Written answers

Tuesday, 14 June 2022

  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Electric Vehicles
      65. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the recent report on the roll-out of electric vehicles in the State; and the measures that he intends to take to ensure...
    • Heritage Sites
      66. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the transfer of Shannon Heritage sites to Clare County Council; and the supports his Department is providing to make this...
    • Transport Policy
      67. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on an implementation plan for suggested recommendations within the Five Cities Demand Management Study in order to use demand...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on his engagements with Dublin Airport Authority in relation to the plan that has been put in place for travellers using...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures that he will take to reduce emissions from motor fuels; if he intends to increase the ethanol blend of petrol from 5% to 10%;...
    • National Car Test
      74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that he is taking to address the backlog of NCT tests and the long wait time for appointments; and if he will make a statement...
    • Airport Security
      75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that his Department is taking to address the security and safety concerns in Dublin Airport; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Electric Vehicles
      77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to ensure that public transport providers such as Dublin Bus or a company (details supplied) have dedicated electric vehicle...
    • Aviation Industry
      78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he intends to carry out a review of the national aviation policy; if this review will involve stakeholder consultation; and if he...
    • Regional Airports
      79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Regional Airports Programme 2021-2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29348/22]
    • Public Transport
      80. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will commission a study to examine the impact of fare reductions and the provision of greater fare-free travel on public transport...
    • Bus Services
      82. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the BusConnects plan for Cork. [29647/22]
    • Air Services
      83. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current progress with respect to a public consultation on a draft policy framework for unmanned aircraft systems; if it is envisaged...
    • Haulage Industry
      84. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures that he is taking to support hauliers with the increasing price of fuel; if he intends to reintroduce the fuel cost subsidy...
    • Transport Policy
      85. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider establishing an innovation hub for sustainable aviation in Shannon, County Clare. [25018/22]
    • Rail Network
      87. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the improvements that have been made to the frequency of rail services on non-radial routes out of Dublin in the two years since he took...
    • Taxi Licences
      90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will grant a further extension to the vehicle registration licence time limit for the replacement of taxi vehicles given the lack of...
    • Public Transport
      92. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Connecting Ireland Rural Mobility Plan; when he expects the consultation analysis process to be finalised and a report...
    • Bus Services
      93. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 64 of 27 April 2022, if he will provide an update on the reopening of Cavan bus station; if...
    • Rail Network
      94. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the need to increase the allocation for public service obligation in the National Transport Authority’s 2023 budget...
    • Public Transport
      95. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of meetings that he has had with the MetroLink team; if he will report of the progress of the MetroLink project; and if he will...
    • Rail Network
      99. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions that he has taken to remove the need for 24-hour notice to be given by a wheelchair user in advance of travelling on Bus...
    • Bus Services
      101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will prioritise the roll-out of a hop-on hop-off Wild Atlantic Way bus service travelling regularly in each direction; and if he...
    • Ports Policy
      102. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he intends to update the national ports policy; when he will designate ports on the east, south and west coasts for the construction...
    • Road Network
      103. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the N4 upgrade proposal; and the work that his Department has undertaken in relation to this project. [30452/22]
    • Rail Network
      104. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the work undertaken by his Department regarding the reopening of Killucan train station, County Westmeath; and if he will...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      105. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount that the Dublin Airport Authority received in State funding or subsidies throughout the Covid-19 crisis; and if he will...
    • National Car Test
      108. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans, if any, to extend the grace period for car owners who are unable to get appointments in time in order to complete an NCT test...
    • Energy Prices
      109. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which the Government can offer any further assistance to the transport sector by whatever means with a view to ensuring...
    • Public Transport
      110. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has examined expanding late night public transport services in urban areas to provide additional transport options at night; and if...
    • Electric Vehicles
      111. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for the establishment of the new office, zero emissions vehicles Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Cycling Facilities
      114. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the roll-out of safer cycling infrastructure in rural areas, particularly safe connections for young children who are...
    • Cycling Policy
      116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for the delivery of the updated National Cycling Manual in order for up-to-date standards to be made available to local...
    • Rail Network
      117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will commit to a feasibility study to investigate the reopening of the Navan to Kingscourt rail line; and if he will make a...
    • Road Safety
      118. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects red light cameras to be rolled out following the successful trial in 2015 and 2016; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Road Network
      119. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the East West Link which is urgently needed in the north east; the most recent engagements that his Department has had on...
    • Public Transport
      120. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of proposed light rail stops on the northside of Cork city. [29648/22]
    • Road Network
      123. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has reflected on his position regarding the second phase of the Limerick Northern Distributor Road given its importance to the...
    • Public Transport
      124. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that Balbriggan and Skerries rail stations have been excluded from the Transport for Ireland 90 minute €2 fares; if he...
    • Rail Network
      125. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of the cost overrun at Kishogue train station, Lucan. [30615/22]
    • Electric Vehicles
      126. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to expand electric vehicle charging points across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28481/22]
    • Taxi Licences
      128. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that he is taking to increase the numbers of taxis in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30510/22]
    • Transport Policy
      129. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce a car kilometre reduction target for all car kilometres, both for internal combustion engine and electric vehicles...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Wage Data
      131. To ask the Taoiseach the gross median wage for each of the years 2012 to 2021 and to date in 2022. [30795/22]
    • Departmental Offices
      137. To ask the Taoiseach the number of offices operated by his Department that are in high-risk areas for radon; the number that have been tested for radon [28585/22]
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      138. To ask the Taoiseach if he has read the recent report on the education systems North and South by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will detail the target funding from the Shared...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      139. To ask the Taoiseach when he will reconvene the party leader’s forum on violence against women that was due to be held in March 2022. [28864/22]
    • Interest Rates
      140. To ask the Taoiseach the State agencies, organisations or boards under the responsibility of his Department or that receive funding from his Department that have been charged negative...
    • Departmental Staff
      141. To ask the Taoiseach if any former Secretary Generals are seconded from his Department; the locations of same; the purpose of the secondment; the remuneration they are in receipt of from his...
    • Ukraine War
      142. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department is in full compliance with the Commission Recommendation (EU) 2022/554 of 5 April 2022 on the recognition of qualifications for people fleeing...
    • Departmental Funding
      143. To ask the Taoiseach the amount that his Department has given to organisations (details supplied) in each of the past five years; if his Department has given money to organisations that have...
    • Departmental Bodies
      144. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the economic policy unit of his Department. [26543/22]
    • Departmental Priorities
      145. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Well-Being Framework for Ireland overseen by his Department. [26544/22]
    • Departmental Bodies
      146. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, the agency under the aegis of his Department. [26545/22]
    • World Economic Forum
      147. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the full extent of all meetings, events and gatherings that he attended during his attendance at the 2022 World Economic Forum in Davos. [30939/22]
    • Departmental Strategies
      148. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Reform Programme. [25829/22]
    • Departmental Priorities
      149. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Well-Being Framework for Ireland overseen by his Department. [25830/22]
    • Departmental Investigations
      150. To ask the Taoiseach the number of investigations that are ongoing in his Department into leaks of documents to the media. [25831/22]
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      151. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of increasing the funding of the Workplace Relations Commission by 50% and 100%, respectively, in tabular form....
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      152. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of establishing a new Irish enterprise agency to assist small and medium enterprises trading domestically. [28837/22]
    • Departmental Data
      153. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of establishing a workers’ co-operative development unit within his Department. [28838/22]
    • Enterprise Support Services
      154. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of increasing funding for Enterprise Ireland, by 10%, 20%, 25% and 50%, respectively, in tabular form. [28840/22]
    • Trade Promotion
      155. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of increasing funding to InterTrade Ireland by 50% and 100%, in tabular form. [28843/22]
    • Industrial Development
      156. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of increasing funding to IDA Ireland by 10%, 20%, 25% and 50%, respectively, in tabular form. [28844/22]
    • Living Wage
      157. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of ensuring that all workers in the public and civil service are paid a living wage. [28845/22]
    • Employment Rights
      158. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of establishing a 12-month working group within his Department focused on the way to legally deliver a right to...
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      159. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of increasing the capital budget for the Workplace Relations Commission by 10%, 20%, 25% and 50%, respectively, in...
    • Employment Rights
      160. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of establishing a workers’ rights enhancements working group within his Department. [28849/22]
    • Departmental Data
      161. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of establishing a living town and city taskforce within his Department focused on increasing footfall to towns and...
    • Work Permits
      164. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action that is being taken to co-ordinate work permit applications with visa applications in order to reduce down the time delay...
    • Company Law
      165. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the position in relation to section 357 of the Companies Act of 2014 will be clarified, specifically in relation to the exemption...
    • Brexit Issues
      166. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will ensure that businesses that infer that they are based in Ireland with a .ie web domain do not leave customers with customs...
    • Industrial Relations
      167. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of his Department’s commitment to a consultation process with the retired workers’ organisations in relation...
    • Interest Rates
      169. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of interest that his Department has been charged by financial institutions since negative interest rates were introduced...
    • Work Permits
      171. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the critical skills list will be updated in 2022 to include occupational therapists and speech and language therapists; and if he...
    • Departmental Staff
      173. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if any former Secretaries General are seconded from his Department; the locations of same; the purpose of the secondment; the...
    • Work Permits
      174. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of the new quota of 350 general employment permits for hospitality managers that have been granted; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      178. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports that are available to businesses in the hospitality trade that are impacted by the rise in fuel costs and the subsequent...
    • Legislative Measures
      179. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021; if he intends to...
    • Departmental Staff
      181. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff members posted at the Irish Permanent Representation to the European Union, including all counsellors and...
    • Departmental Schemes
      182. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports that are available for retail businesses that require financial support and assistance; and if he will make a statement...
    • Trade Relations
      183. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline Ireland’s major trade destinations from 2015 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30418/22]
    • Work Permits
      185. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that he is taking to ensure that work permits are accessible in order to combat staff shortages in the homecare sector; and...
    • Trade Missions
      186. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a report on the trade missions that he has embarked on to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Intellectual Property
      187. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his position on the TRIPS waiver, ahead of the World Trade Organisation’s Ministerial Conference; the engagements he has had...
    • Departmental Data
      189. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the level of non-recorded overtime by main employment sectors for each of the years 2012 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular...
    • Trade Agreements
      193. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update in relation to developments regarding CETA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30909/22]
    • Departmental Schemes
      194. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 83 of 19 January 2022, the progress that has been made on the review of eligibility for the...
    • Cost of Living Issues
      195. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is considering taking steps to invoke sections 61 to 63 of the Consumer Protection Act 2007 with a view to introducing maximum...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      196. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the completion and commencement date for the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2021; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Intellectual Property
      197. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will now support a trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights waiver to end global Covid-19 vaccine inequity given...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Energy Conservation
      198. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland free home energy upgrade for persons in receipt of the blind...
    • National Broadband Plan
      201. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the full-year target of schools connected or installed with high-speed broadband under...
    • Radon Gas Levels
      202. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will take steps to notify homeowners of the high-levels of radon in their home. [28915/22]
    • Departmental Policies
      203. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to his commitments to the meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment and Climate Action of 1...
    • Departmental Functions
      204. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the divisions and units that operate within his Department; the agencies that operate under its aegis; and if he will...
    • Inland Fisheries
      205. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he intends to broaden the scope of the inquiry into Inland Fisheries Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • North-South Interconnector
      206. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has received the review into the north-south interconnector; when the findings of the review will be published;...
    • Electricity Supply Board
      207. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total profits registered by the Electricity Supply Board from both domestic and foreign activities in 2021; and if...
    • Interest Rates
      208. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of interest that his Department has been charged by financial institutions since negative interest rates...
    • Energy Prices
      210. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the €200 electricity subsidy that was given to homeowners will be made available to persons who both live and...
    • Energy Conservation
      211. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of retrofitting applications the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland have received to date; and if he...
    • Departmental Staff
      213. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if any former Secretary Generals are seconded from his Department; the locations of same; the purpose of the...
    • Climate Action Plan
      214. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of lost jobs that have been replaced and the number of new jobs created through the Just Transition...
