Written answers

Wednesday, 4 May 2022

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Cabinet Committees
      67. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will next meet. [21859/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      68. To ask the Taoiseach the details of secondments from his Department to the university third level sector over the past two years. [22259/22]
    • Research Funding
      69. To ask the Taoiseach the funding allocated to the shared island research programme including a breakdown of funding between the IRC competitive funding, ESRI research and so on; and if he...
    • EU Directives
      70. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of fines and totality of the amount paid in respect of fines issued by the EU on his Department for failing to transpose EU directives; if...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Work Permits
      71. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to address labour shortages in the restaurant and hospitality sector; if his attention has been drawn to the...
    • Trade Missions
      72. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a trade mission to Portugal is scheduled before the end of the first half of 2022. [21841/22]
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      73. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way that he can support businesses in Ireland to contribute to the delivery of the goals and targets in the United Nations...
    • Departmental Staff
      74. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of secondments from his Department to the university third level sector over the past two years; and if he will make a...
    • EU Directives
      75. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a schedule of fines and totality of the amount paid in respect of fines issued by the EU on his Department for...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Departmental Schemes
      76. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the accessibility of the €200 electricity grant for social housing tenants who use a pay-as-you-go...
    • Environmental Policy
      78. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the draft management plan for the Great Western Lakes including Lough Corrib SAC will be published by his...
    • Departmental Funding
      79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the use of Just Transition funding to subsidise the importation of peat moss or the...
    • Electricity Generation
      81. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the date that the new micro-generation support scheme will become operational; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Funding
      82. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of a lease application by a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21831/22]
    • Environmental Schemes
      83. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 161 of 31 November 2021, when the review will be carried out to assess the...
    • Environmental Policy
      84. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is concerned with the time delay in preparation of detailed annual GHG inventories by the Environmental Protection...
    • Departmental Schemes
      85. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the mechanism by which full-time residents in mobile home parks who pay for electricity calculated by individual...
    • Environmental Schemes
      86. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a person receiving an invalidity pension is entitled to apply for a free home energy upgrade; and if not, the reason...
    • Departmental Schemes
      87. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the €200 electricity credit payment will be paid to residential business properties; if not, if self-employed...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      89. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will ensure that a reasonable proportion of the community benefit funds paid by offshore wind energy companies to...
    • Energy Conservation
      90. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration will be given to rewarding SEAI retrofitting grants where works have already commenced but meet the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      91. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the situation in relation to the €200 energy grant for a person (details supplied) in rented accommodation who...
    • Energy Conservation
      92. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the average waiting time for the warmer home scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22078/22]
    • Environmental Schemes
      94. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when an SEAI surveyor will be appointed to assess the home of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      96. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of secondments from his Department to the university third level sector over the past two years; and if he...
    • Air Quality
      97. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of air quality monitoring stations being monitored by his Department; their locations and when they will come...
    • Environmental Policy
      98. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of fixed penalty notices issued by local authorities for alleged offences relating to the marketing, sale and...
    • Air Quality
      99. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the final report of the urban transport related air pollution group will be published; and if he will make a...
    • Energy Conservation
      100. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that micro businesses have major issues in accessing the national...
    • EU Directives
      101. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a schedule of fines and totality of the amount paid in respect of fines issued by the EU on his...
    • Environmental Schemes
      102. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address a series of matters in relation to retrofit grants (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Telecommunications Services
      103. 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...
    • National Broadband Plan
      105. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the pending survey of the Dunmanway area under the National Broadband Plan will commence; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      106. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, in the context of Ireland’s need to accelerate offshore renewable energy programme he has had discussions with Irish Rail...
    • Ports Policy
      107. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current position in relation to the development of a new port access road for Rosslare Europort; the amount that has been allocated...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      108. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of road traffic accidents that have occurred on each of the national motorways in each of the past five years; and if he will...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      110. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of prosecutions of motorists in each of the past five years for failure to make progress and drive at the appropriate speed...
    • Electric Vehicles
      111. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider grant aiding the conversion of fossil-fuelled cars to electric as a way of acceleration of the conversion of the...
    • Coast Guard Service
      112. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the construction of a coastguard station in an area (details supplied); if a contract has been signed as a result of the...
    • Electric Vehicles
      113. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the scheme will be launched for electric vehicle chargers for those who live in apartment blocks; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Military Aircraft
      114. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will establish the destination and the number of troops that were on board an aircraft (details supplied) which landed in Shannon...
    • Driver Test
      115. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current failure rates in each of the operational driver test centres nationally; the standardised training and reassessment procedure...
    • Statutory Instruments
      116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position in relation to the signing of a statutory instrument to give effect to the changes agreed in the CIÉ regular wages...
    • Rail Network
      117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request Iarnród Éireann to increase the number of trains between Dublin Heuston to Roscommon from four times daily...
    • Driver Licences
      118. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that his Department is taking to review the current regulations regarding Ukrainian HGV licences which are not currently...
    • Public Service Obligation
      120. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider including commercial bus operators that operate scheduled services under licence from the National Transport...
    • Road Projects
      121. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the new Shannon crossing at Ballina, Killaloe; the reason that this key infrastructure project has not yet commenced; when...
    • Public Transport
      122. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will extend the 20% reduction in public transport fares, the 50% youth Leap card reduction and the 50% youth travel card reduction...
