Written answers
Wednesday, 1 June 2022
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Departmental Programmes
58. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework for Ireland overseen by his Department. [26649/22]
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement
59. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if an investigation is being undertaken by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement into the substance of a complaint...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- National Postcode System
60. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an eircode that was applied for months ago will be immediately assigned to an house in County Kerry (details...
- Renewable Energy Generation
61. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the Government policy in relation to payment for surplus energy which is fed back into the national grid by small...
- Energy Prices
62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the situation with respect to electricity costs imposed on small businesses which have reduced their energy consumption...
- Climate Action Plan
63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason the long-term Climate Action Strategy which was to be completed in quarter one 2022 as set out in the Annex...
- Cost of Living Issues
64. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if steps are being taken to ensure that persons on low fixed incomes can access essential communication services such as...
- Broadband Infrastructure
65. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the broadband roll-out timeframe for when areas in mid-Cork that are currently in the survey pending phase will move to...
- Environmental Policy
67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the expected yield from the 20 cent levy on disposable beverage containers in 2023; and if he will make a statement on...
- Renewable Energy Generation
68. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the investment required in the national grid to deliver on Ireland’s renewable energy targets by 2030; and if he...
- Energy Policy
70. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost to the Exchequer of the purchase of international project credits, where relevant, to meet...
- Fuel Poverty
71. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 155 of 28 April 2022, the status of the review of the implementation of the...
- Renewable Energy Generation
72. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 10 of 6 April 2022, the status of the preparation of the finalised terms of...
- Climate Change Policy
73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 185 of 1 March 2022, the status of the promised statutory guidelines on the...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Coast Guard Service
74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 244 of 2 March 2022, the status of the development of the proposed coastguard station on the lands...
- Rail Network
75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans, if any, to reopen the train station in Dunleer, County Louth; the estimated cost of reopening the existing station; his views...
- Road Tolls
76. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the areas in which the money that is raised through tolls on the M50 is spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28279/22]
- Parking Provision
77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address concerns in relation to disabled parking spaces that are routinely being taken by non-disabled drivers; if he is...
- Electric Vehicles
78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost to the Exchequer due to the various financial incentives being offered of increasing the fleet of electric vehicles and...
- Pension Provisions
79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is giving active consideration to allowing a pension increase for CIÉ pensioners who have been denied their pro-rata cost of...
- Department of Finance
- Vacant Properties
80. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a report detailing the number of vacant residential units that were returned to active residential use in each local authority after...
- Rental Sector
82. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will increase tax relief to incentivise landlords to rent properties long-term in order to alleviate the current housing crisis; and if he will make a...
- Tax Code
83. To ask the Minister for Finance the adjustment made for indexation of income tax bands and income tax rates when calculating the budgetary stance for Budget 2023; and if he will make a...
- Budget 2022
85. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated net effect of carry-over measures for 2023 resulting from Budget 2022 measures; the way in which this is accounted for in the budgetary-stance...
- Tax Yield
86. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue yield from an increase in excise on diesel of five cents per litre; the estimated cost of using the diesel rebate scheme to offset such...
- Tax Code
87. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider implementing a windfall tax on energy firms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28302/22]
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Sports Funding
89. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the attention of her Department has been drawn to the change in the ownership and company structure at an organisation (details...
- Sports Facilities
90. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will fund an astro-turf pitch for a football club (details supplied). [28298/22]
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Heritage Council
91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department plans to take on any functions relating to the delivery of the Collaborative Town Centre Health Checks...
- Planning Issues
92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the steps necessary to update the planning regulations for solar panels are due; the date the process of updating the...
- Housing Schemes
93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports that are available to a first-time buyer who wants to build a house but does not qualify for the help-to-buy...
- Vacant Properties
94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a report detailing the number of vacant residential units that were returned to active residential use in...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- International Relations
98. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of two Bahrainis (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28611/22]
- Passport Services
99. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28290/22]
- Human Rights
115. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the Zinjiang police files authenticated and published in the media (details supplied) which document a system of internment,...
- Passport Services
119. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a child passport will issue on time for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal travelling on 8th June 2022; and if he will make a...
- European Union
124. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had any recent discussions with his counterparts in the European Union Foreign Affairs Council and with the European Union...
