Written answers

Tuesday, 24 May 2022

  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Legal Aid
      8. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has any plans to review the civil legal aid system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26073/22]
    • Work Permits
      10. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the proposed new work permit scheme for non-European Union workers that wish to work in the fishing sector; and if...
    • Immigration Policy
      16. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will amend the regularisation of the long-term undocumented migrants' scheme for undocumented persons to reduce the...
    • Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell
      17. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she expects to receive the final report of a scoping exercise in relation to the death of a person (details supplied); and...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      18. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to provide additional resources to An Garda Síochána to tackle all forms of domestic violence; and if she...
    • Crime Prevention
      21. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline the objectives of her Department’s community safety policy; the timeframes for same; and if she will...
    • Alcohol Sales
      22. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the extension of temporary legislation to ensure that the sale and consumption of alcohol in outdoor seating...
    • Antisocial Behaviour
      23. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the initiatives that are being taken to tackle anti-social behaviour; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25987/22]
    • An Garda Síochána
      25. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current status of the investigation into the cancellation of 999 calls; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Drug Dealing
      26. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the additional measures that will be implemented by her Department and by agencies under the remit of her Department in relation...
    • Crime Prevention
      27. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the actions that her Department is taking, including legislative action to break the link between gangland criminals and...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      28. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has proposals to ease the legal and courts process for victims of gender and domestic violence; and if she will make a...
    • An Garda Síochána
      29. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community gardaí in the Clondalkin, Ronanstown, Lucan and Rathcoole Garda stations; and if she will make a...
    • Antisocial Behaviour
      30. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider a pilot initiative in Cork city to tackle anti-social behaviour in housing estates. [26023/22]
    • Sentencing Policy
      31. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider introducing mandatory minimum sentences for those persons who assault frontline workers; and if she will...
    • Victim Support Services
      32. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that is being made in implementing the plan Supporting a Victim's Journey; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      33. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has any plans to review the current procedures relating to access to protection orders; and if she will make a statement...
    • Gambling Sector
      35. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the gambling regulation Bill will be introduced in the Houses of the Oireachtas; if the Bill will prevent gambling...
    • Judicial System
      36. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she plans to update and revise bail laws; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25994/22]
    • Immigration Policy
      37. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will amend the regularisation of long-term undocumented migrant's scheme to ensure that those who are unsuccessful in...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      38. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the interdepartmental group tasked with reviewing the current system for the provision of refuge space and...
    • Crime Data
      39. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the recorded number of arrests under the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 during its operation; and if she will make a...
    • Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell
      41. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she intends to establish an independent inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied) in line with resolutions of...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      43. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that she is making in developing the third strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence; and if she will...
    • Courts Service
      44. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has established a working group to implement the recommendations of the Courts' Security Review; and if she will make a...
    • Coroners Service
      45. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made in reforming the Coroner Service. [25834/22]
    • Gambling Sector
      46. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the appointment of a CEO to the Gambling Authority. [26024/22]
    • An Garda Síochána
      47. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the allocation of community gardaí and sergeants to Finglas Garda station in the K district; and if she will make a...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      48. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the expected timeline to introduce a new offence of stalking and non-fatal strangulation; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Electronic Tagging
      49. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the further roll-out of electronic tagging of criminals; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Alcohol Sales
      50. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans for the reform of licensing laws; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25985/22]
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      51. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are any outstanding legislative obligations for her Department arising from commitments made in the Stormont House...
    • Gambling Sector
      52. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the introduction of changes to gambling laws; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26121/22]
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      53. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans for the establishment of a new agency to deliver services to persons affected by domestic, sexual and gender-based...
    • An Garda Síochána
      54. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Garda authorities have reported on priorities for new Garda station constructions in 2022 and 2023; if they have...
    • Drug Dealing
      55. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the degree to which she and her Department remain alert to the increasing number of incidents of drug related crime; and if she...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      56. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will introduce a register of domestic violence offenders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25986/22]
    • Travel Documents
      57. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that are being taken to coordinate the issue of travel visas for those who have received work permits from the...
    • Crime Prevention
      59. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the criteria to make an application to the Community Safety Innovation Fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Stardust Fire
      61. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline the financial and functional supports that have been provided to the Dublin Coroner for the Stardust...
    • An Garda Síochána
      62. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No.112 of 29 March 2022, when the recruitment competition for the Garda Reserve will be...
    • Drug Dealing
      63. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to target the problem of hard drug dealing in rural areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26113/22]
    • Crime Prevention
      64. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to tackle and enhance legislation pertaining to gangland crime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26119/22]
    • Victim Support Services
      65. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider the recommendations made in a report (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Crime Prevention
      67. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action that she is taking to tackle repeat offending; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26071/22]
    • Victim Support Services
      68. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent of funding supports for services to victims of crime distributed to non-Governmental organisations across the country...
    • Judicial System
      69. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she plans to review or reform the current bail system in the State especially in cases of gender-based violence and domestic...
    • Immigration Policy
      70. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the criteria used by an immigration officer to determine if a non-European Economic Area national is granted leave to land and...
    • Probate Applications
      71. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Courts Service plans to review and streamline the probate processing service; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      72. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are any plans to set up a dedicated transport policing unit within An Garda Síochána; and if she will make a...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Central Statistics Office
      73. To ask the Taoiseach if the Central Statistics Office considers grants that the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland provides for oil and gas-powered boilers under the retrofit schemes as...
    • Departmental Properties
      74. To ask the Taoiseach the annual cost of cleaning and sanitising the roofs of buildings under his Department’s control for the past five years to date in 2022. [25570/22]
    • Departmental Records
      75. To ask the Taoiseach the person or body that is in charge of interpretation and implementation of memos in his Department; the number of memos that have been ignored or not implemented by his...
    • Government Communications
      76. To ask the Taoiseach the Ministerial contact details for persons (details supplied). [26103/22]
    • Departmental Investigations
      77. To ask the Taoiseach the number of investigations, internal or external, commissioned by his Department into instances in which Departmental documents or information was leaked to the media,...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Industrial Development
      78. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the IDA or Enterprise Ireland will be able to provide grant aid to a company (details supplied) in County Kerry to develop a new...
    • Corporate Enforcement Agency
      79. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on his engagements with the Department of Justice in respect of the way in which the allocation of Garda resources...
    • Government Communications
      80. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the Ministerial contact details for persons (details supplied). [26107/22]
    • Work Permits
      81. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans that are in place to reduce the waiting time for employment permits to be issued for non-European Union citizens; if...
    • Departmental Investigations
      82. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of investigations, internal or external, commissioned by his Department into instances in which Departmental documents or...