    • Departmental Offices
      123. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the future plans for the National Driver Licence Service Office in New Antrim Street, Castlebar, County Mayo given that prior to Covid-19...
    • Rail Network
      124. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request Irish Rail to include the Limerick to Ballybrophy via Nenagh railway line on the manual level crossing upgrade project...
    • Haulage Industry
      126. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that the livestock hauliers are excluded from the recently announced supports to address cost pressures arising from the...
    • Driver Licences
      127. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review a driver licence application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21995/22]
    • Traffic Management
      129. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 396 of 26 April 2022, if he will provide a list of the stakeholders who have engaged with his...
    • Electric Vehicles
      130. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the current number and locations of wheelchair accessible electric vehicle charging points by county in tabular...
    • Road Projects
      132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount expended to date on the proposed upgrade of the N25 national road between Midleton and Carrigtwohill County Cork; and if he...
    • Driver Test
      133. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the supports that are available for persons who cannot read or write to assist them in sitting the driver theory test; and if he will...
    • Rail Network
      134. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe and process for the next phase of the all-island strategic rail review. [22239/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of secondments from his Department to the university third level sector over the past two years; and if he will make a...
    • National Car Test
      136. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 19 of 30 March 2022, if he will direct the Road Safety Authority to respond to this Deputy...
    • Driver Licences
      137. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the analysis his Department has carried out into providing for an exemption from the driving licence renewal fees in respect of emergency...
    • EU Directives
      138. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a schedule of fines and totality of the amount paid in respect of fines issued by the EU on his Department for failing...
    • Electric Vehicles
      139. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the progress that has been made in increasing the number of electric vehicle charging points available along...
  • Department of Finance
    • Insurance Industry
      140. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures that will be introduced to curb the rising costs of liability insurance (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21756/22]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      141. To ask the Minister for Finance if matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21660/22]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      142. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of primary medical certificate applications that are currently submitted awaiting assessment; the expected length of time to clear the...
    • National Asset Management Agency
      143. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that NAMA sold off 54 apartments in Finglas, Dublin 11, to an investment fund instead of, for example selling them as affordable housing for first...
    • Housing Schemes
      144. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that first-time buyers of non-newly built homes are debarred from the help to buy scheme; if he is considering amending the scheme; and if he will...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      145. To ask the Minister for Finance if persons can make a formal submission to the consultation process in relation to primary medical certificates; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      146. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the way in which VRT is calculated in respect of imported second-hand electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles from the UK and from the EU....
    • Tax Data
      148. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of income tax that is collected from persons under 30 years of age and from persons under 35 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      149. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of secondments from his Department to the university third level sector over the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Reliefs
      150. 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...
    • Tax Collection
      151. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of cases and type of enforcement carried out by the Revenue Commissioners in enforcing compliance with solid fuel carbon tax for each year since...
    • EU Directives
      152. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of fines and totality of the amount paid in respect of fines issued by the EU on his Department for failing to transpose EU...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • State Pensions
      153. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will examine a series of issues in relation to the post-1995 State pensions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • National Lottery
      154. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if information regarding the allocation of funds from the National Lottery is readily available to the public; the location in which the...
    • Gender Proofing of Policies
      155. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will ensure that funding allocation requests from Government Departments ahead of Budget 2023 will require each Department to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      156. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the consideration that has been given to ensure that the pandemic bonus payment will be paid to front line nurses in the Irish Prison...
    • Climate Action Plan
      157. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of the €652,287,332 that was raised in carbon tax revenue in 2021 that was ring-fenced for expenditure on climate...
    • Office of Public Works
      158. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the process that governs decisions in relation to the use of Office of Public Works sites by local community groups; if a decision has...
    • An Garda Síochána
      159. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the new Garda Síochána Capital Building Programme 2022-2026 will be published; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Office of Public Works
      160. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works has any heritage ships or boats under the maintenance or ownership of the State; and if he will make a...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      161. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if persons who are paying into public service pension schemes have to continue making contributions after they have reached the maximum...
    • Departmental Staff
      162. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of secondments from his Department to the university third level sector over the past two years; and if he will make a...
    • EU Directives
      163. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a schedule of fines and totality of the amount paid in respect of fines issued by the EU on his Department for...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Commemorative Events
      164. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason for the delay in announcing the venue for the 2022 State commemoration of the 1845-1850 famine; her views on whether it...
    • Departmental Schemes
      165. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total number of applications received in respect of the live performance support scheme strand I and II by county; the total...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      166. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has made any review on the way the planned wind farms in Gougane Barra, County Cork will impact local tourism in...
    • Tourism Industry
      167. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures being taken to alleviate pressure on hotel availability for tourism given that many rooms will be allocated for...
    • Departmental Staff
      168. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of secondments from her Department to the university third level sector over the past two years; and if she will make...
    • EU Directives
      169. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a schedule of fines and totality of the amount paid in respect of fines issued by the EU on her Department for...
    • Tourism Industry
      170. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to provide support and stimulus to the tourism industry in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22337/22]
    • Departmental Funding
      171. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding can be made available for a club (details supplied) to replace its diesel engine powered golf buggies with electric...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Antisocial Behaviour
      172. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are currently any Memos of Understanding in respect of housing agreed between local authorities and An Garda...
    • Departmental Funding
      173. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that the applications for the collapsing graveyard wall at Darver and for ongoing conservation work on...
