Written answers

Tuesday, 17 May 2022

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Shared Island Dialogue
      39. To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline the vision for the Shared Island Dialogue following the Assembly elections in Northern Ireland. [22990/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      51. To ask the Taoiseach if a person from his Department is currently seconded to the university or third-level education sector. [22903/22]
    • Departmental Investigations
      52. To ask the Taoiseach the number of internal investigations ongoing in his Department into instances in which documents were leaked to the media. [22904/22]
    • Northern Ireland
      53. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the leaders of the parties in Northern Ireland following the Stormont elections. [22930/22]
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Employment Schemes
      81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will engage with TUS and RSS around expanding and improving the service as well as addressing outstanding pay and...
    • Citizens Information Services
      82. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the closure of the Wicklow Town Citizens’ Information Centre (details supplied); if...
    • Ukraine War
      83. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to ensure the welfare of Ukrainian refugees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24215/22]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      84. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who are in receipt of the blind pension; her Department’s work in this area to support persons...
    • Employment Support Services
      86. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her Department’s progress in supporting unemployed persons back into work, including those in long-term unemployment...
    • Employment Schemes
      88. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline measures taken to prevent abuse of the Work Placement Experience Programme; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      90. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the circumstances in which recipients of social welfare protections payments can have their payments suspended without prior...
    • Employment Support Services
      91. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify the position in relation to the current JobBridge scheme and the current contracts with SeeTec and Turas...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      92. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will set up a cost of living hardship fund to be distributed by community welfare officers in the community and...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      93. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to increase eligibility for fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24563/22]
    • Artists' Remuneration
      94. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the protections that are in place to ensure that artists selected as part of the basic income for the arts pilot scheme will...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      95. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered increasing social welfare rates given the recent Central Statistics Office report highlighting the...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      97. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide details on her Department’s new workplace pension scheme; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      98. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the benefits of doubling the period of time for which domiciliary care allowance and carer’s...
    • Home Care Sector
      99. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the engagement that she has had with representatives of the home care sector, the Department of Health and the Department of...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      100. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures that are being taken to reduce processing times on all appeals received for social protection applications; and...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      101. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her response to the key conclusion in the report, The Cost of Disability in Ireland that the levels of disability payments...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      102. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of participants in the farm assist scheme; the number of farmers that will benefit from reforms to the farm assist...
    • Ukraine War
      103. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her Department’s supports for Ukrainian nationals post-arrival; the number of PPS numbers allocated by age and gender...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      104. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the supports under the domiciliary care allowance and carer’s allowance for parents and guardians of...
    • State Pensions
      105. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the implementation the full transition to the total contributions approach as recommended by the commission on...
    • Employment Support Services
      107. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the tender process for all public employment services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24668/22]
    • Employment Schemes
      108. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to carry out a review of the JobPath scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24496/22]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is undertaking a review of the fuel scheme in the context of the rising prices and the ongoing climate crisis. [24506/22]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given by her Department to a once-off cost of living increase for social welfare recipients...
    • Public Sector Staff
      112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will resolve the issue in which 400 plus supervisors working in TÚS and the rural social scheme have had no pay...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider meeting with family carers to discuss supports they need due to the cost of living crisis. [24588/22]
    • Artists' Remuneration
      115. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to a motion passed by Monaghan County Council (details supplied) in relation to supporting...
    • Employment Schemes
      116. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends reforming the TÚS, community employment and the rural social schemes to make them more attractive to...
    • Income Inequality
      117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on Ireland’s level of income inequality as found in the recent European Union survey on income and living...
    • Employment Support Services
      118. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify what if any provisions her Department has made for dealing or absorbing current LES staff who may lose...
    • Public Sector Pay
      119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is considering a comparative evaluation of the work undertaken by supervisors on community employment schemes and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      120. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports that are in place to assist victims of domestic violence to access rent supplement; the number accessing the...
    • Youth Unemployment
      122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the specific measures that her Department is taking to tackle youth unemployment. [18633/22]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      123. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who are still in receipt of the enhanced illness benefit to date; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Employment Schemes
      124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures her Department is taking to attract unemployed women or women looking to return to work into the construction...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      125. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will introduce a secure webchat capability for local INTREO offices to facilitate families with young children, those...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the findings of the most recent European Union survey on Income and living conditions data, including measures...
    • Labour Market
      128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current or expected positive outcomes of the labour market in the aftermath of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reduce deprivation among lone parent families given the increase in deprivation found in the latest EU survey on...
    • Pension Provisions
      130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the findings of the Commission on Pensions report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24675/22]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      132. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have made applications to in the form of rent supplement or supplementary welfare allowance or...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      134. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her response to a key conclusion in the report, The Cost of Disability in Ireland – that measures to address the...
    • Employment Schemes
      135. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a representative of the rural social scheme supervisors will be included in the imminent review of the rural social...
    • Ukraine War
      138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her Department’s strategy to assist recently arrived Ukrainian nationals to pay for private accommodation; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      139. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review of her Department’s Reasonable Accommodation Fund grants scheme; and if she will make a...
    • Live Register
      140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the figures on the Live Register; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24214/22]
    • Job Creation
      141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures taken by her Department which had the most impact on efficiently tackling the rates of unemployment both during...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      142. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will temporarily cease rent supplement reviews in which rent has been increased and the recipient is being advised to...
    • Child Maintenance
      143. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to establishing a child maintenance service which supports lone parents and their children;...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that anyone who had their disability allowance removed because they were awarded a PhD scholarship prior...
    • Housing Policy
      146. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the achievements she expects to emerge from the Government’s Future Building Initiative; and if she will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who still remain on the pandemic unemployment payment; the measures that her Department has implemented...
    • Pension Provisions
      149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the commitment to benchmark pension rates in the Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025; and if she will make a...
    • State Pensions
      151. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her Department’s strategy to ensure that foster parents can include time spent caring as part of their social...
    • Ukraine War
      152. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures that are in place to support highly-skilled Ukrainian refugees in accessing the Irish job market; and if she...
    • Housing Policy
      153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will detail the FutureBuilding Initiative and the way his Department can help recruit and train workers; and if she...
    • Employment Support Services
      154. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase funding for an employment support programme (details supplied) to allow for expansion of same on a...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures that are under way to bring maternity benefit to a standard available to workers elsewhere in Europe; and if she...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Taoiseach's Communications
      156. To ask the Taoiseach when he last spoke to the British Prime Minister. [23921/22]
    • Constitutional Convention
      157. To ask the Taoiseach the amounts paid, either on the basis of a contract or as gratuities or expenses to each of the chairpersons, speakers, facilitators, researchers or other persons in...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      158. To ask the Taoiseach the way that his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit meet their obligations for reasonable accommodation under the Employment Equality...