- Foreign Birth Registration
127. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when foreign birth registrations will be processed for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28502/22]
- Passport Services
130. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will inquire into the UK passport of a person (details supplied) that was mislaid during a recent passport application; and if he will...
- Department of Defence
- Ukraine War
140. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on the meeting of 23 May 2022 of the Ukraine Contact Group; the person who represented Ireland at the meeting; the number of...
- National Security
141. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of unidentified aerial phenomena that were recorded by the Defence Forces in Ireland in the period since World War II; and if he will...
- Defence Forces
144. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 25 of 12 May 2022, if he will outline the cost of the Defence Forces aptitude tests for each year from...
- Department of Education and Skills
- School Enrolments
145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of pupils in primary and in secondary schools, respectively. [28228/22]
- School Accommodation
146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made in relation to the move by a school (details supplied) to its permanent location; and if she will make a...
- Special Educational Needs
147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the proposed opening of special education centres for children with special educational needs. [28247/22]
- School Staff
151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a teacher (details supplied) in County Mayo can be approved for a contract of indefinite duration despite the error made by her Department;...
- Schools Building Projects
152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when works will be approved for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28392/22]
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- School Meals Programme
153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to increase the per child payment to suppliers of school meals which has not been increased since 2013; and if...
- Ukraine War
154. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a requirement for Ukrainian refugees with temporary protection to collect their social welfare payments in post...
- Social Welfare Payments
156. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the disability allowance payment given the sharp increase in the cost of living and in particular given...
- Social Welfare Code
158. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Welfare Payments
159. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a data error on the social welfare system will be rectified (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Personal Public Service Numbers
163. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if information will be provided regarding the process by which a person (details supplied) can obtain a PPS number.; and if...
- Cost of Living Issues
164. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps that she is taking to protect pensioners against the sharp increases in the cost of living;; and if she will make a...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Assisted Decision-Making
165. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a list of the disability organisations engaged by his Department in the formation of the...
- Wards of Court
166. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the possibility that the constitutional challenge to the State wardship...
- Rights of People with Disabilities
167. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the original date that the examination of Ireland’s compatibility with the United Nations Convention on...
- Child Safety
168. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagement that his Department has had with Tusla, after it was disclosed that 20 children were placed at...
- Assisted Decision-Making
169. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagement that his Department has had with the Department of Health in amending the Assisted...
- Immigration Support Services
170. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applications received from those volunteering to house Ukrainian refugees; the number of these...
- Irish Sign Language
171. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 149 of 25 May 2022, the details of any interim reports that were received...
- Departmental Schemes
173. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 9 of 24 March 2022, the status of the promised payment scheme to make...
- Immigration Support Services
174. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 212 of 11 May 2022, the expected timeline for the completion of the review...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Further and Higher Education
175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing the student maintenance grant by €1,000 for full-time third-level students; and if he will make a...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- House Sales
180. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider outlawing price on application property advertisements to ensure that perspective purchasers pay the actual...
- An Garda Síochána
181. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent of the current illegal drug prevention measures available to An Garda Síochána; the adequacy of such...
- Departmental Data
183. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 332 of 22 March 2022, the number of applications for the undocumented migrants' scheme...
- International Protection
184. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will extend the deadline of the immigration and international protection permissions beyond the 31 May 2022, in order to...
- Residency Permits
185. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that can now be taken by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28320/22]
- Department of Health
- Mental Health Services
187. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to fill the positions in the mental health care sector (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
- Hospital Admissions
188. To ask the Minister for Health the average patient experience time to admission for all patients for emergency department admissions broken down for those under 75 and 75+ years of age, for...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
192. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons aged over 75 years on hospital waiting lists according to the latest National Treatment Purchase Fund data by wait time band and total,...
- Hospital Appointments Status
193. To ask the Minister for Health the number of appointments by type cancelled across each hospital due to the hospital being unable to provide the service, as opposed to patient initiated...
- Medical Cards
195. To ask the Minister for Health the healthcare services which a medical card does not cover; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28199/22]
- Qualifications Recognition
197. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which medical professionals, dentists and general practitioners who are Ukrainian nationals now living here can have their Ukrainian qualifications...
- Mental Health Services
198. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the temporary mental health art classes and other associated activities at a community centre (details...