    • Business Regulation
      83. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address a matter raised in correspondence by a nursing agency (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      84. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will request a concise update from the IDA and his Department in regard to when the new 39-acre land bank in north Drogheda will...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Energy Prices
      85. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that an energy company (details supplied) has increased energy prices by...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      86. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has issued a decommissioning notice for the Kinsale gas pipeline; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Postal Services
      87. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an amendment will be made to an Eircode address (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Schemes
      88. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to provide grants for conversion to hydrotreated vegetable oil from kerosene to enable the de-carbonisation of...
    • State Bodies
      90. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if each State body (details supplied) is exempt from obligations under the Climate Amendment Act 2021 given that they...
    • Departmental Schemes
      91. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the data required (details supplied) for a social impact assessment is collected as part of the warmer homes scheme...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      92. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of VAT paid on solar panels in schemes administered by his Department.. [25819/22]
    • Departmental Schemes
      93. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 197 of 10 May 2022, if he will outline the programme, proposed outputs and...
    • National Broadband Plan
      99. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the procedures that are available to National Broadband Ireland to acquire wayleaves other than by agreement; and if he...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      101. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated administrative costs of administering the €200 electricity account credit to domestic electricity...
    • Departmental Schemes
      103. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland not funding insulation wrap schemes for...
    • Government Communications
      104. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the Ministerial contact details for persons (details supplied). [26124/22]
    • Departmental Schemes
      108. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the emissions saved per-retrofit scheme for the years 2016-2020, in tabular form. [26228/22]
    • State Bodies
      111. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if investigations are being carried out in relation to the management of an organisation (details supplied); and if he...
    • EU Funding
      113. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the European Union loans and grants that are available to companies (details supplied); if he will support, encourage...
    • Departmental Investigations
      114. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of investigations, internal or external, commissioned by his Department into instances in which Departmental...
    • National Broadband Plan
      115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide updated figures on the National Broadband Plan targets for 2022; the number of premises that were...
    • Departmental Strategies
      117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the Connecting Ireland strategy; when he expects the consultation analysis process to...
    • State Bodies
      118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will seek clarification from the relevant Department that the costs of judicial review by a State agency, that is...
    • Illegal Dumping
      119. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he expects the use of CCTV to be authorised to combat illegal dumping; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Electric Vehicles
      123. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a taxi driver who has secured the purchase of an electric vehicle on foot of the Government announcement in February 2022 can avail of...
    • Taxi Licences
      124. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if advice will be provided regarding an extension to a licence for a person (details supplied); the options that may be available to the...
    • Driver Licences
      125. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that a person (details supplied) is being requested to fill out another driver licence renewal form given that they did same...
    • Coast Guard Service
      126. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for the formal site transfer of a project (details supplied); the length of time that it will take once the formal transfer...
    • Regional Airports
      127. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if additional flights will be ensured for an airport (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25715/22]
    • Driver Licences
      128. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures that he is taking to address the delays in persons with non-European Union driving licences having to retrain; if his...
    • Air Quality
      130. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures that he is taking to reduce aviation pollution and improve air-quality in Ireland’s airspace; and if he will make a...
    • Electric Vehicles
      131. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the budget allocated to the public charge point scheme in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25844/22]
    • Park-and-Ride Facilities
      133. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the budget allocated for the construction of new park-and-ride facilities in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25846/22]
    • Public Transport
      134. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of making the bus, train fleet and bus and train stations wheelchair-accessible; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Transport Policy
      136. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the budget allocated for active travel spending in 2022; the estimated number of kilometres of new cycling infrastructure that this will...
    • Tax Data
      137. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the percentage of all motor tax payments that were paid in instalments versus those which were paid upfront in full; the amount that is...
    • Driver Licences
      138. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that licence renewal forms for those over 70 years of age are not available to download or be picked-up from post offices or...
    • Road Tolls
      139. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount that was retained in overpaid tolls by Transport Infrastructure Ireland in respect of the Dublin Port tunnel in each the of...
    • Government Communications
      141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the Ministerial contact details for persons (details supplied). [26126/22]
    • Coast Guard Service
      142. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the date on which works on the new coastguard building at Howth will commence; the estimated cost of these works; and the estimated...
    • Public Transport
      143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request Iarnród Éireann to increase the number of carriages from four to seven on the 17.30 pm service from Dublin...
    • Bus Services
      145. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional public bus services that will be provided in counties Cavan and Monaghan. [26171/22]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      146. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the efforts that his Department is making to ensure that there are meaningful and obligatory environmental, climate-friendly and...
    • Bus Services
      147. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will respond to a query (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26215/22]
    • Public Transport
      148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the public transport spend per capita per county for each of the years 2016 to 2021 inclusive (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Investigations
      151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of investigations, internal or external, commissioned by his Department into instances in which Departmental documents or...
    • Driver Test
      152. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the efforts that are being made to simplify the language used within the driver theory test to accommodate applicants that have learning...
    • Road Safety
      153. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Road Safety Authority has commissioned research on the impact that the presence of a footpath has on the likelihood of a vehicle...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Exemptions
      155. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will remove all tax levied on automated external defibrillators, AED, under European Union Council Directive EU 2022/542 of 5 April 2022 recognising the...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      156. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that the offices of the Revenue Commissioners are reopened to the public for in-person consultations; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Yield
      157. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue raised through VAT on solar panels. [25818/22]
    • Government Communications
      158. To ask the Minister for Finance the Ministerial contact details for persons (details supplied). [26108/22]
    • Revenue Commissioners
      159. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of full-time forensic accountants employed by the Revenue Commissioners as of 1 January 2021 and 17 May 2022, in tabular form. [26144/22]
    • Tax Yield
      160. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of betting duty that was collected between 1 January and 31 December 2021; the amount in betting intermediary duty that was collected between 1...
    • Tax Clearance Certificates
      161. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) is on emergency income tax; if so, when this arrangement will cease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26183/22]
    • Tax Yield
      162. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue raised through the mineral oil tax on marked gas oil in each of the years 2017 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Reliefs
      163. To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects a review into the status of farm contractors regarding the carbon tax to conclude; the timeframe which he may bring forward proposals arising...
    • Public Sector Staff
      164. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of voluntary salary and pension surrenders that occurred in each of the years 2019 to 2021; the value of such; the average duration of such; and if...
    • Insurance Industry
      165. To ask the Minister for Finance his proposals to address the continuing high cost of insurance cover in the childcare sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26256/22]
    • Departmental Investigations
      166. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of investigations, internal or external, commissioned by his Department into instances in which Departmental documents or information was leaked to...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Office of Public Works
      167. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of OPW controlled sites and visitor attractions have been handed over to local authorities in the context of management and...