    • Water Services
      174. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a group water scheme (details supplied); if assistance or advice will be provided on this issue; and if he will...
    • Construction Industry
      175. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if steps are being taken to adopt modular building material methods with off-site manufacture of modules in order to speed up...
    • Housing Policy
      176. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if her Department is considering delimiting the right to private property in response to the accommodation crisis generated by...
    • Housing Schemes
      177. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the details of the new tenant purchase scheme will be released to the local authorities in order that applications can be...
    • Animal Culls
      178. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the scheme undertaken on a pilot basis to carry out a cull of seagulls has been assessed; and if there are plans to...
    • Departmental Funding
      179. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21775/22]
    • Wastewater Treatment
      180. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that has been achieved regarding the issue of Irish Water refusing to take on housing developments in which the...
    • Legislative Measures
      181. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a detailed listing of each section of the Local Government Act 2001, that has not been commenced by him...
    • Local Authorities
      184. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a ruling (details supplied) apply to each County Council and City Council in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Housing Schemes
      185. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of social housing projects currently in his Department’s approval process; the average length of time...
    • Local Authorities
      189. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount of outstanding development contributions and levies across all four Dublin local authorities; and the...
    • Housing Schemes
      191. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the specific measures that he is planning to ensure that divorced or separated persons will be assisted in qualifying for the...
    • Housing Policy
      192. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 531 of 19 January 2022, the current status of the social housing passport reforms; the...
    • Fuel Poverty
      193. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the work carried out by an organisation (details supplied); if he has engaged with any...
    • Housing Policy
      194. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration has been given to allowing persons on a housing list in one local authority to move to another local...
    • Housing Provision
      195. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties that have been purchased by cuckoo and vulture funds in Limerick that have housed families exiting...
    • Local Authorities
      197. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the new criteria for local authority acquisitions; if a circular has been issued in relation to same; and if so, if he will...
    • Housing Schemes
      198. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of costal rental houses in progress in south County Kildare; the number that are at planning stage; the number at...
    • Housing Provision
      201. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new social houses obtained by Kildare County Council in each of the past three years; the number of such houses...
    • Housing Schemes
      204. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider the inclusion of self-build homes under the first home scheme and the reintroduction of the local...
    • Housing Policy
      205. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can elaborate further on the review of the income eligibility for social housing submitted to his Department by the...
    • Foreshore Issues
      206. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will identify for each month in the year from April 2021 to April 2022 inclusive the number of applications for...
    • Local Authorities
      208. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount allocated and drawn down in each of the years 2018 to 2021 to date in 2022 to Wexford County Council for council...
    • Departmental Staff
      210. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of secondments from his Department to the university third level sector over the past two years; and if he will...
    • Wildlife Rangers
      211. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of conservation rangers by county; the number of rangers who are authorised to carry out prosecutions; and if he...
    • National Parks
      213. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend the boundaries of national parks; if such a process can be imitated by local authorities or other bodies;...
    • Defective Building Materials
      214. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the report from the housing defects working group; when he anticipates the report of the housing defects working...
    • Departmental Funding
      215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he or his officials informed the chairperson of a group (details supplied) of his Department’s participation in and...
    • State Bodies
      216. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the appointed Senior Counsel is expected to report back to him regarding allegations of failing to declare conflicting...
    • EU Directives
      217. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a schedule of fines and totality of the amount paid in respect of fines issued by the EU on his Department...
    • Departmental Meetings
      218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will meet with a group (details supplied) concerning the conservation of Lough Hyne, County Cork.; and if he will make a...
    • Local Authorities
      219. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 103 of 2 March 2022, the status of the review by his Department and the Housing Delivery...
    • Departmental Data
      220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to commence the reporting of the deaths of homeless persons on a per county basis; the reason this information is...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Citizenship Applications
      221. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a person who was born and raised in Canada but adopted by an Irish born father must register their adoption to claim their right to Irish...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      222. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a foreign births registration application made by a person (details supplied) in October 2020; if this application can be...
    • Passport Services
      223. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed and expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Northern Ireland
      239. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is will meet with an organisation (details supplied) in relation to the Irish Language Act in the Northern Ireland. [21974/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      240. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 717 of 26 April 2022, if will outline in detail the nature of the reciprocal agreement referred to; if...
    • Passport Services
      242. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the processing of a passport application by a person (details supplied) will be finalised; the reason for the delay in the processing...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      246. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the allegations which have been named CatalanGate; his views that there needs to be an official enquiry...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      247. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the Irish embassy in Kyiv will reopen again; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22234/22]
    • Ukraine War
      248. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking to ensure a safe evacuation for civilians in relation to the civilians in the Azovstal steel works in Mariupol city...
    • Departmental Staff
      249. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of secondments from his Department to the university third level sector over the past two years; and if he will make a statement...
    • EU Directives
      250. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a schedule of fines and totality of the amount paid in respect of fines issued by the EU on his Department for failing to...
  • Department of Defence
    • Departmental Schemes
      251. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will consider rolling out a noise amelioration grants programme for residents of Rathcoole, County Dublin similar to that which is...
    • Departmental Staff
      252. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of secondments from his Department to the university third level sector over the past two years; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Air Corps
      253. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if there are currently contracts in place with external providers that allows for a private company to send technicians from Britain to service...