    • Departmental Surveys
      159. To ask the Taoiseach the estimated cost of producing a labour force survey in County Clare; the estimated household sample size required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23946/22]
    • Central Statistics Office
      160. To ask the Taoiseach the estimated cost of producing a survey on income and living conditions for County Clare; the estimated household sample size required; and if he will make a statement...
    • Census of Population
      161. To ask the Taoiseach if a review of Census 2022 is planned; and if so, when this is expected to take place. [24374/22]
    • Commissions of Investigation
      162. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the NAMA Commission of Investigation; and the plans that are in place to produce a final report. [24826/22]
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Information and Communications Technology
      163. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the protocol that is in place for the re-use of computer hardware when it is replaced or upgraded within his Department and the...
    • Work Permits
      164. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 71 of 4 May 2022, the number of work permits granted to chefs and to each other category which...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      166. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way that his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit meet their obligations for reasonable...
    • Work Permits
      167. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if an urgent review of the work permit system will be instigated by his Department with a view to including hospitality staff,...
    • Living Wage
      169. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he intends taking to implement the undertakings in the Programme for Government on the Living Wage; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      170. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to develop trade links with other relevant countries in the offshore wind sector with a view to Ireland...
    • Energy Prices
      171. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a person who lives above their place of business but does not have a separate domestic electricity meter will be...
    • Environmental Policy
      172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the proposals or recommendations in view of his concern over pollution being created by turf smoke (details supplied)...
    • Departmental Schemes
      173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will adjust the SEAI grant scheme to allow the technical assessment and the BER assessment to be done by the same...
    • Post Office Network
      174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will enact the private members' motion previously passed in Dáil Éireann 16 November 2016 regarding the...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if grant aid is available to community centres for the installation of solar pv panels; and if he will make a statement...
    • Energy Conservation
      176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if grants are available for a person to replace an existing stove in their home with a new stove thus increasing energy...
    • Departmental Schemes
      177. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current average waiting time for the home surveys that are required to access SEAI free energy upgrades. [24203/22]
    • Energy Prices
      178. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if apartment dwellers whose building shares a single MPRN but who pay their electricity bills separately can avail of...
    • Air Quality
      179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of dedicated funding that will be provided to each local authority to monitor and enforce the smoky coal ban...
    • Energy Conservation
      182. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes retrofitted and the number of heat pumps installed to date as part of the National Retrofitting...
    • Air Quality
      183. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of category A vehicles that were charged with the nitrogen dioxide emissions levy in 2021 and 2022; the...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      184. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way that his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit meet their obligations for...
    • Postal Services
      185. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a house name will be removed from an Eircode (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • National Broadband Plan
      186. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount that has been spent on external public relations contracts by National Broadband Ireland in 2021 and to date...
    • Tourism Promotion
      187. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department plans to mark the centenary of the Shannon Scheme; if there are plans to provide a new visitor centre...
    • Fuel Sales
      188. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if it is intended that proposed regulations regarding the sale of coal will provide for an exemption for the use in...
    • Energy Conservation
      189. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes, broken down by BER rating, prior to their retrofitting under the warmer homes scheme in 2021; the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes at each pre-works BER rating that achieved a B2 cost optimum standard in each of the years 2019 to...
    • Energy Prices
      193. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the Iberian exception recently approved by the European Commission for Spain and...
    • State Bodies
      194. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding that was allocated to Inland Fisheries Ireland in each of the years 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022; the...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Water Safety
      196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons who have been fined for not wearing a life jacket in each of the past five years while partaking in water...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the protocol that is in place for the re-use of computer hardware when it is replaced or upgraded within his Department and the bodies...
    • Motor Tax
      198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will update the motor tax website facilitating online payments of motor tax in order that payments can be made from bank accounts...
    • National Car Test
      199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress being made in reducing waiting lists for NCT tests; the action that can be taken by car owners who have been unable to...
    • Greenways Provision
      200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress that has been made to date in respect of the Grand Canal Greenway works in north County Kildare with particular reference to...
    • Bus Services
      201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will extend the recent reduction in bus fares for Bus Éireann services to a company (details supplied) in Galway city and to...
    • Electric Vehicles
      203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total number of electric vehicles in Ireland to date in 2022; the number of electric vehicles registered annually over the past ten...
    • Departmental Schemes
      204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of schools enrolled in the safe routes to school programme in 2022; the number of schools waiting to be enrolled; the number...
    • Departmental Staff
      205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of the 248 new posts for active travel teams in local authorities that have been filled; the number that currently remain...
    • Local Authorities
      207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount that each county council has drawn down from its allocated active travel funding in 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will...
    • Departmental Funding
      209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount that will be allocated to walking and cycling infrastructure in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24286/22]
    • Public Transport
      211. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total cost arising from the reduced 20% public transport fares to the public and the reduced 50% public transport to students and...
    • Road Safety
      215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that he is taking to improve pedestrian safety and infrastructure on rural roads; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Transport Policy
      216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Government is considering implementing a congestion charge on private motor vehicles entering Dublin city; and if he will make a...
    • Public Transport
      217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has looked at increasing the frequency of train journeys on the Midleton to Cork line and the Cobh to Cork line; and if...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way that his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit meet their obligations for reasonable...
    • Departmental Data
      219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of sports utility vehicles registered in total in Ireland; the number of SUVs registered annually over the past ten years; the...
    • Driver Test
      220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the waiting times for driving tests in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24336/22]
    • Energy Policy
      221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify Government policy concerning the handling of fossil fuels from the Russian Federation at Irish seaports. [24351/22]
    • Road Projects
      222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the progress made to date with respect to the proposed bypass of Castlemartyr on the N25 in east Cork; the amount...
    • Rail Network
      223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress that has been made to date with respect to the upgrade of the commuter rail link from Mallow to Midleton and Cobh, County...
    • Military Aircraft
      224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the transport of six howitzer guns with ammunition which passed through Shannon Airport on board an...
    • Rail Network
      225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passengers who used Broombridge, Castleknock, Clonsilla and Hansfield train stations each month in 2021 and to-date in...
    • Dublin Bus
      226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of buses in the Dublin Bus fleet as of 1 May 2020, 1 May 2021 and 10 May 2022, in tabular form. [24390/22]
    • Rail Network
      227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the construction of the new national train control centre will be completed; and the estimated cost of this project. [24391/22]
    • Road Network
      228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Transport Infrastructure Ireland uses herbicides to control verges on the motorways it manages; if so, the herbicides that it uses;...