    • Broadcasting Sector
      215. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if television service providers are permitted to insist that customers must purchase a subscription to broadband in...
    • Climate Action Plan
      216. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his position on the role of liquified petroleum gas and bio-liquified petroleum gas in delivering a Just Energy...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      217. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the very considerable savings that would accrue to the Exchequer and consumers if a...
    • Inland Fisheries
      218. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the arrangements that have been entered into in relation to the leasing out of an Inland Fisheries Ireland property...
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      219. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has had any engagement with telecommunications companies regarding the sharing of masts rather than each provider...
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      220. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a reply will issue to correspondence from this Deputy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Pension Provisions
      221. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 184 of 5 April 2022, if he will provide an update; and if he will make a...
    • Climate Action Plan
      222. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps being taken to produce the annual Climate Action Plan; when the public consultation on same will be released;...
    • Environmental Policy
      223. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps being taken to produce Ireland’s Long-Term Strategy (LTS); if there are plans to submit the LTS in...
    • Inland Fisheries
      224. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has received correspondence from Inland Fisheries Ireland in relation to the numbers of mink along...
    • Building Regulations
      226. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is only one S.I. 496 auditor based in County Donegal and very...
    • Sustainable Energy Communities
      227. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will request the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland to routinely inspect works carried by building...
    • Energy Policy
      228. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of an issue (details supplied) that has been under consideration by the Geoscience Regulation Office in his...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      229. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the consultation on private wires direct line renewables will be released; his Department’s plans for the...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      232. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeline for roll-out of fibre broadband for a business (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      233. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of staff members posted at the Irish Permanent Representation to the European Union, including all...
    • Energy Usage
      234. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to apartment blocks such as apartments (details supplied) in County Dublin being forced...
    • Departmental Funding
      235. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department or other Government Departments provide funding to an organisation (details supplied); if so, the...
    • Energy Prices
      236. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address the query raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      237. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if those who are in receipt of the invalidity pension will be considered for full grant-aid under the Sustainable...
    • Environmental Schemes
      238. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of environmental permits issued by the Environmental Protection Agency; the dates of issue of same for...
    • Energy Usage
      239. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the new Eirgrid restrictions on data centre connections to the national grid relate only to new applicants or those...
    • Fuel Prices
      240. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide the details of fuel shortage plans (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Waste Management
      241. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has plans to ensure access to domestic compost bins to people in rural areas (details supplied) who...
    • Inland Fisheries
      243. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will initiate an organisation wide review of Inland Fisheries Ireland. [30758/22]
    • Radon Gas Levels
      244. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the supports that are in place for persons to carry out remediation works to their homes if their homes are found to be...
    • Energy Conservation
      246. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the new scheme for the installation of photovoltaic for households that have a high...
    • Research Funding
      247. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the analysis of the warmth and well-being scheme that was carried out by a university (details supplied)...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Driver Test
      248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport her role in ensuring that State services are fully accessible and supportive for people with a disability in cases in which issues have...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that he is taking to ensure that the passengers who were discommoded as a result of the delays at Dublin Airport on 28 and 29...
    • Coast Guard Service
      251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the cliff rescue element will be restored to the Bunbeg Coast Guard Station which is based in Bunbeg, Letterkenny, County Donegal...
    • Road Projects
      253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding that has been provided to Monaghan County Council for the maintenance and upkeep of local and regional roads in each of the...
    • Public Transport
      255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the feasibility study for free public transport in Ireland which was recommended by the Houses of the Oireachtas Joint...
    • Driver Test
      256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driving test will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28970/22]
    • Airport Policy
      257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the possibility that taxi drivers will be refused applications for Dublin Airport taxi permits if...
    • Ukraine War
      258. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if leap cards are provided to Ukrainian refugees under 18; and the way that they can apply for same. [29003/22]
    • Cycling Facilities
      259. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expected impact of the rising cost of construction materials on the proposed cycleway bridge in Athlone; and the contingency to...
    • Road Tolls
      260. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagement that his Department had with toll operators in locations in which the booths remain on automatic mode regarding the safe...
    • Public Transport
      261. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the initiatives that his Department is supporting to increase the availability of public transport and public service vehicles after 11pm...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      262. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has instructed the Dublin Airport Authority to close non-critical services at Dublin Airport such as the private VIP terminal known...
    • Airport Security
      263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will intervene to ensure an improvement to the pay and conditions of security staff in airports; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Taxi Licences
      264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider a review to the upper age limits for taxi drivers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29122/22]
    • Public Transport
      265. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that Skerries and Balbriggan have been excluded from the new Transport for Ireland fare, which allows commuters across Dublin...
    • Interest Rates
      266. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of interest that his Department has been charged by financial institutions since negative interest rates were introduced, by...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      267. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has queried with the Dublin Airport Authority the arrangements it is making for vulnerable or disabled travellers at Dublin Airport...
    • Road Tolls
      268. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount that has been raised in tolls on the East Link Bridge in each of the past 20 years; and if the Government will reduce or scrap...
    • Departmental Staff
      269. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any former Secretary General is seconded from his Department; the location of same; the purpose of the secondment; the remuneration he...
    • Public Transport
      270. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of all public transport connection to Ireland West Airport, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Meetings
      271. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of times he has met Dublin Airport management in 2021 and to date in 2022, virtually and in person; the number of times the...
    • Public Transport
      272. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined. [29424/22]
    • Bus Services
      273. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that bus route 30/X30 from Dublin Airport to Donegal was cancelled on 31 May with no notification given to waiting passengers...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons who were laid-off in 2021 by the Dublin Airport Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29461/22]
    • Bus Services
      276. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that the route 30 at 7 a.m. and X30 at 8.30 a.m. Bus Éireann services from Donegal town to Dublin did not operate on 29...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount that the Dublin Airport Authority paid in redundancies during the period 2020 to date. [29477/22]
    • Bus Services
      280. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the supports that are available for a bus service (details supplied) which had routes from Tallaght to the airport and from Maynooth to...
    • Electric Vehicles
      281. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to introduce a second ESB fast-car charger in Cavan town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29526/22]
    • Taxi Licences
      283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the operation period of taxis will be extended by one year in order to facilitate taxi drivers and their families to overcome the...
    • Rail Network
      284. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the private companies which provided security on Irish Rail services in 2021 and to date in 2022; and the cost of each security contract...
    • Road Network
      285. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will give clarification on the reason there has been a delay in compensation discussions which were due to take place in September...
    • Proposed Legislation
      286. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to introduce appropriate legislation to require that written-off vehicles undergo an independent technical inspection...
    • Driver Test
      287. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons on waiting lists for driving tests in counties Cavan, Monaghan and Meath and nationwide to date; the length of time...
    • Driver Licences
      288. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the existing costs associated with maintaining a driving licence for persons over the age of 70 years; if any...
    • Driver Test
      289. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the recoupment of monies owed to Wexford County Council (details supplied) is expected to be made; and if he will make a statement...
    • Bus Services
      290. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will assist in the re-establishment of a bus service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29746/22]
    • Electric Vehicles
      291. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the requirement to actively involve disabled persons’ organisations in the public consultation...
    • Ukraine War
      292. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is in full compliance with the Commission Recommendation (EU) 2022/554 of 5 April 2022 on the recognition of...
    • Bus Services
      293. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 176 and 178 of 12 May 2022, if he can specify the actual number of lost or missed departures from...
    • Cycling Policy
      294. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress that has been made on developing a shared bike scheme on the northside of Cork city. [30036/22]
    • Rail Network
      295. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress that has been made on developing a train stop at Kilbarry, Blackpool, Cork city. [30037/22]
    • Road Projects
      296. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update of the route selection and a commencement date for works on the Northern Distributor Road, Cork city. [30038/22]
    • National Car Test
      297. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that can be taken to ensure that a car can receive an NCT in advance of its current expiration (details supplied); and if he...
    • Bus Éireann
      299. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that a bus station in a town is closed (details supplied); if he will contact Bus Éireann to establish when it will...
    • Bus Services
      300. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, following the reduction in fares across public service obligation public transport, there will be measures to reduce fares on...
    • Electric Vehicles
      301. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the electric vehicle taxi scheme has been temporarily paused; if so, when it will re-open; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Grant Payments
      302. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department and or the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland provides grant-aid for the purchase of new hydrotreated vegetable...
    • Electric Vehicles
      303. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he and or the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland will provide a schedule of the registrations of new electric vehicles purchased...
    • National Development Plan
      304. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any funding has been provided under the National Development Plan to progress the design and planning stages of the Navan rail line;...
    • National Transport Authority
      305. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that the National Transport Authority did not revert to this Deputy in relation to the reply to a Parliamentary Question...
    • Taxi Licences
      306. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that the age for a person to receive a taxi licence (details supplied) is high compared to other professions; and if he will...
    • Driver Test
      307. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current waiting list for driving tests in each centre across Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30431/22]
    • Electric Vehicles
      314. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of electric vehicle grants provided for vehicles in 2021 in price ranges, €0 to €20,000, €20,000 to...
    • Tax Code
      315. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the customers of a bank (details supplied) who are experiencing problems paying motor tax online; the...
    • Public Transport
      316. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the extraordinary difference in train prices for a standard fare from Drogheda to Dublin Connolly station (details...
    • Bus Services
      317. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans for the return airport bus service from Maynooth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30502/22]
    • National Car Test
      318. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current waiting time to book a vehicle for a NCT inspection. [30507/22]
    • Bus Services
      321. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to provide support to private bus operators that have fixed price contracts with public bodies due to the rise in the cost of...
    • National Car Test
      324. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions that his Department is taking to combat the significant delays in NCT centres throughout the summer and autumn of 2022; and...
    • Electric Vehicles
      325. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his Department's plans to introduce grants for taxi drivers for the purchase of electric vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Transport Policy
      326. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider a scheme similar to that being rolled out by the German Government which is providing a monthly pass for public...
    • Public Transport
      327. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that he is taking to address the issue of those who are excluded from the new public transport fare reductions for under 24s...
    • Ukraine War
      328. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the docking of Russian registered ships in Irish ports will be tightened further or prohibited entirely in view of the fact that the...
    • National Transport Authority
      330. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagements that he has had with the National Transport Authority on accelerating improvements on transport networks under the...
    • Road Safety
      331. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total percentage of pass rates for driving tests; the number of road fatalities for each year since 2008, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Park-and-Ride Facilities
      332. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 111 of 26 April 2022, the status of the site option analyses and feasibility studies ongoing for...
    • Road Projects
      333. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress that has been made to date with respect to road upgrade projects (details supplied) in east Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Public Transport
      334. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views regarding the lack of any catering services on intercity trains; if he will consider a contingency plan to provide some...
    • Transport Policy
      335. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the breakdown of the cross-Government spend on active travel in 2020 and 2021 and the budget allocations for 2022; if...
    • Tourism Industry
      336. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the consideration that has been given to provide funding for tourism industries or local tourism attraction points to install charging...
    • Electric Vehicles
      337. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagements he has had with local authorities on providing charging points for electric cars in local authority housing estates and...
    • Airport Policy
      340. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Dublin Airport has significantly increased the prices of their car park offerings for...
    • Bus Services
      341. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to increase the frequency of buses on the 26 Dublin Bus service through Chapelizod during peak hours; and if he will...
    • Rail Network
      343. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on reopening the train station at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Driver Licences
      344. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider waiving or reducing the fee applied to applicants over 70 years of age who must renew their driver licence every...
    • Road Projects
      345. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current position in regard to the originally proposed Naas outer and inner ring roads in respect of which the locally elected...
    • Public Transport
      346. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans his Department has to reduce fares on public transport outside major cities. [30936/22]
    • Electric Vehicles
      347. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans that his Department has to increase the number of electric vehicle charging points in counties Laois and Offaly. [30937/22]
    • National Transport Authority
      348. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of complaints that have been received by the National Transport Authority in each of the years 2017 to 2021 and to date in...
    • Airport Policy
      350. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which the Dublin Airport Authority continues to ensure the smooth, effective and efficient running of the airport as...