    • Social Wage
      168. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to new research by an organisation (details supplied) which shows that the value of the social wage for...
    • Office of Public Works
      169. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if an OPW inspector will contact a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25933/22]
    • Government Communications
      170. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Ministerial contact details for persons (details supplied). [26116/22]
    • An Garda Síochána
      171. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Garda stations within the Dublin region that are scheduled to be refurbished by the Office of Public Works in Q3 and 4 of 2022; and...
    • Office of Public Works
      172. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update in respect of a premises at (details supplied). [26157/22]
    • EU Funding
      173. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the remaining allocations from the Brexit adjustment reserve for 2022 will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Sector Staff
      174. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress that has been made in establishing an external review panel to examine the current recruitment process for senior public...
    • Office of Public Works
      175. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 236 of 22 June 2021, if he will provide an updated list of vacant properties in the same format;...
    • Re-interment of Volunteers
      176. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures that he intends to pursue in order to ensure that the remains of a group (details supplied) will be re-interred in...
    • Departmental Investigations
      177. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of investigations, internal or external, commissioned by his Department into instances in which Departmental documents or...
    • Departmental Contracts
      178. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details on the number of long leasehold and freehold contract agreements that his Department and the bodies under the...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • National Monuments
      179. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the up-to-date position regarding the erection of a State monument in honour of a person (details supplied); if he will provide...
    • Artists' Remuneration
      180. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25699/22]
    • Legislative Measures
      181. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the estimated timeline for the introduction of the European Union Audiovisual Media Services Directive content-levy in Ireland as...
    • Departmental Bodies
      183. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the dates of the meetings of the Audiovisual Action Plan steering group in each of the years 2020, 2021 and for the first five...
    • Government Communications
      186. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the Ministerial contact details for persons (details supplied). [26125/22]
    • National Cultural Institutions
      187. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there are plans to extend the opening hours of the national cultural institutions under the remit of her Department during the...
    • Departmental Investigations
      189. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of investigations, internal or external, commissioned by her Department into instances in which departmental documents...
    • Sports Funding
      190. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of a sports capital appeal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26403/22]
    • Museum Projects
      193. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 278 of 17 May 2022, the name of the granting authority for the previous permission of the...
    • Departmental Funding
      194. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the allocation for the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland independent productions fund in 2021 and 2022. [26528/22]
    • Sports Funding
      197. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding that was allocated to the sports capital programme in each of the years 2021 and 2022; and if she will confirm that...
    • Departmental Funding
      198. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding allocation that is made by her Department to media outlets other than an organisation (details supplied); and if she...
    • Tourism Funding
      200. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding allocation that was made to Tourism Ireland in 2020, 2021 and 2022. [26534/22]
    • Departmental Funding
      203. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding allocation that was made to TG4 in each of the years 2020, 2021 and 2022. [26537/22]
    • Departmental Reports
      204. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the Future of Media Commission report will be published. [26538/22]
    • State Bodies
      205. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the expected timeline for the creation of coimisiún na meán. [26539/22]
    • Departmental Funding
      207. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide details of the funding that was provided by the Exchequer to community radio in each of the years 2020, 2021...
    • Legislative Measures
      208. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she expects the two levies provided for in the online safety and media regulation Bill to be introduced; and if she will make...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Fire Stations
      209. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of the new fire station for Dunleer, County Louth since €1.6 million was awarded for the design and...
    • Regulatory Bodies
      210. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way that case files are allocated to board members of an Bord Pleanála; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Planning Issues
      211. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the options that are available to a community in which an unauthorised development is being constructed in spite of the first...
    • Housing Policy
      212. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the demonstrated ability of a person to afford their rent payments will be taken into consideration when they are applying...
    • National Biodiversity Plan
      213. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the 4th National Biodiversity Plan; when it will be published; when the public consultation will commence given...
    • Local Authorities
      214. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 189 of 4 May 2022, if he will provide a breakdown of the information originally sought...
    • Departmental Data
      215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of payments that have been made to approved housing bodies under payment and availability agreements; and the...
    • Grant Payments
      216. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding allocated for housing adaptation grants to Wexford County Council for 2020, 2021 and 2022; the amount of funding...
    • Housing Provision
      219. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a development (details supplied); the amount of funding that has been committed to date; if the site cost has...
    • Departmental Bodies
      220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the thatch steering group that is being established within his Department; the persons that will be on the...
    • Housing Provision
      221. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of respondents nationally to the call by the Land Development Agency for projects under Project Tosaigh; the...
    • Departmental Circulars
      223. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide copies of all circulars that have been sent to local authorities in relation to the local infrastructure housing...
    • Public Sector Staff
      224. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the option of flexitime will be returned to all local authority workers who had flexitime before the pandemic; and if he...
    • Government Communications
      225. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the ministerial contact details for persons (details supplied). [26111/22]
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to an increase in homelessness in Cork city; if he has met with homeless services; and his...
    • Local Authorities
      227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person declaring themselves homeless needs to provide the local authority with an address. [26223/22]
    • Departmental Schemes
      228. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties that have been approved for upgrades, by each local authority, under the energy efficiency retrofit...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      233. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the caravan purchase loan scheme will be operational again in Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Investigations
      234. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of investigations, internal or external, commissioned by his Department into instances in which Departmental...
    • Housing Provision
      235. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expected cost of an affordable unit in Cork city. [26393/22]
    • Planning Issues
      237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans to scrap An Bord Pleanála and to put a new system in place (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the additional financial assistance that will be provided to approved housing bodies involved in the provision of social...
    • Referendum Campaigns
      239. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on preparations for a referendum on the public ownership of water; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Local Authorities
      240. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the annual budget allocated by his Department to each local authority in 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form. [26546/22]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Dublin-Monaghan Bombings
      242. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he last requested the full release of all documents and files related to the Dublin and Monaghan bombings of 17 May 1974 from the...
    • Consular Services
      243. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when applications for a certificate of co-impediment will issue to persons in County Galway (details supplied); the reason for the delay in...
    • Passport Services
      244. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of passport applications by persons (details supplied). [25727/22]
    • Human Rights
      246. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the death of a journalist (details supplied); the measures that he will take at the levels of the European Union and United...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      247. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a foreign birth registration will be processed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25746/22]
    • Human Rights
      250. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps that are being taken by Ireland at the United Nations and European Union to raise the case of a person (details supplied) who is...
    • Passport Services
      261. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied) given that it has exceeded the target issue date; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Appointments
      289. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the selection process for a recent diplomatic corps appointment (details supplied). [25905/22]
    • Passport Services
      292. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if additional staff will be immediately deployed to the Passport Office customer service and webchat sections given the extreme difficulties...