    • Departmental Licences
      229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applicants waiting for a radio licence; the waiting times by month; the average waiting time; and if he will make a...
    • Taxi Regulation
      230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the decision by the NTA to ban saloon taxi cars that are not wheelchair accessible from picking up passengers at Dublin...
    • Departmental Funding
      231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will identify all capital, safety supports and any other grant or support funding given over the past ten years under each funding...
    • Taxi Regulation
      232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the process by which the taxi regulator introduces new regulations; if stakeholder engagement is carried out before new regulations are...
    • Bus Services
      233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review public transport bus services (details supplied); the reason that services are curtailed; the reason that a renovated...
    • Public Transport
      234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the long-term plans that are in place to accommodate wheelchair users on bus and public transport throughout the country; and if he will...
    • Departmental Data
      235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of unlicensed charter boats that have been fined and or prosecuted that were bringing paying passengers to Irish waters, by...
    • Public Transport
      236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated full-year cost of the 20% reduction in public transport fares; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24539/22]
    • Driver Test
      241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the case of a person (details supplied) will be urgently reviewed; if the test will be rescheduled as soon as possible given the...
  • Department of Finance
    • Departmental Expenditure
      242. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount of funding included in respect of expenditure associated with Vote 34, housing, for general government balance calculations as determined by...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      243. To ask the Minister for Finance the protocol that is in place for the re-use of computer hardware when it is replaced or upgraded within his Department and the bodies under the aegis of his...
    • Credit Unions
      244. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in respect of credit unions his attention has been drawn to the fact that a branch (details supplied) intends to put in place a monthly charge for...
    • Construction Industry
      245. To ask the Minister for Finance the way the process to examine the introduction of a levy on the construction industry in the Finance Bill 2022 that was announced on 30 November 2021 as part...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      246. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address concerns raised (details supplied) in relation to the process for payment of the Covid-19 recognition bonus; and if he will make a...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      247. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual increases in the retail price of the most popular price category MPPC for a 20-pack of cigarettes since 2011; the portion of the increase related...
    • Illicit Trade
      249. To ask the Minister for Finance the funding provided to the Revenue Commissioners for 2020 and 2022 to combat tobacco smuggling; if the Revenue Commissioners are developing a dedicated...
    • Departmental Schemes
      251. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of applications under the bike-to-work scheme in 2021 and to date in 2022 by the number of bicycles purchased within the €1,000 limit and...
    • Tax Data
      253. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that would be raised if the carbon tax was doubled and the 2030 levy target was doubled to €200 per tonne; and if he will make a...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      254. To ask the Minister for Finance the way that his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit meet their obligations for reasonable accommodation under the...
    • Departmental Data
      255. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of category A vehicles that were charged with the nitrogen dioxide emissions levy in 2021 and 2022; the revenue raised each year; and if he will...
    • Tax Exemptions
      258. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will remove the VAT associated with the purchase of AEDs (Automated External Defibrillators). [24344/22]
    • Revenue Commissioners
      259. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the necessary funding to replace the Revenue Commissioners' custom vessels; and if so, when the tender for the replacement of the vessels...
    • Tax Reliefs
      260. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the promised excise relief programme that is currently available to craft brewers; if the programme is being extended to craft cider producers...
    • Housing Schemes
      261. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will issue guidance on whether the help-to-buy scheme will be extended to 2023; if his Department will, in conjunction with the Department of Housing....
    • Financial Sanctions
      262. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in relation to their employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24641/22]
    • Tax Exemptions
      263. To ask the Minister for Finance if an organisation (details supplied) can receive an exemption or rebate on VAT payable on tools, materials and electricity; if commercial rates will be...
    • Tax Collection
      264. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether it was appropriate for the Revenue Commissioners to advise a person to pay their local property tax in their deceased mother’s...
    • Banking Sector
      265. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the potential sale of the tracker mortgages of a bank (details supplied) to another bank in which the State owns a majority shareholding; if the...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      267. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of including those who work in the homeless sector (details supplied) in the Covid-19 recognition scheme; and if he...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      268. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the protocol that is in place for the re-use of computer hardware when it is replaced or upgraded within his Department and the bodies...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      269. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way that his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit meet their obligations for reasonable...
    • Office of Public Works
      270. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW plans to extend the opening hours of the Iveagh Gardens during the summer months. [24392/22]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      271. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason for the difference in accounting treatment between the expenditure estimates outlined in the Stability Programme Update...
    • Public Sector Staff
      272. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 192 of 6 April 2016, if the situation has changed since 2016; if so, the status of persons who...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Information and Communications Technology
      273. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the protocol that is in place for the re-use of computer hardware when it is replaced or upgraded within her Department and the...
    • Sports Funding
      274. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding that is available for a person looking to establish a tennis court in Cork city. [24189/22]
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      275. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way that her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit meet their obligations for reasonable...
    • Artists' Remuneration
      276. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views that many artists with disabilities may not have applied for the basic income for the arts as a result of the lack of...
    • Tourism Funding
      277. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way that the extra €35 million funding for tourism marketing fund will be spent in 2022. [24406/22]
    • Museum Projects
      278. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the Natural History Museum, Merrion Street, Dublin 2 will reopen. [24422/22]
    • Údarás na Gaeltachta
      279. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 257 of 7 April 2022, the details of the effluent, sewage and discharge systems permitted...
    • Departmental Funding
      280. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding is available from her Department under any programme for a centre (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if she will...
    • Fuel Sales
      281. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the engagements that she has had with the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications and the steamer groups regarding...
    • Rental Sector
      282. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the timeline for the introduction of the proposed short-term letting regulations as outlined in section 20.4 of the Housing for...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Hare Coursing
      283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rules, procedures and regulations regarding the capturing of wild hares for coursing. [24574/22]
    • Information and Communications Technology
      285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the protocol that is in place for the re-use of computer hardware when it is replaced or upgraded within his Department and...
    • Water Supply
      286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of housing developments that have been postponed due to Irish Water being unable to deliver water...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      287. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he requested that front line homeless services staff funded through his Department would be included in the Department of...
    • Departmental Schemes
      288. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if grants are available for a person to replace an existing stove in their home with a new stove thus increasing energy and...
    • Housing Provision
      289. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the affordable housing element of the planned housing provision in Dublin 11 (details...
    • Housing Schemes
      291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans that he has put in place or will put in place to facilitate those who may wish to downsize from their current...