    • Rail Network
      352. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which ongoing evaluation of the commuter rail service serving Maynooth, Kilcock, Leixlip, Confey, Hazelhatch, Celbridge and...
    • Bus Services
      355. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which efficacy and convenience of the revised bus routes in Dublin and the greater Dublin area continue to be monitored;...
    • Rail Network
      356. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which adequate car parking facilities are being planned to meet the requirements now and in the future adjacent to all...
    • Transport Policy
      361. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost to provide free nationwide public transport to persons in full-time education; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rail Network
      362. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the latest estimated cost of completing the restoration of the western rail corridor between Claremorris and Athenry; and if he will make...
    • Airport Policy
      363. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which other airports can contribute to easing the through traffic at Dublin Airport, thus making it a more satisfactory...
  • Department of Finance
    • Legislative Programme
      364. To ask the Minister for Finance the current status of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2021; the progress that has been made to date; when he expects the full...
    • Tax Reliefs
      365. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of restoring tax relief for trade union membership on the same basis as professional association fees. [28896/22]
    • Tax Code
      366. To ask the Minister for Finance the minimum level of excise that may apply to petrol under the European United Energy Directive; the rate that currently applies; and the cost of reducing the...
    • Tax Reliefs
      370. To ask the Minister for Finance the level of tax relief available to those leasing out agricultural land; the total amount availed of; the average amount availed of; the average remaining...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      372. To ask the Minister for Finance the current status of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal; the frequency with which the board sits; the number of appeals that are outstanding...
    • Tax Credits
      373. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person has tax credits with a PPSN using false Identification, if those tax credits can be kept and assigned to their correct identification in cases in...
    • Interest Rates
      374. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of interest that his Department has been charged by financial institutions since negative interest rates were introduced by year; and if he will...
    • Departmental Staff
      376. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are former Secretary Generals seconded from his Department; the locations of same; the purpose of the secondments; the remuneration they are in...
    • Tax Code
      377. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which hydrotreated vegetable oil enabled vehicles are taxed; the VRT that they incur; and the import levies and so on. [29299/22]
    • Tax Reliefs
      378. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing measures to provide tax relief on the cost of childcare which will greatly assist struggling families; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Exemptions
      380. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated annual cost of increasing the small benefit exemption to €2,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29430/22]
    • National Asset Management Agency
      381. To ask the Minister for Finance when NAMA sold the Bessboro site. [29437/22]
    • Tax Code
      385. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the challenges facing the renewables industry on the issue of capital acquisitions tax given that it applies to lands used...
    • Financial Services
      387. To ask the Minister for Finance the regulations or policies which require ATMs to be accessible; and the body that enforces these regulations.; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Housing Schemes
      388. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications and the number of applications approved, respectively, to the help-to-buy scheme by county in each of the years since the...
    • Ukraine War
      389. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department is in full compliance with the Commission Recommendation (EU) 2022/554 of 5 April 2022 on the recognition of qualifications for people...
    • Tax Data
      394. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of tax relief on pension contributions in 2019 disaggregated by salary band in intervals of €10,000, in tabular form. [30052/22]
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      396. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department intends to introduce a vehicle registration tax credit for vehicles with an open market selling price in excess of €50,000, as a...
    • Tax Exemptions
      397. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has considered revising the existing policy to allow for all category C vehicles to be exempt from value added tax with particular...
    • Insurance Coverage
      398. To ask the Minister for Finance the regulations that are in place to ensure that a landlord can get insurance cover on their property when the property is being sublet to a local authority;...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      399. To ask the Minister for Finance the supporting legislation that facilitates the data exchange between the Revenue Commissioners and the Department of Social Protection; and the number of...
    • Tax Code
      400. To ask the Minister for Finance if income that is earned from leasing farmland is subject to VAT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30373/22]
    • Insurance Coverage
      401. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 82 of 11 May 2022, if he will provide the correct contact details for an organisation (details supplied) in relation to...
    • Tax Data
      402. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of indexing tax bands and tax credits (details supplied). [30389/22]
    • Tax Exemptions
      403. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider making tips received in hospitality tax-free in advance of Budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30427/22]
    • Official Engagements
      404. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his recent meeting with United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30428/22]
    • Insurance Industry
      405. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps that he is taking to reduce the costs of insurance to childcare facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30429/22]
    • Tax Code
      407. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax rules regarding a person who works at sea in international waters for longer than 185 days per year; the tax-free allowances that are available; and...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      409. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of his work as president of the Eurogroup; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30564/22]
    • Tax Data
      410. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that was raised through the betting tax levy in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30580/22]
    • Tax Code
      411. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to zero rate animal vaccines; his plans to zero rate human vaccines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30646/22]
    • Vacant Properties
      412. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of his Department’s work to collect data on property vacancy with a view to introducing a vacant property tax; when the profile by the...
    • Tax Code
      413. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated annual cost of an income disregard similar to the rent a room-a-scheme in respect of income for persons renting out a sole stand-alone property...
    • Tax Reliefs
      414. To ask the Minister for Finance if a tax exemption can be considered for income from domestic solar microgeneration to incentivise households switching to renewable energy; and if he will...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Ukraine War
      416. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the funding that Ireland has received to date from the European Union under the displacement of refugees from Ukraine Programme or from...
    • Flood Risk Management
      417. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the flood relief works in Athlone, County Westmeath. [29015/22]
    • Interest Rates
      419. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the State agencies, organisations or boards under the responsibility of his Department or that receive funding from his Department that...
    • Departmental Staff
      420. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any former Secretary Generals are seconded from his Department; the locations of same; the purpose of the secondment; the...
    • Flood Risk Management
      421. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there is any funding available that a GAA club could apply for (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Cost of Living Issues
      422. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if additional supports will be introduced to support families most impacted by the increases in the cost of living; and if he will make...
    • Office of Public Works
      423. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps that are being taken by the Office of Public Works to ensure that the buildings that it has responsibility for are fully...
    • Public Sector Staff
      424. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated annual first year and full-year cost of regrading Seanad secretarial assistants to parliamentary assistant grades, for...
    • Public Sector Pay
      425. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated annual savings to the Exchequer from reducing the additional non-Oireachtas salaries (details supplied) of the Taoiseach,...
    • Departmental Staff
      426. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of one Secretary General III including employer’s PRSI. [29894/22]
    • Departmental Data
      427. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of establishing an Ombudsman for Older People. [29907/22]
    • Flood Risk Management
      428. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the rising costs will have an effect on the planned flood relief works for Glanmire, Cork. [30035/22]
    • Arts Council
      429. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason that there is such a delay in considering a request on behalf of the superannuation fund of a semi-State body (details...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      430. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of pensioners on public service pensions by gender; if he will provide a breakdown between those aged 65 and 70 and over 70...
    • Flood Risk Management
      431. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the development of the south Mayo flood relief scheme; if the OPW has concluded its consideration of the feasibility...
    • Public Spending Code
      433. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of all projects over €100 million approved under the Public Spending Code in Galway in the past five years; and if he...
    • Statutory Instruments
      434. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he expects to make a decision on the proposed statutory instrument, S.I. that relates to the regular wages scheme of CIÉ...
    • State Properties
      435. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the issues at the Chief State Solicitor’s Office that are holding up the transfer of two former Garda stations in County Leitrim...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Departmental Communications
      437. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the engagement that she has had regarding the advertising and showcasing of the Fleadh Ceoil due to take place in Mullingar at the...
    • Grant Payments
      438. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the grants that are currently available to local groups to promote tourism and historical attractions within an area, specifically...
    • Local Authorities
      439. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding will be granted to a local authority (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29053/22]
    • Interest Rates
      440. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the State agencies, organisations or boards under the responsibility of her Department or that receive funding from her Department...
    • Sports Funding
      441. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider increasing the funding available for minority sports such as basketball; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Staff
      442. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if any former Secretary Generals are seconded from her Department; the locations of same; the purpose of the secondment; the...
    • Sports Facilities
      443. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the financial support or grants that are available for a rural school to build a small all-weather sports facility on its grounds...
    • Grant Payments
      444. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of a sports capital grant payment for a club (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29403/22]
    • State Bodies
      445. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an exact figure for her Department’s allocation to Fáilte Ireland in 2022. [29456/22]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      447. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the breakdown of spending in her Department in the Revised Estimates for 2022; the breakdown of A.5. tourism marketing fund; and...
    • State Bodies
      448. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 200 of 24 May 2022, the details of the heading or headings under which the entirety of the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      449. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the bursary scheme for community and local radio stations will be introduced in the near future; if she will provide details of...
    • Departmental Funding
      450. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding that an organisation (details supplied) has received from the Exchequer in each of the years 2020, 2021 and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      451. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the allocation that her Department made for outdoor dining in 2022. [29514/22]
    • Grant Payments
      452. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason that a club (details supplied) in County Wexford was unsuccessful in its appeal to the sports capital grant scheme; and...
    • Television Licence Fee
      453. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a breakdown of the number of television licences paid by households and businesses; and the number of...
    • Caiteachas Ranna
      455. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé mhéad airgid a cuireadh ar fáil do Chlár na Leabhar Gaeilge gach bliain ó 2008 ar aghaidh; an bhfuil i...
    • Culture Policy
      456. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way that she plans to support the appointment of night-time economy advisers; the role this will entail; the body that will...
    • Departmental Schemes
      457. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on a meeting with officials from her Department regarding the live performance support scheme...
    • Arts Council
      458. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding that was provided to each county under each funding scheme from an agency (details supplied) for each of the past five...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Ukraine War
      459. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Government has undertaken an assessment of needs created by the arrival of Ukrainian refugees; and the contingency...
    • Planning Issues
      461. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the investigation that he initiated into possible conflicts of interest at the national planning authority An Bord...
    • Grant Payments
      462. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a grant to renovate roofing in a private owned home; if so, the age that the roof needs to be; and the way that a...
    • Housing Schemes
      463. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a couple (details supplied) are eligible to apply to purchase their home under the tenant incremental purchase scheme; and...
    • Postal Voting
      464. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department received correspondence from An Garda Síochána pertaining to irregularities in the postal voting...
    • State Bodies
      465. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Residential Tenancies Board is requesting landlords to provide personal...
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      466. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the pre-lay grapnel and route clearance operations along the route of the proposed sub-sea...
    • Housing Schemes
      470. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average unit cost for social homes delivered through turnkey developments in the past 12 months. [28972/22]
    • Traveller Accommodation
      474. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average unit cost for Traveller accommodation delivered through the Traveller Accommodation Programme. [28976/22]
    • Defective Building Materials
      475. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total expenditure to date on the pyrite remediation scheme and the defective block remediation scheme; and the expenditure...
    • Housing Schemes
      476. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total expenditure to date on social housing flat complex regeneration; and the expenditure expected by the end of 2022....
    • Energy Conservation
      478. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total expenditure to date on the social housing retrofit programme; and the expenditure expected by the end of 2022 [28980/22]
    • Housing Schemes
      479. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of social housing income limits will be published. [29010/22]
    • Vacant Properties
      480. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government The number of full-time equivalent vacant homes officers by local authority in tabular form. [29018/22]
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      485. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he intends to publish the independent report in relation to the National Parks and Wildlife Service; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Bodies
      486. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the divisions and units that operate within his Department; the agencies that operate under its aegis; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Budgets
      487. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount in the capital budget as set out in table 11 of the Stability Programme Update 2022 that is designated for housing...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      488. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of providing family hubs for families experiencing homelessness in 2023; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Housing Schemes
      489. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of expanding the Housing First Programme to families experiencing homelessness including in that cost the...
    • Interest Rates
      491. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the State agencies, organisations or boards under the responsibility of his Department or that receive funding from his...
    • Local Authorities
      492. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the ownership of the multi-storey car park adjacent to Michael Street, Waterford is with Waterford local authority. [29256/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      493. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if any former Secretary Generals are seconded from his Department; the locations of same; the purpose of the secondment; the...
    • Foreshore Issues
      494. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has since granted foreshore consent for the proposed deployment at the marine test site at issue of the SmartBay...