    • Defence Forces
      254. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the transfer of lands (details supplied) to Wicklow County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22287/22]
    • EU Directives
      255. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a schedule of fines and totality of the amount paid in respect of fines issued by the EU on his Department for failing to...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Site Acquisitions
      256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a permanent site for a school (details supplied) has been identified; and construction of a permanent building is scheduled. [21700/22]
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of National Educational Psychological Service psychologists in full-time employment by county as of April 2022; the waiting times by...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); the status of this appeal; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs
      261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a special education teaching allocation review will take place for a school (details supplied). [21759/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the case of a school (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to the need to expedite this process...
    • School Staff
      263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide an additional teacher to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21777/22]
    • Site Acquisitions
      264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of sourcing a site and or permanent building for a school (details supplied). [21786/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new school building for a school (details supplied); the progress in relation to planning; and if she will...
    • Site Acquisitions
      267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the identification of a site to develop a permanent school for a school (details supplied); the process to determine if a site is...
    • School Accommodation
      268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the duration that remains on the lease for the temporary school accommodation for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that DEIS status was recently refused to a school (details supplied); if there is an appeal process; and if she will make a statement...
    • School Staff
      270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will conduct a review of the job description associated with principal teachers which has not been updated since 1973 (details...
    • Schools Building Projects
      272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21929/22]
    • School Attendance
      273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to publicly promote the importance of school attendance, especially for primary school children; her plans to support television and...
    • Education Welfare Service
      275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase the number of education welfare officers particularly in the north-east inner city of Dublin; and if she will make a...
    • Education Policy
      276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to nurture rooms (details supplied) which provide a space for young children to address their social and...
    • Special Educational Needs
      277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to a previous Parliamentary Question (details supplied), if she will provide an update; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Curriculum
      278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that the religious curriculum for primary school education does not include the Sikh religion; if he will consider its inclusion for...
    • Site Acquisitions
      279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will prioritise the identification of a site for a school (details supplied) given the urgency of the situation and the...
    • School Transport
      280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 919 of 26 April 2022, if she will address the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • State Examinations
      281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if alternative arrangements can be made in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22106/22]
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been brought to emails sent from the Teaching Council on 27 April, 2022; if its mailing list was accessed or hacked; and if...
    • School Curriculum
      283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention been brought to an RSE programme in a school (details supplied) that excluded LGBTQI+ relationships and contraception from its...
    • Irish Language
      284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason section 2.4 of Circulars 52 and 53 of 2019 refer to an Appeal of an Irish exemption refusal when it is only a review of the procedures...
    • Departmental Staff
      285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of secondments from her Department to the university third level sector over the past two years; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Schools Building Projects
      286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a progress report on planning and delivery in relation to two school projects (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Ukraine War
      287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to roll-out English language classes for Ukrainian children over the summer months to help them integrate into school...
    • School Accommodation
      288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the schools in the Dublin 9 and Dublin 11 area which are still operating out of portacabins; the plans in place to provide...
    • State Examinations
      289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to an issue facing blind leaving certificate students of Irish such as a person (details supplied) in which in...
    • EU Directives
      290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a schedule of fines and totality of the amount paid in respect of fines issued by the EU on her Department for failing to...
    • State Examinations
      291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she engaged with a teaching organisation (details supplied) on her announced changes to the Leaving Certificate. [22358/22]
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Ukraine War
      293. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of Ukrainian households that have entered the State since the start of the war; and the breakdown by household...
    • State Pensions
      294. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is considering allowing contributions to be made for pensions from rental income given the move to auto-enrolment....
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      295. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will raise the age for the home carers period scheme from 12 years of age to a minimum of 23 years of age for children...
    • Children in Care
      297. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that in cases in which a foster carer remains on the Tusla panel of approved foster carers and remains...
    • Public Services Card
      298. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that applicants for passports and driving licences are still being asked to produce a public services card for the...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      299. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a carers allowance payment for a person (details supplied) was suspended given that prior notification was...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      300. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for a domiciliary care allowance in the case of a person (details...
    • Widow's Pension
      301. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a widows grant in respect of a dependant will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      302. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons currently in receipt of jobseeker’s benefit or jobseeker’s allowance who have been in...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      303. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made in attempting to have funds recovered following the transfer to an incorrect account in the case of a...
    • Social Welfare Code
      304. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are any proposals to change the social welfare code in order that carers can avail of fuel allowance which is...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      306. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details suppled) is awaiting payments of illnesses payments relating to a period of weeks when they were...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      307. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expedite a response to a carer’s allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      309. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person whose entitlement to the illness benefit is exhausted after two years can sign on for credits in the time between...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      312. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that the guardian's payment is set at a rate of €191 per week; the way that this rate varies for additional...
    • State Pensions
      313. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she will publish her response to the Pension Commission's report considering she had initially indicated that she would...
    • Departmental Policies
      314. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she will publish her response to the Child Maintenance Review Group; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      315. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of fuel allowance applications that were refused in each of the past three years nationwide; and if she will make...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      316. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of fuel allowance applications that were refused in each of the past three years nationwide in cases in which the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      319. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22221/22]
    • Community Employment Drug Rehabilitation Projects
      320. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the acute problems in reinstating important services for rehabilitating drug dependent...
    • Departmental Staff
      321. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of secondments from her Department to the university third level sector over the past two years; and if she will...