    • Departmental Schemes
      292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the updated average cost for retrofitting a social housing unit as part of the national retrofitting scheme; and if he will...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way that his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit meet their obligations for reasonable...
    • Housing Provision
      294. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of the potential housing development on the site of the Central Mental Hospital; and if any affordable...
    • Ukraine War
      295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the efforts to supply housing for displaced Ukrainian people; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Housing Provision
      296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing unit builds commenced in Fingal in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022; the way that the year to date in 2022...
    • National Monuments
      297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the person or body that represented his Department at meetings when the matter of compensation to Moore Street traders was...
    • Housing Provision
      298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his Department’s targets for new affordable housing provision in each local authority area; and if he will make a...
    • Regeneration Projects
      300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the application from Dublin City Council regarding the regeneration of St. Andrew’s Court and Pearse...
    • Local Authorities
      301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the maximum and minimum social housing rents charged by local authorities in the 31 local authority areas...
    • Water Quality
      302. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans to introduce limits in regulations for water hardness and lime; the supports that are available to persons...
    • National Parks
      303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter with regard to a walk in Killarney National Park (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      304. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of the 2006 wind energy development guidelines. [24555/22]
    • Wind Energy Generation
      305. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of planning permission for wind turbine installations that have been granted in counties Offaly, Laois, Longford...
    • State Bodies
      306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the interests of all members of An Bord Pleanála; his plans to broaden the scope of the review of An...
    • Departmental Reports
      307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that no housing options for an aging population policy statement implementation reports have been published in 2020...
    • Housing Schemes
      308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of all persons and organisations consulted by his Department in determining the viability challenge and other...
    • State Bodies
      310. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of and which of the 101 recommendations from the 2016 review of an Bord Pleanála that have now been fully...
    • Housing Policy
      312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if build to rent planning permissions and developments will not be eligible for the Croí Cónaithe cities subsidy in...
    • Housing Schemes
      314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is any provision in the HAP legislation to allow a single HAP claim to be split and paid to two separate bank...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 160 of 5 May 2022, if the matter (details supplied) will be re-examined given that he...
    • Planning Issues
      316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if advice will be provided on a matter raised in correspondence in regard to loft conversion guidelines (details supplied);...
    • Rental Sector
      317. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to introduce new rental legislation in autumn 2022 that will address the anomaly that has left the southern part...
    • Legislative Measures
      318. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the term market value in 2.(1) of the eligibility criteria with respect to S.I. No. 183 of 2022, means the full price of...
    • Local Authorities
      319. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if elected members of a local authority can bring forward variations to a county development plan outside of the review...
    • Planning Issues
      320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends, either by amendment to section 42 (1B) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 or by other means, to provide...
    • Compulsory Purchase Orders
      321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views regarding compulsory sales orders; if any research carried out by his Department in this regard can be outlined; and...
    • Building Regulations
      322. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the expert group currently reviewing building regulations in relation to change of use and living over...
    • Housing Policy
      324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps that are being taken to tackle overcrowding in rental accommodation; the status of the overcrowded housing Bill...
    • Rental Sector
      325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to take action to ensure that shareholders in a company do not divide up the assets of a company (details...
    • Departmental Reports
      326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeframe in which the working group to examine defects in housing report on defective apartments will be published; and...
    • National Biodiversity Plan
      329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that he has made in establishing a new national biodiversity data centre as a company limited by guarantee,...
    • Fuel Inspections
      330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff allocated in each local authority to ensure compliance with solid fuel regulations in each local authority...
    • Housing Schemes
      332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the proposed changes he is considering to a revised repair and lease scheme in Ireland (details supplied); if private...
    • Rental Sector
      333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is considering proposals to restrict the lettings of full properties and second properties for the short-term letting...
    • Ukraine War
      334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his considerations in relation to extending the housing assistance payment scheme to Ukrainian refugees; and if...
    • Housing Schemes
      335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when his Department received applications from Cork County Council for subsidy to support housing schemes for affordable...
    • Housing Policy
      336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a review of the income eligibility limits for social housing will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Military Neutrality
      337. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position of Ireland in relation to participation in EU battlegroups; the missions participated in by Ireland to date; if such missions...
    • Passport Services
      340. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the passport office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24121/22]
    • Human Rights
      346. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps that he is taking to support the development of democratic norms in Nicaragua; the steps that he is taking to urge the European...
    • Visa Applications
      353. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to his counterpart in the United States and in the United States Embassy regarding the delays in issuing visas to Irish...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      354. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way that his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit meet their obligations for reasonable accommodation...
    • Northern Ireland
      355. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of his efforts to ensure power-sharing in Northern Ireland continues in the aftermath of the Stormont elections. [24335/22]
    • Passport Services
      356. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason interim death certificates are recognised when applying for renewal of children’s passports in which a parent has died in...
    • Ministerial Communications
      360. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade If he has spoken formally with his Turkish counterpart to date in 2022. [24388/22]
    • Passport Services
      364. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24435/22]
    • International Bodies
      374. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the genuine human solidarity and empathy shown by Ireland and the EU to victims of the war in Ukraine in contrast with the...
    • Passport Services
      382. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will issue on time for an applicant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24704/22]
    • Northern Ireland
      425. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the engagement he or his party has had with the political leaders in Northern Ireland following the Assembly Elections. [24931/22]
  • Department of Defence
    • Information and Communications Technology
      426. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the protocol that is in place for the re-use of computer hardware when it is replaced or upgraded within his Department and the bodies under the...
    • Commemorative Medals
      427. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if past and present members of the Irish Defence Forces and former member of the An Fórsa Cosanta Áitiúil will receive a...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      428. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the way that his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit meet their obligations for reasonable accommodation...
    • Defence Forces
      429. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the consideration that has been given to offer shorter term contracts those in the Defence Forces who are in a position to continue to serve as...
    • Naval Service
      430. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the current strength verses establishment of the Naval Service Fleet Operational Readiness Standards and training; and the status of the...
    • National Archives
      431. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the location in which unsuccessful military pension claims relating to the 1916 Rising and the War of Independence period are now stored; and if...
    • Commemorative Medals
      432. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total cost associated with the awarding of the 1916 centenary commemorative medal to include the manufacturing, distribution and ancillary...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Information and Communications Technology
      433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the protocol that is in place for the re-use of computer hardware when it is replaced or upgraded within her Department and the bodies under the...
    • Education Schemes
      434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a policy issue raised by a person (details supplied) pertaining to the Summer Programme 2022; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Accommodation
      435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for the completion of the purchase of a building (details supplied) in order that the school can expedite the project in order to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in ensuring a school (details supplied) will be open and fully operational for the school term 2023/2024; if she will...
