building defects in budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      488. To ask the Minister for Finance if a new appeal board for the primary certificate has been appointed (details supplied); if it is operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Bodies
      489. To ask the Minister for Finance the breakdown of Home Building Finance Ireland, HBFI, loans by number of units fewer than 25, between 26 and 50, between 50 and 99, between 100 and 200 and...
    • Departmental Staff
      490. To ask the Minister for Finance the salaries and expenses paid to advisers, Ministers and or Ministers of State in his Department in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [19745/22]
    • Tax Code
      491. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to extending the VAT rate of 9% beyond August 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19802/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      492. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline all of the secondment arrangements within his Department; the conditions related to such secondments; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Fuel Prices
      493. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will meet with an association (details supplied) to engage with them on issues impacting on the viability of their sector relating to carbon tax on...
    • Departmental Staff
      495. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit facilitate internships by students engaged in full-time or part-time further and...
    • Departmental Data
      497. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of gold reserves held in Ireland from quarter one 2011 and quarter one 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20053/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      499. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons currently employed in his Department who have been seconded in from the public sector; the number of Departmental officials seconded...
    • Fuel Prices
      500. To ask the Minister for Finance the financial changes that are being proposed to mitigate the cost of road diesel for operators who run businesses that have heavy goods vehicles and other...
    • Question Heading for question(s) 501
      501. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20096/22]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      502. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) who has tried to appeal, since 2020, the decision to reject their application for a primary...
    • Tax Yield
      504. To ask the Minister for Finance if there was modelling carried before and since increases in the carbon tax in 2020 on the projected price trajectory without increases to the carbon tax in...
    • National Asset Management Agency
      507. To ask the Minister for Finance the circumstances in which NAMA agreed to write of £100 million debt owed by a company (details supplied); the reason NAMA was unable to recoup any funds...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      508. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reopen Revenue Commissioners offices to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20313/22]
    • Insurance Industry
      509. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has examined alternative insurance systems, particularly in relation to licensed premises, such as the no-fault system that exists in New...
    • Electric Vehicles
      510. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties encountered by private companies securing insurance cover for company owned electronic vehicles; if he...
    • Vacant Properties
      511. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the vacancy data collected by his Department through the local property tax. [20382/22]
    • Tax Code
      512. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to proposals raised in correspondence (details supplied) in regard to taxation and the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Funding
      513. To ask the Minister for Finance if funding (details supplied) that has been allocated has been drawn down and spent; if there has been a follow up or appraisal on the funding given under the...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      514. To ask the Minister for Finance if a vehicle which was bought for commercial purposes in 2020 and was never deregistered due to Covid-19 could now be deregistered and reregistered as a 2022...
    • Credit Register
      515. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether it is fair that a married couple who are separating and are restructuring their joint loans can have their individual credit ratings...
    • Film Industry
      516. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide supporting evidence that there are currently approximately 12,000 persons employed in Ireland in film, television and animation production...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      517. To ask the Minister for Finance if the delay that solicitors are having acquiring capital acquisitions certificates (details supplied) from the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, Capital...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      518. To ask the Minister for Finance if the criteria that qualify a person for a primary medical certificate will be reviewed to include persons who have a diagnosis such as narcolepsy. [20486/22]
    • Tax Code
      519. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider reducing the VAT to 9% on home heating oil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20612/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      521. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff within his Department who availed of a secondment from January 2019 to date on the basis that it was not the intention of the staff member...
    • Tax Code
      523. To ask the Minister for Finance the derogation and flexibility he sought in his correspondence and communications with the European Commission with respect to VAT as it applies to domestic...
    • Tax Yield
      524. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 78 of 10 November 2021, the estimated revenue raised in carbon tax, relative to the rate of €26 per tonne, in the...
    • Tax Code
      525. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider the removal of VAT on period pants and on environmentally friendly period cups considering the fact that VAT has been removed for tampons...
    • Compulsory Purchase Orders
      526. To ask the Minister for Finance if capital gains tax is applicable to property which is sold under a compulsory purchase order; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20718/22]
    • Defective Building Materials
      527. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his engagement with the construction, quarry, local manufacturing, insurance and banking sectors on establishing an industry levy to...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      528. To ask the Minister for Finance the average amount of tax paid by a registered apprentice on off-the-job training in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20881/22]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      530. To ask the Minister for Finance when the review of the criteria for the primary medical certificate will be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21103/22]
    • Research and Development
      531. To ask the Minister for Finance if accessing research support funding from Enterprise Ireland, IDA, Disruptive Technologies Fund or any other Government programme that financially supports...
    • Departmental Data
      532. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected GNI* figure for 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21194/22]
    • Tax Code
      533. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of tax or excise duties on fuel broken down by tax or excise duty and percentage in tabular form. [21226/22]
    • Data Protection
      534. To ask the Minister for Finance if a piece of surveillance technology (details supplied) is being used by his Department or any agencies under his remit in view of the fact that there are...
    • Departmental Schemes
      535. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that a property must never have been used or have been suitable for use as a residential home in relation to the help-to-buy scheme (details...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Office of Public Works
      536. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW is responsible for the upkeep of embankments (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19207/22]
    • Public Appointments Service
      537. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when candidates for a competition (details supplied) will be employed from the list; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Flexible Work Practices
      538. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way that flexi-leave will be taken into account for those who work less than five days per week further to the publication of the...
    • Ukraine War
      539. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has met with an organisation (details supplied) and other construction industry companies in relation to the provision of leased...
    • Departmental Staff
      540. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the details of all circumstances in which employees were seconded from the private sector to the public sector in...
    • Trade Unions
      541. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the level of consultation with the trade unions that represent healthcare workers regarding the changes to special leave with pay...
    • Office of Government Procurement
      543. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the Office of Government Procurement will establish a specialised cloud services procurement framework, particularly in view of the...
    • Departmental Staff
      544. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the details of the name, salary, position and roles of persons who are being paid for by his Department for...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      545. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit run apprenticeship programmes or are directly engaged in...
    • Departmental Staff
      546. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons employed by his Department and bodies under the aegis of his Department with a rate of pay below the living wage...
    • Transport Costs
      547. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 210 of 23 March 2022, if he will carry out a review on the travel expenses of public health nurses...
    • Departmental Advertising
      548. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if an advertisement has been issued for building works (details supplied); if so, if his Department will fund these building works; the...
    • Energy Usage
      549. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform he special measures his Department is taking to reduce energy usage in the scenario in which members of the public are being asked to do...
    • Legislative Programme
      550. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he proposes to introduce the necessary legislation to support the Government’s policy concerning the allocation of the...
    • Departmental Data
      551. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a percentage breakdown of the areas (details supplied) in which the funds collected from carbon tax are spent in...
    • Departmental Staff
      552. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the salaries and expenses paid to advisers, Ministers and or Ministers of State in his Department in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in...
    • State Bodies
      553. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the State bodies that are bound by the Code of Conduct for State bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19784/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      554. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline all of the secondment arrangements within his Department; the conditions related to such secondments; and if he will...
    • Civil Service
      555. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it is permissible for a civil servant to enter into a secondment arrangement of greater than five years; the circumstances under...
    • Departmental Staff
      559. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of second secretary general posts which have existed across Government Departments; the manner in which duties may be...
    • Flood Risk Management
      562. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the funding that is still allocated in relation to the €83 million of funding ringfenced for Louth County Council flood...
    • Health Services Staff
      563. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the special leave with pay arrangements are to cease in June 2022 for nurses who contracted Covid-19 in the course of their duties;...
    • Public Sector Staff
      564. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the ongoing public sector discussions and timeline with regard to the reversal of the previous financial decision...
    • Departmental Funding
      568. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if funding (details supplied) that has been allocated has been drawndown and spent; if there has been a follow up or appraisal on the...
    • Ukraine War
      569. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the former Garda station at Lissycasey, County Clare; and if the Office of Public Works have given consideration to this...
    • Office of Public Works
      570. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW has received an application from Cork County Council in respect of repair works to the sea wall at Roches Point, Cork; and if...
    • Departmental Staff
      572. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of staff within his Department who availed of a secondment from January 2019 to date on the basis that it was not the...
    • Departmental Funding
      575. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if funding will be provided to illuminate Nenagh Castle and its surrounding at night; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Office of Public Works
      576. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress of the Office of Public Works project at Carlow castle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20945/22]
    • Third Level Staff
      577. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is engaged in discussions to agree revised principles for a new higher education staffing agreement to update the current...
    • Flood Risk Management
      578. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made by the OPW in developing the south Mayo relief scheme; the estimated cost of the scheme; when it is intended to...
    • Data Protection
      579. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a piece of surveillance technology (details supplied) is being used by his Department or any agencies under his remit in view of the...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Future of Media Commission
      580. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the Future of Media Commission; when the findings of the Commission will be published; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      581. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will review correspondence (details supplied); the funding opportunities that may be open to this group to fund this trip;...
    • Departmental Staff
      582. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide the details of the name, salary, position and roles of persons who are being paid for by her Department for...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      583. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit run apprenticeship programmes or are directly...
    • Departmental Staff
      584. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of persons employed by her Department and bodies under the aegis of her Department with a rate of pay below the living...
    • Sports Funding
      585. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding can be made available to a rural sports club outside of the Sports Capital Grant process in cases in which the club...
    • Departmental Staff
      586. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the salaries and expenses paid to advisers, Ministers and or Ministers of State in her Department in 2020, 2021 and to date in...
    • Departmental Schemes
      587. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of applications for the live performance support scheme 2; the number applications that were refused; the number that...
    • Energy Prices
      588. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the hospitality sector is now suffering due to the increased energy costs and is struggling; her views on whether the extension...
    • Departmental Staff
      589. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will outline all of the secondment arrangements within his Department; the conditions related to such secondments; and if...
    • Sports Funding
      590. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a club (details supplied) will be allowed to appeal it’s allocation of sports capital funding on the basis that it...
    • Departmental Schemes
      591. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will address the case of a person (details supplied) regarding funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Staff
      592. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit facilitate internships by students engaged in...
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      594. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there are plans to introduce regulations for the growing e-sports sector in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Broadcasting Sector
      595. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current regulatory regime applying to UK broadcasters carrying advertising aimed specifically at the Irish market; if this...
    • Sports Funding
      596. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of appeals received on the current round of sports capital; and when it is expected a decision will be reached for...
    • Departmental Funding
      597. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding (details supplied) that has been allocated has been drawn down and spent; if there has been a follow up or appraisal on...
    • Rental Sector
      598. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the timeline for the new short-term letting regulations (details supplied) as outlined in the recent Housing for All plan; the...
    • Sports Funding
      599. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of a sports capital appeal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20506/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      600. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of staff within her Department who availed of a secondment from January 2019 to date on the basis that it was not the...
    • Culture Policy
      601. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to review the entry fees to cultural institutions and events for persons with a disability and their carers as in the...
    • Census of Population
      602. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress being made to digitise the 1926 census; and if provision will be made for its early release. [20784/22]
    • Regional Development
      603. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the consideration that has been given to a product development and marketing campaign to promote Lough Derg and it’s...
    • Departmental Strategies
      604. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the situation with respect to the National Swimming Strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21050/22]
    • Forálacha Pinsin
      605. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén dul chun cinn atá déanta leis an bplé idir a Roinn agus an Roinn Caiteachais Poiblí agus...
    • Data Protection
      606. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a piece of surveillance technology (details supplied) is being used by her Department or any agencies under her remit in view...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Wind Energy Generation
      607. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is considering increasing minimum setback distance for wind turbines from homes and residential areas; when...
    • Departmental Schemes
      608. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason an application (details supplied) was unsuccessful under the Heritage Historic Structures Fund; if clarity will be...
    • Planning Issues
      609. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider placing an obligation on short-term letting sites to verify change of use planning permissions. [19351/22]
    • Housing Provision
      610. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the nature of approved housing body and rental accommodation scheme leases; the average cost of such leases; the length of...
    • Environmental Schemes
      615. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing retrofits by local authority per year from 2016 to 2021; the average cost of the retrofit per...
    • Housing Schemes
      616. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the incremental purchase scheme revised arrangements will be in place in order that councils can process applications, as...
    • Vacant Properties
      618. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the length of time a house must be derelict to qualify for a grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19508/22]
    • Housing Policy
      619. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will include an identifier for medical priority need and a separate identifier for wheelchair liveability need in the...
    • Building Regulations
      620. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to amend part M of the technical guidance documents of the building regulations to include wheelchair liveability...
    • Housing Provision
      621. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if exemptions will be provided to persons to access a local authority loan scheme who have changed their marriage status and...
    • Departmental Staff
      622. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the details of the name, salary, position and roles of persons who are being paid for by his Department for...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      623. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit run apprenticeship programmes or are directly...
    • Housing Provision
      624. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration can be made for areas such as Ballymun, Dublin with a high percentage of social housing and in which there is...
    • Departmental Staff
      625. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons employed by his Department and bodies under the aegis of his Department with a rate of pay below the...
    • Planning Issues
      626. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his plans to develop section 28 Guidelines for Planning Authorities on Sustainable and Compact Settlement...
    • Housing Schemes
      627. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends introducing a means-tested housing repair grant similar to the housing aid for older people scheme for persons...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      628. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the guidance he intends to issue to local authorities for the forthcoming mid-term review of the Traveller Accommodation...
    • Housing Policy
      629. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a review of his housing plan is currently under way; when the review was agreed; the terms of office; the person or body...
    • Defective Building Materials
      630. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the progress of the report of the independent Working Group on Defective Homes; and if he will...
    • Departmental Staff
      631. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the salaries and expenses paid to advisers, Ministers and-or Ministers of State in his Department in 2020, 2021 and to date in...
    • Planning Issues
      632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that all the board members of An Bord Pleanála are in compliance with section 106 (13)(d)(ii) of the...
    • Mayoral Election
      635. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a commitment will be given to ensure that a vote on a directly elected mayor in Galway takes place in 2024 at the same time...
    • Departmental Staff
      636. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline all of the secondment arrangements within his Department; the conditions related to such secondments; and...