    • Employment Support Services
      322. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the current contracts for the provision of local employment and job clubs services have been extended until the end of...
    • EU Directives
      325. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of fines and totality of the amount paid in respect of fines issued by the EU on her...
    • Disability Services
      326. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received for the disability assistance support scheme in each year from 2020 to date; the number...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      327. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received for the reasonable accommodation fund in each year from 2020 to date; the number of...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Childcare Services
      328. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans for the provision of new childcare options in counties Dublin, Meath, Wicklow and Kildare in view of...
    • Adoption Services
      329. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons waiting to be interviewed by the adoption authority in order to determine their...
    • Childcare Services
      332. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has surveyed the demand for childcare places in the Dublin region, that is counties Wicklow, Kildare,...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      333. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the basis for statements made by him and by other Ministers that Ireland had capacity to welcome up to 200,000...
    • Childcare Services
      334. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the provisions that are in place to provide public creches in the Adamstown, County Dublin to meet the growing...
    • Parental Leave
      335. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1068 of 26 April 2022, to the Minister for Social Protection, the current...
    • Departmental Programmes
      336. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of ABC programme places that were offered in areas (details supplied) from 26 April 2021 to 26 April...
    • Departmental Staff
      337. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of secondments from his Department to the university third level sector over the past two years; and...
    • Domestic Violence
      338. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1137 of 26 April 2022 if his proposals for the introduction of domestic...
    • Child Protection
      339. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1139 of 26 April 2022 in which he states that the list of issues prior to...
    • EU Directives
      340. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a schedule of fines and totality of the amount paid in respect of fines issued by the EU on...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      341. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the initiatives his Department is taking to help victims and survivors of childhood sexual abuse; the funding...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Gender Proofing of Policies
      343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the funding allocations in budget 2023 will be gender equality proofed and in accordance with wellbeing budget indicators; and if he will make...
    • Education and Training Provision
      344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the review of Ireland’s skills strategy being undertaken by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development incorporates an...
    • Research Funding
      352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that his Department has taken to develop public-public research partnerships (details supplied) in Ireland excluding within the EU...
    • Departmental Staff
      353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of secondments from his Department to the university third level sector over the past two years; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage and total number of both craft and consortia-led apprentices that will access off-the-job training in 2022 and the anticipated...
    • EU Directives
      355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a schedule of fines and totality of the amount paid in respect of fines issued by the EU on his Department for failing to...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Ukraine War
      356. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Ukrainian refugees who have been welcomed in Ireland to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • An Garda Síochána
      357. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of speed camera vans operating in each county in the State. [21914/22]
    • Coroners Service
      358. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the plans she has to reform the coroner system in Ireland and to resource it adequately to ensure it can carry out its...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      360. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the inquiry for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21675/22]
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      361. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of convictions by section under the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017, from 2017 to date in 2022, inclusive,...
    • Prison Service
      362. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners under sentence in the Dóchas centre for shoplifting and other petty property crimes in the context...
    • Citizenship Applications
      365. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date in the determination of an application for residency and citizenship in the case of a person (details...
    • Residency Permits
      367. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the residency status in the case of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21754/22]
    • Naturalisation Applications
      368. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a certificate of naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      369. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to the Afghan Relocation Programme; and if...
    • Citizenship Applications
      370. 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); and if...
    • Visa Applications
      371. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason that a person (details supplied) has been refused a holiday visa to visit their sons in 2022 given that they were...
    • Departmental Data
      372. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of convictions for offences contrary to sections 2 to 6, inclusive, and 9 to 12, inclusive, and 15 of the...
    • Visa Applications
      373. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when approval will issue for a short-term visa application by a person (details supplied). [21825/22]
    • Bench Warrants
      374. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of bench warrants currently outstanding in each Garda division as of 26 April 2022, in tabular form. [21838/22]
    • Visa Agreements
      376. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if any work visas are currently available for Ukrainian migrants travelling to Ireland from other European Union countries....
    • Citizenship Applications
      377. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the cases of persons (details supplied); and if...
    • Residency Permits
      378. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for a residency permit in the case of a person (details supplied);...
    • Human Trafficking
      379. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons arrested and charged with human trafficking offences in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if...
    • An Garda Síochána
      380. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda cars and vans allocated to the Garda dog unit in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; the number...
    • Drug Dealing
      382. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons arrested and charged with possession of drugs for sale or supply within the Donegal Garda Division in...
    • Visa Applications
      383. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of visa applications processed in each overseas visa office in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if she...
    • Departmental Data
      384. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of external experts consultants on retainer or engaged by the Garda national cybercrime unit and the Criminal Assets...
    • An Garda Síochána
      385. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and location of Garda forensic collision investigators; when the last competition for new forensic collision...
    • Gambling Sector
      389. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the application process for a gambling regulator CEO; the number of applications; if a...
    • Immigration Policy
      391. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that she is taking to ensure that the new immigrant investor programme does not make the public donation category...
    • Prison Service
      392. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received the new valuation report in respect of Thornton Hall; if she will provide the Comptroller and Auditor...
    • An Garda Síochána
      394. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the percentage of gardaí who are involved in roads policing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22031/22]
    • Visa Applications
      395. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average processing time for family re-unification visas for those who are holders of critical work permits working here;...
    • Prison Service
      396. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners incarcerated in each Irish prison for each of the past five years; the official capacity of each Irish...