    • School Accommodation
      437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the lease for the land at a location (details supplied) and used at the moment for classrooms, will be extended from February 2023 to...
    • State Examinations
      439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an individual examination centre can be provided for a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24207/22]
    • School Staff
      440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) can extend their leave beyond five years; the options that are available to the person; and if she will make a...
    • Teacher Training
      441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost for the provision of an additional two days in-service training for all primary teachers (details supplied) from 1 September...
    • School Staff
      442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the proposed loss of a teacher post (details supplied); if this can be reviewed to reflect both Government...
    • State Examinations
      443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a child (details supplied) will be examined urgently given that the issue relates to the junior certificate. [24238/22]
    • Teacher Training
      444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the requirement that a minimum requisite base-level gender-knowledge and gender-sensitive teaching methods skillset be mandatory for...
    • Education Policy
      446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of her Department’s policy toward single-sex primary and post-primary schools; if it is the intention of her Department to...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit meet their obligations for reasonable accommodation under...
    • Bullying in Educational Institutions
      448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on work to review the National Action Plan on Bullying, with particular focus on the inclusion of gender identity bullying; and if she...
    • School Facilities
      449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the case of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24379/22]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional number of teachers that would be required to reduce class sizes from a 21:1 ratio to 19:1 in urban band vertical schools and from...
    • Special Educational Needs
      451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the Special Education Forum; the number of meetings the forum has had to date; the dates of same; her plans to...
    • School Transport
      452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made in relation to a proposed minor change to a school bus route to a post-primary school (details supplied) in County...
    • School Admissions
      453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the local schools in an area can between them accommodate all pupils who are seeking a school place given that it is her responsibility to...
    • Ukraine War
      454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if children arriving from Ukraine have guaranteed school places in north County Kildare given the number of schools that are at capacity; and if...
    • School Admissions
      455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will implement an arrangement whereby children arriving to north County Kildare to stay with host families can attend the same...
    • Special Educational Needs
      457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a post (details supplied) will be filled to tackle the backlog; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24482/22]
    • School Staff
      459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an SNA (details supplied) will receive pay increments; and if any further information is required by the Department to progress this...
    • Departmental Websites
      460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that the rules for national schools from 1965 are still available on her website; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the...
    • School Transport
      461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to providing more phased payment methods for school transport; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that...
    • Special Educational Needs
      463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students with a diagnosis of autism in school in County Roscommon who are seeking post-primary autism special class placement in...
    • Ukraine War
      469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional students who have enrolled in secondary schools since 1 January 2022 to date who are Ukranian refugees, by county, by...
    • School Staff
      471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an SNA application by a school (details supplied). [24765/22]
    • School Patronage
      474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the report on the surveys regarding parental preferences on primary school patronage; if locations have been...
    • Special Educational Needs
      475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current process in place for a child with additional needs whose school applies for a device (details supplied) for that student for their...
    • Schools Building Projects
      477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a new school build (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24880/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all autistic children are eligible for the July provision summer programme. [24946/22]
    • School Curriculum
      480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the omission of relationship and sexual education within her Department’s Strategy 2021-2023, despite the commitment in...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      481. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of disabled artists who fear the loss of social welfare payments and supports...
    • Employment Schemes
      482. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that her Department are extending the time for participants whose term has...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      483. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average processing time for a PPS number for Syrian, Afghani, Yazidi and Ukrainian programme refugees, respectively, in...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      484. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if guardianship supports will be paid to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24164/22]
    • Fuel Poverty
      488. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the fuel allowance; the number of applications for fuel allowance; the number of refusals...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      490. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way that her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit meet their obligations for reasonable...
    • Artists' Remuneration
      491. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will confirm that a person who qualifies for and is in receipt of the invalidity pension will not lose his or her...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      493. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24380/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      494. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full year cost of recruiting four additional full-time medical assessors for her Department, in tabular form. [24386/22]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      495. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that the disability allowance and the blind pension are treated differently in terms of the means allowed; the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      496. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a person (details supplied) is not entitled to the illness benefit given that he or she has been paying class...
    • Departmental Data
      497. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff members who are currently employed to answer phone calls through the customer care line in the client...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      499. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry who is in receipt of the back to education allowance will be permitted to take...
    • Ukraine War
      500. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way that her Department will ensure that the recipients of the proposed payment of €400 to households who offer...
    • Data Protection
      501. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the development and implementation of new systems, by her Department, to process and retain applicants'...
    • Departmental Reports
      502. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection , further to Parliamentary Question No. 122 of 22 March, the status of her Department's consideration of the recommendations...
    • Employment Schemes
      504. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will re-establish the tripartite forum with an organisation (details supplied), trade unions and her Department on the...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      505. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps that she is taking to implement the agreement on the application of the 2008 Labour Court recommendation on...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      506. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the consideration that has been given to the provision of pension and maternity leave benefits for women farmers; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      507. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered index linking social protection payments in view of the fact that both Brexit and the war in Ukraine...
    • State Pensions
      508. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will commit to delivering a pension at 65 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18811/22]
    • Ukraine War
      509. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department in conjunction with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment will establish a skills database in...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      511. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons availing of the fuel allowance by main social welfare payment; her plans to review eligibility and...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      512. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a specialist consultant report is required in addition to a letter from a general practitioner which clearly outlines a...
    • State Pensions
      513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timeframe for her decision on whether to accept the recommendations in the report of the Commission on Pensions; if she...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      514. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will commit to a review of the income disregard in the means test for both the carer's allowance and the disability...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a late invalidity pension appeal will be accepted from a person (details supplied) in County Kerry following the...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      517. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a PPS number for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24781/22]
    • Maternity Leave
      518. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider introducing paid maternity leave for women working on farms; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Pensions
      519. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider introducing pension benefits for women working on farms; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Code
      520. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is possible to remove blank years from a person's contributions history if residing and working in another State, given...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      521. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if in-person medical assessments have resumed for the disablement benefit; if not, the reason therefor; and if she will make...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      522. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the waiting time for a decision in respect of applications for various social welfare payments has been...
    • Pension Provisions
      523. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which applicants with insufficient contributions to qualify for the State pension (contributory) might have...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      524. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the degree to which she and her office continue to ensure the making of a basic payment to applicants of social welfare...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      526. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social welfare appeals being determined on a weekly basis; the number of appeals arising each week; and if she...