    • Wildlife Protection
      637. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if assurances will be given that his Department and the National Parks and Wildlife Service species’ derogation...
    • Land Issues
      641. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is possible for unregistered lands to be registered and assigned a folio number; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      642. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit facilitate internships by students engaged in...
    • Local Authorities
      643. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the assistance available from his Department for specific actions for local authority tenants (details supplied); and if he...
    • Departmental Schemes
      645. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take to ensure that persons who surrendered their home to the financial crisis but who did not enter...
    • Defective Building Materials
      648. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the support that has been provided to approved housing bodies to remedy building defects; if approved housing bodies will be...
    • Housing Provision
      649. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a new housing development currently progressing in Ennis (details supplied) is being developed with a view to having the...
    • Departmental Data
      650. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of children’s playgrounds managed by each local authority in tabular form. [20206/22]
    • Waterways Issues
      651. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a project (details supplied) can be continued given its importance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20213/22]
    • National Standards Authority of Ireland
      652. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline which the steering group NSAI Standardisation Programme - Masonry Construction that was established to oversee a...
    • Energy Usage
      653. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the special measures his Department is taking to reduce energy usage in the scenario in which members of the public are being...
    • Legislative Programme
      655. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered legislation to implement a compulsory sale order policy. [20376/22]
    • Vacant Properties
      656. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has instructed local authorities to include targets for tackling vacancy in their forthcoming development plans. [20377/22]
    • Heritage Projects
      661. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of full-time equivalent roles he funds for the Collaborative Town Health Check initiative; and the number he...
    • Departmental Funding
      662. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding (details supplied) that has been allocated has been drawn down and spent; if there has been a follow up or...
    • Departmental Meetings
      663. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of meetings of the Housing For All secretary delivery group that have taken place since September 2021; the persons...
    • Housing Policy
      664. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects to decide on proposed changes and recommendations on income eligibility for social housing; and if he will...
    • Ukraine War
      665. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the procedures for those who wish to sell property to the State, the HSE or local authorities in order to house Ukrainians...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      667. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review correspondence from (details supplied); if he will address the concerns raised; and if he will make a...
    • Rental Sector
      668. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the method of calculation of the rental charge on 50 two-bedroom cost rental apartments delivered under the Housing for Aall...
    • Invasive Species Policy
      669. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 262 of 3 March 2022, if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the different inputs and...
    • Departmental Staff
      670. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff within his Department who availed of a secondment from January 2019 to date on the basis that it was not...
    • Turf Cutting
      671. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has estimated the number of persons who continue to cut turf on bogs for domestic heating or the number of...
    • Foreshore Issues
      672. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he anticipates additional resources will be allocated to his Department to address the backlog of foreshore licence...
    • Turf Cutting
      673. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a person (details supplied) will receive a payment under the turf cutting compensation scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      675. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to bring forward amendments to the legislation that underpins the appointment of members to An Bord...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      676. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has set up a standard process across local authorities for the provision of services to refugees from Ukraine; and if he...
    • Housing Schemes
      677. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that the self-help grant scheme has been discontinued by Kildare County Council for 2022; and if he will make a...
    • Defective Building Materials
      679. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if approval will be given to the homeowners whose properties are affected by mica, pyrite and-or sulphate to be given 100%...
    • Housing Provision
      680. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown, by local authority, of the affordable housing targets funded by the affordable housing fund from 2022 to 2026....
    • Rental Sector
      681. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown, by local authority, of the affordable cost rental housing targets funded by the cost rental equity loan from...
    • Planning Issues
      682. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the monitoring carried out by his Department on the performance of An Bord Pleanála in deciding planning appeals within...
    • Housing Provision
      683. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated number of local authority owned houses that are heated mainly by solid fuel, in tabular form; the number where...
    • Departmental Data
      685. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost to the Exchequer in 2021 per unit of accommodation for (details supplied), in tabular form. [20870/22]
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      687. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeless persons who died in County Cork in 2021. [20917/22]
    • Appointments to State Boards
      689. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current members of An Board Pleanála, the Minister who appointed each and the current remuneration of each, in...
    • National Biodiversity Plan
      690. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the National Biodiversity Action Plan provides supports for biodiversity projects in counties Laois and Offaly; if not, the...
    • Residential Tenancies Board
      691. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure the Residential Tenancies Board is adequately resourced to deal with disputes in which the tenant does not...
    • Housing Policy
      692. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a local authority can remove a person from the rent book of a social housing unit if they move to temporary accommodation,...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      693. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps taken by his Department and the Property Registration Authority to ensure the security of the data held by the PRA;...
    • Departmental Meetings
      694. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the dates officials of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine contacted his Department and or met with officials...
    • Water Charges
      695. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Irish Water can charge consumers who fall within the scheme for water usage in circumstances in which a public group water...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      696. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide capital funding under the homeless budget for a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Equipment
      698. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a piece of surveillance technology (details supplied) is being used by his Department or any agencies under his remit in...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      699. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the latest calls to combat child homelessness by an organisation (details supplied) including ensuring that all...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Passport Services
      700. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will review a passport application by a person (details supplied); if he will rectify the technical issue ongoing with this over the...
    • Citizenship Applications
      705. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on their Irish citizenship application which was submitted in April 2020; and if he...
    • Passport Services
      707. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a person’s (details supplied) original passport will be returned to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19277/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      717. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide the details of the name, salary, position and roles of persons who are being paid for by his Department for secondment to...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      719. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit run apprenticeship programmes or are directly engaged in the...
    • Departmental Staff
      720. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of persons employed by his Department and bodies under the aegis of his Department with a rate of pay below the living wage of...
    • Passport Services
      721. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will consider amending children's passports to include the full name of the child's parents or guardians given that the changing...
    • Undefined
      725. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if an application (details supplied) can be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19709/22]
    • Passport Services
      726. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; if the passport of the applicant’s parent will be returned...
    • Departmental Staff
      727. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the salaries and expenses paid to advisers, Ministers and or Ministers of State in his Department in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in...
    • Passport Services
      733. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will address the case of a person (details supplied) who is unable to get a first time passport; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Funding
      741. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the funding that is allocated by his Department, either directly or through the distribution of European Union funding to groups based in...
    • Departmental Staff
      743. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit facilitate internships by students engaged in full-time or...
    • Electoral Process
      748. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the competition in relation to election monitoring for new election monitors will be held; the number of places that will be available;...
    • Passport Services
      751. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will address the situation in which passport applications that have been witnessed in a Garda station that is not a full-time station...
    • Consular Services
      752. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if consular assistance has been provided for a person (details supplied) who was arrested in Togo; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • United Nations
      755. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the proposed role of Special Envoy for Freedom of Expression to the UN will be proceeded with; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Consular Services
      756. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20262/22]
    • Overseas Development Aid
      757. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if humanitarian assistance given to Ukraine is additional to the €1.044 billion allocated to official development assistance in...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      758. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a foreign birth registration will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Funding
      759. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if funding (details supplied) that has been allocated has been drawn down and spent; if there has been a follow-up or appraisal of the...
    • Passport Services
      762. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will review an application by a person (details supplied); if he will seek clarity; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Economic Sanctions
      763. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of notifications of frozen funds received to date from the Central Bank of Ireland in the context of the EU sanctions scheme...
    • Passport Services
      766. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason for the delay in processing a passport application by a person (details supplied) that was received in August 2021; the correct...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      769. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position in relation to an application by a person (details supplied) which was submitted on 26 August 2021; and if he will make a...
    • Passport Services
      770. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way that a person (details supplied) can apply for a business passport given that there is no facility to apply for a business passport...
    • Departmental Staff
      771. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of staff within his Department who availed of a secondment from January 2019 to date on the basis that it was not the intention...
    • Passport Services
      773. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will review the passport fee which is due to be refunded on applications (details supplied) given that the applications were cancelled...
    • Consular Services
      775. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the situation of an Irish national (details supplied); if he has made representations regarding same; the...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      777. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his most recent meeting with the Russian Ambassador to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20774/22]
    • Consular Services
      778. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if assistance will be provided to a person (details supplied) who has been arrested in Togo; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Ukraine War
      779. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will address a matter (details supplied). [20859/22]
    • Passport Services
      781. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passports currently awaiting processing in Cork; and if consideration has been given to printing passports in Cork. [20914/22]
    • Consular Services
      790. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the situation of an Irish citizen (details supplied) who was arrested in Togo in December 2018 and has been detained...
    • Human Rights
      793. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way that he plans to respond to calls from an organisation for the release of a person (details supplied) to Ireland on medical grounds,...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      795. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on a foreign births registration application made in October 2020 (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Data Protection
      796. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a piece of surveillance technology (details supplied) is being used by his Department or any agencies under his remit in view of the fact...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces
      797. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the Reserve Defence Forces company headquarters building on Green Road, Carlow; if the building is still assigned to the Reserve...
    • Departmental Reviews
      798. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason that a report that was commissioned by his Department in 2019, titled Review of Recruitment Practices and Processes in the Permanent...
    • Departmental Staff
      799. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide the details of the name, salary, position and roles of persons who are being paid for by his Department for secondment to...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      800. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit run apprenticeship programmes or are directly engaged in the...
    • Departmental Staff
      801. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of persons employed by his Department and bodies under the aegis of his Department with a rate of pay below the living wage of...
    • Energy Usage
      806. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the special measures his Department is taking to reduce energy usage in the scenario in which members of the public are being asked to do the...
    • Departmental Funding
      807. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if funding (details supplied) that has been allocated has been drawn down and spent; if there has been a follow-up or appraisal of the funding...
    • Defence Forces
      808. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason that services have been restricted (details supplied); the efforts that are being made to improve these services to allow meaningful...
    • Departmental Staff
      810. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of staff within his Department who availed of a secondment from January 2019 to date on the basis that it was not the intention of...
    • Defence Forces
      811. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will list the Defence Forces munitions and other military equipment which has reached or will reach within the next five years the end of...
    • Commemorative Medals
      812. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the provision of 100-year commemorative medals for serving personnel to commemorate the founding of the State. [21048/22]
    • Data Protection
      813. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a piece of surveillance technology (details supplied) is being used by his Department or any agencies under his remit in view of the fact...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Transport
      814. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will consider changing the rules surrounding the issuing of school bus contracts to persons over 70 years of age in view of the...
    • Teacher Training
      815. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if dyslexia and literacy assessment training will become mandatory for persons studying a professional master of education, primary teaching; and...
    • State Examinations
      816. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the decision regarding an application for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19248/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      817. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19253/22]
    • School Accommodation
      818. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if modular-built classrooms can be funded under capital funding. [19266/22]
    • State Examinations
      819. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that have been made to accommodate resit of exams for students who have epileptic seizures on the day of a leaving certificate...
    • Special Educational Needs
      820. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will bring forward the memorandum to advance the School Inclusion Model to Cabinet; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Oideachas trí Ghaeilge
      821. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cé na pleananna atá aici Gaelcholáiste dara leibhéal a sholáthar i gceantar (sonraí tugtha) i gContae Bhaile...
    • School Accommodation
      822. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details under the additional accommodation scheme for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      823. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a school building programme for a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if she will make a...
    • School Transport
      824. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be added to the list for school transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19342/22]
    • School Enrolments
      825. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) remains as a recognised national school with her Department; the roll number of the school; if the property is to...
    • Special Educational Needs
      826. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if advice will be provided concerning matters raised by a school (details supplied) in relation to an exceptional review of its mainstream...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      827. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to allow student teachers that are already registered with the Teaching Council to keep their council registration number...
    • Special Educational Needs
      828. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that are available to parents who are unable to secure the July provision summer programme and are experiencing difficulties in...
    • School Curriculum
      829. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a series of books (details supplied) will be placed on the recommended list for schools through the Professional Development Service for...
    • School Accommodation
      831. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status and estimated timeframe for completion of the planning application for new autism classes in a school (details supplied)....
    • School Staff
      833. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider an application by a school (details supplied) for a full-time EAL position. [19493/22]
    • School Transport
      835. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will liaise with the Department of Transport and Bus Éireann to urgently expedite school transport for all schools in County Clare...
    • Public Sector Staff
      836. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she and her Department officials have made a determination yet on case EDU-CU-OIR-02946-2021 relating to the request made by a person (details...
    • Departmental Staff
      837. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the details of the name, salary, position and roles of persons who are being paid for by her Department for secondment to...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      838. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit run apprenticeship programmes or are directly engaged in the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      839. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) will be provided with an extra year of school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19604/22]
    • Schools Complaints Procedures
      840. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the issues presenting at a school (details supplied); if she will instigate a departmental investigation; and...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      841. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is required for school principals to be registered with the Teaching Council. [19616/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      843. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons employed by her Department and bodies under the aegis of her Department with a rate of pay below the living wage of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      844. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a full-time SNA will be sanctioned for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19646/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      845. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a progress report on a school (details supplied); if tenders have been awarded to begin the school builds; and if she will...
    • School Enrolments
      847. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department had asked schools in Midleton to open additional classes last May and June as a short-term option; the rationale for this; and...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      848. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the Teaching Council membership renewal application for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Road Safety
      850. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is funding available for local authorities for traffic wardens; and if her Department would engage if a local authority were to contact...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      851. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the communication that has taken place between her Departmental officials and the Teaching Council in order to recognise Ukrainian primary and...
    • Further and Higher Education
      852. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if clarity will be provided regarding the role of guidance counselling in colleges of further education in the context of the establishment of a...
    • School Transport
      853. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if flexibility with regard to the school transport scheme can be afforded regarding the nearest school rule in certain circumstances (details...
    • Departmental Staff
      855. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the salaries and expenses paid to advisers, Ministers and-or Ministers of State in her Department in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular...
    • Schools Building Projects
      856. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of approved applications for capital funding for new school builds and extensions in respect of all education levels in each of the...
    • School Transport
      857. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will consider allowing alternative home drop-off arrangements in the case of a person (details supplied). [19797/22]
    • Education and Training Boards
      858. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual funding allocated to, and staffing levels in, the City of Dublin Education and Training Board psychological service per year from 2005...
