Written answers
Thursday, 5 May 2022
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Arts Policy
4. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the dearth of artistic spaces and venues in the city of Dublin; and her plans on same. [22186/22]
- Tourism Promotion
16. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if additional measures will be implemented to promote tourism in the Hidden Heartlands Region for the 2022 season in view of the...
- Artists' Remuneration
17. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way her Department intends to ensure that those additional social welfare payments such as one-parent families or disability...
- Heritage Sites
18. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the Government will purchase the former home of (details supplied) now that it is back on the market and no longer to be...
- Tourism Funding
19. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will detail the uptake in County Mayo of the tourism business continuity scheme since its introduction. [22200/22]
- Sports Events
20. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention was brought to a sporting bodies (details supplied) ongoing situation regarding its 17 executives and committee...
- Pleanáil Teanga
21. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé na tacaíochtaí atá beartaithe ag a Roinn chun a chinntiú gur féidir le teifigh ón...
- Cruinnithe an Aire
22. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht maidir le Ceisteanna Parlaiminte 10295/22 agus 2836/22, cad é stádas an ghasra oibre; soiléiriú a thabhairt ar...
- Departmental Reports
23. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the proposed approach that Government is taking to the report by the Media Commission; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Pleanáil Teanga
24. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte 15507/22, cén dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir le plean teanga Bhearna agus Chnoc na...
- Irish Language
25. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she has taken to promote the Irish Language and to ensure the survival of the language in Gaeltacht areas since she took...
- Sports Funding
27. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a review into the Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund will be completed; and the subsequent process that Monaghan County...
- Sports Facilities
28. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide an update on the proposed redevelopment of Dalymount Park. [22183/22]
- Oideachas Gaeltachta
29. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht soiléiriú a thabhairt ó thaobh na bpleananna atá beartaithe maidir le coláistí samhraidh i mbliana,...
- Departmental Strategies
30. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her Department’s strategy to bridge the gaps in participation in sport by women and people with disabilities; and if she...
- Pleanáil Teanga
31. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil sí ar an eolas faoi chás inar sháraigh Comhairle Contae Chorcaí an dlí teanga le...
- Sports Events
32. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the development of a Major International Sports Events Policy for Ireland; and if she will make a...
- Sports Funding
33. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports that are in place and will be introduced to support women’s rugby; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Tourism Promotion
34. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the degree to which she expects to utilise Ireland’s culture in the promotion of a positive image at home and abroad which...
- Artists' Remuneration
35. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of applicants that applied for the basic income for artists by the mid-point of the application window; and if this is...
- Údarás na Gaeltachta
37. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte 10318/22, cathain a chríochnófar an tríú gné den obair athbhreithnithe...
- Scéimeanna Teanga
38. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil aon aiseolas faighte ag a Roinn go dáta maidir le laghdú suntasach a bheith ann ar líon na dtithe atá...
- Online Safety
39. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of recruitment of an Online Safety Commissioner; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22116/22]
- Tourism Policy
40. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the development of a new national tourism policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Irish Language
42. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the Irish language planning process including outstanding commitments; and if she will make a...
- Artists' Remuneration
43. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of artists from the most recent data available that have applied for the artists basic income scheme and the number of...
- Culture Policy
45. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 75 of 24 February 2022, the details of the legacy framework arising from Galway 2020; the way...
- Tourism Promotion
46. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the engagements she has had with the stakeholders of the Gearagh in County Cork to improve the attractiveness of this site for...
- Online Safety
47. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the progress on the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill including the activity of the expert...
- Northern Ireland
48. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department and the agencies under the remit of her Department will avail of funding under the Peace Plus Programme to...
- Scéimeanna Teanga
49. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil sí ar an eolas faoin taighde ó Ghlór na nGael a léiríonn nach bhfuil ach 7,000 teaghlach ar fud...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
50. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the financial supports she is putting in place for unsuccessful applicants for the LPSS2 funding, left with debt due to Government...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Ukraine War
63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he envisages a similar relaxation of guidelines for persons erecting temporary or modular structures in view of recent...