    • State Pensions
      527. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which satisfactory provision has been made for those retiring at 65 years of age; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      528. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the number of applications for various social welfare payments has fluctuated in the past 12 months; and...
    • Departmental Data
      529. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of recipients of the State pension non-contributory in the past two years; the extent to which this number...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      532. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a PPS number for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24903/22]
    • Disability Services
      533. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of funding a national advocacy service for people with disabilities in 2023 indicating the cost of a youth advocacy...
    • Employment Schemes
      534. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the assurances she can give persons working in local employment services and job clubs across the country that their jobs...
    • Departmental Funding
      535. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she can account for a 15% increase in calls to an organisation (details supplied) given that an extra 62,000 persons are...
    • Central Statistics Office
      537. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the CSO report survey on income and living conditions. [24943/22]
    • Public Services Card
      538. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who applied for a public services card in 2021 and to date in 2022. [24944/22]
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Departmental Funding
      539. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans in place to increase the rate of allowance for foster carers, considering that it has not been...
    • Child Poverty
      540. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if he will meet with this...
    • Family Resource Centres
      541. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of and annual budget for family resource centres nationally; the location of each in tabular form;...
    • Ukraine War
      542. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of hours that Ukrainian refugees are permitted to work and also maintain their accommodation that is...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      543. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way that his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit meet their obligations...
    • Equality Issues
      544. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of his Department’s efforts to ban conversion therapy; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Strategies
      545. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the implementation and outcomes of the national LGBTI+ inclusion strategy and to detail the next...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      546. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 153 of 23 March 2022, the status of the specialist tracing team to...
    • Registration of Births
      547. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the inquiry into illegal birth registrations as recommended by a report (details supplied) by the...
    • Prison Service
      548. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of young persons who are currently on remand at Oberstown Children Detention Campus for more than...
    • Ukraine War
      549. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Royal City of Dublin Hospital on Baggot Street, Dublin 4 could be upgraded to accommodate Ukrainian...
    • Child and Family Agency
      550. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will reconsider the decision by Tusla not to apply the 4% increase which is being applied to...
    • Care Services
      551. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the initiatives he has undertaken to promote fostering in Ireland since his appointment; the steps he has taken...
    • Departmental Data
      552. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of foster parents and families who have left the fostering system in the past five years; if any work...
    • Child and Family Agency
      553. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of social workers in Tusla who are dealing with foster children and foster families; if he has plans...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      554. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address the concerns of smaller early childhood care and education scheme sessional pre-school...
    • Children First Guidelines
      556. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if legislation is in place under the Children First Act 2015 in respect of cases in which a child is being...
    • Childcare Services
      557. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider a change in the rules of the national childcare scheme so that parents can receive a subsidy...
    • Child Poverty
      558. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her views in relation to the public consultation on the status of Ireland publishing a plan to support the...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Third Level Education
      559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the circumstances surrounding the reason that €2 million in funding apportioned to University of...
    • Third Level Costs
      560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to concerns and proposals raised in correspondence by a person (detail supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      561. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the protocol that is in place for the re-use of computer hardware when it is replaced or upgraded within his Department and the bodies under the...
    • Student Accommodation
      562. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure higher education institutions that have on-campus accommodation refund in full deposits for accommodation paid by applicants...
    • Third Level Education
      563. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that part-time PhD students who apply to the Irish Research Council for funding have any prior year...
    • Gender Equality
      564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the higher education bodies that have been awarded funding under the gender equality enhancement fund in 2020-2021 to advance...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      568. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit meet their obligations for reasonable accommodation under...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      569. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made in the roll-out of additional apprenticeships; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24339/22]
    • Third Level Education
      570. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of capital public expenditure at Dublin City University in the past five years; and the individual projects supported. [24399/22]
    • Departmental Data
      571. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of the total full-time undergraduate student body in receipt of SUSI support since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      573. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprentices waiting to access off-the-job training; and the number who have been issued with a start date but are yet to begin...
    • Further and Higher Education
      575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the further education colleges in each education and training board; the courses that are offered and the course capacity in each in tabular...
    • Grant Payments
      577. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for SUSI refusing a grant under article 14(2) of the student grant scheme 2022 in cases in which the additional income has not...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Information and Communications Technology
      579. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the protocol that is in place for the re-use of computer hardware when it is replaced or upgraded within her Department and the...
    • Passport Services
      580. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the delays in processing passport applications due to ongoing issues with confirming Garda...
    • Coroners Service
      581. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the analysis that has been undertaken of the Coroners Amendment Act 2019, in particular of section 24 in which coroners have...
    • Family Reunification
      582. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made in relation to an application for family reunification submitted by a person (details supplied) in...
    • European Arrest Warrant
      584. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she fully co-operated with an European arrest warrant court judgment and provided all the requested information in respect...
    • Citizenship Applications
      585. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on a pathway to citizenship for those born in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      589. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and corresponding percentage of members of An Garda Síochána who have a moderate and-or strong competency...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      590. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way that her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit meet their obligations for reasonable...
    • Immigration Policy
      591. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person holding a refugee convention travel document from another EU member state is entitled to live and work in Ireland...
    • Coroners Service
      592. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to meet the recommendations of the review of the Coroner Service: Report of the Working Group relating to...
    • Visa Applications
      593. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 199 of 5 May 2022, if an updated residence permit and conditionality letter will be sent...
    • Stardust Fire
      594. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason that the Stardust preliminary hearings are being held in Store Street despite the fact that a 12-month contract has...
    • Youth Services
      595. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a list of justice youth diversion programmes in Dublin 15; and the name, location, amount of funding and...
    • An Garda Síochána
      596. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of alleged crimes involving robbery from the person that have been reported to gardaí in the K district in 2021...
    • Citizenship Applications
      600. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for citizenship received by Irish Naturalisation and Immigration service monthly in each of the...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      602. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if applications for naturalisation will be progressed in cases in which the status is essential in order to take up employment...
    • Visa Applications
      603. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the appeal of the visa application by a person (details supplied) in view of the fact that the required...
    • Prison Service
      605. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way that the incidence of sentence miscalculation arose in Castlerea Prison which was highlighted in the Castlerea Prison...
    • Registration Certificate
      609. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of non-EEA citizen family members of United Kingdom citizens expected to apply for new registration documents to...
    • Residency Permits
      610. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application (details supplied) for permanent residence based on the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement)...
    • An Garda Síochána
      612. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a protocol operated by the gardaí in relation to when to intervene with persons who are joyriding on stolen...
    • Legislative Programme
      613. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of Irish information retrieval legislation which was included in the 2021 autumn legislative programme and...