    • Education Schemes
      859. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide specific funding for an initiative to be rolled out in all counties across the State. [19806/22]
    • School Transport
      860. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently review school transport contracts held by private contractors in view of the unprecedented rise in fuel costs; and if her...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      862. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department expects retired teachers to actively seek employment given that is a requirement of jobseekers' benefit; if not, if there is an...
    • State Examinations
      863. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the list of serious medical conditions for eligibility for the alternate sitting of the leaving certificate examinations in 2022 has been...
    • Schools Building Projects
      867. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to parliamentary Question No. 602 of 22 March 2022, If appropriate non-negligence insurance was put in place by the Department relative...
    • Departmental Staff
      868. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline all of the secondment arrangements within her Department; the conditions related to such secondments; and if she will make a...
    • School Curriculum
      869. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is funding available for schools from any source, departmental or otherwise, to run well-being programmes for pupils; and if she will...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      870. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a teacher (details supplied) who has not been paid for the past four weeks given that her registration with the Teaching...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      871. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on reparatory works being carried out to prefabs in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • School Management
      872. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is the responsibility of the principal or school to organise lunch and break times; and if there is a set timing for primary and secondary...
    • Special Educational Needs
      873. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the educational options available in the case of a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19921/22]
    • School Transport
      876. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in the case of damage caused to school transport by a special needs child on a single occasion, such damage arising out of their disability...
    • Teacher Training
      877. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers due to complete their final year's training in 2022 and those due to finish their qualifications in 2023; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      878. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that availed of the summer provision, per county, in 2021 for primary and secondary; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Funding
      881. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that is allocated by her Department, either directly or through the distribution of European Union funding, to groups based in...
    • School Transport
      882. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a person has to cease driving a school bus when they turn 70 years of age but can continue to drive a group of students in a...
    • Departmental Staff
      883. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit facilitate internships by students engaged in full-time or...
    • State Examinations
      884. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if teachers will be compensated for working during the Easter break on the oral and practical examinations under the proposed changes to the...
    • Departmental Staff
      886. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons currently employed in her Department who have been seconded from the public sector; the number of departmental officials...
    • Scoileanna Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta
      887. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when guidelines will be issued to teachers in Irish-medium and Gaeltacht schools regarding how best to include Ukrainian children in the...
    • Scoileanna Lán-Ghaeilge
      888. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions her Department is taking to provide Irish-medium education in the counties in which no such provision currently exists; and if she...
    • School Transport
      892. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the national review currently being conducted into the school transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Textbooks
      893. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if discussions are expected to provide the free book scheme to all primary and secondary school children; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Residential Institutions
      894. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount to be paid by each religious institution into the residential institutional redress board scheme, in tabular form; and the amount that...
    • School Management
      895. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action her Department has taken to date to resolve an ongoing dispute that is impacting on the education of a number of children at a school...
    • School Accommodation
      896. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a lease will be finalised in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20173/22]
    • Departmental Data
      897. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an updated list of schools, primary and post-primary, operating in her Department’s school planning area of Dublin 8,...
    • Schools Building Projects
      898. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 494 of 5 April 2022, if her Department has signed off on changes to the primary school building project;...
    • School Textbooks
      899. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her position on the use of partisan terminology within the junior certificate history textbook (details supplied) such as referring to...
    • Energy Usage
      900. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the special measures her Department is taking to reduce energy usage in the scenario in which members of the public are being asked to do the...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      901. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a school (details supplied) in County Donegal has been overlooked for DEIS status; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Examinations
      903. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the contingency plans she had in place in the event that examiners might not be able to attend oral exams for students sitting their leaving...
    • Special Educational Needs
      904. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reverse the cuts to special education supports which have just been reduced in a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if...
    • School Facilities
      905. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm receipt of an application for grant aid for major capital works from a school (details supplied); if her Department has had...
    • State Examinations
      906. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that students received less than 24 hours notice about the postponement of their Irish oral...
    • Departmental Funding
      908. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding (details supplied) that has been allocated has been drawn down and spent; if there has been a follow-up or appraisal of the funding...
    • School Transport
      909. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the request for a change in a school transport route for a school (details supplied). [20417/22]
    • Educational Disadvantage
      910. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the application for DEIS status for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20418/22]
    • Education Schemes
      911. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will list all schools in County Tipperary receiving the home school community liaison scheme and the school completion programme; if each...
    • Schools Administration
      912. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school websites are defined as public sector websites; if so, if they should therefore have a web accessibility statement published on their...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      913. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the DEIS status of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20448/22]
    • School Staff
      914. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being taken to resolve the issue of school secretaries and caretakers being forced to sign for social welfare payments during...
    • School Accommodation
      915. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to an application by a school (details supplied) for additional accommodation due to the increased places within...
    • Education Policy
      916. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the publication of the second National Strategy on Education for Sustainable Development to 2030, to replace the previous...
    • School Staff
      917. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her recruitment plans for secondary schools that are faced with losing metalwork and engineering teachers due to a shortage of trained teachers;...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      918. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person who is a qualified maths and science teacher and holds a four-year degree from Dublin Institute of Technology, Bolton Street in...
    • School Transport
      919. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20537/22]
    • Education and Training Boards
      920. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount spent by the Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board and Cavan and Monaghan Education and Training Board on legal...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      921. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review an application for DEIS status for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20574/22]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      925. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being taken with regard to addressing flood damage and the required repairs necessary in a school (details supplied); and if...
    • Departmental Staff
      926. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff within her Department who availed of a secondment from January 2019 to date on the basis that it was not the intention of the...
    • School Accommodation
      927. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that an application made by a school (details supplied) for a new staffroom was refused given that the current staffroom is miniscule...
    • Special Educational Needs
      928. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that the SEN allocation recently made to a school (details supplied) is so low; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20656/22]
    • State Examinations
      931. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline her proposals to assist those with a special educational need in the 2022 State exams at junior and leaving certificate...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      932. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the instructions that she has given to patron bodies of primary and secondary schools in relation to the taking in of Ukrainian refugees into...
    • School Funding
      935. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is funding for school works (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20816/22]
    • State Examinations
      936. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has been in contact with the State Exams Commission regarding the delays to Irish oral leaving certificate examinations; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      938. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) has not received a new special needs assistant since September 2020...
    • Schools Building Projects
      940. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction will commence on a new school (details supplied) in Roscrea. [20835/22]
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      941. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Ukrainian students who have enrolled in schools in Ireland, by county, from 1 January 2022 to 15 April 2022 in totals of both...
    • School Staff
      944. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the volume of extra teachers that have been taken on by schools to cater for the enrolment of Ukrainian students, by county, in tabular form, for...
    • School Accommodation
      945. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will issue an update on the application by a school (details supplied) for additional accommodation. [20950/22]
    • School Facilities
      947. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered reminding schools of circular letter prim 16/05 and the associated guidelines on the use of school buildings outside of...
    • School Curriculum
      948. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that she is taking to put in place updated curriculums in primary and secondary schools regarding sexuality and relationships. [21078/22]
    • Educational Disadvantage
      949. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to an appeal by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21105/22]
    • Scoileanna DEIS
      950. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén fáth nár tugadh stádas Deis do bhunscoil (sonraí tugtha) nuair atá stádas Deis ag gach scoil thart orthu...
    • Special Educational Needs
      951. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding and resources available for schools to assist children with epilepsy. [21122/22]
    • School Staff
      952. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills is she will provide an update on a redeployment application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21145/22]
    • School Accommodation
      953. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a devolved additional accommodation project for a school (details supplied) can now proceed following a submission by the school; and if she...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      954. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students who must complete the Gaeltacht for their Masters in Primary Education, PME, degree with a college (details supplied) will be given...
    • Education Schemes
      955. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current employment position in respect of teachers providing home tuition under the home tuition scheme in view of the fact that a large...
    • Irish Language
      956. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for Irish language exemptions for Ukrainian students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21184/22]
    • School Curriculum
      959. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a document that is available on her Departmental website, Rules for National Schools, states...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      960. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a wage increase for a sector will be applied to the retired members of that sector (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services
      961. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current support services and targeted information classes and advice on existing mental health supports for children in the Louth and east...
    • National Council for Special Education
      962. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 6 April 2022, if she will request the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, to provide a...
    • Stádas Scoile
      963. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills i bhfoirm tábla ainmneacha na scoileanna iar-bhunoideachais ar fud na tír a bhfuil stádas “Scoil Bheag” acu agus an...
    • School Enrolments
      964. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated number of prospective first-year students for second level schools in Midleton and Carrigtwohill, County Cork who have yet to...
    • Data Protection
      965. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a piece of surveillance technology (details supplied) is being used by her Department or any agencies under her remit in view of the fact that...
    • School Facilities
      966. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the requirements that exist for schools to have space for physical education; the guidelines on the space itself, availability and accessibility;...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      967. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that those aged 65 years are classified as self-employed if they are in receipt of an occupational pension thus...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      968. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the fuel allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Citizens Information Services
      969. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a request for funding for an organisation (details supplied); if a decision has been reached by her Department;...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      970. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of one-parent family payment each year from 2018 to date in 2022; the number of recipients who moved...
    • Departmental Reviews
      973. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the child maintenance review report; if she expects to receive the report by Easter 2022 as...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      974. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of extending eligibility for the working family payment to self-employed persons who meet the current qualifying...
    • Gender Recognition
      977. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the draft legislation relating to gender recognition for transgender persons aged 16 and 17 years will be brought before...
    • Redundancy Payments
      978. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a late application can be accepted in the case of a person (details supplied); if not, if there is another avenue that the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      980. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for fuel allowance will be reviewed given the recent rise in the cost of living and energy prices in the...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      981. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if access to community employment scheme work for Ukrainian refugees can be provided before they have completed 12 months on...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      982. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19477/22]
    • Ukraine War
      983. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of Ukrainian refugees who have been welcomed in Ireland to date; the gender breakdown; the breakdown of the ages...
    • Employment Schemes
      984. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the definition of long-term unemployment before a person in receipt of a jobseeker’s allowance claim can be referred...
    • Departmental Staff
      988. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide the details of the name, salary, position and roles of persons who are being paid for by her Department...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      989. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the processes that are in place to ensure that persons who become homeless can continue to receive their social welfare...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      990. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit run apprenticeship programmes or are directly...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      991. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19608/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      992. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons employed by her Department and bodies under the aegis of her Department with a rate of pay below the...
    • Departmental Offices
      993. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties clients face with contacting the partial capacity department (details...
    • Redundancy Payments
      994. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if assistance and guidance will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      995. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to allow a person (details supplied) to qualify as carer for a couple given the circumstances....
    • Departmental Staff
      997. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the salaries and expenses paid to advisers, Ministers and-or Ministers of State in her Department in 2020, 2021 and to date...
    • Pension Provisions
      998. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way that the agreed community employment supervisor pension will be introduced; when it will be paid to recipients; and...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      999. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of one-parent families that availed of parent's benefit and leave in 2021 and to date in 2022; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1000. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of working family payments there were in 2021 and to date in 2022; and the total number of payments for this...
    • State Pensions
      1004. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the provision of a State pension solution for carers as committed to in the programme for Government; and if...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1006. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons moving from the pandemic unemployment payment to jobseekers payments; the way that the process of job...
    • Employment Support Services
      1007. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the new system of employment services will be implemented by this summer as intended given that the extension to the...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1008. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of lone parents who are in receipt of the one-parent family payment; the number of liable relatives who are...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1009. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of letters to liable relatives that were issued in 2021 with regard to child maintenance; the number of liable...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1010. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will support disabled PAYE workers in need of surgical footwear with a dedicated grant scheme towards the cost of...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1011. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of extending the fuel allowance payment to recipients of the working family payment; and if she will make...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1015. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full cost of the parent's benefit scheme in 2021; and the estimated cost in 2022. [19836/22]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1018. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a person (details supplied) had their carer's payment reduced from €88.30 to €33.33 following...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      1020. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she will take in order to address the unusual situation whereby, if a person in Northern Ireland applies for a PPS...
    • Disability Services
      1021. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if funding will be provided in 2023 for the Ability Programme; if so, the source; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      1023. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit facilitate internships by students engaged in...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1025. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of a request to review an appeal decision to refuse an invalidity pension based on...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      1026. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to reopen the social welfare office in Castlepollard, County Westmeath, to serve the population of north...
    • State Pensions
      1027. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the process to date in the determination of an application for a State pension in the case of a person (details supplied);...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1028. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is permissible for a person in receipt of invalidity pension to engage in farming in the context of such work being...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      1031. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will review the disability payment of €200 per week as it has been reported to my office that it is...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1032. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that partners of those on the disability payment are discouraged from working...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      1033. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to counter the additional burden that very high inflation is placing on disabled persons in receipt of both the...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1034. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to allow the means test assessment for carer’s allowance to be assessed on household net income; and if...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1035. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of jobseeker's transitional payment in each year of the years 2013 to 2021 and to date in...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1036. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of additional persons who would qualify for the fuel allowance if the weekly means threshold of €120 in...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1039. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated annual cost of increasing the electricity or gas allowance of €35 per month by €5, €10...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1040. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the breakdown of exceptional needs payments under the supplementary welfare allowance paid in each month from October 2021...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1041. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that carers in receipt of carer’s benefit or carer’s allowance are not also entitled to any illness...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1042. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports that are available to parents of children who are off school due to Covid-19 for time off work in this...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1043. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a domiciliary care allowance appeal decision will be made for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she...
    • Energy Usage
      1044. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the special measures her Department is taking to reduce energy usage in the scenario in which members of the public are...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1045. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients and the level of funding in the past five years paid to recipients of the fuel allowance in tabular...
    • Redundancy Payments
      1046. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for redundancy was made for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1047. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a jobseeker’s allowance application will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if...
    • State Pensions
      1048. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the correct level of State pension payable in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1049. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend eligibility for the fuel allowance to persons employed through the job initiative scheme; and if she...
    • Employment Support Services
      1051. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to ensure all persons employed through the job initiative scheme are in receipt of a living wage; and if she will...