    • Government Communications
      297. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the ministerial contact details for (details supplied). [26105/22]
    • Passport Services
      310. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications from persons from counties Cavan and Monaghan currently with the Passport Office. [26276/22]
    • Diplomatic Representation
      321. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will detail the relationships between Ireland and the Republic of Armenia (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Investigations
      323. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of investigations, internal or external, commissioned by his Department into instances in which Departmental documents or...
    • Passport Services
      324. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a refund for a passport application will be issued (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26384/22]
    • Brexit Issues
      329. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the most recent engagement he has had with European Union officials and directly with UK officials regarding the...
    • Foreign Policy
      330. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); if he has raised issues with their sentence of the death penalty...
    • Departmental Policies
      341. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will facilitate representations to his office from MLAs and MPs, on behalf of their constituents in the North of Ireland on Irish...
  • Department of Defence
    • Departmental Data
      348. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of women and ethnic minorities in the Defence Forces, Naval Service and Air Corps in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form....
    • Departmental Investigations
      349. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of investigations, internal or external, commissioned by his Department into instances in which Departmental documents or information...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Special Educational Needs
      350. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 145 of 12 May 2022, if the supports to special schools in line with the agreed English as an additional...
    • Departmental Websites
      351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a document on her website which states that subjects such as laundry, needlework and...
    • Special Educational Needs
      352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will advise on a summer-provision query (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25683/22]
    • Departmental Schemes
      353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) can apply for summer works scheme 2022, after being refused emergency works for the urgent replacement of windows;...
    • Special Educational Needs
      354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a review of the School Inclusion Model Pilot Projects has been undertaken; if not, if a review is planned; the timeframe for the publication...
    • State Examinations
      357. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she proposes to make any adjustments to the leaving certificate 2023 given the interference caused by the pandemic to those students sitting...
    • Tax Rebates
      358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views in relation to allowing all schools to claim back VAT in the same way that other entities with charity numbers can; if she has...
    • Tax Reliefs
      359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has engaged with officials and or the Minister for Finance in respect of waiving VAT on school energy-bills; the structure and or supports...
    • Departmental Policies
      360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if primary school children are entitled to a minimum space allocation for their schoolwork within their respective classroom; and if she will...
    • School Facilities
      361. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application has been received by his Department from a school (details supplied) to get funding in order to upgrade to three phase ESB...
    • School Staff
      362. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be re-considered as the base school for the cluster special education teaching hours applicable as was the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a special needs unit be available for second-level students in Athlone, County Westmeath; the number of pupils who are on the waiting list...
    • Child Abuse
      364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the strategy that is in place to support young persons who were abused in secondary boarding schools; and if recent recognition by religious...
    • School Transport
      365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the budget allocation for the school transport scheme in 2022; the number of students that this will provide public transport for in 2022; the...
    • Site Acquisitions
      366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 264 of 4 May 2022, if she will disclose the location of site including its Eircode; the status of the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide additional funding for specific learning disability classes at a school (details supplied) in order to meet the demand there;...
    • State Examinations
      368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when students sitting the leaving certificate in summer 2022 will receive their results. [25910/22]
    • Educational Disadvantage
      369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of the Deis funding that is available to voluntary versus second-level schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs
      370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the appropriate supports and a reader will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if the matter will be expedited. [25936/22]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide information on the current pupil teacher ratio in primary schools. [25952/22]
    • Schools Amalgamation
      374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the request from an organisation (details supplied) for schools to be allowed to amalgamate; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Data
      375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of classes at primary school level with 30 pupils or above by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Capitation Grants
      377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual capitation amounts to primary and post-primary schools since 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25972/22]
    • School Textbooks
      378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full-year cost of current schoolbook rental schemes; the estimated cost to provide books free of charge to all school children. [25973/22]
    • School Transport
      379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing free school transport to each child availing of the school transport scheme in 2022. [25974/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional SNAs that have been hired since Budget 2021; and the cost of same. [25975/22]
    • Departmental Data
      381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of primary schools and the total number of secondary schools in the State. [25976/22]
    • School Admissions
      384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school places will be made available for children (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26009/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of SNAs employed in September 2021 in special classes in secondary schools. [26036/22]
    • School Staff
      415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers working in primary and secondary schools, respectively not including special education teachers in tabular form. [26092/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special education teachers working in primary and secondary schools, respectively, in tabular form. [26093/22]
    • Government Communications
      417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the Ministerial contact details for persons (details supplied). [26106/22]
    • School Staff
      418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing one additional guidance counsellor position for schools with over 500 pupils. [26145/22]
    • School Transport
      419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing 2,000 additional bus places for the 2022-2023 school transport scheme. [26166/22]
    • School Enrolments
      420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the aggregate capacity of secondary schools in the Killester, Raheny and Clontarf catchment area; and the extent to which it exceeds current...
    • School Accommodation
      423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the CSO has provided her Department with a projection of population for the Killester, Raheny and Clontarf school catchment area over the next...
    • Physical Education
      424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of physical education halls that have been built and or modernised to date in 2022; the number that were built and or modernised in...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools built prior to 2008 that have been deep energy retrofitted to date in 2022; the number that were deep energy retrofitted in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 6 April 2022, if contact has been made with the National Council for Special Education as no direct...
    • Schools Building Projects
      428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of capital projects under her Department’s control that have requested increased funding due to supply costs increases; and the...
    • School Staff
      429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an overview of the circumstances that allow a teacher to extend their career break beyond the five-year limit, as specified...
    • Schools Building Projects
      430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the start date for the construction a project (details supplied) given that the contracts have been signed; and the timelines that have been...
    • Special Educational Needs
      431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the lack of autism classes in secondary schools in the Dublin 12 area; her plans to increase the number of...
    • School Staff
      435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the latest average class size figure for primary schools in Ireland for 2021 and 2022 academic years (details supplied); if the average class...
    • School Enrolments
      436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children enrolled in primary schools as of the 30 September 2021; and the number of pupils enrolled in special schools on the same...
    • Special Educational Needs
      437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions and plans that are in place to supply additional ASD classes in secondary schools in the Rathcoole, Newcastle, Brittas and Saggart...
    • Schools Building Projects
      438. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proposed capacity of new buildings at a school (details supplied); the expected completion date with regard to the building works at this...
    • State Examinations
      439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if adjustments will be made to the leaving certificate examination 2023 to compensate for the disruptions experienced by current fifth year...
    • Departmental Investigations
      440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of investigations, internal or external, commissioned by her Department into instances in which Departmental documents or information...