    • Residency Permits
      614. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the advice that can be provided in relation to the case of a person (details supplied). [24757/22]
    • Immigration Status
      615. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration has been given to extending the stamp 2 visas for holders of same that are due to expire on 31 May to...
    • Probate Applications
      617. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason that the Probate Office is not responding to calls from the public or from solicitors; the reason that the office...
    • Visa Applications
      619. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current average wait time for consideration of appeals to refusal of short-stay holiday visa applications; and if she will...
    • Immigration Status
      620. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to undocumented persons; and...
    • Ukraine War
      621. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to address the waiting times in the processing of visas being experienced by Ukrainian refugees who do not have...
    • Prison Service
      622. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when recruitment will commence for the Irish Prison Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24856/22]
    • An Garda Síochána
      623. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the remit of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission will be expanded to provide for investigations and findings...
    • Departmental Programmes
      624. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 405 of 4 May 2022, the number of residence permissions under Stamp 4 conditions granted...
    • Departmental Bodies
      625. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will ensure in view of recent reports (details supplied) that there is full co-operation by statutory agencies under the...
  • Department of Health
    • Health Services Staff
      626. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to date regarding the negotiations for medical scientists and their pay review; when these pay structures were last reviewed;...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      627. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for medical device support that her Department received from children under the age of 18 years by county in the year 2022 to date,...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      628. To ask the Minister for Health if section 39 workers who worked in the homeless front-line healthcare workers are to be included in the Covid recognition scheme (details supplied); and if he...
    • Mental Health Services
      629. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken by the National Office of Mental Health and Wellbeing to establish a national student mental and emotional helpline following a...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      630. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the 13-bed build intended to facilitate the larger 50-bed development resulting from the National Capital and Property Steering...
    • Hospital Staff
      631. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a Parkinson's specialist nurse is provided to patients in the south-east region, particularly south Tipperary, as it is clear that this...
    • General Practitioner Services
      632. To ask the Minister for Health if general practitioners are permitted to charge medical card holders a fee of €50 for letters in support of housing. [24126/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      633. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the disbursement of the Covid pandemic recognition payment; and the date when qualifying recipients in County Galway will receive...
    • Legislative Reviews
      634. To ask the Minister for Health the number of submissions his Department received through its public consultation process for the review of the operation of the Health (Regulation of...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      635. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24139/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      636. To ask the Minister for Health if cariban (details supplied) will be made readily available and acceptable under the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • General Practitioner Services
      637. To ask the Minister for Health when the general practitioner card for children under eight years of age as announced in budget 2022 will be brought into effect; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      638. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public hospitals that issue both public and private outpatient appointments for ultrasound, MRI and CT scans; the corresponding number of...
    • Health Service Executive
      639. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will publish its annual report 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24148/22]
    • Hospital Charges
      640. To ask the Minister for Health the total revenue and net revenue generated by each hospital car park for each hospital in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Dental Services
      641. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 755 of 1 March 2022, the specific locations in County Wexford in which the HSE public dental service is providing...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      645. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that front-line homeless services staff will not receive the special Covid-19 payment; and if he will reconsider their inclusion in the scheme....
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      646. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the current list of notified and compliant nicotine inhaling products, that is, e-cigarettes and refill containers, as held by the Health...
    • Health Strategies
      648. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to develop a genomics strategy for Ireland; and if so, when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24163/22]
    • Health Services
      649. To ask the Minister for Health if a person with serious medical needs can gift their home to the HSE in return for the State paying for their medical needs for the remainder of their life;...
    • Medicinal Products
      650. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make Kaftrio available to children with cystic fibrosis who have only one delta F508 mutation and as such have no other suitable modulator; and if...
    • Health Services Staff
      651. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the difficulties in recruiting occupational therapists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24174/22]
    • Health Services
      653. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria which are applied to the long-term illness scheme; if Addison’s disease will be included in the scheme; if not, the reason therefor; and if...
    • Nursing Homes
      654. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Cork in respect of the fair deal scheme. [24191/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      655. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the five-year waiting time for out-patient care at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      656. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who has been on the waiting list since 2018 will be given an outpatient appointment at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear...
    • Health Services
      658. To ask the Minister for Health the community response plan that is in place by county or other geographic breakdown in each of the years from 2010 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disability Services
      660. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1554 of 26 April 2022, if he will provide a breakdown of staffing vacancies within CDNTs in CHO 3 and CHO 5 based on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      661. To ask the Minister for Health the plans there are to extend the Covid-19 recognition scheme to those homeless sector front-line workers who meet all the criteria publicly announced and who...
    • Health Services
      662. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to add Osteoarthritis to the list of illnesses covered by the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24247/22]
    • Abortion Services
      663. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications that were received by his Department from bidders in response to the e-Tender to carry out the research into the views of abortion...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      665. To ask the Minister for Health the number of retail outlets registered to sell tobacco on the National Register of Tobacco retailers in 2021 to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement...
    • Medical Cards
      670. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card holder (details supplied) should have to pay for an implant to replace a broken tooth when the issue is caused by delays to her position on...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      671. To ask the Minister for Health the way that his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit meet their obligations for reasonable accommodation under the...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      672. To ask the Minister for Health the number of United States trained physiotherapists who have applied to CORU for recognition in the past five years; the number of these who were accepted in...
    • Gender Recognition
      673. To ask the Minister for Health the details of his efforts to develop a model of care and general health policies for trans people in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Vaccination Programme
      674. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the considerations that his Department is giving to further vaccinations for Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24340/22]
    • Home Care Packages
      675. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question 557 of 4 May 2022, when a person (details supplied) will be provided with specialised equipment. [24345/22]
    • Abortion Services
      676. To ask the Minister for Health the maternity hospitals, units which currently conduct medical procedures as outlined under the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; the...
    • National Maternity Hospital
      677. To ask the Minister for Health if officials in the Department of Health or HSE have been tasked with conducting social media monitoring or providing reports on social media coverage that are...
    • Health Services
      679. To ask the Minister for Health when day services in community hospitals across County Donegal will commence for the elderly who have had no services since early 2020; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      680. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that general practice nurses are being excluded from the pandemic special recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24356/22]
    • Hospital Admissions
      682. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women and pregnant persons who required hospital care as a result of untreated hyperemesis or dehydration or other effects of hyperemesis to date...
    • Ukraine War
      684. To ask the Minister for Health if the Medical Council is recognising non-European Union qualifications specifically in relation to Ukrainian refugees coming to Ireland who have medical...