    • Departmental Funding
      1053. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if funding (details supplied) that has been allocated has been drawn down and spent; if there has been a follow-up or...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      1054. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that the social welfare office in Castlepollard, County Meath has been closed; the person who made the decision...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1057. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supplementary welfare allowance budget for Limerick for 2022; the amount of that budget that was available as of 1 April...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1060. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has conducted an analysis of the potential impact of long-Covid on those in receipt of jobseekers’...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1061. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has conducted an analysis of the cost of extending the child benefit payment to all second level students...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1062. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20576/22]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1063. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that those in receipt of the living alone allowance will not forfeit their eligibility if they choose to...
    • State Pensions
      1064. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify in relation to the contributory pension application that before home caring credits can be added to an...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1066. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if payment of illness benefit to a person (details supplied) will be reinstated subject to the correspondence they received...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1067. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to extending the fuel allowance to recipients of disablement benefit considering the scheme...
    • Legislative Reviews
      1068. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current position regarding the necessary legislation which will give effect to the increase in parent’s benefit...
    • Departmental Staff
      1069. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff within her Department who availed of a secondment from January 2019 to date on the basis that it was not...
    • Employment Schemes
      1070. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding JobPath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20663/22]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1074. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a full-time mature student (details supplied) has received a cut to their back to education allowance. [20791/22]
    • Redundancy Payments
      1075. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to concerns in relation to a statutory redundancy payment for a person (details supplied);...
    • Employment Schemes
      1076. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be referred from Turas Nua to her Department to allow them to access a...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1077. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the methods that are at the disposal of applicants for the fuel allowance who are deemed to be fractionally over the income...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      1079. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a statement on her plans regarding a new branch of a social welfare office in Castlepollard following...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1081. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20875/22]
    • Social Welfare Code
      1082. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if recipients of invalidity pensions are required to go on partial capacity benefit in order to take up a PhD; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1083. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if disabled PhD students lose eligibility to the fuel allowance and other means tested secondary supports; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1084. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the manner in which academic scholarships for undergraduate or masters level impact on invalidity, pension and secondary...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1087. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons can have their social protection payments and secondary benefits affected as a result of housing a refugee in...
    • Widow's Pension
      1088. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give consideration to a matter (details supplied). [20983/22]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1089. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding an overpayment; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Pensions
      1090. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive their 1% national wage increase which was due to be paid on 1...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1091. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the criteria for means testing the carer's allowance in order to take in not just income but also...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1092. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the payment that a person (details supplied) is on. [21205/22]
    • Data Protection
      1093. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a piece of surveillance technology (details supplied) is being used by her Department or any agencies under her remit in...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1094. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his advice on correspondence from a school (details supplied) regarding the new form of core funding for...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1096. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that a person (details supplied) had their tender proposal to Tusla rejected despite their...
    • Childcare Services
      1097. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the cost of increasing the universal subsidy for children under three years by each of the amounts 50 cent,...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1100. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will re-examine the issue of core funding for providers; if his attention has been drawn to the...
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      1101. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the decision support service which was established under the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015...
    • Children in Care
      1102. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the discussions that are taking place to ensure that children under State care in residential units (details...
    • Transfer of Undertakings
      1103. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if legislation in respect of transfer of undertakings will apply in a case (details supplied). [19349/22]
    • International Protection
      1104. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the action that he will take to ensure that incoming Ukrainian refugees can be accommodated in the homes...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1106. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address the concerns raised by a Montessori school (details supplied) in respect of the core funding...
    • Childcare Services
      1107. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children in one-parent families who availed of the national childcare scheme universal subsidy in...
    • Departmental Staff
      1109. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide the details of the name, salary, position and roles of persons who are being paid for by his...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1110. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit run apprenticeship programmes or...
    • International Protection
      1111. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to communication issues between IPAS and other State bodies and charities as in...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      1112. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if persons can make a formal submission to the consultation process in relation to primary medical...
    • Departmental Staff
      1113. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons employed by his Department and bodies under the aegis of his Department with a rate of...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1114. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will advise on correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19648/22]
    • Asylum Seekers
      1115. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the Reception and Integration Agency ceased publishing detailed monthly reports regarding direct...
    • Medical Cards
      1116. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he plans to make medical cards available to all survivors of mother and baby homes; and if he will make a...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1117. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that early year educators are not recognised as official educators with an appropriate pay scale the...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      1118. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the acknowledgement that a number of survivors do not accept the accounts given in the final report of the...
    • Children in Care
      1119. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that a residential centre (details supplied) has been refused for a tender to accept young people...
    • Departmental Staff
      1120. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the salaries and expenses paid to advisers, Ministers and-or Ministers of State in his Department in 2020, 2021...
    • International Protection
      1123. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address a matter regarding offers of accommodation for refuges (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Departmental Funding
      1124. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to open a round of early learning and care and school-age capital funding in 2022; and if he will...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      1125. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if financial assistance is going to be provided to Irish households who accommodate Ukrainian refugees purely...
    • International Protection
      1126. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the State plans to source accommodation from commercial operators, outside of the hotels and guesthouses...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      1128. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is a forum for members of the public to make submissions to the primary medical certificate review; if...
    • Northern Ireland
      1129. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding that is allocated by his Department, either directly or through the distribution of European Union...
    • Departmental Staff
      1130. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit facilitate internships by...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      1131. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if financial assistance will be offered to those accommodating Ukrainian refugees such as persons (details...
    • Parental Leave
      1133. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the legislation allowing for parent's leave to be extended from five to seven weeks will be signed into...
    • International Protection
      1134. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons who previously entered the international protection process in 2022, presenting with a...
    • Legislative Measures
      1136. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022; and when he expects the Bill to be enacted. [20141/22]
    • Domestic Violence
      1137. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when his Department completed its stakeholder consultation on domestic violence paid leave; and if he will...
    • Rights of the Child
      1138. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide Ireland’s combined Fifth and Sixth report to the UN under the Convention on the...
    • Children in Care
      1140. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children in State care in hotel accommodation by month in 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he...
    • International Protection
      1141. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that on 5 April 2022 seven students and their families were...
    • Departmental Funding
      1143. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if funding (details supplied) that has been allocated has been drawn down and spent; if there has been a...
    • Departmental Policies
      1144. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans that are in place to increase the fostering allowance for foster parents in line with escalating...
    • Departmental Funding
      1145. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department can reimburse a service provider (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      1146. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff within his Department who availed of a secondment from January 2019 to date on the basis...
    • Youth Services
      1147. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of all youth services in Dublin 1, 3, 7, 9 and 11 under the remit of his Department, including the...
    • Direct Provision System
      1148. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will review correspondence regarding direct provision in County Monaghan (details supplied); if he will...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1149. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ask officials in charge of a Tusla facility at Ferryhouse, Clonmel, County Tipperary whether they...
    • International Protection
      1150. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of reception centres that have been brought into use to accommodate Ukrainian refugees; the centres...
    • Childcare Services
      1152. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will advise on correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20813/22]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1153. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will advise on correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20815/22]
    • Departmental Policies
      1154. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider allowing non-birthing parents the entitlement to paid leave to attend the 20-week scan in...
    • Cost of Living Issues
      1155. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has examined the way that the increase in the cost of living is impacting on foster carers in the State;...
    • International Protection
      1156. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if all of the locations that comprise group and congregated settings in counties Louth and Meath which have...
    • Child Protection
      1157. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times he has met with the Special Rapporteur on Child Protection since he took office; and the...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1160. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times he has met with or corresponded with the CEO of Tusla since he took office; and if he will...
    • Departmental Data
      1161. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has met with or corresponded with his predecessor (details supplied) since he took office; and the dates...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1162. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children referred to Tusla in 2021; the source of the referrals as was provided in response to...
    • Childcare Services
      1163. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps that he will take to ensure that additional childcare places are made available in the Coolock area...
    • Data Protection
      1164. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a piece of surveillance technology (details supplied) is being used by his Department or any agencies under...
    • International Protection
      1165. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that the doors of the Clondalkin Intercultural Centre remain closed; and if he will commit to...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      1166. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the latest calls by an organisation (details supplied) to combat child homelessness including...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Departmental Data
      1167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of first-year medical enrolments for 2021-2022, by domicile group, in tabular form; the number of places that will be provided for...
    • Third Level Staff
      1168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process followed for the appointment of the Chief Medical Officer as a professor at Trinity College, Dublin; if his attention has been drawn...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of his Department’s capital and non-capital expenditures including research grants through the Higher Education Authority,...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the manner in which quotas for places on medical courses are set for EU and non-EU students; the way in which this is managed or altered; and if...
    • Third Level Costs
      1171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the need to increase the SUSI grant in the context of the cost of living crisis. [19512/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      1172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the details of the name, salary, position and roles of persons who are being paid for by his Department for secondment to...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to issues (details supplied) with SOLAS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19620/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      1174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons employed by his Department and bodies under the aegis of his Department with a rate of pay below the living wage of...
    • Departmental Policies
      1175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if graduate-entry medicine students will be included in the grant for the 2022-2023 academic year; if there are plans in place for same; and if...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      1176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that information on the different vocations of Ukrainian citizens arriving in Ireland will be collated and made available to various...
    • Third Level Fees
      1177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for reviewing fees at third level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19713/22]
    • Departmental Policies
      1178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if clarity will be provided regarding the role of guidance counselling in colleges of further education in the context of the establishment of a...
    • Departmental Staff
      1180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the salaries and expenses paid to advisers, Ministers and-or Ministers of State in his Department in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular...
    • Third Level Costs
      1182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to extend the SUSI grant scheme to students of graduate-entry medicine; the expected timeline for same; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      1183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department, and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit facilitate internships by students engaged in full-time or...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) can be called for phase 2 of their apprenticeship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20038/22]
    • Education and Training Boards
      1185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills , further to Parliamentary Question No. 569 of 5 April 2022, the way that the multi supplier framework agreement and services contracts affected...
    • Departmental Staff
      1186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons currently employed in his Department who have been seconded from the public sector; the number of departmental officials...
    • Third Level Fees
      1187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) will be urgently reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20097/22]
    • Departmental Budgets
      1188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the budget line under which mental health supports in higher education are currently drawn; if recent increases will be put on a more permanent...
    • Departmental Data
      1189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the drop-out rate of clinical counselling and educational psychologists and psychotherapy in each of the years since 2011, in tabular form; and...
    • Third Level Costs
      1190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to plans for a bank (details supplied) to discontinue providing student loans to graduate-entry medical...
    • Departmental Data
      1191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of EU students enrolled in graduate-entry medicine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20172/22]
    • Departmental Strategies
      1194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the review of Ireland's skills strategy, which is being undertaken by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,...
    • Research and Development
      1197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that his Department has taken to develop public research partnerships in Ireland excluding within the EU horizons framework; and if...
    • Energy Usage
      1198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the special measures his Department is taking to reduce energy usage in the scenario in which members of the public are being asked to do the...
    • Departmental Funding
      1200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding (details supplied) that has been allocated has been drawn down and spent; if there has been a follow-up or appraisal of the funding...
    • Third Level Education
      1201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who graduated without completion of placement hours in speech and language therapy, physiotherapy and occupational therapy...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the €112,000 debt write-off facilitated by SOLAS to a charity (details supplied); if such was...
    • Land Issues
      1210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position of land (details supplied) on a mean average price per acre applicable to capital acquisitions in the university and IT sector over...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      1211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of capital public expenditure at the National University of Galway campus and all capital public expenditures at Galway and Mayo...
    • Land Issues
      1212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in approving funding to purchase a landholding (details supplied) in County Waterford to expand the Waterford institute...
    • Departmental Staff
      1213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff within his Department who availed of a secondment from January 2019 to date on the basis that it was not the intention of...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the information requested in Parliamentary Question No. 704 of 22 March 2022 will be provided to the person concerned; and if he will make...
    • Medical Research and Training
      1215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to offer sponsorship programmes for those studying medicine in Ireland which would contract them to work for the HSE for a specified...
    • Third Level Fees
      1217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Ukraine refugees are subject to non-EU college fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20810/22]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he intended to conduct an updated review of the cost of providing consortia-led apprenticeships given the increase from 5,100 in 2015 to an...
    • Third Level Costs
      1220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of the Exchequer of waiving the student contribution charge for all EU nursing students in the state; and if he will make a...
    • Science Foundation Ireland
      1221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the salary package for director general of Science Foundation Ireland for each year from 2018 to date; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the training capacity of each college of further education per apprenticeship type and the total increase since 2019, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding for the Skills and Labour Market Research Unit for the past three years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Funding
      1224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding for the National Open Research Coordinator for the past three years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Research Funding
      1225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that the €37.305 million in research funding allocated directly to his Department was spent; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Policies
      1226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the employment control framework is still relevant to the higher education sector (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Third Level Costs
      1227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the decision by a bank (details supplied) to phase out a loan specifically for general-entry medical...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department’s position on the delay in having electrical apprenticeships completed within the normal four-year term due to Covid; if...
    • Research Funding
      1229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of Irish Research Council funding provided to each higher education institute and research-performing organisation in tabular...
    • Data Protection
      1231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a piece of surveillance technology (details supplied) is being used by his Department or any agencies under his remit in view of the fact...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Domestic Violence
      1233. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the independent study on familicide and domestic homicide reviews has been finalised; and when it will be published. [19243/22]
    • Human Trafficking
      1234. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when in quarter 1 the national referral mechanism framework will have the interdepartmental sub-group in place; and when the...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1235. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on their Irish citizenship application which was submitted in March...
    • Residency Permits
      1236. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on an application for a residence permit for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Deportation Orders
      1237. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address concerns that there is an ongoing failure to take adequate and appropriate steps to ensure the removal of...
    • Domestic Violence
      1238. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda stations without a domestic violence liaison garda in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form....
    • Work Permits
      1240. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Government will announce its decision on any changes to the work permit regime for migrant fishers from outside the...
    • Residency Permits
      1241. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for renewal of stamp 4 and residency status in the case of a...
    • Ukraine War
      1242. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if Ireland will be offering any addition forensic support through the National Forensic Laboratory for the investigation into...
    • Deportation Orders
      1243. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application to have a deportation order set aside in the case of a person...
    • Immigration Policy
      1244. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that are being taken to ensure that the immigration and naturalisation process is protected from persons who are...