    • Turf Cutting
      495. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a scheme (details supplied) is still accepting applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29322/22]
    • Departmental Policies
      496. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rationale for the use of public private partnerships to develop social housing; if it is his intention to continue using...
    • Departmental Schemes
      497. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the terms and conditions for Fresh Start applicants under the local authority home loan scheme to include...
    • Housing Schemes
      498. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that unlike tenants of local authorities or approved housing bodies, most housing...
    • Departmental Data
      499. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the allocation that his Department made for outdoor dining in 2022. [29515/22]
    • Housing Schemes
      500. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will remove the population cap on the affordable homes' aspect of the Housing for All - Rebuilding Ireland Plan to allow...
    • Commercial Rates
      501. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities have the remit to make derogations or exemptions with regards to commercial rates in certain...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      502. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the guidelines for planning and development of solar farms; if there are restrictions on the size of solar panel farms in...
    • Departmental Projects
      503. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps that he is taking to ensure that local authorities have adequate flexibility in the recruitment of the...
    • Regulatory Bodies
      504. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average times for registering new tenancies with the Residential Tenancies Board; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Schemes
      506. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the new terms and conditions for Rebuilding Ireland mortgages will be issued to Donegal County Council so applications...
    • Water Supply
      511. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the course of action that is available to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29643/22]
    • Insurance Coverage
      512. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures that are being put in place to assist thatched public houses in dealing with ever increasing insurance bills and...
    • Housing Schemes
      513. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details on the First Home affordable purchase shared equity scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Energy Conservation
      519. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount allocated and drawn down in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022 to Kildare County Council for...
    • Housing Schemes
      521. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times the discretionary top-up for housing assistance payments was used in 2021 in County Kildare by municipal...
    • Animal Welfare
      523. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of licences that have been issued in the past ten years for the capture and killing of protected wild birds and...
    • Housing Schemes
      525. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are regulations in relation to the level of insurance cover on a property rented to a local authority through the...
    • Departmental Data
      528. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has received notification from the Revenue Commissioners of the local property tax receipts following the revaluation;...
    • Water Services
      529. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be provided from the developer-provided water services infrastructure resolution programme to allow the...
    • Data Centres
      531. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of operative data centres in the State at present; the number of centres approved but not yet built; the number...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      532. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 328 of 10 May 2022, the number of times that dwellings have been deemed to be inactive...
    • Departmental Data
      533. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he identifies the number of houses that are bought by private companies each year in order to understand the ownership...
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      534. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the regulations and conditions appertaining to the installations of telecom poles in residential areas (details supplied}; and...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      535. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 233 of 24 May 2022, if Limerick City and County Council is operating the pilot caravan...
    • Housing Schemes
      536. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date on which the new housing assistance payment rate for single persons will take effect; and if the change requires...
    • Heritage Promotion
      537. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that Dublin was removed from the UNESCO World Heritage Organisation tentative list given that Ireland's 2010 list...
    • Departmental Policies
      538. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are any plans for a national policy that is directed to local authorities (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Defective Building Materials
      539. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to afford the Joint Oireachtas Housing Committee an accelerated pre-legislative scrutiny process for the...
    • Programme for Government
      540. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the commitment in the Programme for Government to designate a minimum of 30% of Irish waters...
    • Water Supply
      541. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action that has been taken or that is proposed to deal with the public health and safety issue arising from the levels of...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Passport Services
      542. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that passport applications by persons (details supplied) will be processed urgently by his Department; and if he will make...
    • International Relations
      581. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 246 of 19 May 2022, the efforts that he has made at European Union and United Nations level to promote...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      582. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress that has been made on the allocation of further resources to reduce the processing times for applications to the foreign births...
    • Ukraine War
      583. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has compiled an inventory of Russian assets held in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29146/22]
    • Passport Services
      590. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if assistance will be provided in relation to a passport application for a child (details supplied); given that it is well outside the...
    • Climate Change Policy
      595. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason that Ireland's climate finance contributions fell from €93.6 million provided in 2019 to €88.3 million in 2020; if...
    • Interest Rates
      599. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of interest that his Department has been charged by financial institutions since negative interest rates were introduced by year;...
    • Departmental Staff
      604. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if any former Secretary Generals are seconded from his Department; the locations of same; the purpose of the secondment; the remuneration...
    • Passport Services
      628. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department will provide assistance in expediting passport applications for those wishing to represent Ireland on an international...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      649. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a reply will issue to correspondence from this Deputy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29506/22]
    • Citizenship Applications
      662. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when persons (details supplied) will receive a decision on their Irish citizenship application which was submitted in June 2020; and if he...
    • Ukraine War
      711. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department is in full compliance with the Commission Recommendation (EU) 2022/554 of 5 April 2022 on the recognition of...
    • Passport Services
      723. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason that a witness form and photograph were deemed unsuitable for a passport application for a child (details supplied) in County...
    • Visa Applications
      734. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the indicated processing times for fully completed English language long-stay study visas applications submitted to the Irish visa office in...
    • Passport Services
      739. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason that the Passport Office has rejected three different photographs for an adult online renewal application (details supplied)...
    • Residency Permits
      803. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the repatriation of a person (details supplied). [30320/22]
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      812. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has taken an appeal (details supplied) to the Supreme Court solely for the purpose of seeking confirmation of the applicability of...
    • Official Engagements
      818. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his meeting with the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30438/22]
    • Departmental Strategies
      820. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on Ireland’s Africa Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30441/22]
    • Official Engagements
      821. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the United States Congressional visit to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30442/22]
    • Departmental Schemes
      822. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the Communicating Europe Initiative scheme; the amount of funding that has been allocated to the scheme; and if he will...
    • EU Meetings
      823. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the recent meeting of the European Union Foreign Affairs Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30444/22]
    • Passport Services
      825. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport application fee will be reimbursed to a person (details supplied) in view of the fact that this person did not receive their...
    • Departmental Funding
      827. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount that his Department has given to organisations (details supplied) in each of the past five years; if his Department has given...
    • Maritime Jurisdiction
      830. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of negotiations with both the UK and Scottish governments on restoring access for Irish fishermen to the waters around Rockall;...
    • Passport Services
      840. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the breakdown of the number of paper only passport applications which have gone past the estimated due date and number of paper only...
    • Foreign Policy
      890. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his reaction to recent reports highlighting levels of acute hunger and food insecurity throughout Africa and the Middle East; the status of...
    • International Relations
      898. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise the plight of two persons (details supplied) on hunger strike in Palestine at the United Nations General Assembly and with...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces
      900. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the role that the Army has in the guarding of prisoners in Irish prisons; the number of prisoners who are guarded and their locations; the...
    • Interest Rates
      902. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount of interest that his Department has been charged by financial institutions since negative interest rates were introduced by year; and...
    • Departmental Staff
      904. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if any former Secretary Generals are seconded from his Department; the locations of same; the purpose of the secondment; the remuneration they...
    • Undefined
      905. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if an exemption can be made in relation to a person (details supplied) due to the circumstances surrounding the unforeseen delays in the...
    • Defence Forces
      906. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the maximum and current strength levels of the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29655/22]
    • Air Corps
      908. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the current total strength of Air Corps personnel; and if he will provide a breakdown of the number of qualified military pilots, cadet pilots...
    • Naval Service
      909. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Naval Service operations and patrols which have been cancelled to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Defence Forces
      912. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of female members of the Defence Forces who have left to date in 2022, by month; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Staff
      922. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of staff members posted at the Irish Permanent Representation to the European Union, including all counsellors and attachés, in...
    • Defence Forces
      923. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he plans to help alleviate waiting lists for medical assessments for recruits for the Reserve Defence Forces; if consideration will be given...
    • Departmental Meetings
      924. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on his meeting with Finland’s Defence Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30439/22]
    • Prison Service
      925. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if consideration will be given to increasing the salary of specialist practitioners in military medicine to match that with medical...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Ukraine War
      926. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Government has undertaken an assessment of needs created by the arrival of Ukrainian refugees; and the contingency planning that is in...
    • School Transport
      928. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine a matter regarding the lack of availability on a school bus (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Staff
      929. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the appeal by a school (details supplied) to reverse the decision to reduce the number of teachers as a result of...
    • Parental Leave
      930. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider making the temporary changes to the way that parental leave will be taken as laid out in information note TC 0003/2022...
    • School Staff
      931. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school caretakers will be included in the improved pay and terms of the conditions recently agreed for school secretaries given the importance...
    • Departmental Data
      932. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in secondary level education in counties Galway, Mayo and Roscommon in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Enrolments
      936. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options that are available for children who have been offered a place in a Gaelscoil for their secondary education and are unable to secure a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      937. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide information in relation to circular 0020/2022 issued to schools on 8 April 2022; the way that this will this impact on the...
    • School Staff
      938. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the school secretary payment deal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28911/22]
    • School Transport
      939. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the case of a person (details supplied) who has applied for the school transport grant; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Staff
      940. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the case of a school (details supplied) that is set to lose a teacher for the coming school year; if a further...
    • School Transport
      941. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school transport routes that will be altered to accommodate additional children in counties Longford and Westmeath for the school...
    • School Enrolments
      942. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students with additional needs without a secondary school place for the school term September 2022 in counties Longford and...
    • National Council for Special Education
      943. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the National Council for Special Education will be releasing the SNA allocations given that many parents and staff were informed that...
    • Schools Building Projects
      944. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new post primary school for the Drumcondra, Marino D1 school planning area; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Curriculum
      945. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if young children in primary schools will be taught about transgender politics/ideology; if so, the scientific basis that exists behind the...
    • National Council for Special Education
      946. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the National Council for Special Education will review the allocation of hours to a school (details supplied) in County Clare; if the Council...
    • Education Policy
      947. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that are given to help pre-school and primary school children whose first language is not English nor Irish or who are being raised...
    • School Costs
      948. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a difference between school enrolment and school registration fees; the fees if any that a school may request; the guidance that has...
    • National Council for Curriculum and Assessment
      949. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the particulars included in the work undertaken by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment in relation to the major review of...
    • Educational Reform
      950. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if student organisations (details supplied) have been included to date and will be included in the future in the work being done to reform...
    • School Curriculum
      953. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when in 2023 that the primary curriculum framework for relationship sexuality education and social, personal and health education will be...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      955. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department’s input and engagement with the Department of Justice and their work on the third national strategy on domestic, sexual and...
    • Interest Rates
      956. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of interest that her Department has been charged by financial institutions since negative interest rates were introduced by year; and...
    • School Transport
      958. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the school transport case of a student (details supplied). [29250/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      959. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any former Secretary Generals are seconded from her Department; the locations of same; the purpose of the secondment; the remuneration they...
    • Education Policy
      960. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the history of her Department’s involvement and policy role in the provision of early-intervention education; the responsibilities of her...
    • Schools Building Projects
      961. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial support or grants that are available for a rural school to build a small all-weather sports facility on its grounds for the use of...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      962. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a DEIS appeal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29345/22]
    • Departmental Policies
      963. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review correspondence (details supplied); the status of this appeal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29347/22]
    • School Curriculum
      964. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans that are in place to mainstream and or implement the content language integrated learning pilot on a national basis and, in particular,...
    • Special Educational Needs
      965. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm that she no longer intends to establish special education centres for children with autism and other disabilities. [29354/22]
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      966. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts that are being made to address the issue of teacher supply for Irish-medium secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Data
      967. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any energy retrofit and renewable energy works have been funded under the minor works scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Admissions
      968. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will advise the processes that are in place where there is not a place in the local Gaelscoil; the way that children are ensured a place...
    • Schools Building Projects
      969. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the way principals and boards of management of schools can avail of mediation support where there are issues relating to the...
    • School Accommodation
      970. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of projects for school extensions which will be used to accommodate ASD special classes that are ongoing; the number that are due...
    • Schools Building Projects
      971. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether the workload is too onerous on principals and boards of management in relation to the building of school extensions, whether...
    • School Accommodation
      973. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools with classrooms in prefabricated buildings in each county in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form;...