    • Eating Disorders
      685. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision will issue in regard to funding for a person (details supplied) who has applied for funding to the HSE to be an in-patient at The National Eating...
    • Health Services
      686. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the establishment of an android and smart phone application which would provide parents of newborns with a 24/7 support...
    • Health Services Staff
      687. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time midwives in each of public maternity units here as of 1 May 2020, 1 May 2021 and 10 May 2022, in tabular form. [24396/22]
    • Health Services
      688. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time community development workers funded by the HSE to work in addiction services in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      690. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding for a facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24428/22]
    • Disability Services
      691. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) has been waiting so long for respite; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24431/22]
    • Health Services
      692. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of paediatric patients on the waiting list for audiology services in the HSE community audiology service in the Russell Centre, Tallaght,...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      693. To ask the Minister for Health if the situation in relation to the landing of helicopters (details supplied) in County Kerry will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      694. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 112 of 19 October 2021, when a date will be set for the operation which is urgently required by this person. [24464/22]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      695. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a case (details supplied); if he will acknowledge receipt of correspondence; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Cards
      696. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that medical card holders are often asked to pay at least €20 for a sick note from a general practitioner;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      697. To ask the Minister for Health if workers in healthcare settings will be eligible for a payment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24473/22]
    • General Practitioner Services
      698. To ask the Minister for Health the value of refunds by the HSE for blood tests for which patients were charged by general practitioners in each of the years since 2019, in tabular form; and...
    • Health Services Staff
      699. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider increasing the mileage and wear and tear allowances currently provided to staff that provide end of life and palliative care services in...
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      700. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 442 of 4 May 22, the terms of reference of the expert teams review of additional resources for acute services at...
    • Ambulance Service
      701. To ask the Minister for Health if ambulances are bringing patients to the accident and emergency department of Navan Hospital; if ambulances are being diverted to other hospitals for any...
    • Healthcare Policy
      702. To ask the Minister for Health if there is another way that a person (details supplied) can claim back their medical expenses for 2019, other than through the Revenue Commissioners; and if...
    • Health Services
      703. To ask the Minister for Health if financial supports are available for a person (details supplied) who has had 21 medical appointments within the past two months; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      704. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the campaign by an organisation (details supplied) and its call for homeless front-line workers to be included in the...
    • Health Services Staff
      705. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the remaining four advanced nurse practitioners who were to be recruited as agreed in 2018 for the implementation of the pregnancy prevention...
    • Abortion Services
      708. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 806 of 10 May 2022, if his attention has been drawn to incidents in which abortions have taken place after an unborn baby...
    • Hospital Services
      709. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the Coombe to resume screening of cervical cancer samples; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24593/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      710. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the National Cervical Screening Laboratory and the recruitment of staff; the steps he is taking to address the shortage of...
    • Healthcare Policy
      712. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to issue a directive for any remaining maternity restrictions in hospitals to be lifted completed where there are still restrictions on partners...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      713. To ask the Minister for Health the up to date position regarding the proposed new primary care centre for Rathdowney, County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24639/22]
    • Healthcare Policy
      714. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to include Addison’s disease to the medical card and the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • International Bodies
      715. To ask the Minister for Health the new role that has been assigned to the WHO in the context of pandemics; and if the role reduces the discretion of Government in framing responses to any...
    • Health Services
      716. To ask the Minister for Health the person or persons in the CHO 4 management staff that received the first communication regarding the possibility that a centre (details supplied) may close;...
    • Mental Health Services
      717. To ask the Minister for Health the room dimensions of a centre (details supplied); if he will provide information on any consultation that took place between April 2020 and March 2022...
    • Home Care Packages
      721. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the intensive home care package for dementia; the way that a person (details supplied) can apply for this package; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      722. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24708/22]
    • Hospital Equipment
      723. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the machine to read an internal cardioverter-defibrillator; and if same will be considered for the Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar, County...
    • Health Services Staff
      724. To ask the Minister for Health if, physiotherapy staff working in the HSE will continue to be permitted to carry out other work in the private and voluntary health sector given the easing of...
    • Dental Services
      725. To ask the Minister for Health the way that a person (details supplied) in County Kildare can get emergency dental treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24746/22]
    • Primary Care Centres
      726. To ask the Minister for Health when the primary care centre in Carrickmacross will become operational; the services that will be available in the centre at that date; the services that will...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      727. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to the health of mothers for each year the building of the new Maternity Hospital is delayed; the number of wards that are operating at over...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      728. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated costs of the cyber-attack in terms of lives lost, incapacity and serious illness; and the research that has been carried out into the negative...
    • Protected Disclosures
      729. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to date on the investigation into allegations made by a whistleblower in April 2020 as a protected disclosure, regarding the...
    • Health Services
      730. To ask the Minister for Health the status of transport for a person (details supplied) to a day service. [24760/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      731. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will be seen by CAHMS. [24761/22]
    • Health Services
      732. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for adult day care services transport for each centre operating day care services in tabular form. [24764/22]
    • Nursing Homes
      733. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) who paid €1,300 for one week of respite in a nursing home is entitled to claim back on the cost; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      734. To ask the Minister for Health if non-medical front-line staff in the health sector that is, administration staff, security, cleaning staff and so on, that worked in hospitals throughout the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      735. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24797/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      737. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 805 of 8 February 2022, if the €1,000 pandemic bonus will be paid to healthcare assistants that are employed by...
    • Mental Health Services
      738. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for appointments for general adult mental health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24802/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      740. To ask the Minister for Health if contact tracers are eligible for the Covid-19 bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24807/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      741. To ask the Minister for Health if support will be provided to a nurse (details supplied) who was injured at work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24821/22]
    • Primary Care Centres
      742. To ask the Minister for Health if the contract for a primary care centre at a location (details supplied) will retain the site in public ownership; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Services
      743. To ask the Minister for Health the number of young adults who are on waiting lists for respite services in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24844/22]
    • Industrial Relations
      744. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to date regarding the negotiations for medical scientists and their pay review; when these pay structures were last reviewed;...
    • Hospital Acquired Infections
      745. To ask the Minister for Health the number of recorded cases of infection from hospital utensils and equipment and so on, in each acute hospital in each of the past five years. [24879/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      746. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); his views on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24881/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      747. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for when the 24 additional lactation consultants outlined in the Women’s Health Action Plan 2022-2023 will be filled; when this recruitment...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Forestry Sector
      749. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way that fast-growing commercial forestry compares to mixed conservation forests or semi-natural forests in sequestering carbon...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      750. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the protocol that is in place for the re-use of computer hardware when it is replaced or upgraded within his Department and the...

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