    • School Facilities
      441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of building a school hall. [26385/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school (details supplied) in Maynooth, County Kildare. [26405/22]
    • School Transport
      444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing free school transport to all students currently using these services. [26419/22]
    • School Staff
      447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if further advice will be provided on a matter (details supplied) in relation to a career break; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of building works at schools (details supplied); the estimated start and completion dates; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the decision to refuse an application for assistive technology for a pupil (details supplied). [26472/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans and buildings for a school (details supplied) that will have 100 students in first, second and third year in September 2022;...
    • Special Educational Needs
      451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a child who is accepted for the summer provision can also be approved for summer tuition in a home-based programme; and if she will make a...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Citizens Information Services
      452. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she was notified of a change in policy in relation to a service (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      455. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timeframe for the social welfare office in a location (details supplied) being reopened fully; and if she will meet with...
    • School Meals Programme
      456. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if school meals are included as part of a programme for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Citizens Information Services
      457. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise on the process of reopening Citizens Information Service branches; the number of branches that are now...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      459. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an electronic notification relating to a returned pandemic unemployment payment will be sent to the Revenue...
    • Fuel Poverty
      460. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review of the fuel allowance application by a person (details supplied) will be carried out. [25812/22]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      461. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the free travel scheme to Ukrainian refugees (details supplied) based in rural areas on a temporary basis;...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      462. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress that has been made to date in the determination of an application for a jobseeker’s allowance in the case...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      464. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families that receive child benefit payments; and the number of children these are in respect of. [25957/22]
    • School Meals Programme
      466. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the school meals programme budget by 5%, 10%, 20% and 25%, respectively. [25959/22]
    • Government Communications
      472. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the ministerial contact details for persons (details supplied). [26122/22]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      473. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons currently waiting for an oral hearing for an appeal to the social welfare appeals office broken down by...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      476. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who were in receipt of the blind pension and subjected to a review by her Department in 2019, 2020 and...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      477. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if alternative documentation can be accepted by her Department in cases in which persons who are non-EEA nationals and have...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      478. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress that has been made to date in the determination of an application for a carer's benefit in the case of a person...
    • State Pensions
      479. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the Government response to the Pensions Commission Report is expected; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Investigations
      480. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of investigations, internal or external, commissioned by her Department into instances in which Departmental...
    • Citizens Information Services
      481. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to any changes that have occurred to the operational processes of Citizens Information...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      483. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that an application for working family payment was disallowed for a person in County Donegal (details supplied);...
    • State Pensions
      484. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for the State pension (non-contributory) for a person (details supplied) will be re-examined; if the...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      485. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a qualifying social welfare payment supersedes a non-qualifying social welfare payment for households that already receive...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      486. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will raise the issue of the payment that persons receive on the community employment scheme, given that many of these...
    • Parental Leave
      487. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the extension of parent’s leave from five to seven weeks scheduled for July 2022; when this will...
    • State Pensions
      488. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a pension will be provided for full-time carers as in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • International Protection
      489. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention and that of his officials has been drawn to the situation of the female Afghan journalist...
    • Departmental Strategies
      490. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to the conclusion of the National Strategy for Women and Girls 2017 to 2021, when work on a new strategy...
    • Ukraine War
      491. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will advise on a family relocation matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Child Abuse
      492. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons in foster care who have made allegations of sexual abuse against their foster families in...
    • Child and Family Agency
      495. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of internal case reviews conducted by Tusla in the past ten years; the number that produced a...
    • Departmental Reviews
      496. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of reviews conducted by the National Review Panel since its establishment in 2010; and the titles of...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      497. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he plans to introduce legislation to introduce socio-economic disadvantage as a further ground of...
    • Ukraine War
      498. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current childcare capacity and its ability to cater to the Ukrainian families coming to Ireland; if his...
    • Family Support Services
      499. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that the number of entry points for the ECCE scheme reverted from three to one at the beginning of...
    • Housing Provision
      500. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the budget that has been granted to the International Protection Accommodation Services to meet the housing need...
    • Departmental Schemes
      501. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that while most services will benefit from the 2022 budget provision...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      502. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a list of hotels that are being used in their entirety to house Ukrainian refugees; the...
    • Ministerial Staff
      504. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the ministerial contact details for persons (details supplied). [26104/22]
    • Departmental Investigations
      505. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of investigations, internal or external, commissioned by his Department into instances in which...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      506. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on concerns raised by an organisation (details supplied) concerning childcare core funding fee and...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Grant Payments
      507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a student (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25671/22]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated timeline and milestones for buildings to be delivered in bundle II of the National Development Finance Agency higher education...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number who have enrolled in the national commis chef apprenticeship programme that was launched by her Department in each of the years 2018...
    • Further and Higher Education
      512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a cheque for €90 that was drawn on the account of an employee of Solas (details supplied) and their spouse was sent to a...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an apprentice who is employed by a company registered in the State can work cross-border with the same company in the North of Ireland without...
    • Third Level Education
      516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to the Exchequer of providing equal funding per student to both traditional and technological universities in order to end the...
    • Student Visas
      517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has engaged with the Minister for Justice in relation to the situation in which language students on stamp 2 visas are being forced to...
    • Third Level Education
      518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 615 of 10 May 2022, if he will outline which section of the Higher Education Authority Bill 2022 as amended...
    • Departmental Data
      519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, recipients in the academic year 2021-2022; and the total number of full-time students; and...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details on plans to provide summer off-site training to address the backlog of 8,208 apprentices that each education institute...
    • Government Communications
      521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the ministerial contact details for persons (details supplied). [26109/22]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason no national hairdressing apprenticeship is being offered in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26235/22]
    • Departmental Funding
      524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding is available to community groups (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26323/22]
    • Departmental Investigations
      525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of investigations, internal or external, commissioned by his Department into instances in which Departmental documents or information...
    • Further and Higher Education
      526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the pay and conditions of personal assistants working in further education colleges; the starting salary for personal assistants; if they are on...
    • Language Schools
      527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are persons who are employed by an organisation (details supplied) involved in the inspection of those wishing to attain International...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Stardust Fire
      528. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if legislation will be brought forward to allow for the payment of members of the jury at the Stardust Inquest; and if she will...
    • Immigration Status
      529. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for an extension of permission to remain in the State; and if she...
    • An Garda Síochána
      530. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25721/22]
    • Citizenship Applications
      531. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current situation regarding an application for Irish citizenship by a person (details supplied). [25724/22]
    • Immigration Policy
      532. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications that her Department has received to date for the regularisation scheme for long-term undocumented...
    • Visa Applications
      533. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of visa applications by a family (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25759/22]
    • Prison Service
      534. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current total capacity of Irish prisons; the number of persons who are currently in prison; the breakdown of all inmates by...