    • Family Reunification
      1245. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she plans to introduce schemes for family reunification for Yemini citizens given the dangerous situation as a result of...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems
      1246. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications in relation to community-based CCTV schemes that have been made and approved; the number of...
    • Immigration Policy
      1247. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) can avail of all-island travel; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19443/22]
    • Deportation Orders
      1248. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of positive decisions issued in applications for leave to remain on humanitarian grounds under section 3 of the...
    • Coroners Service
      1249. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of sudden and unexplained deaths being referred to the coroners to date in 2022; if there has been a rise in the...
    • Legal Services Regulation
      1250. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of solicitors and barristers currently practising in Ireland; the number of practising solicitors or barristers who...
    • Legal Aid
      1251. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to difficulties persons are having accessing legal aid for divorce proceedings due to the...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      1252. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the draft third national strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. [19521/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      1253. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the details of the name, salary, position and roles of persons who are being paid for by her Department...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1254. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit run apprenticeship programmes or are directly...
    • Departmental Staff
      1255. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons employed by her Department and bodies under the aegis of her Department with a rate of pay below the...
    • Prison Service
      1256. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of automated external defibrillators, AEDs, in use in the Irish Prison Service, broken down by institution. [19669/22]
    • Departmental Bodies
      1257. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of plans to redirect money and assets seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau back into the community; if a call for...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1258. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Palestinians who have been given certificates of naturalisation in 2019, 2020, and 2021; If Palestinians can be...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1259. 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. [19714/22]
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1260. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a naturalisation application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Staff
      1261. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the salaries and expenses paid to advisers, Ministers and-or Ministers of State in her Department in 2020, 2021 and to date in...
    • Drug Dealing
      1262. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the degree to which illegal drugs continue to be supplied on the streets of Dublin and cities and towns throughout Ireland in...
    • Domestic Violence
      1265. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to establish refuge centres for male victims of domestic violence; the options available to men who experience...
    • Human Trafficking
      1266. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the membership of her Department’s stakeholders group on human trafficking includes any academics; and if so, the...
    • Ukraine War
      1267. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a Ukrainian family that has moved to Ireland as refugees due to the ongoing war needs to produce documentation proving...
    • Legislative Reviews
      1269. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the review of the operation of Part 4 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017; if she has received the...
    • Legislative Process
      1270. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Criminal Law (Mutual Recognition of Custodial Sentences) Bill 2021 which passed Committee Stage in the Houses of the...
    • Legislative Reviews
      1271. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures that her Department will implement to address issues relating to the retention of mobile phone data to ensure...
    • Residency Permits
      1272. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for residency status in the case of a person (details supplied);...
    • Departmental Staff
      1273. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit facilitate internships by students engaged in...
    • Visa Applications
      1275. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a visa application will be processed for a person (details supplied) who has secured a general employment permit. [20115/22]
    • Prison Service
      1276. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the Prison (Amendment) Rules 2020 S.I. No. 250/2020; her further views on the need for prisons to restore...
    • Immigration Policy
      1277. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the appeal process in place for those who are refused leave to land in the State upon presenting at our airports and other...
    • Visa Agreements
      1278. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of visas issued on an annual basis since the visa scheme was launched for persons wishing to learn English here....
    • Visa Applications
      1279. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of instances in which an official and-or visa officer requested additional information in respect of an...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1282. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the additional policing measures that will put in place at Lisdoonvarna, County Clare given the 300% increase in the...
    • Energy Usage
      1285. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the special measures that her Department is taking to reduce energy usage in the scenario in which members of the public are...
    • Data Protection
      1286. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 731 of 22 March 2022, if she will provide details of correspondence between her...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way that an American citizen who was born to Irish parents can apply for Irish citizenship; and if she will make a...
    • Inspector of Prisons
      1288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the rationale for not publishing a series of reports by the Inspector of Prisons regarding Dóchas; if the contents of the...
    • Victim Support Services
      1290. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action that has been taken to date in implementing each of the recommendations of the Review of Protections for Vulnerable...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      1291. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received correspondence from an organisation (details supplied) concerning the need to protect women form domestic,...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1292. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 606 of 1 March 2022, if her Departments review of the new scorecard system for persons...
    • Departmental Funding
      1293. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding (details supplied) that has been allocated has been drawn down and spent; if there has been a follow-up or...
    • Prison Service
      1295. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the nine cases being examined in 2019 in relation to sexual harassment assault claims in the Irish Prison...
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      1296. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the decision by a charity (details supplied) to cease operating; the alternative provision...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1297. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on an application for naturalisation for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      1298. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff within her Department who availed of a secondment from January 2019 to date on the basis that it was not...
    • Crime Prevention
      1299. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in Ireland it is estimated that up to 48,000 dogs are stolen every year...
    • Youth Services
      1301. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a list of all justice youth diversion programmes in Dublin 1, 3, 7, 9 and 11; and the name, location,...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1302. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí and civilian staff in Dublin metropolitan region north in 2012 and to date in 2022; and the number...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1303. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of applications under the regularisation scheme for the long-term undocumented by persons (details supplied); and...
    • Ukraine War
      1304. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Ukrainian refugees who have arrived in Ireland since the conflict began up to 14 April 2022; and if she will...
    • Alcohol Sales
      1305. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has engaged with publicans regarding their concerns over the upcoming reform of licensing laws; if she has heard and...
    • Legislative Programme
      1306. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline of her Department’s plan to publish a general scheme of a Bill on cybercrime to meet Ireland’s...
    • Residency Permits
      1307. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to residency for students; and if she...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1308. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the possibility of establishing a dedicated unit in An Garda Síochána to tackle violence, intimidation and...
    • Crime Prevention
      1309. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that she is taking in relation to homophobic assaults and violence. [21079/22]
    • Gangland Crime
      1310. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to improve legislation tackling gangland crime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21100/22]
    • Ukraine War
      1311. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on whether the Government needs to take additional measures regarding the Immigrant Investor Programme in response...
    • Asylum Applications
      1313. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications that have been received under the Afghan admission programme; when it is expected that applicants...
    • Data Protection
      1316. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a piece of surveillance technology (details supplied) is being used by her Department or any agencies under her remit in...
    • Citizenship Ceremonies
      1317. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when in-person citizenship ceremonies will recommence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21288/22]
    • Citizenship Applications
      1318. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); when...
  • Department of Health
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1319. To ask the Minister for Health if a date has been scheduled for surgery for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19205/22]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1320. To ask the Minister for Health the number of surgical mesh surgeries that have been performed in Ireland for reasons other than vaginal prolapse including but not limited to bowel surgery...
    • Disease Management
      1321. To ask the Minister for Health the timescale for implementation of the national clinical programme for neurology and the care transformation programme in respect of strategy and planning;...
    • Health Services
      1326. To ask the Minister for Health the reason some of the six CHO areas provide an electricity subsidy for patients using full-time oxygen ventilation machines while others do not; his views on...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1328. To ask the Minister for Health the way that adaptations to a property (details supplied) escalated in cost from €200,000, €250,000 to €500,000 over the past year; the...
    • Mental Health Services
      1330. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 645 of 8 March 2022, the reason that more funding has been invested over the past year by Cork HSE management in a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1333. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding and status of the case of a person (details supplied) who is awaiting a surgery appointment; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      1334. To ask the Minister for Health the way that he identified the small number of candidates whom he judged as having suitable experience before contacting and inviting them to apply for the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1335. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the difficulties in recruiting paediatric occupational therapists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19251/22]
    • Care Services
      1336. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that shared care services were withdrawn from a person (details supplied) without consultation with their family; and if he will make a statement...
    • Dental Services
      1337. To ask the Minister for Health the options that are available for dental care for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19263/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1338. To ask the Minister for Health if the bonus payment for front-line healthcare workers will be made available to persons who work in the private home care sector; when it is likely that this...
    • Health Services
      1339. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a Ukrainian refugee (details supplied); if they are able to travel to Ireland; if they will be able to access the necessary lifesaving...
    • Dental Services
      1340. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will give due recognition to the role of orthodontic therapists in providing orthodontic care; if he will undertake to train more therapists...
    • Hospital Services
      1341. To ask the Minister for Health the implementation status of medical specialty wards for each model 3 and 4 hospital; the number of specialised wards, including the number of purposefully...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1342. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the pandemic recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19294/22]
    • Disability Services
      1343. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing composition of each children's disability network team, CDNT; the number of vacancies, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Dental Services
      1346. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults and children on dental and oral surgery waiting lists, by CHO and the length of wait, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Services
      1347. To ask the Minister for Health the development and roll-out status of the acute floors information system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19299/22]
    • Emergency Departments
      1348. To ask the Minister for Health the number and locations of the emergency departments that operate a 24-7 model, in tabular form; the number that operate a 24-hour model but not on weekends;...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1349. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons over 75 years of age who are on acute hospital waiting lists, by speciality and by hospital, in March 2022, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Emergency Departments
      1350. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of persons and the number of persons aged over 75 years who presented at an emergency department who spent less than four hours waiting for...
    • Hospital Admissions
      1351. To ask the Minister for Health the average patient experience time to admission for emergency department attendances in each of the years 2015 to 2021 and in Q1 2022 for each emergency...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1353. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for the range of CHO-provided or overseen services by CHO and by speciality and service by each service waiting list,...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1355. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have received an assessment of need but not a service statement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19308/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1356. To ask the Minister for Health if kitchen staff in hospitals will receive the pandemic bonus of €1,000. [19310/22]
    • Departmental Appointments
      1357. To ask the Minister for Health the terms by which the role of a person (details supplied) at Trinity College Dublin will be funded by his Department; the reason this will be funded by his...
    • Health Services
      1358. To ask the Minister for Health if all staff have been redeployed back to regional drug and alcohol task forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19330/22]
    • Health Strategies
      1359. To ask the Minister for Health when he will meet with persons (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that he has not met with an organisation since he assumed...
    • Hospital Staff
      1361. To ask the Minister for Health the level of European working time directive compliance for each model 2, 3 and 4 hospital, by staff grade and category, in tabular form; and if he will make...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1362. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for ophthalmology appointments throughout the country and within each CHO; the type of appointment; the length of time waiting;...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1363. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to roll out electricity subsidies nationally to all COPD patients that are available in certain CHO areas for patients that are using oxygen...
    • Nursing Homes
      1364. To ask the Minister for Health if a resident in a nursing home under the support scheme can be removed based on circumstances (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1365. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a campaign by an association (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19361/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      1366. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the payment to second midwives at home births who are on call from 37 weeks potentially to 42 weeks of pregnancy, and in cases in which...
    • Departmental Data
      1367. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home births that took place in each of the years 2018 to 2021. [19363/22]
    • Health Services
      1369. To ask the Minister for Health the services provided by the HSE in relation to treatment of tongue-tie in babies. [19365/22]
    • Primary Care Services
      1370. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated additional cost of providing BNP blood testing and echocardiography at primary care level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19369/22]
    • Health Services
      1371. To ask the Minister for Health the costs of ensuring adequate national capacity to deliver cardiac rehabilitation to all patients for whom it is recommended, ensuring staffing and resources...
    • Hospital Charges
      1372. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of abolishing inpatient charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19371/22]
    • Departmental Budgets
      1373. To ask the Minister for Health the current health and well-being budget; the health and well-being budget in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1374. To ask the Minister for Health the costs involved in the national roll-out of heart failure virtual clinics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19373/22]
    • Health Strategies
      1375. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 309 of 20 January 2022, the details of the Irish representatives on the sub-group established by the Steering Group on...
    • Home Care Packages
      1376. To ask the Minister for Health if assistance or support is available from the HSE for families on the direct funding scheme for home care who cannot find carers; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      1377. To ask the Minister for Health if staff working in the HSE will continue to be permitted to carry out other work in the private and voluntary health sector given the easing of Covid...
    • Disability Services
      1378. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a facility remains closed (details supplied); and the steps being taken to reopen it. [19380/22]
    • Hospital Staff
      1379. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Consultant Applications Advisory Committee-approved consultant posts across each speciality at Mayo University Hospital; the basis on which they...
    • Health Services
      1380. To ask the Minister for Health the financial supports that will be made available to treatment centres (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this organisation...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1381. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of persons waiting for a gynaecology appointment nationally by hospital; the average wait for an initial appointment; and if he will make a...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1383. To ask the Minister for Health when the strategic assessment report and the preliminary report will be finalised for the new cancer care hospital in UCH Galway; the timeframe for appointing...
    • Departmental Staff
      1386. To ask the Minister for Health the manner in which a secondment from his Department to an outside public body which is not another Department or a body under the aegis of his Department may...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1389. To ask the Minister for Health the current acute inpatient and critical care bed capacity by bed type, for example, intensive care unit, high dependency unit, inpatient acute, sub-acute and...
    • Health Services
      1391. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19414/22]
    • National Children's Hospital
      1392. To ask the Minister for Health the current projected final cost of the national children’s hospital; if he is satisfied that the projected final cost is accurate; the quantum of...
    • Health Services
      1393. To ask the Minister for Health if there are voluntary organisations which would aid in the provision of funding for a child in circumstances (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      1394. To ask the Minister for Health the salary to be set for Sláintecare public-only consultant contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19421/22]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1400. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that general practitioners providing services under HSE schemes such as the maternity and infant scheme, maintain appropriate insurance that...
    • Hospital Staff
      1401. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical consultants employed by the HSE who are permanent, who became permanent as a result of holding locum posts in hospitals for a number of...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1404. To ask the Minister for Health the expected timeframe for the establishment of strategic implementation groups regarding the national drugs strategy; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Dental Services
      1405. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the HSE orthodontic report 2015 has not been published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19448/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      1408. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric occupational therapists currently allocated to each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19452/22]
    • Medical Cards
      1409. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that gross income as opposed to net income is considered when assessing medical cards for those who are over 70 years of age; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1410. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment. [19454/22]
    • Health Services
      1411. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review charges for service users (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19456/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      1413. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 180 of 15 February 2022, when the Tusla mental health service in Castleblayney, County Monaghan will open to referrals;...