- Housing Policy
64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will immediately introduce a ban on evictions as was done during Covid considering the escalating housing crisis and the...
- Rental Sector
65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will support legislation to close a loophole which results in a section of the Carrigaline local electoral area not being...
- Housing Policy
66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the correct procedures and rules regarding the allocation of social housing by approved housing bodies; if the nomination of...
- Local Authorities
68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the number of appointed full-time vacancy officers and town regeneration officers across local...
- Housing Policy
69. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will increase the income thresholds for local authority housing applicants in order to ensure that urgent progress is...
- Emergency Accommodation
70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a report on the vacant buildings his Department has already identified that might be used for emergency...
- Housing Policy
71. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the targets for the return of social housing stock; and the targeted average timeline for return. [22133/22]
- Housing Schemes
72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to increase the maximum rent payment under the HAP scheme in view of the fact that many HAP applicants cannot...
- Derelict Sites
73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views regarding the imposition of a derelict sites tax in place of the existing levy; and if he will make a statement on...
- Housing Policy
74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his position regarding the charging of hello money to new tenants of social housing provided by approved housing bodies. [20735/22]
- Regeneration Projects
76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the timeline for completion of the regeneration of Knocknaheeny. [22134/22]
- Emergency Accommodation
79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will investigate the empty seamark buildings on Merrion Road and see if they could play a role in providing emergency...
- Local Authorities
80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will allocate funding to local authorities for the 2022 Voids Programme in view of the importance of this scheme in...
- Housing Provision
82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current number of persons and families who are in need of social housing in County Monaghan. [22040/22]
- Ukraine War
83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the way local authorities are co-ordinating their refugee supports; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Housing Policy
84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the required regulations setting out the criteria of the local authority affordable purchase scheme will be issued; and if...
- Rental Sector
85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will introduce emergency measures to lower rents in view of the increases in rents that have been recently announced; and...
- Special Areas of Conservation
86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has had any engagements with the stakeholders of the Gearagh in County Cork; if there are any plans to upgrade the...
- Heritage Sites
88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the negotiations between his Department and Moore Street market traders for compensation; if...
- House Prices
89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average percentage by which house prices and rent rates have increased in the State in each of the past five years and to...
- Housing Provision
90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which each local authority has achieved progress in relation to the provision of affordable first-time buyers...
- Ukraine War
91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if families in local authority homes will be allowed to host Ukrainian families and not be in breach of their tenancy...
- Housing Schemes
92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that is being made under project Tosaigh to bring sites with outstanding permissions forward to deliver homes at...
- Electoral Commission
93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made to date in establishing an electoral commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22097/22]
- Housing Provision
94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to provide affordable and social housing for people with disabilities. [22153/22]
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Company Law
97. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will seek the extension of the derogation originally introduced during the pandemic allowing AGMs/EGMs of Owner Management...
- Employment Rights
98. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if in the interests of work-life balance he will consider changes in legislation or in regulations to ensure that workers to receive...
- Work Permits
99. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will designate retail pharmacy as a critical skills shortage in Ireland. [22517/22]
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Electricity Generation
103. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are plans to expand the microgeneration support scheme to make it more accessible for schools, community...
- Energy Policy
105. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of potential policies and legislation relating to anaerobic digestion plants; and if he will make a...
- Climate Change Policy
111. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there is potential to create a carbon credit system for companies here to help lower emissions and to help this...
- Departmental Meetings
116. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that officials from his Department will not meet a person (details supplied) in County Mayo despite numerous...
- Energy Conservation
117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way that he expects persons to insulate their homes and reduce their energy consumption in view of the fact that a...
- Regulatory Bodies
118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the Commission for Regulation of Utilities has carried out an examination of the structural factors as to the reason...
- Energy Policy
119. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the IPCC AR6 WGIII report which states that the Energy Charter Treaty and its inclusion of Investor State...