    • An Garda Síochána
      535. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the justification for not proceeding with the See Something, Say Something text alert initiative for Donabate, County Dublin in...
    • Courts Service
      536. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount received by the courts through contributions to the court poor box to date in 2022; and the status of the Criminal...
    • Family Law Cases
      537. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the results of her Department's research into parental alienation will be published; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Government Communications
      538. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Ministerial contact details for persons (details supplied). [26114/22]
    • An Garda Síochána
      539. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the level of firearms training provided to armed Garda personnel in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and the...
    • Prison Service
      544. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of full-time medical staff, by job title, and psychology staff, by job title, working in each prison in Ireland as...
    • An Garda Síochána
      545. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí, by rank, attached to each divisional protection services unit as of 13 May 2022. [26170/22]
    • Probate Applications
      546. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received reports of delays in the Probate Office and if the delays that arose during Covid are being overcome. [26204/22]
    • Prison Service
      547. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has examined the tourism potential of the old Cork prison site. [22135/22]
    • Asylum Seekers
      548. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of asylum seekers in Ireland still awaiting their temporary residence certificates to be processed; and if she will...
    • Crime Prevention
      549. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on her continued work to tackle anti-social behaviour in towns and villages, particularly ahead of the...
    • Legislative Programme
      550. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that have been taken regarding hate crime legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26291/22]
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      551. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the expected timeframe for the publication of the new national strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence; and if...
    • An Garda Síochána
      553. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current position regarding the review of the compulsory retirement age for members of An Garda Síochána; when an...
    • Departmental Investigations
      554. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of investigations, internal or external, commissioned by her Department into instances in which Departmental...
    • Court Procedures
      556. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has any plans for reform of pre-action protocols in medical negligence cases; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Residency Permits
      557. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that those renewing their residence permit are only allowed to apply one month...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      558. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26478/22]
    • Drug Dealing
      559. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of arrests and prosecutions for drug dealing in the past two years; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • An Garda Síochána
      563. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cold cases currently under investigation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26494/22]
    • Asylum Applications
      564. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which backlogs in respect of applications for asylum have been overhauled in her Department; and if she will make...
    • An Garda Síochána
      565. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of gardaí now available at any one given time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26496/22]
    • Crime Prevention
      569. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which crime levels in County Kildare continue to be manageable; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Health
    • Departmental Communications
      570. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the memorandum limiting the secondment length of time, ignored by his Department in terms of the secondment of the Chief Medical Officer. [25915/22]
    • Departmental Reports
      571. To ask the Minister for Health when the evaluation of the individual placement and support services will be published; the cost of each individual placement and support service; the outcomes...
    • Mental Health Services
      572. To ask the Minister for Health the current and capital cost of establishing and operating a 24/7 multi-agency mental health crisis de-escalating team in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      573. To ask the Minister for Health if he, along with HSE officials, will re-engage with an organisation (details supplied) regarding the long-standing pay and career development issues that are...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      574. To ask the Minister for Health if an assessment of needs will be expedited for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25664/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      575. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) regarding a prescription for the person's medication; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Service Executive
      576. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25666/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      577. To ask the Minister for Health if matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) will be examined; the steps that his Department is taking to help with staff shortages in...
    • Health Service Executive
      578. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25672/22]
    • Hospital Staff
      579. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to recruit and retain a safe number of midwives specifically at Letterkenny University Hospital in order to allow for the full...
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      581. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1786 of 26 April 2022, the staffing costs for the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland registration department; the...
    • Protected Disclosures
      582. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1787 of 26 April 2022, the name of the agencies under the auspices of his Department in which protected disclosures were...
    • Health Services Staff
      583. To ask the Minister for Health if employees in a healthcare setting (details supplied) are entitled to the pandemic bonus payment. [25685/22]
    • Disability Services
      585. To ask the Minister for Health the engagement that his officials had on funding for a centre in Cork (details supplied). [25696/22]
    • Health Services
      586. To ask the Minister for Health if advice will be provided in relation to a matter raised in correspondence regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Healthcare Policy
      587. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position in relation to a matter (details supplied); if the matter will have to come before Cabinet; if it will be brought before the Houses of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      588. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to the concerns raised by an organisation (details supplied) in respect of its views on access to the pandemic bonus payment for Covid-19...
    • Health Services Staff
      589. To ask the Minister for Health if all citizens in each community healthcare organisation, CHO, have equal access to a public health nurse; the waiting time for a public health nurse in each...
    • Hospital Staff
      590. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of current expenditure provided to fund services and staff at a hospital (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2021, in tabular form; the...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      591. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of capital investment by the State on the site of a hospital (details supplied) since 1990; the breakdown by year and by project; and if he will...
    • Health Services Staff
      592. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the campaign led by an organisation (details supplied) that is seeking improved pay, work structures and proper engagement...
    • Medicinal Products
      593. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to a licence for a product ; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Communications
      594. To ask the Minister for Health if a formal authorisation process is necessary at stage one, in the transition of information from civil servants to a member of Government; the person who...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      595. To ask the Minister for Health if attention of the Director General of the HSE has been drawn to the hacking of computer systems from within the HSE; if such incidents have ever been...
    • Health Service Executive
      596. To ask the Minister for Health the number and percentage of bullying complaints made by HSE employees for each of the past five years. [25765/22]
    • Disability Services
      597. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details regarding the parent consultation clinic invitations, which are being sent to parents by children’s disability network teams;...
    • Hospital Services
      598. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of the HSE budget for 2021 that was returned or unspent from the South South West Hospital Group in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Service Executive
      599. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE 2021 budget for capital spend, services and staff, respectively in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25786/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      600. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that medical laboratory scientists who are members of an association (details supplied) took strike action on 18...
    • Health Service Executive
      601. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a report into the operation of HSE MyOptions produced by a group (details supplied) which details severe inadequacies in the...
    • Health Services Staff
      602. To ask the Minister for Health when pay parity will be restored for medical scientists following an expert panel report dating back to 2001 recommending pay parity with clinical biochemists...
    • Legislative Measures
      603. To ask the Minister for Health the legislation in relation to persons under 18 years of age purchasing vapes and vaping liquids (details supplied). [25813/22]
    • Mortality Rates
      604. To ask the Minister for Health his response to the high perinatal mortality rates among ethnic African mothers or expectant mothers living in Ireland as recorded in the perinatal statistics...
    • Disability Services
      607. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on a personal care package application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25857/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      608. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive an insulin pump that they have been waiting for over a year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25879/22]
    • General Practitioner Services
      609. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will urgently issue guidance to general practitioners around the country that exercise should not be recommended to patients with myalgic...