    • Residency Permits
      399. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the requirements for a visa to remain in Ireland for non-EEA students who have completed a master's degree course in an Irish...
    • Citizenship Applications
      400. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the alternative identification that can be used to finalise a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Departmental Staff
      403. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of secondments from her Department to the university third level sector over the past two years; and if she will...
    • EU Directives
      404. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a schedule of fines and totality of the amount paid in respect of fines issued by the EU on her Department...
    • Departmental Programmes
      405. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of immigrant investor programme applications received, by year, since 2012; the number of successful applications,...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      409. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action that has been taken to strengthen laws against childhood sexual abuse in recent years; her plans for further...
    • Freedom of Speech
      410. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps, legislative or otherwise, her Department will take to give effect to the recent recommendation issued by the...
  • Department of Health
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      411. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the fact that funeral directors in Ireland do not communicate to bereaved families the updated HSE...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      412. 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. [22227/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      413. To ask the Minister for Health the figures that have been collected on the prevalence of long Covid among those who have been diagnosed with Covid-19 in Ireland; and if the figures will be...
    • Legislative Process
      414. To ask the Minister for Health when the pre-legislative scrutiny report of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019 will be available for public release; and if...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      416. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of Ireland’s Tobacco Free Ireland strategy; the way that it is planned to achieve the objectives of same; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      417. 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. [21671/22]
    • Primary Care Centres
      418. To ask the Minister for Health when the new primary healthcare facility will be fully operational in Mitchell Street, Thurles; the number of general practitioners who will be operating from...
    • Disability Services
      419. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who has an auditory processing disorder will receive recommended support to assist with their hearing; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      420. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a hydrotherapy pool (details supplied) is not open; if his Department will grant funding for same; if an application from the organisation has...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      421. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) has not been given a hospital appointment given the circumstances. [21687/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      422. To ask the Minister for Health if medications (details supplied) will become available under the medical card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21705/22]
    • Hospital Staff
      423. To ask the Minister for Health the current situation in respect of a vacant consultant dermatology post proposed to be shared jointly between St James’s Hospital Dublin and Portlaoise...
    • Pharmacy Services
      424. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that can be taken to ensure the greater availability of qualified pharmacists to work in retail pharmacies; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      428. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that are in place to end mixed-gender wards across public hospitals in each CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21731/22]
    • Dental Services
      429. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to ensure medical card patients in County Roscommon can gain access to dental treatment; the options available to medical card...
    • Mental Health Services
      430. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include persons (details supplied) in the north Kerry CAMHS review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21736/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      431. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a child (details supplied) who has been waiting five years for a consultation at the urology clinic at University Hospital Limerick;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      432. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be eligible for the Covid-19 bonus payment of €1,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21740/22]
    • Health Services
      433. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay for a person (details supplied) to be sent to the Netherlands for treatment for second line cancer therapy; and if he will make a...
    • General Practitioner Services
      434. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dispensing doctors in Ireland from 2017 to 2021, inclusive; the number who are located in rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      435. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding for a motorised chair for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21781/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      436. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a child (details supplied) with epilepsy who has been waiting three years for a test at University Hospital Limerick; and if he will...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      437. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of primary medical certificate applications that are currently submitted awaiting assessment; the expected length of time to clear the...
    • Mental Health Services
      438. To ask the Minister for Health when a permanent consultant psychiatrist will be put in place for north Kerry adult mental health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      440. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on HSE guidelines for the use of teleclinics including those conducted by physicians who are located outside of Ireland; and if he will make...
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      442. To ask the Minister for Health if he will launch an investigation into the failure of University Hospital Limerick to lower the trolley numbers at the hospital despite opening a new 60-bed...
    • National Children's Hospital
      443. To ask the Minister for Health the current cost of the national children's hospital to date; the projected final cost of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21800/22]
    • Hospital Facilities
      444. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the HSE chose not to include the mid-west region for any additional acute, subacute and ICU beds for 2022 as part of the 411 beds allocated...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      445. To ask the Minister for Health if occupational therapy and speech and language therapy assessments have been temporarily frozen or suspended by the HSE; if so, the reason for doing so; and...
    • Disability Services
      446. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding disability services for a child (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21812/22]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      447. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the National Treatment Purchase Fund inpatient and day case active by specialty waiting list by procedure type and procedure for each...
    • Health Services
      448. To ask the Minister for Health if a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) will be addressed; if this policy is in place; the extent to which the policy applies; the...
    • Disability Services
      449. To ask the Minister for Health if any disability services for children have been suspended following the recent cases taken or decided in the courts; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      450. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that clerical staff working on the frontline through the successful vaccination programme have been excluded from receiving the pandemic bonus...
    • Health Services
      451. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE needle exchanges and their operating hours in 2022, in tabular form. [21839/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      452. To ask the Minister for Health the number of bone anchor hearing aids fitted in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022 in Roscommon University Hospital.; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Qualifications
      453. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a update on the Health and Social Care Professionals Council to regulate counselling and psychotherapy; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Mortality Rates
      454. To ask the Minister for Health if any analysis has been undertaken to explain the significant increase in deaths in Ireland in the period from July to September 2021 (details supplied); and...