    • Special Educational Needs
      977. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the proposed closure of the special education class in a school (details supplied) for children attending a...
    • Departmental Data
      978. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has informed herself and conducted any analysis in relation to the number of primary schools that have vacant places in ASD units...
    • School Admissions
      979. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that an appropriate school place is provided for a pupil (details supplied). [29433/22]
    • School Staff
      980. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional special needs assistant posts for County Wexford for the 2022-2023 school year; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Education Policy
      981. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the July Provision will go ahead for a student (details supplied) attending a school in County Sligo. [29447/22]
    • State Examinations
      982. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will request the State Examinations Commission to address an issue in relation to the cohort of students who are due to sit their Leaving...
    • School Facilities
      983. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans her Department has to facilitate improved walking and cycling access to schools (details supplied) from Waterside along the reservation...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      984. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date decisions on appeals to the DEIS programme will be communicated with schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29551/22]
    • School Staff
      985. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date a school (details supplied) will receive a decision on their primary staffing appeal; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Functions
      986. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will advise in relation to an application for an incremental credit claim for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • School Admissions
      987. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a minor (details supplied) cannot be guaranteed a secondary school place in east Cork when the schools open after the summer...
    • School Staff
      988. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will approve the retention of a classroom teacher in a primary school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Transport
      989. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review correspondence (details supplied); her views in relation the specifics of this case; and if she will provide an update on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      990. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions 397 and 398 of 31 May 2022, if her Department could examine the figures provided in view of the fact that in a...
    • School Transport
      992. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the payment announced for bus operators that provide school transport to assist with rising costs; and if she will make a statement...
    • Bullying in Educational Institutions
      994. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her strategy to tackle cyberbullying and harassment, particularly of children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29723/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      995. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when works on a school building project (details supplied) will begin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29730/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      996. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of full school-based summer programmes for special education schools and classes in counties Longford and Westmeath for 2022; and if...
    • School Enrolments
      998. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the planned location of a school (details supplied); if she recognises the stress and concerns that this is...
    • School Admissions
      1000. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of section 37 A notices that have been issued in counties Kildare and Laois in the past two years; her plans to issue more notices in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1001. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special education needs organisers in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29964/22]
    • Ukraine War
      1003. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is in full compliance with the Commission Recommendation (EU) 2022/554 of 5 April 2022 on the recognition of qualifications...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1004. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure the provision of a special needs assistance for a child (details supplied) with cerebral palsy who has very limited mobility;...
    • School Funding
      1005. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department makes any allowance in the budget provision for a school (details supplied) which has to operate across two separate sites....
    • Schools Building Projects
      1006. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on when it is expected that construction will commence for a new school (details supplied). [30013/22]
    • Disadvantaged Status
      1007. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on a DEIS appeal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30016/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      1008. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will move to its permanent site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30018/22]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      1011. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the plans for new school buildings at a school (details supplied) including a clear timeframe for completion;...
    • School Transport
      1014. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that school transport is provided for a child (details supplied) and a number of school colleagues; if she accepts that there...
    • State Examinations
      1015. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the worry that Leaving Certificate students will be under if the results are delayed; if she can give...
    • School Transport
      1016. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school transport routes will be added for a school (details supplied); if she will consider increasing the service to another school which...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1017. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the progress of a new school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30185/22]
    • Disadvantaged Status
      1018. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on DEIS appeals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30188/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1021. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in need of an ASD place in Dublin 5, 13 and 17 respectively, who have been unable to secure an appropriate school place...
    • School Transport
      1023. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of eligible applications that have been received and the number of eligible tickets issued for the school transport scheme in the...
    • State Examinations
      1024. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date of Leaving Certificate 2022 results; and if she will give assurances that this will not be delayed. [30305/22]
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      1025. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of cases that have been taken against her Department in each year since 2016 in relation to special education provision; the cases...
    • Residential Institutions
      1026. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she intends to introduce legislation to formally wind up Caranua; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30316/22]
    • Site Acquisitions
      1027. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will assist in identifying a site for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30384/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1028. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an occupational therapist report is a requirement in order to qualify for a grant for a laptop at a secondary school for a student with...
    • Traveller Education
      1029. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if work has commenced on the Traveller education strategy, which was committed to in the 2020 programme for Government; the progress that has...
    • School Attendance
      1030. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children currently on reduced timetables who have been notified to her Department under the new guidelines; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1033. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the proposed front-loading model for special education needs assistants; the modelling or algorithm that informs the...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      1034. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year and first-year cost of reducing the pupil-teacher ratio at post-primary level by one point. [30406/22]
    • Site Acquisitions
      1035. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a permanent site for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30422/22]
    • State Examinations
      1037. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the results date for the leaving certificate examination in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30424/22]
    • Ukraine War
      1038. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Ukrainian refugees who have enrolled in primary school across Ireland, per county; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      1040. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new building for a school (details supplied); and the timelines for planning, tender, commencement and completion. [30471/22]
    • School Staff
      1041. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take steps to allow a school (details supplied) to retain an eighth teacher given that the school now exceeds the threshold by six...
    • School Accommodation
      1042. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for extension for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30576/22]
    • Site Acquisitions
      1043. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the acquisition of a site for replacement of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30577/22]
    • School Admissions
      1044. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if every applicant for secondary school in Newbridge, Kildare and the surrounding rural areas has obtained a school place for the coming school...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1045. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the reduction of allocation from 14.5 special needs assistants, SNAs, to 12.5 in a school (details supplied) and the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      1046. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on progress on the new building for a school (details supplied); if a design team has been appointed; when it is...
    • School Admissions
      1047. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a child (details supplied) is being refused a place in a national school when their two siblings are already enrolled in the school;...
    • School Staff
      1048. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an appeal by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30649/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      1050. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons for the delay and the timescales going forward for the commencement of the building of an extension for a school (details supplied);...
    • School Staff
      1054. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure the provision of a fifth teacher to a school (details supplied) that has 112 children enrolled for September 2022 and which,...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1055. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an appeal by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30757/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      1056. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans, if any, there are for a multi-denominational secondary school for the Pelletstown-Ashtown area in Dublin 7-Dublin 15. [30778/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1057. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support a person (details supplied) with their recent application for an exemption from rule 64 (1) for the 2022-23 school year,...
    • School Equipment
      1058. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department's position on parents acquiring digital learning devices and specifically if they have the autonomy to purchase IT equipment...
    • School Admissions
      1059. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of first-year secondary school places available in schools across Lucan, County Dublin; if her attention has been drawn to the...
    • School Staff
      1060. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide for the retention of a fifth classroom teacher at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will outline the...
    • School Textbooks
      1064. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the free schoolbooks pilot project; when the pilot project will be reviewed and rolled out across the country...
    • School Discipline
      1066. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are rules governing alcohol consumption in licensed premises near schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30914/22]
    • Disadvantaged Status
      1067. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30920/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1068. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will develop a centralised national database for children with special needs at primary and secondary level to streamline forward...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Ukraine War
      1069. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Government has undertaken an assessment of needs created by the arrival of Ukrainian refugees; and the contingency...
    • Employment Support Services
      1071. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of providing the WALK providing equal employment routes, PEER, employment support service model in all 26...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      1072. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that her Department has failed to honour an enhanced redundancy agreement for...
    • Departmental Communications
      1073. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department provides pre-paid envelopes to persons who receive written requests or who are required to provide...
    • Departmental Data
      1075. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of jobseekers in County Kerry who have been referred to JobPath and Turas Nua in each of the years since its...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1076. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of late applications for parent's benefit since its introduction; the number of appeals based on refusal for...
    • Pension Provisions
      1078. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of her Department’s engagement with the Spanish pensions office to obtain information regarding the work...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1079. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there have been delays to the additional €100 fuel allowance payment; the number of eligible recipients who have...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1080. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the decision to refuse a carer’s support grant in respect of their father can be reviewed with urgency in the case...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1081. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the injury benefit appeal case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1082. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the illness benefit application by a person (details supplied) will be processed; the reason for the delay in making a...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1085. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the invalidity pension appeal of a person (details supplied) will be expedited and approved given the fact that the...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1086. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to increase payments to those on the job initiative schemes; if her attention has been drawn to the fact...
    • Interest Rates
      1087. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the State agencies, organisations or boards under the responsibility of her Department or that receive funding from her...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1088. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a period of grace can be applied to the disability allowance for a parent in receipt of the allowance when the child...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1091. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to providing correspondence from her Department in a simpler fashion, particularly for...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1092. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider increasing the free electricity allowance of €35 under the household benefits package to reflect...
    • Departmental Staff
      1093. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if any former Secretaries General are seconded from her Department; the locations of same; the purpose of the secondment;...
    • Employment Schemes
      1094. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of JobPath participants who have gained sustained employment for 13 weeks; 26 weeks; 39 weeks; and 52 weeks...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1097. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a disability allowance for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make...
    • Ukraine War
      1098. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a disparity in the rate of social protection payments available to adult Ukrainian refugees based on age; and if...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1099. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a carer's allowance payment will be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • State Pensions
      1103. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim will receive a decision on their application for the State pension...
    • Departmental Data
      1105. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of exceptional needs payments in relation to help with fuel bills that have been made in each of the years 2016...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the entitlements of a certain category of pensioners (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • State Pensions
      1110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if eligibility for a State pension (contributory) in the case of a person (details supplied) can be reassessed following the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether it is fair that a parent of a child who is incapacitated is only receiving €46 per week in...
    • Departmental Policies
      1115. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025; the number of its commitments that have been...
    • Departmental Data
      1116. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting time for the processing of applications for and the awarding of a disability allowance by county in...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1118. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the up-to-date position in relation to parents' benefit; when the next extension is due to come into place; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1120. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue on an appeal by a person (details supplied) in relation to their disability allowance payment;...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expand the children’s allowance scheme to include all 18-year-old secondary school children; and if she...
    • Departmental Policies
      1124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address the social welfare trap that is preventing homecarers from working extra hours; and if she will make a...
    • State Pensions
      1125. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to a pre-pension scheme in other European Union countries in which employees working with...
    • Data Protection
      1126. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the legal framework that enables her Department to share information on persons seeking employment with private companies...
    • Citizens Information Services
      1127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if sufficient funding was allocated by her Department to the national Citizens Information Board to allow for the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase the disability allowance in the context of the higher cost of living to allow its recipients to...
    • Ukraine War
      1129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the materials that have been translated into Ukrainian with information as to accessing State services and supports; if such...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the refusal of disability allowance of a person (details supplied); if the inability to take up work was...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1133. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal for carer’s benefit by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1134. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Ukraine War
      1139. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of Ukrainian refugees who have been issued with PPS numbers; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Arts Policy
      1140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on her Department's involvement in the basic income for the arts pilot scheme; and if she will make a...
    • Ukraine War
      1141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps that she is taking to ensure that Ukrainian refugees have access to social protection supports upon their arrival...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1143. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports that are available to support a young person who is on JobPath with an organisation (details supplied) and is...
    • Departmental Policies
      1145. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider changing the treatment of savings to better reflect the real income being derived from savings instead...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1146. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will confirm that the information that is outstanding relative to the claim for an increase in pension for a...
    • Care Services
      1147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider improving measures within the social welfare system to support existing foster carers and to encourage...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the detailed basis on which overpayment has been assessed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Data
      1152. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applicants who applied for the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance in each year for the past five...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the amount and nature of the issuing of discretionary payments at social welfare offices in County...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Ukraine War
      1161. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Government has undertaken an assessment of needs created by the arrival of Ukrainian refugees; and the...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1163. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of early learning facilities that have reopened baby rooms; and if it is allowable for facilities to...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      1165. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total funding allocated to domestic violence refuge services in 2022; and the expenditure under this...
    • Parental Leave
      1166. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the date that the parental leave period will increase by two weeks; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Childcare Services
      1167. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to improve the pay and conditions of professionals in the childcare sector; and if he will make a...
    • International Protection
      1168. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress that has been made in relation to implementing the report of the advisory group on the provision...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1169. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the access-and-inclusion model payments will be reviewed for September 2022 in line with the employment...