- Departmental Programmes
120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the Tellus airborne geophysical survey for 2022 will commence; the programme and areas of the country to be...
- Departmental Staff
122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 802 of 26 April 2022, if he will clarify further issues of concern (details...
- Broadband Infrastructure
123. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the plans that are in place for high-speed broadband in the area of Moanamought, Callan, County Kilkenny; and if he...
- Energy Policy
124. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if landlords with multiple tenants in the same building, all who have different energy meters, are to split the...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Rail Network
125. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 191 of 5 April 2022, (details supplied) if he will intervene to make specific, ring-fenced funding...
- Legislative Measures
126. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the rationale for the delay in progressing legislation in respect of e-scooter and e-bike use on public roads; and the...
- Driver Test
127. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will expedite a driving retest in respect of a person (details supplied). [22546/22]
- Department of Finance
- Health Services
128. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) can claim tax back on two cataract procedures carried out in a private hospital. [22382/22]
- Ukraine War
129. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on his engagement with the banking sector following the European Council recommendation on the conversion of hryvnia banknotes...
- Banking Sector
130. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department or the Central Bank’s attention was drawn to plans by banks (details supplied) to cease the provision of current accounts and savings...
- State Bodies
131. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 49 of 22 February 2022, if a new Disabled Driver Medical Board of Appeal has been appointed; and if he will make a...
- Tax Code
132. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of extending the 9% VAT rate for hospitality and tourism-related services until 31 December 2023. [22453/22]
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Office of Public Works
135. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the continued advertisement of non-established grade positions in the Office of Public Works even though there are well...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Film Industry
138. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the fact by persons ordinarily employed in occupations in Irish film and television production,...
- Irish Language
139. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the recruitment process to appoint members to the Irish Language Services Advisory Committee...
- Sports Organisations
140. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress on meeting the target of 40% female representation on the boards of sporting organisations; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Reports
141. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will outline progress in meeting the recommendations of the Night-Time Economy Taskforce Report; and if she will make a...
- Ministerial Staff
142. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the salaries and pensions paid out to special advisers to Ministers and Ministers of State in her Department in 2020 and 2021,...
- Commissions of Investigation
143. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of commissions of investigation under the remit of her Department currently ongoing in the State; the cost of each...
- Legislative Reviews
144. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the inputs and contributions her Department has made to the review of licensing laws; if she is planning to recommend an...
- Departmental Funding
145. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding that is available to a group (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22396/22]
- Defibrillators Provision
146. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the best source of public funding that a community group could apply for in order to purchase a defibrillator for a local...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Electricity Generation
147. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the changes that can be introduced in order to speed up the planning permission process for other forms of microgeneration...
- Housing Policy
149. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether there is only mortgage protection insurance offered to local authority home loan applicants. [21479/22]
- Housing Schemes
150. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention was drawn to the fact that approved housing bodies are being bypassed in the mortgage to rent process in...
- Planning Issues
151. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that has been made in addressing action 60 of the Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 (details supplied) review...
- Heritage Sites
152. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if concerns have been brought to his attention about ongoing serious damage being done to Oldcourt Castle in Bray, County...
- Housing Provision
153. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will account for the pausing of construction on a social housing project at an area (details supplied); and if he will...
- Planning Issues
157. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify the precise objectives that Article 8F of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001-2022 (as inserted...
- State Properties
159. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is an outstanding issue in relation to an area (details supplied) over...
- National Parks and Wildlife Service
160. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a mooring; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Northern Ireland
162. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 362 (details supplied), if he will provide details on meetings with Louth County Council...
- Housing Provision
163. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans that are in place to reduce waiting times for accessible housing for patients with Huntington’s disease...
- Departmental Functions
164. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the vacant homes unit established in 2017 in his Department; the different role this plays to the vacant homes...
- State Bodies
165. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff vacancies by grade currently in the Residential Tenancies Board; the estimated cost of filling each of...
- Defective Building Materials
166. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish a deadline for the delivery of the report of the Working Group to examine the issue of defective housing...