    • Disability Services
      455. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the lack of services provided to a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21854/22]
    • Departmental Funding
      456. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be made available to an organisation (details supplied) in relation to the provision of one-to-one services for a person [21870/22]
    • Home Care Packages
      457. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the provision of home-care services; if a new tender will issue to provide these services in the coming weeks; if community and voluntary...
    • Health Services
      458. To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive as per a promise they made earlier in 2022 will pay for the roll-out of active neuro in community health organisation, CHO, 3...
    • Hospital Charges
      459. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount charged for parking at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021; the total revenue generated by parking charges; the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      472. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the interim model of care for long Covid as developed by the HSE; the way in which persons can access this model of care throughout the country;...
    • Health Strategies
      476. To ask the Minister for Health if current community and voluntary representatives on the national oversight committee, NOC, on national drugs strategy, NDS, will have a role in deciding...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      477. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide public funding for IVF in 2023 (details supplied); the amount of funding that is being provided; the persons that will be eligible to...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      478. To ask the Minister for Health the reason pacemakers cannot be checked in Cavan General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21932/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      479. To ask the Minister for Health the health technology assessments received by the corporate pharmaceutical unit in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022; the date of the HSE...
    • Disability Services
      480. To ask the Minister for Health if he will act to retain the speech and language therapist at a school (details supplied) being removed by the HSE in which there is an established...
    • Abortion Services
      481. To ask the Minister for Health the number of submissions that his Department received through its three year review public consultation process of the abortion legislation; if he will...
    • Departmental Data
      482. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the county of origin that the heart attack patient numbers derive from in the Irish heart attack audit national report 2017-2020; the total...
    • Home Help Service
      484. To ask the Minister for Health if the home help hours currently being offered to a person (details supplied) can be re-assessed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21960/22]
    • Disability Services
      485. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of the health budget that was allocated to disability services in the budget in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Services
      488. To ask the Minister for Health the specific locations and addresses for HSE services in County Cavan; the services being provided in each location and address; and if he will make a...
    • Health Strategies
      489. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the programme for Government commitment to explore the potential for introducing a 24-hour triage and health concerns telephone and website...
    • National Children's Hospital
      490. To ask the Minister for Health if the new National Children’s Hospital at St. James’s Hospital will be able to carry out heart and lung transplants for children under 16 years...
    • Hospital Services
      491. To ask the Minister for Health if he will approve the cardiology business plan which has been submitted by Letterkenny University Hospital, Donegal in view of the cessation of mobile...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      492. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 827 of 5 April 2022, the details of potential conflicts of interest declared by HSE managers in respect of procurement or...
    • Abortion Services
      493. To ask the Minister for Health the name of the research studies and reports that are being consulted by his Department as part of the review into the revisited model of care for the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      494. To ask the Minister for Health when an organisation (details supplied) will be given guidance on the health pandemic bonus payment. [22028/22]
    • Disease Management (1 comment)
      495. To ask the Minister for Health the awareness campaigns and training that is available to general practitioners for the identification and treatment of Lyme disease. [22033/22]
    • Home Care Packages
      498. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons approved for homecare supports who are currently waiting on delivery of support hours in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement...
    • Healthcare Policy
      501. To ask the Minister for Health the date that has been selected for the implementation of the free contraception scheme, starting with 17 to 25-year-olds, that was announced in Budget 2022;...
    • Health Service Executive
      508. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a property (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22052/22]
    • Traveller Community
      509. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made by his Department in 2022 on the implementation of a National Traveller Health Action Plan as set out in the Programme for...
    • Medical Inquiries
      510. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1577 of 26 April 2022, if he will confirm details of a matter (details supplied); and if the matter has now been...
    • Mental Health Services
      511. To ask the Minister for Health the discussions that his Department has had with an organisation (details supplied) to provide a dual diagnosis service; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Services
      512. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HSE dual diagnosis programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22067/22]
    • Hospital Admissions
      513. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the new model of care for persons presenting with self-harm in emergency departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22068/22]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      515. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1034 of 26 April 2022, if he plans to conduct across-Departmental budgetary analysis with the Department of Social...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      516. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position with a new health facility (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22086/22]
    • Abortion Services
      518. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered the dangerous impact of telemedicine abortion in cases of unidentified ectopic pregnancies due to the absence of a physical examination...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      520. To ask the Minister for Health if he will schedule a date for neck surgery for a person (details supplied). [22115/22]
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      521. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the specialist team tasked with addressing trolley numbers at University Hospital Limerick; the options that will be open to this specialist...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      522. To ask the Minister for Health the progress in relation to any ongoing HSE investigations into any tobacco products currently on the market in Ireland for having a characterising flavour of...
    • Medical Cards
      524. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider expanding the criteria for granting a medical card to include patients who have a cancer diagnosis that would prove fatal without...
    • Ukraine War
      525. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to ensure Ukrainians fleeing war and arriving into Ireland are aware of and appropriately referred to services that support children...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      526. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of those in County Mayo who are diabetic pump patients in tabular form. [22217/22]
    • Hospital Services
      527. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to introduce the Pathfinder programme which is in operation at Beaumont Hospital in the mid-west region to help alleviate pressures on...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      528. To ask the Minister for Health the funding that is available to families of disabled children who require permanent equipment in their home such as a hoist; and if there is funding available...
    • Mental Health Services
      529. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting on the CAMHS waiting list in County Wexford; the average waiting time; the number waiting more than six and more than 12 months,...