    • Disability Services
      1170. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department plans to extend the access-and-inclusion model support beyond the three hours for children...
    • Interest Rates
      1172. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of interest that his Department has been charged by financial institutions since negative interest...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      1174. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a transfer (details supplied) will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29235/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      1175. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if any former Secretaries General are seconded from his Department; the locations of same; the purpose of the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1176. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the history of his Department’s involvement and policy role in the provision of early-intervention...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      1177. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children who were referred to Tusla in 2021; and the location from which they were referred; the...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1178. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to an increase in the number of children being referred to Tusla in each year;...
    • Childcare Services
      1179. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the acute shortage for crèche accommodating babies under two years in...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      1180. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will indicate the eligibility requirement for redress and compensation as part of the Mother and Baby...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1181. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of the early childhood care and education scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Domestic Violence
      1183. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the additional supports that are being put in place in County Cavan to support victims of domestic violence on...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1185. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will increase the foster carer’s payment (details supplied) as a matter of urgency; and if he will...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1186. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will advise on the assistance that can be offered to a family (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      1188. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a system is in place whereby Ukrainian refugees currently in accommodation in one part of the country can be...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1190. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will clarify the situation in relation to a facility (details supplied); if Tusla has withdrawn this...
    • Ukraine War
      1192. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the endeavours that have been undertaken to provide Ukrainian refugees with information as to accessing State...
    • Direct Provision System
      1194. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps that he is taking to ensure that all persons within the direct provision system are treated with...
    • Disability Services
      1195. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 14 of 2 June 2022, the expected timeframe for the conclusion of the...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1199. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the roll-out of the baby box programme as per the Programme for Government; and...
    • Childcare Services
      1200. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps that he is taking to ensure that childcare is affordable and accessible for all parents; and if he...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      1203. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration has been given to increasing the foster care allowance; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      1204. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to make the enhanced medical card scheme available for those who spent time in mother and...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1205. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when Ireland will sign and ratify the optional protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1208. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has had or intends to have engagement with the Minister for Social Protection around issues within the...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      1209. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if International Protection Accommodation Services have placed Ukrainian refugees in accommodation in Coleman...
    • Departmental Meetings
      1210. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the dates of all meetings of the Oireachtas Transport Working Group in 2020, 2021 and 2022; if minutes are...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1211. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of applications to register a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Ukraine War
      1212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the situation in relation to access to the free tuition scheme for Ukrainian refugees in Ireland and whether they will be...
    • Departmental Funding
      1213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding provided to Science Foundation Ireland in 2022.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28841/22]
    • Research and Development
      1214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of subscribing the State to associate membership of CERN. [28842/22]
    • Third Level Costs
      1215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated increase in the number of SUSI recipients in the 2022-2023 academic year due to the planned increase in income thresholds; and if...
    • School Staff
      1216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when outstanding claims for incremental credits will be approved by his Department for a person (details supplied) considering that this matter...
    • Third Level Education
      1217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of medical, dental, nursing and all health and social care training and undergraduate places across all courses; and if he will...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made on the implementation of the SOLAS recommendations in the report SOLAS Response to the Findings of the...
    • Interest Rates
      1223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of interest that his Department has been charged by financial institutions since negative interest rates were introduced by year; and...
    • Departmental Staff
      1225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any former Secretaries General are seconded from his Department; the locations of same; the purpose of the secondment; the remuneration they...
    • Education Costs
      1226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing undergraduate nursing places by 10% based on the full economic costing; the number of places that this would...
    • Grant Payments
      1240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount that has been recouped by his Department from student repayments due to SUSI grant overpayments in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review correspondence (details supplied); if any funding schemes are available to this person; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of modern methods of construction apprentices hired in 2020 and 2021, in tabular form (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Third Level Reform
      1245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the changes to the student grant scheme in Budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29726/22]
    • Education Costs
      1246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing Irish and European Union undergraduate places by 10%; and the number of places that this would create for...
    • Student Unions
      1263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will meet with representatives from a union (details supplied) to discuss their concerns; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Third Level Costs
      1265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will increase SUSI income thresholds in recognition of the significant increases in the cost of living faced by many families; and if he...
    • Education Schemes
      1266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine a query relating to a springboard course (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30405/22]
    • Further and Higher Education
      1267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that he is taking to ensure that there are sufficient places in third-level education given points inflation; and if he will make a...
    • Ukraine War
      1270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Ukrainian refugees who have enrolled in third-level education institutions across Ireland, by institution; and if he will make a...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that his Department is taking to ensure that students in Northern Ireland retain their access to the Erasmus programme; and if he will...
    • Student Accommodation
      1272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the most recent data that his Department has on the breakdown between purpose-built student accommodation delivered in the...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the number of personal assistants employed in the further education and training system; the number of full-time equivalent...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Residency Permits
      1280. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who exited Ireland's ports and airports in the past month that were stamp 2 visa holders and whose...
    • Visa Applications
      1282. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a visa will issue for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28908/22]
    • Residency Permits
      1283. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will support a person (details supplied) in obtaining their Irish residence permit card renewal given their current...
    • Departmental Funding
      1284. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the grants or supports that are available to clubs that engage with the probation service but require equipment for works...
    • Data Protection
      1285. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a company (details supplied) has been used or is being used by her Department or any other agencies under her remit,...
    • Crime Prevention
      1287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has monitored the frequency of homophobic attacks in Dublin city; and if she raised the matter and measures with the...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will consider organising more frequent swearing-in ceremonies to speed up the naturalisation process or if...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1289. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person who obtained a personal public service number, PPSN, by using false identification can apply for the undocumented...
    • Interest Rates
      1290. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the State agencies, organisations or boards under the responsibility of her Department or receive funding from her Department...
    • Departmental Staff
      1291. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if any former Secretary Generals are seconded from her Department; the locations of same; the purpose of the secondment; the...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1292. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied). [29314/22]
    • Departmental Data
      1294. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of enforcement actions taken under section 20 of the Betting Act 1931 in each of the years 2017 to 2021,...
    • Prison Service
      1298. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the funds that have been allocated by her Department to the Irish Prison Service from 2012 to present for inmates in the...
    • Rights of Way
      1301. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on a matter (details supplied) related to rights of way ; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29432/22]
    • Departmental Data
      1302. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of illegal immigrants who have been detected in transport vehicles such as haulier's trucks at Irish harbours from...
    • Probate Applications
      1304. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the processes that are in place to ensure the timely processing or issuing of probate applications; and if she will make a...
    • Prison Service
      1305. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on an inter-country prisoner transfer request by an Irish person (details supplied); the reason for the delays in...
    • Visa Applications
      1306. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will review the decision to refuse an extension of a visitor visa to a person (details supplied) on compassionate...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1307. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána who bought their last six months of service to avail of a full pension...
    • Prison Service
      1314. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Irish Prison Service staff code of ethics, which was introduced in December 2021, will be released to the public.;...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1315. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 563 of 24 May 2022, the total number of unresolved cases pending in respect of missing...
    • Sentencing Policy
      1316. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the terms of reference for the external review into sentencing errors will be published in advance of the external review's...
    • Visa Applications
      1318. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the significant delays experienced by Turkish English language course students with some...
    • Prison Service
      1319. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a detailed update on roll-out of the hepatitis C testing and treatment programme in Cork prison; the...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1321. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of any review groups set up under the auspices of her Department in the past five years; the composition of these...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1322. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will introduce a Garda vetting licence style scheme which allows people to apply for a multi- annual Garda vetting card...
    • Ukraine War
      1323. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department is in full compliance with the Commission Recommendation (EU) 2022/554 of 5 April 2022 on the recognition of...
    • Legislative Measures
      1324. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the war crime of aggression is a crime in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29990/22]
    • Residency Permits
      1327. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application (details supplied); the status of the exemption sought regarding the GNIB Stamp 4 renewal; if a...
    • Visa Applications
      1328. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if, a matter (details supplied) will be clarified in relation to the processing of foreign student applications for visa...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1329. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the processing of the ML10 money laundering identity verification forms by An Garda Síochána; and if...
    • Departmental Staff
      1331. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff members posted at the Irish Permanent Representation to the European Union, including all counsellors and...
    • Legislative Measures
      1332. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is considering bringing in legislation to ensure that An Garda Síochána sergeants and inspectors acting as...
    • Television Licence Fee
      1333. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions that were made in 2020 and 2021 for failure to pay a television licence. [30106/22]
    • Gambling Sector
      1336. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to legislate to help tackle the problem of the normalisation of gambling and the scourge of gambling addiction in...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1337. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community gardaí stationed at the Bridewell Garda station and Cabra Garda station, respectively; the...
    • Residency Permits
      1338. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications in relation to waiting times and so on for permanent residence cards that have been received by the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1342. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to three garda stations (details supplied), broken down by rank in each of the years 2016...
    • Airport Security
      1345. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of immigration officials who were rostered to work at Dublin Airport on 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 17, 18 and 19 June 2022; the...
    • Peace Commissioners
      1346. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current number of peace commissioners. [30334/22]
    • Airport Security
      1347. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the additional Garda presence at Dublin Airport on the weekend beginning 4 June 2022 to supervise the security queues through...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1348. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of her plans to establish the necessary mechanism to allow relevant information from An Garda Síochána be...
    • Gambling Sector
      1349. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures that have been taken as part of the gambling regulation Bill to control online gambling given its unlicensed...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1350. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1354. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Visa Applications
      1355. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the decision was made to provide short-term letters of permission on 27 May 2022 to stamp 2 visa holders whose...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1357. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Data
      1362. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners who were released from prison to emergency homeless accommodation or no pre-arranged accommodation in...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1364. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have been awarded Irish citizenship and their country of origin from 2015 to 2021 and to date in...
    • Visa Applications
      1365. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a large percentage of Turkish students applying for visas to study English in Ireland are having their applications...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1367. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the application for citizenship of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Legislative Reviews
      1369. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will initiate a reform of the Powers of Attorney Act 1996, with particular reference to the list of those who can act...
    • Residency Permits
      1371. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will support a person (details supplied) in obtaining their Irish residence permit card renewal given their current...
    • Fines Administration
      1372. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the value of fines levied on airlines for failure to carry out adequate checks on travel documents prior to flying in the past...
    • Travel Documents
      1373. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of individuals who have been detained when arriving in Ireland and charged with travelling on fake South African...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1374. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in County Longford that are currently on sick leave due to stress. [30837/22]
    • Travel Documents
      1375. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an emergency travel document will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); if she will outline the process to...
    • Policing Co-operation
      1377. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which international police co-operation is helping to impede the distribution of illegal drugs amongst young...
  • Department of Health
    • Disability Services
      1378. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff employed in the Progressing Disability Services for Children and Youth Programme in Dublin 22; and the number of children who have...
    • Ukraine War
      1379. To ask the Minister for Health if the Government has undertaken an assessment of needs created by the arrival of Ukrainian refugees; and the contingency planning that is in place. [30495/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1381. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he will take to ensure that the promised bonus to those who worked on the frontline during Covid-19 including those in section 38 funded...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1383. To ask the Minister for Health if an assessment of need for a child (details supplied) will be expedited. [28857/22]
    • Care of the Elderly
      1384. To ask the Minister for Health further to parliamentary question No. 282 of 20 January 2022, when a full analysis of service demand need for long-stay beds and palliative care beds in...
    • Health Services
      1388. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that botox treatment has been stopped given that the treatment was working for a patient (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1389. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who has been waiting over three years for a behavioural assessment; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      1390. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to a matter (details supplied) regarding the endorsement of a person accused of war crimes and genocide. [28885/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1391. To ask the Minister for Health if the pandemic recognition payment will be paid to radiation therapy students; if a specific form will be made available to these students to allow them to...
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      1392. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the lengthy delays in the registration of nurses, coming from or returning from overseas, with the Nursing and Midwifery...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1393. To ask the Minister for Health the rules that are in place in relation to general practitioners charging medical card holders to conduct blood tests; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1394. To ask the Minister for Health the status and the details of a capital plan project (details supplied). [28910/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1395. To ask the Minister for Health if staff working in the housekeeping section of private nursing homes will be entitled to the pandemic bonus; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Services
      1396. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE have had discussions on the provision of gallium scans outside Dublin given that there appears to be a considerable waiting list...