    • Health Services Staff
      1414. To ask the Minister for Health his views on physician associates and the future role he envisages for them in the health service; the number of physician associates employed across...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1415. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on acute hospital waiting lists for cataract surgery on 1 January in each of the years 2016 to 2022 by hospital and hospital group, in...
    • Home Care Packages
      1427. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a home support and respite package for a person (details supplied) which was approved in September 2021 was not activated in part until March...
    • Primary Care Services
      1428. To ask the Minister for Health when ShannonDoc will revert to pre-Covid-19 hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19509/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1429. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) was refused on the primary care reimbursement portal for a FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system; and if...
    • Health Service Executive
      1431. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of vacant HSE buildings in counties Roscommon and Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19526/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1433. To ask the Minister for Health if contract cleaners who are not directly employed by the HSE will receive a Covid-19 pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Services
      1436. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking in response to no HSE representatives attending a recent meeting with families of children with disabilities (details supplied); and if...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1438. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that a person (details supplied) is provided with vital mobility equipment to enable them to participate in full-time education. [19576/22]
    • Disability Services
      1439. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to recruit additional staff in the new children’s disability network teams primarily in CDNT9 based in County Roscommon to offer...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1440. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit run apprenticeship programmes or are directly engaged in the training of...
    • Health Services
      1441. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application under the drug payment scheme by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19595/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1442. To ask the Minister for Health when a procedure to remove cataracts will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19596/22]
    • Abortion Services
      1443. To ask the Minister for Health the name of the stakeholders consulted as part of the review of the revised model of care for termination of pregnancy services; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1445. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 832 of 5 April 2022, the number of hysterectomies that have been performed in the State since March 2020; the number...
    • Health Promotion
      1446. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the actions in the Get Ireland Active - the National Physical Activity Plan which were completed; the actions completed; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1447. To ask the Minister for Health if student nurses who worked as vaccinators and as Covid swabbers will be eligible for the pandemic front-line health workers' bonus; and if he will make a...
    • National Children's Hospital
      1448. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the new children's hospital; if the planned national eating disorders centre is included in the plan; the number of beds that will be included...
    • Medical Cards
      1450. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that medical cards do not issue automatically to a child in cases in which the domiciliary care allowance is granted; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1452. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the wait time of 18 months for a patient (details supplied) to receive an MRI scan at Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Staff
      1453. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed by his Department and bodies under the aegis of his Department with a rate of pay below the living wage of €12.30; the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1454. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 antiviral pills (details supplied) that have been purchased by the HSE; when they will become available; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Charges
      1455. To ask the Minister for Health if there are circumstances in which hospital parking fees for oncology patients can be waived or remitted; if there are plans to reduce the financial burden...
    • Health Services Staff
      1456. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a comprehensive breakdown of the locations of rehabilitation consultants in hospitals throughout the country, including the catchment areas...
    • Hospital Charges
      1457. To ask the Minister for Health the total revenue income from charges in hospital carparks annually; the amount that it costs to run the carparks in the same year; and the revenue annually...
    • Health Services Staff
      1458. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the possibility of nurses and other healthcare workers having the right to early retirement through a cost neutral early retirement scheme...
    • Health Services
      1459. To ask the Minister for Health if assistance will be provided for a person (details supplied) to obtain urgent support in the form of a medical social worker given their ongoing illness and...
    • Hospital Services
      1460. To ask the Minister for Health if appropriate staffing and finance will be put in place for the provision of 24-hour blood pressure monitoring for patients attending public hospitals who...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1461. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a date for an operation; the reason for cancelled surgery dates; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1462. To ask the Minister for Health when a substantive reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied) sent to his office by this Deputy on 23 March 2022; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1463. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that are currently in place to deal with the gynaecology waiting lists in Wexford General Hospital. [19698/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      1464. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mental health nursing posts in County Wexford; the number of these posts that are vacant in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1465. To ask the Minister for Health if it is still his intention to include provisions for international surrogacy in the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022 on Committee Stage when...
    • Medical Qualifications
      1466. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that Ukrainians with medical qualifications are assisted with their registration for relevant professional bodies; the...
    • Disability Services
      1467. To ask the Minister for Health the initiatives he is taking to strengthen children's disability services in 2022; the funding being provided for same; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1469. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a date for a procedure at Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Staff
      1471. To ask the Minister for Health the salaries and expenses paid to advisers, Ministers and-or Ministers of State in his Department in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [19748/22]
    • National Maternity Hospital
      1472. To ask the Minister for Health if the enabling works for the new national maternity hospital are now complete; if so, the final cost of these works; the breakdown, in tabular form, of the...
    • Departmental Data
      1482. To ask the Minister for Health the number of drug users referred to a methadone or similar programme over the past five years; the extent to which the outcome was satisfactory from the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1486. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 550 of 12 October 2021 and 1077 of 22 March 2022, the reason that the waiting list has increased by over two years...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1488. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of funded IVF for couples; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19812/22]
    • Health Service Executive
      1489. To ask the Minister for Health the ratio of clinical staff to managerial staff whole-time equivalents factoring in clinical staff time spent on managerial responsibilities across service...
    • Care of the Elderly
      1491. To ask the Minister for Health the number of houses currently tied up in the HSE fair deal scheme in Cork city, County Cork and nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1492. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who have had magic rods implanted in Ireland to date; the number of children's magic rods that have been sent for analysis post...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1497. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the plans in relation to the way that the allocated €19 million will be spent to ensure all children in Ireland will have timely...
    • Dental Services
      1502. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on his and his Department's discussions with the Irish Dental Association in respect of the provision of appropriate dental...
    • Home Help Service
      1504. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a case (details supplied); if he will urgently seek to have the home help hours revised upwards to the original amount; and if he will make...
    • Dental Services
      1505. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that dentists providing care to medial card patients under the dental treatment services scheme has dropped by 40%...
    • Care Services
      1506. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a care plan for a child (details supplied). [19885/22]
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      1507. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be granted a licence. [19886/22]
    • Health Services
      1508. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money that was budgeted for recovery education; the amount that was spent in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19894/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      1509. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on an application for reimbursement being considered by the HSE Drugs Group in relation to voretigene neparvovec luxturna; and if...
    • Mental Health Services
      1510. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds in CAMHS that are filled or unfilled on a monthly basis from January 2021 to date in 2022, by CHO area, in tabular form: the reason for the...
    • Eating Disorders
      1512. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults who presented to the HSE looking for treatment for eating disorders in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1520. To ask the Minister for Health the reason PPE is no longer provided by HSE primary care centres to family carers while Covid is still in the community; and if he plans to reverse this...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1521. To ask the Minister for Health if a senior occupational therapist working at a nursing home (details supplied) during the specified period of the Covid-19 pandemic will be eligible for the...
    • Hospital Services
      1522. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently review and intervene in the continued closure of the north-east regional orthopaedic unit for elective surgeries, which is leaving persons...
    • Civil Registration Service
      1524. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has implemented to resource the births, deaths and marriage certification offices in County Kildare; if he will consider setting up a walk-in...
    • Disability Services
      1527. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to allocating people with disabilities a personal budget to access therapies similar to the model operated in the United...
    • Dental Services
      1529. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made in relation to the provision of services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19946/22]
    • Disability Services
      1531. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure a person (details supplied) receives the adequate supports from the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19967/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      1532. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the work of the clinical lead on dual diagnosis. [19971/22]
    • Hospital Services
      1533. To ask the Minister for Health the classification criteria for hospital models; the list of hospitals currently classified for each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19983/22]
    • Home Care Packages
      1534. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on home support services and home support packages (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19985/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      1535. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the community healthcare west initiative of a youth advisory panel to each CHO nationwide to explore the risk and protective factors for...
    • Departmental Staff
      1536. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit facilitate internships by students engaged in full-time or part-time further and...
    • Pension Provisions
      1537. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a pension for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20018/22]
    • Abortion Services
      1538. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his work to legislate for safe zones around abortion providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20019/22]
    • Home Help Service
      1539. To ask the Minister for Health the status of home help for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20020/22]
    • Primary Care Services
      1540. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to expand PrEP treatment services in a primary care centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20022/22]
    • Health Services
      1542. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he will take to develop dedicated and resourced clinical pathways for the healthcare needs of intersex persons in Ireland; if he will develop a...
    • Health Promotion
      1543. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to expand awareness and supports for intersex persons; the steps that he has taken since becoming Minister; his plans for the future; and if he will...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      1544. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 786 of 29 March 2022, the circa 20 systems identified in which the original vendor is not in business anymore and circa...
    • Registration of Births
      1545. To ask the Minister for Health if he will approve the ability to register births at Civil Registration Service locations in Tralee and Listowel, County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Cards
      1546. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an estimate on the additional cost to the Exchequer of ensuring that those currently in receipt of disability allowance would retain their...
    • Mental Health Services
      1548. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent staff assigned to the CAMHS unit located at Casino Park, Malahide Road, Dublin. [20088/22]
    • Dental Services
      1549. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists who signed up nationwide to accept medical cards patients in each of the years 2010 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1550. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to concerns raised by a person (details supplied); the supports available in such a situation; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1551. To ask the Minister for Health if those working for an organisation (details supplied) that is part-funded by the HSE, particularly those in a residential setting for adults with...
    • Pharmacy Services
      1552. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding certain pharmacies that are charging extra for blister packs over and above the prescription charges; if he is taking steps to address...
    • Hospital Services
      1553. To ask the Minister for Health if discussions are expected to review the visiting rights in University Hospital Limerick for dementia patients and their families; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Services
      1554. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff who are needed to reach full staffing levels in each children’s disability network team in the CHO 3 and CHO 5 areas; the number of...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1555. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the reimbursement of the FreeStyle Libre continuous glucose monitoring system for those with type 1 diabetes; if he has considered...
    • Health Service Executive
      1556. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive recognition of their role within the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20118/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      1557. To ask the Minister for Health the number and the percentage of clinical psychologist students at PhD level who are sponsored by the HSE who continue to work in the public sector for at...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1558. To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20131/22]
    • Health Service Executive
      1559. To ask the Minister for Health the position with regard to the transfer of an asset under the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform protocol from the HSE to the local authority...
    • Health Services Staff
      1560. To ask the Minister for Health the rate of HSE staff turnover in each of the years 2011 to 2021, by staff grade and category, in tabular form; the workforce level in January in each of the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1561. To ask the Minister for Health if front-line household staff in psychiatric HSE units will be eligible for the pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20143/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1562. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20146/22]
    • Nursing Homes
      1563. To ask the Minister for Health the status of action 19.8 of the Housing for All proposal which set out to amend the nursing home support scheme to remove disincentives against the rental of...
    • Health Services
      1566. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated timeframe for when the new outpatient ophthalmology services for the south and south west HSE area that are currently being developed in...
    • Abortion Services
      1567. To ask the Minister for Health the names of the stakeholders who were consulted as part of the review of the revised model of care for termination of pregnancy; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1569. To ask the Minister for Health if funding is available through the Irish Red Cross for prosthetic limbs in Ireland; if so, if the means tests for Irish residents are similar to those...
    • Medical Cards
      1572. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the fact that many farmers and self-employed people with disabilities are unable to access medical cards due to the means test which takes into...
    • Abortion Services
      1573. To ask the Minister for Health the stakeholders he and his Department have consulted with in relation to working through challenges, refining policy positions, and exploring legislative...
    • Eating Disorders
      1574. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the services currently available for persons suffering from eating disorders; the future provision plans for health services in the area; and if...
    • Third Level Costs
      1575. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to change the current regime whereby only students from the richest families can access graduate-entry medicine given the high costs involved of...
    • Medical Qualifications
      1576. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure a system is in place for those arriving from Mongolia to have their professional qualifications recognised, particularly in relation to...
    • Protected Disclosures
      1577. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 145 of 30 March 2022, the details of the costs incurred to date relating to this protected disclosure; if he will...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1578. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the shortage of GMS general practitioners in (details supplied); if he will provide an up-to-date list of current GMS...
    • Disability Services
      1580. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the initiatives he is taking to strengthen children's disability services in 2022; the funding being provided for same; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      1581. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a scheme with the HSE under which a patient could get reimbursed some travelling expenses for travelling to hospital appointments, such as a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1582. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of persons who are waiting for sleep disorder care (details supplied) including all outpatient, inpatient, day case, planned, active, to come...
    • Hospital Admissions
      1583. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the incidence of presentations at hospitals in the State with myocarditis, aneurysms and clotting disorders, by month in 2021; and if he will...
    • Departmental Appointments
      1584. To ask the Minister for Health if the proposed role of professorship of public health strategy and leadership at Trinity College, Dublin will be proceeded with; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1585. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for hip and-or knee surgery and cataract surgery in counties Clare, Limerick and Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Medical Cards
      1586. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and assist with a medical card application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20241/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      1587. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently on the waiting lists for PrEP treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20244/22]
    • Disability Services
      1590. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of establishing two specialist centre-based respite services for children with complex support needs which is contained within the HSE...
    • Health Services
      1600. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (detailed supplied) will receive a block of language therapy sessions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20261/22]
    • Disability Services
      1604. To ask the Minister for Health the cost to deliver one additional day service place for a school leaver with a disability or graduate of rehabilitative training; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      1605. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of developing and implementing a process of identifying and managing day service vacancies as contained within the HSE Service Plan 2022;...
    • Home Care Packages
      1608. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of providing one intensive home support package; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20271/22]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1617. To ask the Minister for Health when a modern fit-for-purpose air conditioning system will be installed at Cork University Maternity Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Energy Usage
      1618. To ask the Minister for Health the special measures his Department is taking to reduce energy usage in the scenario in which members of the public are being asked to do the same. [20296/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      1619. To ask the Minister for Health the extent of long-Covid supports for HSE workers; the extent, length, rates of pay and variety of paid leave options; the options for secondment or transfer...
    • State Claims Agency
      1620. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 779, 780, 781, 782, 796, 797, 800 and 804 of 29 March 2022 and the response of the HSE (details supplied) the legal...