    • Health Services
      610. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the lack of services that are available to both children and adults with myalgic encephalomyelitis; and the actions that the...
    • Abortion Services
      611. To ask the Minister for Health the names of the institutes and of the academic researchers in a university (details supplied) that recently received the tender to conduct research into the...
    • Primary Care Centres
      613. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the long-awaited and urgently needed primary care centre for north Clondalkin, Dublin 22; if the project delay due to the issue regarding the...
    • Disability Services
      614. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to amending the Disability Act 2005 to enable children that need additional supports to have a right in law to appropriate...
    • Dental Services
      615. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the case of a person (details supplied) regarding implants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25935/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      616. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to expand the availability of the freestyle libre device for persons with diabetes in Ireland. [25937/22]
    • Departmental Funding
      617. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount of funding allocated for the Cork and Kerry region to date; the amount allocated to hospitals and CHOs inclusive of section 38 and 39...
    • Dental Services
      618. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the review of the dental treatment services scheme for medical card holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25947/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      619. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that there is no pay parity between clinical scientists and medical laboratory scientists given that both professions perform the same duties often...
    • Mental Health Services
      622. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 277 of 16 September 2021, the status of the first pilot site for a dual diagnosis team planned for CHO3; the breakdown of...
    • Health Services Staff
      624. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the chronic shortage of staff in a healthcare setting (details supplied) that is leading to lengthy delays in the...
    • Medicinal Products
      625. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his engagements with suppliers in respect of oestrogel. [26011/22]
    • Respite Care
      626. To ask the Minister for Health if respite care can be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26013/22]
    • Hospital Staff
      627. To ask the Minister for Health when the nine neurology nurses specialists needed in University Hospital Galway will be recruited; if his attention has been drawn to patients that are...
    • Health Services Staff
      628. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to concerns raised by a local health worker (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26099/22]
    • Government Communications
      629. To ask the Minister for Health the Ministerial contact details for persons (details supplied). [26110/22]
    • Medical Research and Training
      630. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he will take to ensure the long-term sustainability of the public medical science sector which is dealing with alarming staffing issues; and if...
    • Health Services
      631. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have attended symptomatic breast disease clinics, lung rapid access clinics and prostate rapid access clinics in 2021 and to date in...
    • Hospital Charges
      632. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of revenue generated through parking charges within public car parking in St. James's and the Mater Hospitals in 2021 and to date in 2022, in...
    • Hospital Staff
      633. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of recruiting one additional full-time consultant anaesthesiologist with a special interest in pain for CHI, Connolly Hospital. [26149/22]
    • Health Services
      634. To ask the Minister for Health the locations of each sleep apnoea clinic in the public health service; the opening hours of each of these clinics in tabular form. [26161/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      635. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time cognitive behaviour psychotherapist employed by the HSE in 2021 and to-date in 2022, in tabular form. [26162/22]
    • Disability Services
      637. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve autism services in counties Cavan and Monaghan. [26164/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      638. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a child (details supplied) was removed from the public list to have a procedure carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Staff
      639. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) was not provided with a pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26179/22]
    • Disability Services
      640. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite beds that are available for adults with intellectual disabilities in the Fingal area; the number that are occupied at present; if and...
    • Departmental Schemes
      641. To ask the Minister for Health if she plans to include heart failure in the medical card and the long-term illness schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26233/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      642. To ask the Minister for Health the costs of reimbursing international normalised-ratio test strips and warfarin therapy machines for those who require warfarin for long-term oral...
    • Hospital Investigations
      643. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the completion of the investigation into the cremation of the remains of babies at Cork University Maternity Hospital. [26238/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      644. To ask the Minister for Health the exact location of the new property proposed for purchase by the HSE in east County Cork to be used as a mental health facility; the cost of the property;...
    • Health Services
      645. To ask the Minister for Health the exact staffing allocations per discipline and per population of the HSE home-based treatment over the combined east Cork HSE catchment of Midleton, Youghal...
    • Mental Health Services
      646. To ask the Minister for Health the exact staffing allocations per discipline of the HSE psychology of later life service over the combined east Cork HSE catchment of Midleton, Youghal and...
    • Hospital Facilities
      650. To ask the Minister for Health if plans are underway to remove or downgrade the cardiac angiogram service in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      651. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for not paying the Covid recognition payment to healthcare assistants or agency healthcare workers who worked with elderly and vulnerable persons...
    • Hospital Staff
      652. To ask the Minister for Health further an to Parliamentary Question No. 355 of 24 February 2022, if he will seek an update on the recommendations by the National Clinical Programme for...
    • General Practitioner Services
      653. To ask the Minister for Health the serious shortage of general practitioner places in east Cork which is leading many locals (details supplied) to go without GP care; and the efforts he will...
    • Hospital Services
      654. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HSE reviews of the disposal of perinatal organs which were due to be received by his Department in November 2021; and if he will make a...
    • National Maternity Hospital
      655. To ask the Minister for Health if staff at the new National Maternity Hospital will be guaranteed freedom of conscience and conscientious objection in relation to operations that end the...
    • Health Services Staff
      656. To ask the Minister for Health when the full complement of the 24 additional lactation consultant posts created under the 2022 National Service Plan will be filled; the number of posts that...
    • Dental Services
      657. To ask the Minister for Health the current position in relation to private dental practices that will no longer offer services to medical card holders; and if there are plans for this...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      658. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide all reports that he has received in the past six months on the issue of long-Covid and its impact upon persons with the condition. [26307/22]
    • Hospital Staff
      659. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a submission by a group (details supplied) in respect of microbiology medical scientists; and if he will re-engage with stakeholders and the...
    • Medicinal Products
      660. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the extension of kaftrio drug therapy to all children with cystic fibrosis aged 6 to11 years as in the case of a child (details supplied)....
    • Disability Services
      661. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive appropriate occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech and language therapy given that they were diagnosed...
    • General Practitioner Services
      662. To ask the Minister for Health when the expansion of general practitioner care without charges to children aged six and seven years of age is expected to be introduced; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Investigations
      663. To ask the Minister for Health the number of investigations, internal or external, commissioned by his Department into instances in which Departmental documents or information was leaked to...
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      664. To ask the Minister for Health if he has engaged with his counterpart in the Northern Ireland Executive to extend arrangements for the provision of access to healthcare services in the State...
    • Health Services Staff
      665. To ask the Minister for Health when the occupational therapist position in Templemore CHO area 3 will be filled given that it has remained vacant since February 2022 (details supplied); and...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      667. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26387/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      668. To ask the Minister for Health the expected timescale of the recruitment process for a position (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26401/22]
    • Hospital Staff
      669. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 316 of 17 February 2022, the current staffing levels of paediatric epilepsy services at University Hospital Limerick; the...