    • Health Services Staff
      1397. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, psychology and physiotherapy vacancies in the children’s disability network teams by...
    • Substance Misuse
      1399. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend an invitation to an organisation (details supplied) for the next national oversight committee on the national drugs strategy meeting given...
    • Health Strategies
      1400. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will ensure that all women over the age of 64 years can access free breast cancer screening; if he will outline the aftercare services that...
    • Health Services
      1401. To ask the Minister for Health the number of long-Covid clinics; the staffing assigned for each of the hospital groups and-or community healthcare organisations in relation to same; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1402. To ask the Minister for Health when agency staff can expect to be paid the pandemic bonus payment considering that HSE staff have now been paid; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1403. To ask the Minister for Health the details of an action plan of how and when a phlebotomist will be in place on the paediatric ward at Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar; when the...
    • Hospital Staff
      1405. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of whole-time equivalent vacancies per department in Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar. [29011/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1406. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting lists per duration and department in Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar, in tabular form. [29012/22]
    • Hospital Services
      1407. To ask the Minister for Health if a positron emission tomography scan can be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will address the reason for the long waiting...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1408. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the contract tracing system is being centralised to HSE headquarters in central Dublin; if he will consider decentralising the contact tracing...
    • Care of the Elderly
      1409. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the HSE West not currently taking new applications for the extensive homecare package, which is homecare in excess of 56...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1410. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the issues with the HSE national payroll system which caused the delay in the payment of the pandemic bonus payment to eligible HSE staff...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1411. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently review the case of a child (details supplied); the status of their appointments for autism assessment and speech and language therapy; and...
    • Medical Cards
      1412. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card has been refused for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29052/22]
    • Hospital Services
      1413. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital cancellations from 1 January 2022 to the end of May 2022, by month, broken down by hospital and hospital group and cancellation type;...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1414. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of patients over 75 years of age on a community or CHO waiting list, broken down by the length of time they are waiting, namely for zero to...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1419. To ask the Minister for Health the number of preliminary team assessments carried out on children with disabilities in 2021 and until the end of May 2022, broken down by month; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1420. To ask the Minister for Health the total Covid-19 expenditure allocated for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29064/22]
    • Hospital Staff
      1422. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to put in place a new contract for non-consultant hospital doctors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29066/22]
    • EU Directives
      1424. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times that the HSE has been in breach of the European Working Time Directive from 2020 until the end of May 2022; and if he will make a...
    • Dental Services
      1425. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to carry out a root-and-branch reform of the dental treatment service scheme; his plans to put in place a new contract; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      1426. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to put in place a new public-only consultant contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29071/22]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1427. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to put in place a new contract for general practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29072/22]
    • Nursing Education
      1428. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide funding for training and education of general practice nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29073/22]
    • Pharmacy Services
      1430. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to put in place a new contract for pharmacists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29075/22]
    • Health Services
      1431. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to put in place a new contract for optometrists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29076/22]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1432. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to hire salaried general practitioners to work within the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29077/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      1433. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists working for the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29078/22]
    • Hospital Services
      1435. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for fully removing private healthcare from public hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29080/22]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1436. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce the cost of healthcare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29081/22]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1437. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe to deliver full universal and free general practitioner-care to all citizens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29082/22]
    • Primary Care Services
      1439. To ask the Minister for Health his timeframe to deliver full universal and free primary healthcare to all citizens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29084/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1440. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect a date for surgery in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1441. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a child (details supplied) whose parents have been advised that they will be waiting in excess of three years for an ADHD assessment...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1442. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding patients with mental health issues who cannot wear a face mask attending a general practitioner surgery; and the procedures that are in...
    • Medicinal Products
      1443. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to 35 children with cystic fibrosis who are being denied access to the life-changing drug Kaftrio due to a new pricing dispute...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1444. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment for a child (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29126/22]
    • National Maternity Hospital
      1445. To ask the Minister for Health when the lease in relation to the National Maternity Hospital project is due to be signed by the HSE and an organisation (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1446. To ask the Minister for Health if the intensive care unit at Mayo University Hospital has received an increased allocation of funding given that intensive care units across the country were...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1449. To ask the Minister for Health when community carers will receive their pandemic bonus payment. (details supplies) [29142/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1450. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) has been waiting so long for an operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29151/22]
    • Departmental Properties
      1451. To ask the Minister for Health the plans for buildings (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29152/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      1452. To ask the Minister for Health if a health technology assessment was carried out on a product (details supplied); if not, the rationale for carrying out a health technology assessment on a...
    • Health Services
      1453. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans for such an over-arching body in Ireland to provide oversight in the public interest of the health and social care regulators similar to...
    • Health Services Staff
      1454. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 740 of 10 May 2022, if he will provide a breakdown of vacant posts by profession and by detail of area/team which these...
    • Dental Services
      1456. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that he is taking to ensure that persons with an intellectual disability and who are medical card holders have access to dental services; the...
    • Interest Rates
      1457. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of interest that his Department has been charged by financial institutions since negative interest rates were introduced by year; and if he will...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1459. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29224/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1462. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancelled hospital appointments in the State broken down by individual hospital in each of the past five years and to date in 2022, in tabular...
    • Disability Services
      1463. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that some children living in County Cavan CHO1 are referred to the Kell children’s disability network team in CHO8; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      1465. To ask the Minister for Health the number of liaison psychiatrists who are needed per liaison psychiatry service per hospital; the number who are employed per service in tabular form; and...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1466. To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of the 314,000 additional public patients on waiting lists are on the waiting lists due to postponed or denied treatment because of health...
    • Departmental Staff
      1467. To ask the Minister for Health if any former Secretary Generals are seconded from his Department; the locations of same; the purpose of the secondment; the remuneration they are in receipt...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1468. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1310 of 26 April 2022, the number of acute inpatient and critical care beds planned for 2022-2023; the number of beds...
    • Health Services
      1470. To ask the Minister for Health the number of community beds that have been opened under funding for 1,250 community beds in Budget 2021, in tabular form; the additional number which...
    • Hospital Services
      1472. To ask the Minister for Health the present status of the University Hospital Waterford ARCHUS report (details supplied); if he will confirm that Waterford service activity will be...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1473. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the average waiting times for an x-ray in St. Joseph's District Hospital, Ballina, currently; the average waiting time over the last number of...
    • Health Services
      1474. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 715 of 10 May 2022, the reasons that have been provided in the HSE's 2021 capital plan for the replacement of Millfield...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1475. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 717 of 10 May 2022, the reason why the dates that first dose Covid-19 vaccines were offered to the public servants who...
    • Mental Health Services
      1476. To ask the Minister for Health the way that he can reconcile a recent public statement that residents in the Owenacurra Centre will be accommodated locally while a new ten-bed service is...
    • Disability Services
      1481. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 236 of 11 May 2022, in relation to the filling of vacant occupational therapist posts and speech and language therapist...
    • Health Services
      1482. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a significant gap in public health nurse services in an area (details supplied); the action that is being taken to ensure...
    • Medicinal Products
      1483. To ask the Minister for Health the circumstances in which a patient can make a successful application for individual reimbursement for the cost of using a FreeStyle Libre diabetes treatment...
    • Abortion Services
      1485. To ask the Minister for Health the mechanism through which healthcare providers are reimbursed for the provision of abortion services to persons who do not have personal public service...
    • Health Services
      1486. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that persons who are without personal public service numbers will be able to access care under the free contraception scheme which is...
    • Medicinal Products
      1489. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of making dexcoms or similar continuous glucose monitors available on the long-term Illness scheme for all those living with type 1...
    • Medical Cards
      1490. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 195 and 196 of 1 June 2022, the range of services for which a medical card provides a discount but does not cover...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1491. To ask the Minister for Health when an urgent hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) will be facilitated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29422/22]
    • Home Care Packages
      1492. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that at the end of March 2022 over 5,458 persons nationally have been assessed by the HSE as needing HSE funded...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      1493. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29429/22]
    • Substance Misuse
      1494. To ask the Minister for Health if full funding was made available to complete to action plan 2017-2020 included in the national drugs strategy; and the stream under which funding was made...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1495. To ask the Minister for Health if an investigation has been undertaken by his Department in relation to the person or body that made the decision to close the emergency departments in...
    • Nursing Homes
      1496. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the campaign by an organisation (details supplied) for immediate action on the reform of regulation in the nursing home...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1497. To ask the Minister for Health the situation with respect to waiting lists for ophthalmology services at Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29463/22]
    • Health Services
      1498. To ask the Minister for Health the current situation with respect to children who are awaiting insulin pump upgrades at the paediatric diabetes department of Cork University Hospital; and...
    • Medicinal Products
      1499. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he will take to ensure that existing policy barriers are removed to ensure that Ireland honours its commitment to eliminate viral hepatitis as...
    • Health Services
      1500. To ask the Minister for Health the progress in implementing social prescribing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29469/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      1503. To ask the Minister for Health when the consultant psychiatrists – recruitment and retention plan, drafted by the College of Psychiatrists and the National Doctors Training and...
    • Care of the Elderly
      1504. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite beds currently operational in Galway city and county; the locations of same; when respite services in Galway city and county will be...
    • Health Services
      1507. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a registry of individuals with Addison’s disease; if not, if he plans to develop one; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29486/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      1512. To ask the Minister for Health when funding for urgent and appropriate treatment will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Services
      1513. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time from submission of business case to approval by the HSE for an adult residential placement. [29499/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      1514. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 639 of 29 March 2022, if a marketing company (details supplied) has submitted a pricing and reimbursement application;...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1515. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for surgery; the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29525/22]
    • Medical Cards
      1516. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card application for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal will be processed; if any further outstanding documentation is required; and...
    • Medicinal Products
      1517. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on the full reimbursement of nivolumab for the treatment of oesophageal cancer (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1518. To ask the Minister for Health when a hospital appointment will issue to a person (details supplied). [29538/22]
    • Disability Services
      1519. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address an issue raised in correspondence (details supplied). [29557/22]
    • Medical Cards
      1520. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the entitlements of a certain category of pensioners (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29575/22]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1521. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the cold capping machine at the Midlands Regional Hospital Tullamore has not been made available to patients since pre-Covid; and if he will...
    • Disability Services
      1522. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will liaise with the HSE in urgently examining a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29614/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      1523. To ask the Minister for Health if an insulin pump upgrade will be processed in 2022 in Cork University Hospital for a child with type one diabetes (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      1524. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that women who are experiencing pregnancy loss and are asked to attend Letterkenny University Hospital are being made to sit in the accident and...
    • Medical Cards
      1525. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards issued in Sligo, town and county for the years 2018 to 2021 inclusive in tabular form; the number of medical cards issued...
    • Health Services
      1529. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to the provision of mammogram service in Waterford; and if he will make...
    • Hospital Services
      1530. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 796 of 10 May 2022, if outpatient speech and language therapy appointments will be available in Sligo University...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1532. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with scoliosis who are waiting for a procedure; the number waiting greater than six and 12 months in tabular form; and if he will make...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1534. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancer-related appointments by appointment type cancelled in May 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29676/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1537. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on diagnostic waiting lists at the end of May 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29679/22]
    • Departmental Data
      1538. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against medical, nursing, midwifery and other health and social care professionals across HSE hospitals and community...
    • Dental Services
      1539. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists who submitted claims under the dental treatment services scheme for January, February, March, April, and May 2022, by CHO and LHO in...
    • Departmental Data
      1540. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients aged 60 to 74 years and 75+ years on community healthcare waiting lists, by care group, in tabular form; the breakdown by length of...
    • Emergency Departments
      1543. To ask the Minister for Health the mean, median and maximum patient experience time to admission for all patients for emergency department admissions and broken down for those under 75 and...
    • Departmental Data
      1547. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated annual first-year and full year cost of implementing the Workplace Relations Commission agreement for all section 39 workers in tabular form;...