- Rental Sector
169. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to instances in which tenants in private rental accommodation are tolerating substandard...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Citizenship Applications
170. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22512/22]
- Passport Services
171. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a refund will issue for passport emergency appointments for applications (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces
178. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the consideration that has been given to the proposal to have a medal issued to the members of the Defence Forces, as they would be issued after...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Education Welfare Service
179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the recruitment of an additional education welfare officer in County Offaly; and when he expects the vacant...
- Scoileanna Lán-Ghaeilge
180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 888 and 889 of 26 April 2022, when the first of the intradepartmental working group took place the parties...
- Educational Disadvantage
181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the DEIS appeal for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22395/22]
- Defibrillators Provision
182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the best source of public funding that a community group could apply for in order to purchase a defibrillator for a local community, that would...
- Schools Amalgamation
183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the proposed amalgamation of a school (details supplied) into a single school based in Ballyconnell, County Cavan; if this...
- School Staff
184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to ensure that the criteria for the allocation of funding for traffic wardens is amended to ensure that all schools that...
- Schools Refurbishment
185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of the major refurbishment works being carried out at a school (details supplied); and when these works will be completed....
- School Accommodation
186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide full clarity in relation to the status of the application for additional school accommodation for a school (details supplied)...
- Schools Building Projects
187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a new school site for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22488/22]
- State Examinations
188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the results of the leaving certificate examinations 2022 will be released; when a decision on this matter will be made; and if she will make...
- School Transport
189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if pupils who are attending their second closest school will be deemed eligible for school transport for the school year 2022-2023 as was in the...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Benefits
190. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a child benefit application by a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
191. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to increasing the threshold for travel allowance as part of the means testing assessment for...
- Social Welfare Benefits
193. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total cost of the household benefits package to the State from 2019 to 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
- State Pensions
194. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider providing specific State pensions for foster parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Magdalen Laundries
195. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when all State records on the Magdalen laundries from the McAleese archive will be released; and if he will make...
- Childcare Services
196. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will liaise with his Ministerial counterpart with responsibility for childcare to address the crisis...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Pharmacy Services
197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the need for a new pathway for experienced pharmacy technicians to become fully qualified; and if he envisages the introduction of...
- Third Level Education
198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the need for an increase in the number of Irish university places for pharmacy. [22519/22]
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Visa Applications
199. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the visa change to a stamp 4 will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [22542/22]
- An Garda Síochána
201. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the security review undertaken by her Department and an Garda Síochána in relation to cabinet ministers;...
- Immigration Policy
202. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person whose parent have Irish citizenship whilst they hold a stamp 3 would have the right to fly home for two months and...
- Prison Service
203. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to a study published by the Irish Penal Reform Trust entitled Sometimes 'I'm Missing the...
- An Garda Síochána
204. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardai by rank attached to Clare Divisional Protective Services Bureau as of 1 May 2021 and 1 May 2022, in...
- Prison Service
207. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will confirm that period products are readily available for all women in Dóchas and Limerick prisons and that the...
- Citizenship Applications
210. 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. [22513/22]
- Prison Service
211. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of inmates currently detained in the Irish Prison Service that are being held purely on remand for between one and...
- Ukraine War
214. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is any particular process in the case of Ukrainian refugees seeking to work in Ireland for the Garda vetting in the...
- Department of Health
- Legislative Measures
215. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022 to become law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22387/22]
- Hospital Appointments Status
216. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the case of a child (details supplied) who has been advised he will be waiting two years for an MRI at University Hospital Limerick; and...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
217. To ask the Minister for Health if section 39 frontline health workers who worked throughout the pandemic will be entitled to the health workers’ pandemic bonus; and if he will make a...
- Mental Health Services
218. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide specific funding for an initiative (details supplied) to be rolled out in all counties across the State. [22386/22]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
219. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 210 of 23 February 2022, if the full eligibility criteria for healthcare workers to receive the Covid-19 frontline bonus...