    • Medicinal Products
      670. To ask the Minister for Health if there is any process whereby a person can reclaim the cost of medication which has now been reimbursed by the HSE (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      671. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of the public health nurses operating in the relevant areas in counties Cavan, Monaghan and Meath in tabular form; the locations in...
    • Health Services
      673. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of a well-governed and patient-centred healthcare service by the HSE for adults and children in the transgender community, in...
    • Healthcare Policy
      674. To ask the Minister for Health the position of his Department in respect of the Regulation of Homecare paper published by the Health Information and Quality Authority; if the paper will be...
    • Disability Services
      675. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of transitional plans to ensure that young persons with a disability who wish to reside outside of nursing home settings and who...
    • Primary Care Centres
      676. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed east Meath primary care centre which is to be located in Bettystown town centre; when he expects work to commence; if other relevant...
    • Hospital Facilities
      678. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the progression of the new 50-bed hospital in St. Joseph's Hospital, Ardee, County Louth; if he will provide other relevant details in...
    • Hospital Services
      679. To ask the Minister for Health the number of acute inpatient beds in the public healthcare system per 1,000; the total number; the way in which this compares with other Organisation for...
    • Medicinal Products
      683. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he and his Department are taking to tackle the continued shortage of hormone replacement treatments across the country; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      684. To ask the Minister for Health the number of community optometrists contracted to provide services by CHO area in 2020 and 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [26471/22]
    • Health Services
      685. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect further correspondence from the HSE in relation to a complaint that they submitted via Your Service, Your Say on 27...
    • Dental Services
      686. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the situation being reported in County Wexford in which no dentists are accepting new patients with medical cards; and if he...
    • Home Care Packages
      689. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with an organisation (details supplied) to discuss changes to the homecare tender and its potential impact on not-for-profit and community...
    • Health Services Staff
      690. To ask the Minister for Health the engagement that has taken place with medical scientists in counties Roscommon and Galway with regard to a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Home Care Packages
      691. To ask the Minister for Health if homecare packages will be expedited for older persons (details supplied) in an area; and if he is taking steps to address the lack of homecare package that...
    • Abortion Services
      693. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that he has selected a university from a non-European Union country has selected to carry out research into the experiences of Irish abortion...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      696. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who are registered as patients under the medical cannabis access programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26558/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      699. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will consider this patient for urgent treatment through the national...
    • Health Services Staff
      700. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that he is taking to resolve the issues which have led to industrial action being taken by medical scientists in public hospital laboratories; and...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Brexit Supports
      701. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount that has been allocated to date in direct-aid to farmers from the Brexit Adjustment Reserve; and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Industry
      702. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on reforming sale-of-livestock regulations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25712/22]
    • Forestry Sector
      703. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of ash dieback reconstitution and underplanting scheme approvals that his Department will approve in 2022; and if he...
    • Harbours and Piers
      705. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are plans to expedite the receiving of tenders for buildings at a harbour (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Animal Welfare
      706. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions that have been taken by his Department to ensure the welfare of Irish thoroughbreds and other racing horses being sent to...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      708. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if grant assistance is available to assist a farm family (details supplied) in the removal of buildings; and if he will make a...
    • Forestry Sector
      709. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his officials have been in contact with their counterparts in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage on the...
    • Departmental Reports
      715. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made by his Department to date in implementing the recommendations of the Oireachtas joint committee’s report...
    • Forestry Sector
      716. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the expenditure by the forest service of his Department is in line with budget for April 2022, thereby ensuring there is no...
    • Government Communications
      720. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the ministerial contact details for persons (details supplied). [26127/22]
    • Food Industry
      721. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of beef imported into Ireland from Singapore in 2021. [26150/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      722. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of full-time staff by grade working in the investigation division of his Department as of 1 January 2021 and 17 May 2022,...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      723. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the manner in which appointments to Rásaíocht Con Éireann board from 1 January 2021 to date were nominated; and the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      724. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when GLAS payments for 2020 and 2021 will be issued to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Wind Energy Generation
      725. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has engaged with the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications and his Department officials to ensure that a...
    • Live Exports
      726. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 878 of 10 May 2022, if the implementation of the delegated regulation has been deferred; and if...
    • Forestry Sector
      727. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to an appearance of the Minister of State at the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine on 13 April 2022...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      728. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his response to the recent observation letter of the European Commission regarding the states draft CAP Strategic Plan as it relates...
    • Organic Farming
      729. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of times the application window for the organic farming scheme has been extended in 2022; the dates of such extensions;...
    • EU Funding
      730. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he intends to submit the State’s plan to the European Commission regarding expenditure from the European Crisis Reserve;...
    • Departmental Investigations
      731. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of investigations, internal or external, commissioned by his Department into instances in which Departmental documents or...
    • Climate Change Policy
      732. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the plans he has to facilitate farmers trading carbon credits; if he intends to establish a verifiable framework to record and manage...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      733. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking to address the incompatibility of CAP agri-environmental schemes with farmers planting forestry; and if...
    • Farm Household Incomes
      734. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that are being taken to ensure that Irish beef farmers receive a price commensurate with that paid to their European Union...
    • Pigmeat Sector
      735. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address concerns raised by pig farmers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26392/22]
    • Animal Breeding
      736. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of sellers and suppliers of pets and animals who have registered with his Department in 2021 and to date in 2022; the...
    • Agriculture Industry
      737. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures that his Department is taking in conjunction with the relevant agencies to put adequate supports in place for the...
    • Greyhound Industry
      738. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of greyhounds that were injured at racetracks from 1 January 2022 to date; the nature and date of the injuries at the...
    • Forestry Sector
      739. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the budget allocation for each of the 12 afforestation schemes in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Departmental Schemes
      740. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if additional funding will be approved for the LEADER Food Initiative in County Kerry in order to fund a number of projects (details...
    • Departmental Funding
      742. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of an application (details supplied). [26221/22]
    • Departmental Investigations
      743. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of investigations, internal or external, commissioned by her Department into instances in which Departmental documents or...
    • Departmental Schemes
      744. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the local improvement scheme; the number of applications that were received and approved by county in 2021 and to date...
    • Government Communications
      745. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the ministerial contact details for persons (details supplied). [26422/22]
    • Animal Breeding
      746. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the total number of dog breeders who have registered under the Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010 in each of the years 2010 to date...
    • Greenways Provision
      747. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will provide an update on the proposed works for the Mell Greenway, Drogheda for which Louth County Council received...

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