    • Nursing Homes
      1621. To ask the Minister for Health the amount received by the HSE for rental income through the fair deal scheme in each of the years 2015 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [20314/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1622. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons diagnosed with long-Covid on a three-monthly basis for 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20316/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      1623. To ask the Minister for Health if the special leave with pay scheme for healthcare workers can be extended particularly for those with long-Covid; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      1624. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the resources currently available in County Kildare in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Traveller Community
      1625. To ask the Minister for Health the expected timeline for the publication of a national Traveller health action plan, as set out in the programme for Government; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1626. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that a person (details supplied) has access to an MRI. [20359/22]
    • Research Funding
      1627. To ask the Minister for Health the manner in which Health Research Board funding is allocated and expended; the manner in which an individual may gain access to Health Research Board...
    • Nursing Homes
      1628. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the plans by his Department to reform the fair deal scheme to incentivise rentals and a timeline for delivery of this plan. [20383/22]
    • Departmental Funding
      1629. To ask the Minister for Health if funding (details supplied) that has been allocated has been drawn down and spent; if there has been a follow-up or appraisal of the funding given under the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1630. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the roll-out of free general practitioner care to children up to age 8; the implementation date of same; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services
      1631. To ask the Minister for Health if a psychologist post can be sanctioned for the child and adolescent mental health service based in Grangegorman, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disability Services
      1633. To ask the Minister for Health the planned full-time equivalent staffing, by role, for each county’s children’s disability network teams in 2027 and 2032. [20412/22]
    • Medical Research and Training
      1634. To ask the Minister for Health if he has met with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to discuss the need to catch up on placement hours missed...
    • Health Service Executive
      1635. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied). [20415/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      1636. To ask the Minister for Health if he will raise concerns (details supplied) in respect of paediatric occupational therapist provision in County Louth; the HSE's plans to address such a...
    • Disability Services
      1639. To ask the Minister for Health if a review has taken place of the progressive disability programme for the CHO 9 north Dublin area; the gaps in the service that have been identified; his...
    • Health Strategies
      1644. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated to the national skin cancer prevention plan to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20432/22]
    • Health Services
      1645. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons aged 25 years or older who have travelled overseas for specialist cancer treatment not available in Ireland between 2016 and 2021; the...
    • Eating Disorders
      1647. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 429 of 3 February 2022, the status of discussions at Department level in relation to the legal mechanism or statutory...
    • Care Services
      1648. To ask the Minister for Health the types of non-centre-based respite services in use here; the budget allocated to non-centre-based respite services; the funding spent on non-centre-based...
    • Disability Services
      1652. To ask the Minister for Health the number of expressions of interest that were received from persons to be part of the personalised budgets demonstration projects; the number of persons to...
    • Departmental Funding
      1661. To ask the Minister for Health the budget allocated each year to progress the implementation of the managed clinical network demonstrator project, in tabular form; the timeframe for the...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1662. To ask the Minister for Health the budget allocated to develop an integrated assessment of need tracing system for children and adults as contained within the HSE Service Plan 2022; the...
    • Disability Services
      1663. To ask the Minister for Health the budget allocated to develop an integrated national day services database as contained within the HSE Service Plan 2022; the timeframe for this system to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1671. To ask the Minister for Health if correspondence and a petition by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; the steps that his Department is taking on this issue; if this cohort can be...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1672. To ask the Minister for Health the number of type 1 diabetes patients who have had appointments at University Hospital Limerick cancelled between March 2020 and February 2022, inclusive;...
    • Disability Services
      1673. To ask the Minister for Health when a speech and language therapy service for school age children will be provided in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1674. To ask the Minister for Health the areas of the country in which the HSE covers the cost of compression sleeves for breast cancer patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Nursing Homes
      1676. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the funding rates that are set by the National Treatment Purchase Fund for individual nursing homes and the way that these rates will reflect the...
    • Eating Disorders
      1677. To ask the Minister for Health the inpatient services that are available for children under the age of 13 who have been diagnosed with avoidant and-or restrictive food intake disorder,...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1681. To ask the Minister for Health if he has conducted an analysis of the potential impact of long-Covid diagnoses among healthcare staff on the operation and functioning of the health service;...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1682. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review correspondence from (details supplied); if he will address the concerns raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20558/22]
    • Health Services
      1683. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule for each of the years from 2015 to date in 2022 of all organisations that had their funding suspended and permanently...
    • Legislative Measures
      1684. To ask the Minister for Health the dates of meetings of the working group formed to analyse the implementation of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018. [20581/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      1687. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) has not been given an in-person appointment with CAMHS, Kilkenny, as requested by the person's general...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1688. To ask the Minister for Health if front-line section 39 homelessness healthcare workers will be included in the Covid-19 pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Services
      1692. 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...
    • Emergency Departments
      1696. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting 12 hours or more at the University Hospital Limerick in each of the years 2011 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1697. To ask the Minister for Health if patients are represented on the new Covid-19 advisory group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20678/22]
    • Health Services
      1698. To ask the Minister for Health the costs of ensuring equitable access to cardiac rehabilitation across all regions of the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20679/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      1702. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting on dietician appointments; the average wait time for the eight community mental health teams under Linn Dara CAMHS; and if he...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1703. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review correspondence (details supplied); the amount that an organisation gave to this service; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1704. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on outpatient waiting lists at University Hospital Limerick in each month of 2022 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1705. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that is being made in the review of Changing Cardiovascular Health: Cardiovascular Health Policy 2010-2019; when is it expected that a new policy...
    • Obesity Levels
      1706. To ask the Minister for Health if the targets for percentage of population with healthy weight as set out by the Changing Cardiovascular Health: Cardiovascular Health Policy 2010-2019 have...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1707. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to a public consultation process as part of the National Cardiac Services review; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Staff
      1711. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will look into providing a dedicated dietician in the oncology day unit in Cavan General Hospital given the importance of diet with...
    • Departmental Funding
      1712. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of Vote 38, programme M, subhead 2; if he will list the breakdown of programmes contained within this subhead; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Services
      1713. To ask the Minister for Health the programme of services being developed outside of acute healthcare settings to assist those with cardiovascular disease; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1714. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the roll-out of a new national rare disease plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20728/22]
    • Health Services
      1715. To ask the Minister for Health the action that is being taken by his Department to increase co-ordination for the provision of genetic testing services in Ireland considering that 72% of...
    • Medicinal Products
      1716. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the plans that are in place to reduce the time it takes the Health Products Regulatory Authority to approve a drug for rare disease in Ireland...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1717. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20738/22]
    • Medical Cards
      1720. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a pathway to a discretionary medical card for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20744/22]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1722. To ask the Minister for Health further to parliamentary question No. 230 of 9 March 2022, the details of the positions held by his departmental officials who are working with Ireland's...
    • Medical Cards
      1723. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards that have been issued to Ukrainian refugees since the conflict began; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20760/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1724. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) has been waiting so long for an operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20765/22]
    • Housing Provision
      1725. To ask the Minister for Health the number of homes at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Athy; the number that are occupied; if there are plans to refurbish the homes; and if he will make a...
    • Disease Management
      1726. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons diagnosed with Lyme’s disease in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20767/22]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1727. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will recognise Lyme’s disease and co-infections as part of the long-term illness scheme and other State schemes and supports; and if...
    • Legislative Measures
      1733. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that is being made to enact the patient safety (notifiable patient safety incidents) Bill 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Reports
      1734. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made in implementing the recommendations of the Scally report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20782/22]
    • Home Care Packages
      1735. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting home care support in County Kildare; the total number of hours allocated in each of the past 12 months in County Kildare; the...
    • Disability Services
      1736. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite hours provided to families in County Kildare over each of the past 12 months; the number that have been provided in each month since...
    • Care Services
      1737. To ask the Minister for Health the number of day care centres in County Kildare that have yet to reopen; the number that will be reopened by September 2022; if any will not be in a position...
    • Disability Services
      1738. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be provided to an organisation (details supplied) to provide a four-bedded residential home in Kilkenny city. [20789/22]
    • Disease Management
      1739. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to establish a working party to investigate the needs of persons living with Huntington’s disease and their families; and if he will make a...
    • Ambulance Service
      1740. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an overview of the resourcing of the National Ambulance Service by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20793/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1741. To ask the Minister for Health the way that he proposes to address excessive waiting times for gynaecological appointments at Ennis General Hospital, County Clare; and if he will make a...
    • Medicinal Products
      1742. To ask the Minister for Health the current status and availability of kaftrio for cystic fibrosis patients under 12 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20797/22]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1743. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that general practitioner services have ceased in a centre (details supplied); when the general practitioner...
    • Disability Services
      1744. To ask the Minister for Health the extent his Department has considered guaranteeing access to personal assistance service for persons with a disability; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1745. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the need for a single standard assessment of need across the HSE and CHOs for persons with a disability; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disability Services
      1746. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will consider requesting additional funding for personal assistant services for persons with a disability; and if he will make a statement...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1747. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vaccines donated by Ireland through the COVAX programme, by month, since initiation, in tabular form; if he will detail the efforts of the...
    • Disability Services
      1748. To ask the Minister for Health if he will approve the funding set out in the business case provided by SOS Kilkenny to the HSE to support the wrap-around services required by a person...
    • Official Engagements
      1749. To ask the Minister for Health if he will furnish a report from the Minister for State with responsibility for the national drugs strategy on their visit on 13 April 2022 to Tallaght drugs...
    • Disability Services
      1750. To ask the Minister for Health if the business cases approved by the HSE in the past five years have been paid in full to SOS Kilkenny; if not, if he will confirm the balance of funding due...
    • Care Services
      1751. To ask the Minister for Health the number of residential places immediately available in CHO 5 for 2022; the number of priority one cases waiting for services for the same area; the planned...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1752. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20817/22]
    • Hospital Charges
      1753. To ask the Minister for Health if he considers that hospital charges (details supplied) are exorbitant and adding to the cost of health insurance; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1754. To ask the Minister for Health if discussions are expected to give clarity to the section 38 workers; when they will receive their Covid payments (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1755. To ask the Minister for Health when a new home (details supplied) in Nenagh will be completed and open to residents. [20834/22]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1756. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide full details of moneys owed by his Department or the HSE to an organisation (details supplied) from any period prior to 2020; if so, the...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1758. To ask the Minister for Health when the cancer care hospital for University Hospital Galway will be approved to proceed to full design in accordance with the national development plan; and...
    • Abortion Services
      1759. To ask the Minister for Health if he will bring an end to the practice of remote consultation for abortion advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20855/22]
    • Health Services
      1760. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on (details supplied); the current waiting times for appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20857/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      1762. To ask the Minister for Health the scope of the nationwide audit into CAMHS on the back of the Maskey report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20864/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1765. To ask the Minister for Health if he will remove the current age restriction for FreeStyle Libre with immediate effect following a survey (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Staff
      1767. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultant paediatric rheumatologists attached to Galway University Hospital in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and...
    • Health Services Staff
      1768. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time podiatrists working in each primary care centre in CHO 9 in the years 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      1769. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time vacancies by job title in both the cardiac rehabilitation unit and orthopaedic unit at St Columcille's Hospital, Dublin 18; when each...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1770. To ask the Minister for Health the number of level 3 ICU beds in each hospital part of the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group as of 1 March 2020 and 19 April 2022, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Hospital Staff
      1771. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultant neurophysiologists attached to University Hospital Waterford in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Health Services Staff
      1776. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultants in otolaryngology with a special interest in voice, swallowing and airway disorders attached to Cavan General Hospital in...
    • Fire Safety
      1777. To ask the Minister for Health when was the last time an in-person external fire audit was carried out at each hospital in the Ireland East Hospital Group on behalf of the HSE; the...
    • Hospital Staff
      1778. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent staff working in the radiology department of Naas General Hospital; the number of vacancies by job title within this...
    • Disability Services
      1779. To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing vacancies within the children's disability network teams in Kilbarrack, Coolock, Swords and Blanchardstown, Dublin; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      1780. To ask the Minister for Health if a new chronic disease management hub will be fully operational in County Wicklow; the staffing details that would be required for the hub; and if he will...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1781. To ask the Minister for Health if he will remove the current age restriction for the FreeStyle Libre with immediate effect following a survey (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      1783. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff, by role, currently employed in Cork University Hospital; and the number employed one year ago. [20916/22]
    • Health Services
      1784. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1014 of 22 March 2022, if the Dublin North, North East Recovery College can access the funding to continue to provide...
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      1785. To ask the Minister for Health the number of overseas applications received and the number of registrations processed by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland by month and by location...
    • Protected Disclosures
      1787. To ask the Minister for Health the number of protected disclosures received from whistleblowers in agencies under the auspices of his Department since 2017 to date, including the names of...
    • Referendum Campaigns
      1788. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to hold a referendum prior to signing up to the World Health Organization-led process to negotiate a binding legal instrument on pandemic...
    • Health Services
      1789. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of dedicated clinics and models of care for patients with long Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20936/22]
    • Nursing Homes
      1790. To ask the Minister for Health if an active farmer who enters a nursing home and arranges for a family member to run the farm is assessed on the capital value of the farm or the income from...
    • Hospital Staff
      1791. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dietitians employed within the oncology day unit at Cavan General Hospital; the additional cost of employing a dietitian within the oncology day...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1792. To ask the Minister for Health if nurses who worked through the pandemic in addiction services will be included in the €1,000 bonus paid out by the HSE; and if he will make a...
    • Civil Registration Service
      1793. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for a marriage notification appointment in Cork city. [20957/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1796. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that section 39 workers who otherwise fulfil criteria for the pandemic bonus have been excluded. [20966/22]
    • Disability Services
      1798. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the adequacy of the level of students currently graduating in Ireland to satisfy the staffing needs of children’s disability network...
    • Programme for Government
      1799. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made on the commitment in the programme for Government to work with key stakeholders to introduce a public health obesity Bill,...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      1800. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the medical cannabis access programme clinical review; when the review will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20997/22]
    • Disability Services
      1802. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address concerns regarding the provision of intellectual disability placements for older persons with high-care needs and the choice to live in a...
    • Medicinal Products
      1803. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 136 of 9 February 2022, the status of the procurement of paxlovid by the HSE; and when it will become available for...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1804. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to adding the glucoRX Aidex continuous glucose monitoring system to the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      1805. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to neurology nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21051/22]
    • Nursing Homes
      1806. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a fair deal nursing home support scheme application for a person (details supplied); if he will intervene to ensure a resolution; and...