- Hospital Appointments Status
199. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an urgent hospital appointment for a child (details supplied); if the appointment will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Facilities
200. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28229/22]
- Departmental Projects
201. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a major capital investment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28230/22]
- Hospital Appointments Status
202. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28236/22]
- Ambulance Service
203. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the intermediate care operator within National Ambulance Service (details supplied);; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28245/22]
- Mental Health Services
205. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals that were made to CAMHS in 2020, 2021 and 2022; the number that were accepted; and the number of referrals that were not accepted per...
- Vaccination Programme
206. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Covid-19 second dose booster programme for persons under 65 years of age; when this age cohort will be offered an additional Covid-19 booster...
- Departmental Reviews
207. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Research Board is conducting a scoping review for his Department on advanced practice physiotherapy grades and physiotherapists as referrers for...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
208. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting to see a consultant maxillofacial surgeon at St. James's Hospital; and the average waiting time to see the consultant. [28281/22]
- Hospital Staff
209. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent staff by job title working in the accident and emergency department of St. James's Hospital; the number of vacant...
- Hospital Admissions
210. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were admitted to the George Frederic Handel ward at St. James's Hospital in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to-date in 2022, in tabular form....
- Hospital Waiting Lists
211. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the urgency of tackling the waiting list for ophthalmology services in Cork University Hospital (details supplied); and if...
- Departmental Funding
212. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that funding to mainstream, the headache pathway and the active neuro projects under the Sláintecare Integration Fund confirmed in November...
- Medical Cards
213. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that different rates of funding are being paid in respect of wigs and hair pieces to medical card holders residing in different areas in the...
- Disability Services
214. To ask the Minister for Health the backlog to access network disability team services including diagnosis and treatment for autism by CHO region; his plans to clear this backlog; and the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
220. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that are in place within the health system to treat persons with long-Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28319/22]
- Hospital Appointments Status
221. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to reduce the waiting time of five years to see a weight management specialist; when a person (details supplied) can expect to...
- General Practitioner Services
222. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the roll-out of free general practitioner cards to children over six years of age; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
223. To ask the Minister for Health the number of frontline workers who have received the pandemic bonus payment to date; when all payments are expected to issue to frontline workers eligible for...
- Medicinal Products
224. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on the delays to the kaftrio cystic fibrosis medication for some groups; the reason for the delays; the steps that are being taken to...
- National Maternity Hospital
225. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 240 of 3 May 2017, 1112 of 20 June 2017 and 1743 of 27 July 2021, if the information sought concerning the nature of...
- Hospital Appointments Status
226. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical appointment for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28396/22]
- Health Services
228. To ask the Minister for Health if the position set out in a January 2004 Departmental background paper published as an appendix to the Travers Report to the effect that the Health Act 1970...
- Disability Services
229. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of respite centres for adults with special needs in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28424/22]
- National Maternity Hospital
230. To ask the Minister for Health the next stages in the process of bringing the new National Maternity Hospital to completion along with the key dates; when a business case will be brought...
- Mental Health Services
231. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he will take in relation to the closure of beds in the busiest inpatient unit in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in the country...
- Health Services
232. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28506/22]
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Departmental Investigations
233. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will meet with persons (details supplied) who are calling for a public inquiry into the Department of Agriculture investigation...
- Agriculture Industry
234. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to the introduction of a tillage scheme to incentivise tillage farmers to grow catch crops which would...
- Departmental Programmes
235. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when consultation will take place with the Rural Development Programme Monitoring Committee to examine required modifications of the...
- Forestry Sector
236. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the area of land planted with new forestry in each of the past ten years; the areas for which a grant was provided; the area of land...
- Animal Passports
237. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that a change has been made to the passport for equines (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Farm Costs
238. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to dairy farmers who find themselves locked into fixed-priced milk contracts in view of the...
- Environmental Schemes
239. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider supporting farmers in derogation with environmental schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28388/22]
- Agriculture Industry
240. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans address the extreme volatility in farming based on a farm management deposit scheme model; and if he will make a statement...
- Farm Costs
241. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his proposals to allocate funds from the European Crisis Reserve to assist farmers in the face of increasing input costs. [28539/22]
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Departmental Expenditure
242. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated amount that her Department has expended and budgeted to date in respect of the engagement of a research-led consortium...