- Defibrillators Provision
221. To ask the Minister for Health the best source of public funding that a community group could apply for in order to purchase a defibrillator for a local community; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Facilities
222. To ask the Minister for Health when it is anticipated that construction works will commence on a unit (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22402/22]
- Medical Aids and Appliances
223. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to provide funding for the provision of (details supplied) to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need; and if he will...
- Legislative Reviews
226. To ask the Minister for Health the date in which he will announce the identity of the successful bidder of the tender to complete research into the views of service users and service...
- Medical Internships
227. To ask the Minister for Health if non-EU citizens of the United Kingdom whether from Northern Ireland or Great Britain, who train in an Irish medical school and complete to a sufficient...
- Health Services
228. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the persons appointed to sit on the Assessment of Need Review Group; the details of the terms of reference of this group; if the terms of...
- Ambulance Service
229. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that ambulances still attempt to use a route (details supplied) blocked by bollards since August 2017; and if the ambulance service mapping system...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
230. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment under the NTPF; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22442/22]
- Disability Services
231. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children that are on the waiting list to access treatment for autism following diagnosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22446/22]
- Health Services
232. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown by date of the last visit by HSE personnel to each school in County Clare with an ASD unit in tabular form. [22450/22]
- Eating Disorders
233. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding to provide treatment centres or community specialist services to support those with eating disorders in CHO area 3. [22451/22]
- Hospital Services
234. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that presented to the minor injuries unit at Ennis Hospital in each of the years of 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form....
- Health Services
235. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22462/22]
- Hospital Appointments Status
236. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment in Sligo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Health Services
237. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 192 of 6 April 2022, if a breakdown of the number of assaults recorded against medical, nursing, midwifery and other...
- Hospital Facilities
238. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 359 and 360 of 2 April 2019, the current value and income of each car park, for each hospital for each year since 2017,...
- Health Services
239. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to establish a dedicated clinic for sufferers of long Covid on a permanent basis in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the...
- General Practitioner Services
240. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners providing vasectomy services through GMS contracts across all CHOs for each year for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022;...
- Pharmacy Services
242. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the position regarding the shortage of retail pharmacists in Ireland; if he has heard reports that some pharmacies face closure and reduced...
- Health Services
243. To ask the Minister for Health the number of designated cancer centres that have an established, designated service to address the psycho-social needs of patients with cancer and their...
- Healthcare Policy
244. To ask the Minister for Health if an update will be provided on the progress of the National Lymphoedema Clinical Guidelines. [22525/22]
- National Maternity Hospital
245. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the extent of an indemnity further to certain circumstances (details supplied); the areas of activity which it will cover; the implications...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
246. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a review of a product (details supplied); the stocks that have been purchased; the expected delivery date; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
247. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE has carried out a new review of neurosurgical services, given that a recommendation from the 2005 review of neurosurgical services...
- Departmental Correspondence
248. To ask the Minister for Health if a response will issue to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if he has investigated this matter; if so, the findings of this investigation;...
- Hospital Services
249. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to communications between an organisation (details supplied) and a neurosurgeon in relation to the decision to designate the...
- Disease Management
250. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made by the National Clinical Programme for Neurology and the HSE Scheduled Care Transformation Programme throughout 2021 and 2022...
- Hospital Appointments Status
253. To ask the Minister for Health if a date for surgery will be expedited for a person (detail supplied). [22547/22]
- Nursing Homes
254. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application under the fair deal scheme by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22548/22]
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Forestry Sector
255. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is the case that where tree felling is exempt from a licence, under s.19 of the Forestry Act 2014, whether or not this tree...
- Fishing Industry
256. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the €25 million that was announced in March 2022 (details supplied) is not used for all fishery groups; and if he...
- Greyhound Industry
257. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of inspections carried out on a care centre (details supplied); the person or body that the authorised persons for...
- Agriculture Schemes
258. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an organic payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22504/22]
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Animal Breeding
259. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of inspections carried out on licensed dog breeding establishments; the number of improvement notices; and the number of...