    • Disability Services
      530. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list broken down by waiting times for the children’s disability network team in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Staff
      531. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff members who are working from home on both a part-time and full-time basis in each of the following hospitals Connolly Hospital, Our Lady of...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      532. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for a person (detail supplied). [22242/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      533. To ask the Minister for Health the details of secondments from his Department to the university third level sector over the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Services
      534. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an urgent review into the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will ensure that sufficient funds are released in order that they...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      535. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend the pandemic recognition payment to clerical staff working on the frontline vaccination programme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      536. To ask the Minister for Health the position titles and names of the persons currently working in the National Foetal Valproate Syndrome Assessment Team; the location they are geographically...
    • Medicinal Products
      538. To ask the Minister for Health the actions taken by his Department and the HSE to implement the 2014 EMA ruling in relation to Valproate specifically around educating general practitioners...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      539. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend the pandemic recognition payment to caretakers and cleaners working in health centres around the country; and if he will make a statement...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      540. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that County Donegal only received circa 10% of the recent funding approved by the HSE for congregated settings under the capital developments scheme...
    • Hospital Services
      541. To ask the Minister for Health if the angiogram service will be retained in the cardiac unit at Letterkenny University Hospital and will be built upon at the hospital working on a...
    • Hospital Facilities
      542. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the cardiac radiology unit that was donated to Letterkenny University Hospital by a group (details supplied) in 2018 has not been commissioned....
    • Pharmacy Services
      543. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider permitting appropriately trained pharmacists to prescribe medicine following assessing patients in order to reduce demand on general...
    • Mental Health Services
      544. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a permanently employed psychiatrist in the Dublin north east HSE region; if not, the number of vacant posts; the number of psychiatrists that...
    • Home Help Service
      545. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will immediately reinstate a HSE home support team provided laundry service that has been in place for senior citizens and vulnerable persons at a...
    • Mental Health Services
      546. To ask the Minister for Health the number of permanent psychiatrists in the Dublin north east mental health area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22307/22]
    • Teacher Training
      547. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 951 of 26 April 2022, the training the HSE provides to teachers with students with epilepsy; the way that this training...
    • Disability Services
      548. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 951 of 26 April 2022, the funding given towards nursing supports for children with epilepsy in the past five years, by...
    • School Funding
      549. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 951 of 26 April 2022, the process a school must engage with to seek funding for a nursing support for a children with...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      550. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to set up long Covid clinics outside of Dublin specifically for the west Cork region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22316/22]
    • Disease Management
      551. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HSE working group on ME and CFS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22317/22]
    • EU Directives
      552. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule of fines and totality of the amount paid in respect of fines issued by the EU on his Department for failing to transpose EU...
    • Care Services
      553. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the latest round of homecare tenders which were delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic; if there have been substantial changes to the tender since...
    • Nursing Homes
      554. To ask the Minister for Health if there is an alternative that can be offered to a person who is being advised by the HSE that they must put their house up for the fair deal scheme to cover...
    • Disability Services
      555. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that school age services were transferred from a service provider (details supplied) to the HSE; the number of children on waiting lists for...
    • Home Care Packages
      557. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to a person (details supplied) who is receiving only one-quarter of their assigned hours of weekly homecare and requires specialised...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Agriculture Schemes
      558. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will reconsider the fine for herd replacement for a person (details supplied) on the beef data and genomics programme; and if...
    • Departmental Funding
      559. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his announcement of €9 million of funding from the Brexit Adjustment Reserve Fund for Greencastle Breakwater, County...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      560. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions that he is taking to deal with the backlog of the registration of horses with Horse Sport Ireland; the number of staff...
    • Departmental Schemes
      561. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when licences (details supplied) will be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21843/22]
    • Animal Feedstuffs
      562. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 40 of 9 May 2019, the level of animal feedstuffs imported each year since 2018; the steps that...
    • Animal Carcase Disposal
      563. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the manner in which animal collection services are subvented; the amount expended on same by county in each of the years 2018 to...
    • Animal Sales
      566. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are plans to improve regulation of the trade of exotic animals; and if a positive list system has been considered as Belgium...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      567. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive their ANC payment; the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Staff
      568. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of secondments from his Department to the university third level sector over the past two years; and if he will make a...
    • Climate Action Plan
      569. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way he intends to meet the Climate Action Plan action number 343 to promote the role of afforestation as a climate solution; the...
    • Departmental Funding
      570. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding allocated from the Exchequer to the Marine Institute in 2020 and 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
    • Forestry Sector
      571. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost of planting one hectare of public land with broadleaf trees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22280/22]
    • EU Directives
      572. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of fines and totality of the amount paid in respect of fines issued by the EU on his Department for...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      573. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make available any communications from the European Commissioner concerning the draft CAP Strategic Plan. [22357/22]
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Public Sector Staff
      574. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to extend the retirement age of workers in Pobal-funded community service programmes across the State. [21713/22]
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      575. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a short temporary arrangement will be put in place in order that charitable organisations can continue to receive donations while...
    • Departmental Staff
      576. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the details of secondments from his Department to the university third level sector over the past two years; and if she will make a...
    • EU Directives
      577. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule of fines and totality of the amount paid in respect of fines issued by the EU on her Department for...
    • Telecommunications Services
      578. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department will consider entering into a partnership with the mobile network operators in Ireland to ensure mobile phone...

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