    • Medicinal Products
      1807. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the inquiry and terms of reference for the drug sodium valproate; his plans to provide the disability package for those affected by sodium...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1808. To ask the Minister for Health if the €1,000 Covid-19 bonus for front-line workers will be paid to front-line staff working in disability organisations in view of the heroic work...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1810. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the FreeStyle Libre insulin sensor is restricted to under-21s; the reason for this policy decision; if he intends to ask the HSE to expand...
    • Ukraine War
      1811. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to proposals for the appropriate refurbishment of a former health facility (details supplied) in Dublin 4 for Ukrainian...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1812. To ask the Minister for Health if healthcare workers who previously worked on Covid-19 wards but who have since moved to a new position within the HSE will be eligible for the Covid-19...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1813. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied). [21108/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      1814. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 564 of 8 March 2022, the status of a review of a product (details supplied); if approved, the stocks that have been...
    • Irish Blood Transfusion Service
      1815. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for the delay in implementing an individualised risk assessment for blood donation, particularly in view of recently imported bulk consignments...
    • Home Care Packages
      1816. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the proposed lots for the upcoming home care tender, which will be based on volume as opposed to community healthcare organisations; when...
    • Hospital Staff
      1818. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to address the concerns of non-consultant hospital doctors; the engagements that he has had with an organisation (details...
    • Health Services Staff
      1819. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet representatives of the RCSI hospital doctor retention and motivation project, which has researched doctor retention and working conditions in...
    • Disability Services
      1820. To ask the Minister for Health the role of an organisation (details supplied) in the provision of disability services for public patients; the oversight in place for the service; the amount...
    • Departmental Data
      1821. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 642 of 1 March 2022, the reason CHO 4 was not included in the data provided; and if the data will be provided. [21117/22]
    • Ambulance Service
      1822. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some ambulance staff are being redeployed to be based in locations up to 109 km each way from their home and...
    • Medicinal Products
      1824. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a clinical review by the HSE Medicines Management Programme for cariban; if there is a timeline for a decision on the recommendation to be made;...
    • Hospital Transfers
      1825. To ask the Minister for Health if a schedule of each emergency transfer request will be provided detailing the time of ambulance service request raised at St. Luke's Hospital; the time of...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1828. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a child (details supplied) who has been waiting two years for appointments with the orthopaedic and cardiology units at Crumlin...
    • Health Services
      1829. To ask the Minister for Health if a response will issue in relation to urgent concerns raised in correspondence by a number of persons (details supplied) in respect of orthopaedic services...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1830. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who has been waiting three years for an autism assessment at the east Limerick early intervention...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1832. To ask the Minister for Health the way that a person (details supplied) can avail of help in reaching the cost of travel and stay expenses for a surgery they must travel to the UK to avail...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1833. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) had their operation cancelled due to their file being mislaid within the system; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1834. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied) which found that failure to fund the provision of the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring...
    • Departmental Reports
      1835. To ask the Minister for Health when the last performance output report was published in relation the Health Research Board; when the next performance report will be published; and if he...
    • Health Services
      1836. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the lack of services for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21190/22]
    • Disability Services
      1837. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allocate funding for increased day support hours to end the situation of persons being approved or additional support without the capacity being in...
    • Mental Health Services
      1838. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the adequacy of existing mental health supports for children in the Louth and east Meath area; if he will identify those supports; if his...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1839. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21208/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1840. To ask the Minister for Health if he will remove the current age restriction for the Freestyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21215/22]
    • Nursing Homes
      1842. To ask the Minister for Health the locations in which funding in excess of €1 million has been provided for public nursing homes in Ireland by date and location since 2011, in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1843. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he will ensure that front-line workers who have changed position or employer or who have retired during the pandemic will receive the Covid...
    • Data Protection
      1845. To ask the Minister for Health if a piece of surveillance technology (details supplied) is being used by his Department or any agencies under his remit in view of the fact that there are...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1846. To ask the Minister for Health if he will remove the age restriction for the Freestyle Libre device for those with diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21248/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      1848. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of staff, the positions they hold and vacancies in CAHMS South Kerry in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and...
    • Insurance Coverage
      1849. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to change the policy enforced by health insurance companies which mean that persons with a pre-existing condition moving to Ireland must wait five...
    • Disability Services
      1850. To ask the Minister for Health the proposals there are to provide additional services to reduce waiting times for children with disabilities (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1852. To ask the Minister for Health if he will remove the current age restriction for the Freestyle Libre device with immediate effect following a survey (details supplied); and if he will make...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Waste Management
      1854. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current procedure and regulation surrounding the burning of old scrub and bushes off agricultural land; and if he will make a...
    • Forestry Sector
      1855. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will allow farmers some flexibility on clear felling a forest (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1856. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question of 08 March 2022 in relation to a payment for a person (details supplied), when this payment will...
    • Trade Data
      1857. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the tonnage of grain that is exported outside of the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19315/22]
    • EU Data
      1860. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of countries within the European Union that are operating set aside; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19318/22]
    • Departmental Schemes
      1862. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost of abolishing the parental levy on the school milk scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19368/22]
    • Pigmeat Sector
      1863. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications made to date for the pig exceptional payment scheme; the value of financial supports drawn down to date...
    • Food Industry
      1864. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on his Department's engagement with the European Food Security Crisis preparedness and response mechanism; and if...
    • Fuel Prices
      1865. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports that he is providing to farm contractors to offset the increasing cost of agri-diesel; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Staff
      1866. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the details of the name, salary, position and roles of persons who are being paid for by his Department for...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1867. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit run apprenticeship programmes or are directly engaged...
    • Departmental Staff
      1868. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons employed by his Department and bodies under the aegis of his Department with a rate of pay below the living...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1869. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1127 of 22 March 2022, the status of the review of the case (details supplied); the length of...
    • Nitrates Usage
      1870. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a reply will issue to a query which was sent to him on 9 February 2022, 4 March 2022 and 7 April 2022 (details supplied); and...
    • Food Industry
      1871. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the development of the office of a National Food Ombudsman; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Fishing Industry
      1872. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of mackerel quota Ireland has; the way in which the mackerel quota is allocated; the criteria used when allocating the...
    • Departmental Staff
      1882. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline all of the secondment arrangements within his Department; the conditions related to such secondments; and if he...
    • Animal Diseases
      1883. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that poultry sales have been stopped across the Republic of Ireland; when he foresees sales happening again; and if he...
    • Environmental Schemes
      1884. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the management of co-operation projects as part of the new CAP’s national agri-environmental climate measure has been...
    • Animal Diseases
      1888. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that a retest has been ordered to test for hoof wall separation disease by a society (details supplied); the body...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1889. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on PGI status for the beef sector; when this process is expected to conclude; and if he will make a...
    • Fodder Crisis
      1890. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider allowing a derogation on GLAS plans for 2022 in order that farmers are not constrained on land use and therefore...
    • Energy Prices
      1891. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the pressure farmers are under with increasing energy costs especially approaching silage season;...
    • Departmental Staff
      1892. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit facilitate internships by students engaged in...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1893. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 248 of 9 March 2022, if progress has been made in furthering a compensation scheme for farmers...
    • Departmental Staff
      1894. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons currently employed in his Department who have been seconded in from the public sector; the number of...
    • Greyhound Industry
      1895. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will request that a club (details supplied) provide him with a breakdown of the 2,185 litters whelped, in 2021, into racing...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1896. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider removing the cap that was in place which was potentially €100 per acre and ensuring that it would not be...
    • Fishing Industry
      1897. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1156 of 22 March 2022, the account that is made for inshore fishing in calculating bass stocks...
    • Statutory Instruments
      1899. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter regarding SI. No. 605 of 2017 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20135/22]
    • Environmental Policy
      1900. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that the western-most tip of the Dingle Peninsula has been excluded from the new agri-environment and climate measure...
    • Energy Usage
      1901. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the special measures his Department is taking to reduce energy usage in the scenario in which members of the public are being asked...
    • Fishing Industry
      1902. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend the landing days and hours for UK and North of Ireland registered fishing vessels landing in designated piers and...
    • Horticulture Sector
      1903. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the up-to-date-position in respect of a report (details supplied) on the Irish horticulture industry to assess the current state of...
    • Departmental Funding
      1904. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if funding (details supplied) that has been allocated has been drawn down and spent; if there has been a follow-up or appraisal of...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1905. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons who have been refused their ANC payment for each of the past three years for the reason that they omitted to...
    • Forestry Sector
      1907. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the extension which was applied to TUS forestry contracts will be applied to all TUS schemes; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      1908. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the minimum number of hectares and the stocking density or the number of stock or other agricultural activity that will be required...
    • Domestic Pets
      1909. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the checks and follow-ups that are being carried out on animals (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Turbary Rights
      1910. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will advise on the rights of the registered owners of fee simple bogs (details supplied). [20591/22]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1911. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to amending the current BEAM criteria by allowing farmers to repay BEAM money over a greater...
    • Coillte Teoranta
      1912. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the process for obtaining a permit for horse riding on Coillte lands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20629/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      1913. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of staff within his Department who availed of a secondment from January 2019 to date on the basis that it was not the...
    • Harbours and Piers
      1914. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current requests for capital funding for improvement and-or maintenance work at State-owned and local authority-owned harbours...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      1915. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagements he has had with other Departments to examine opportunities for fishermen to allow for transferability of their...
    • Harbours and Piers
      1916. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made towards adding Dunmore East to the list of designated piers and harbours in the State that can...
    • Greyhound Industry
      1917. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to produce a report on the profitability or commercial viability of all greyhound tracks in Ireland; the research and...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1918. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to reduce the use of antimicrobials in the pig and poultry sectors in particular with regard to piglets that...
    • Animal Welfare
      1919. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to ensure stocking densities are being adhered to on pig and poultry farms; the efforts he has made in...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1921. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will allow farmers to repay BEAM funding over a much longer timeframe to improve their cashflow situation in the short term;...
    • Farm Costs
      1924. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce a silage conservation support for farmers to address the costs of fertiliser and fuel; and if he will make a...
    • Forestry Sector
      1925. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 220 of 26 January 2022, if he will provide a copy of each of the weekly tables of active...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1926. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends bringing in a rule that all professional agricultural planners who submit agricultural applications to the Department...
    • Departmental Funding
      1927. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding provided to the Marine Institute over the past three years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1928. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that a 100% GLAS penalty has been applied to a farmer (details supplied) in County Kerry for a minor non-compliance, if...
    • Forestry Sector
      1929. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the dates officials of his Department contacted the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage or met with officials of...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      1932. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Assistant Secretary with responsibility for forestry will also have responsibility for the AECM and eco schemes in the next...
    • Horticulture Sector
      1933. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that soft fruit growers were not included in the recently announced support package for pig and horticulture farmers; if...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1934. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if clarification will be provided for a person (details supplied) in relation to their early retirement; and if he will make a...
    • Harbours and Piers
      1935. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the discussions that have taken place between his Department and Galway County Council in relation to the future ownership and...
    • Data Protection
      1936. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a piece of surveillance technology (details supplied) is being used by his Department or any agencies under his remit in view of...
    • Animal Welfare
      1937. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to provide an animal welfare Inspector for Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21246/22]
    • Horse Racing Industry
      1938. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a series of matters in relation to Horse Sport Ireland (details supplied). [21295/22]
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Ukraine War
      1939. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the measures that will be undertaken to integrate children, young persons, young adults and families who have fled from Ukraine into...
    • Departmental Staff
      1940. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide the details of the name, salary, position and roles of persons who are being paid for by her Department for...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1941. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit run apprenticeship programmes or are directly engaged...
    • Departmental Staff
      1942. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of persons employed by her Department and bodies under the aegis of her Department with a rate of pay below the living...
    • Community Development Projects
      1943. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the review of the community services programme; and when it will reopen for applications. [19665/22]
    • Rural Schemes
      1944. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of each individual project approved under the CLÁR Programme in County Donegal in 2019, 2020 and 2021; the grant...
    • Community Development Projects
      1947. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if funding can be made available to a rural sports club outside of the Sports Capital Grant process in cases in which the club...
    • Regeneration Projects
      1948. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of each individual project approved under the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund in County Donegal in 2018, 2019,...
    • Departmental Staff
      1950. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the salaries and expenses paid to advisers, Ministers and-or Ministers of State in her Department in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022,...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1951. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding allocations and spending for each county with regard to the Interim LEADER programme funding for 2021-2022, in tabular...
    • Departmental Staff
      1952. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will outline all of the secondment arrangements within her Department; the conditions related to such secondments; and if she...
    • Rural Schemes
      1953. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a group that received CLÁR funding in the past can apply to the scheme a second time; the insurance implications of...
    • Departmental Staff
      1954. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit facilitate internships by students engaged in full-time...
    • Library Services
      1956. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there is an application for a library (details supplied) with her Department. [20281/22]
    • Energy Usage
      1957. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the special measures her Department is taking to reduce energy usage in the scenario in which members of the public are being asked...
    • Control of Dogs
      1958. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the date on which she will publish the outcome of the public consultation on the Control of Dogs Act 1986 pertaining to dog breeds;...
    • Grant Payments
      1959. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide the budget allocated to develop a database (details supplied) that records the way in which State grant aid is...
    • Digital Hubs
      1960. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding streams and the application process for a community organisation to construct and host a work hub in a rural area; and if...
    • Departmental Staff
      1961. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of staff within her Department who availed of a secondment from January 2019 to date on the basis that it was not the...
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      1962. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the progress that has been made between her Department and Cork County Council on the roll-out of WIFI4EU in County Cork; if...
    • Rural Schemes
      1964. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when it is intended to go to tender for the delivery of the Leader Programme for the CAP period 2021-2027; if in the meantime it is...
    • Data Protection
      1966. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a piece of surveillance technology (details supplied) is being used by her Department or any agencies under her remit in view of...
    • Energy Prices
      1967. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the supports which are available to charities to assist with rapidly rising energy and other costs in their premises; if she will...

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