    • Health Strategies
      1548. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline in detail his Department’s plans to tackle inequality in access to testing and treatment of hepatitis C outside of Dublin; and if he...
    • Hospital Staff
      1552. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that Beaumont Hospital is short five neurology nurse specialists (details supplied); the efforts that are being made to fill these posts; when the...
    • Emergency Departments
      1553. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency department attendances at Cavan General Hospital in each of the years 2012 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Hospital Staff
      1555. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time midwives working in the maternity department of Cavan General Hospital in each of the past five years in tabular form. [29719/22]
    • Disability Services
      1556. To ask the Minister for Health if funding is being sought to deliver a sensory room at a facility (details supplied); if he will provide an update on this issue; if he will consider...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1557. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the assessment of need for a child (details supplied) who will be unable to access their right to education through an ASD unit within a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1558. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29728/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1559. To ask the Minister for Health the engagement he has had to ensure the members of the Defence Forces are paid the €1,000 pandemic bonus as soon as possible given that it was...
    • Health Services
      1561. To ask the Minister for Health the allocation that has been made for the access to care fund; the amount that has been spent to date; the programme lines or equivalent; the amount allocated...
    • Health Services Staff
      1562. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that his Department and HSE are taking to strengthen the pipeline and increase the number of community therapists, further to comments made by the...
    • Nursing Homes
      1564. To ask the Minister for Health if it was a policy decision to obtain anticipatory prescriptions for end-of-life medications for all residents in nursing homes in 2020 and 2021 including for...
    • Public Inquiries
      1568. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with a group (details supplied) in relation to the reason that it is calling for an immediate public inquiry. [29742/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1569. To ask the Minister for Health if insulin pump upgrades will be available to children (details supplied) that have type one diabetes given that the warranty in their current insulin pumps...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1570. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be scheduled for surgery in St. James’s Hospital. [29757/22]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1571. To ask the Minister for Health if work has ceased on a new primary care centre in Ballyhaunis, County Mayo; if so, the reason therefor; when construction will recommence; and if he will...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1572. To ask the Minister for Health the all-in full-year revenue cost of an acute inpatient bed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29805/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      1588. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated all-in revenue cost of an additional one, ten and 50 mental health inpatient places by type; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      1592. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated all-in revenue cost of an additional 1, 10 and 50 palliative care beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29826/22]
    • Nursing Homes
      1604. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated all-in revenue and capital cost of an additional one, ten and 50 public nursing home beds; and the average number of beds open to date in 2022....
    • Health Services
      1605. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated all-in revenue and capital cost of an additional one, ten and 50 public community step-down beds; and the average number of beds open in 2022 to...
    • Health Services Staff
      1609. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated additional cost for the full implementation of the framework for safe staffing and skills mix; the initial estimates; the additional funding...
    • Departmental Data
      1612. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated net full-year cost of restoring all consultants to 2012 pay scales and ensuring equalisation and pay parity within contract types by contract...
    • Dental Services
      1621. To ask the Minister for Health the cost and applicable salary scale of a publicly employed dentist equivalent to estimated private earnings of a partner and associate dentist. [29855/22]
    • Departmental Data
      1623. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of an additional adult eating disorder team; and the number of adult eating disorder teams in operation. [29857/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      1635. To ask the Minister for Health the expenditure in 2021 for HSE-employed nurses advanced practice in terms of further education and training; the cost and extent of training courses covered...
    • Departmental Data
      1636. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of doubling the staff subsidy component of the general medical services contract. [29870/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      1648. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be additional budgetary implications in 2023 to implement pay restoration for workers in section 39 organisations. [29882/22]
    • Departmental Data
      1649. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing funded trainee clinical psychologist places by 50; and the estimated salary cost of 50 additional trainees, including...
    • Departmental Funding
      1653. To ask the Minister for Health the level of funding allocated to the development of alternative care pathways in 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form; the amount spent; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Data
      1655. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of retaining additional allocations for the dental treatment services scheme made in 2022. [29889/22]
    • Departmental Funding
      1664. To ask the Minister for Health the cost to baseline funding allocated to unfunded new or additional measures in 2022. [29899/22]
    • Departmental Data
      1666. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of 100,000 personal assistance hours. [29901/22]
    • Departmental Funding
      1673. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated to home help hours; the underspend in 2021; the additional allocation for 2022; and the expected underspend in 2022. [29909/22]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1674. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of any review groups set up under the auspices of his Department in the past five years; the composition of these review groups; and if he will make...
    • Health Services Staff
      1675. To ask the Minister for Health if he will amend the terms of the pandemic bonus payment to reflect actual hours worked as opposed to contract hours where it would be more beneficial to...
    • Health Service Executive
      1676. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made by the HSE in implementing the integrated financial management system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29938/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1677. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting an ENT outpatient appointment at Tullamore Hospital for over one, two, three, four, five and six years; the expected wait for...
    • Dental Services
      1678. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists who have left the dental treatment services scheme in the past year in County Kildare; the number that are left; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Services
      1680. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list for the children’s disability network teams in County Kildare by waiting time in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1684. To ask the Minister for Health the options that are open to medical card holders who are unable to find a general practitioner who is taking on new patients; and if he will make a statement...
    • Dental Services
      1686. To ask the Minister for Health the options that are open to medical card holders who are unable to find a dentist who is taking on new patients; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1688. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) has had repeated surgeries cancelled; when the person's surgery will be performed; and if he will make a statement...
    • Care Services
      1689. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reform the tendering model for home care when the current model expires at the end of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29967/22]
    • Nursing Homes
      1691. To ask the Minister for Health if he will place the competition and consumer protection commission guidelines for contracts of care in nursing homes on a statutory footing; and if he will...
    • Ukraine War
      1693. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department is in full compliance with the Commission Recommendation (EU) 2022/554 of 5 April 2022 on the recognition of qualifications for people...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1694. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect consultations in Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30001/22]
    • Nursing Homes
      1695. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30010/22]
    • Legislative Measures
      1696. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline that he is working towards for the commencement of section 12 of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018, in relation to labelling of alcohol...
    • Hospital Staff
      1697. To ask the Minister for Health if non-consultant hospital doctors will receive the pandemic special recognition payment before they are due to change hospital in July 2022; the reason for...
    • Ukraine War
      1698. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a system whereby Ukrainian refugees in Ireland that are qualified in areas such as psychology can help in the settlement of their fellow refugees...
    • Emergency Departments
      1699. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times that gardaí have had to be contacted regarding safeguarding issues in the emergency department at University Hospital Limerick each...
    • Health Services
      1700. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be scheduled for a person (details supplied). [30032/22]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1703. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be given a date for a cataract operation. [30044/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1704. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be facilitated with an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30075/22]
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      1705. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive a reimbursement of funds under the HSE Cross Border Directive. [30081/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1706. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a hospital appointment; if they are on the urgent or routine list; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Data
      1708. To ask the Minister for Health the status of step-down care services in Galway city and county; the number of step-down beds operational in Galway city and county; the step-down facilities...
    • Nursing Homes
      1717. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to offer financial assistance to nursing homes to cover the increasing costs related to same; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      1719. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on emergency department activity at University Hospital Limerick in 2022; the number of presentations and admissions; the average...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1722. To ask the Minister for Health the full range of corporate governance responsibilities including but not inclusive of recruitment, finance, and procurement regional health areas will have...
    • Departmental Data
      1726. To ask the Minister for Health the number of net additional staff employed by the HSE as part of the target of 10,000 additional staff posts funded in Budget 2022, in tabular form; if he...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1729. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and young people on the waiting lists in University Hospital Limerick for various assessments needs within the UL group; and if he will...
    • Health Services
      1730. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who are currently waiting for an assessment of need in tabular form; the length of wait in three-month time bands; and if he will make...
    • Health Services Staff
      1740. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff vacancies which currently exist in occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy and psychology; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Data
      1741. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to expand respite care provision; the number of adult respite and emergency respite beds across the State in tabular form; the number of persons...
    • Health Service Executive
      1742. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE is providing transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of cocaine addiction and or for mental health care; and if so, the locations in...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1743. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the refurbishment, refit and extension of the Castlebellingham health centre to a new primary care centre; the estimated total cost of the...
    • Health Service Executive
      1744. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE funded posts which are currently funded across acute, community and primary care broken down by post type and speciality; the number of...
    • Departmental Data
      1750. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated number of additional therapy hours which would be provided if all vacant whole-time equivalent positions in children's disability network teams...
    • Health Services Staff
      1753. To ask the Minister for Health the number of net additional speech and language therapist whole-time positions funded by the HSE in each of the years 2017 to 2022; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1758. To ask the Minister for Health when the public can expect a full and complete progress report on the implementation of the National Maternity Strategy 2016-2026 will be published; the...
    • Medical Cards
      1759. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to waive the fee charged for dexa scans for medical card holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30199/22]
    • Home Help Service
      1760. To ask the Minister for Health if the travel allowance will be increased for home-help support staff (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30202/22]
    • Nursing Homes
      1761. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for the fair deal scheme of a person (details supplied) will be reassessed on the basis that not all documentation was submitted and given...
    • Departmental Data
      1762. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with disabilities in each CHO area in tabular form; the number of children with disabilities assigned to each of the 91...
    • Health Services
      1773. To ask the Minister for Health with reference to Parliamentary Question No. 214 of 2 December 2021, if he will provide this Deputy with a copy of the report of the national psychology...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1774. To ask the Minister for Health if a replacement wheelchair will be expedited for a child (details supplied) given that the child has outgrown their current chair for a period of two years....
    • Hospital Procedures
      1775. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive treatment in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30245/22]
    • Hospital Services
      1776. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 668 of 31 May 2022, if the national designation for a hospital is not a policy matter and it does not rely on standards,...
    • Health Services
      1777. To ask the Minister for Health the funding that has been allocated to the midland region for the treatment of eating disorders in the past five years; the training that is being given to...
    • Hospital Staff
      1778. To ask the Minister for Health when contract cleaners working in public hospitals will receive the pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30310/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      1779. To ask the Minister for Health when workers (details supplied) will receive the pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30311/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      1781. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new patients with severe asthma that the HSE expects to treat with anti-IL-5 therapies for 2022; if there is a limit in place on the number of...
    • Health Services
      1783. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 716 of 17 May 2022, if any meetings were held by Cork HSE management between the issuing of a HSE estates departmental...
    • Disease Management
      1786. To ask the Minister for Health if there has ever been a pilot screening programme for cardiovascular or structural heart disease in Ireland; if so, if he will provide details of that pilot;...
    • Health Services Staff
      1787. To ask the Minister for Health if a new post (details supplied) will be filled in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30355/22]
    • Disability Services
      1788. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide financial support to amputees who have to pay €15,000 for a prosthetic limb given that these amputees are receiving €208 per...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1789. To ask the Minister for Health the status of Lifford Community Hospital; the plans that the HSE has for the hospital; if they include the construction of a new facility on a greenfield...
    • Hospital Staff
      1790. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the recruitment of two additional consultant endocrinologists at University Hospital Limerick whose interviews were scheduled to take place in...
    • Disease Management
      1791. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the University Hospital Limerick becoming a DAFNE-licensed diabetes centre; and when persons with diabetes attending the hospital will have...
    • Mental Health Services
      1795. To ask the Minister for Health the full staffing composition of the CAMHS service in County Wexford; the number of vacancies by profession in tabular form; the length of each vacancy; and...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1796. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30377/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1797. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide CoaguChek meters and self-test kits free of charge to persons who require long-term oral anticoagulant therapy with warfarin; and if he...
    • Hospital Staff
      1800. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the appointment of a second paediatric diabetes nurse at University Hospital Waterford (details supplied); when the position is expected to be...
    • Nursing Homes
      1801. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the extreme increases in energy costs faced by nursing home service providers; if there are plans to increase funding in...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1802. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30390/22]
    • Abortion Services
      1804. To ask the Minister for Health if taxi drivers and couriers who are contracted to deliver pills directly to women are informed of the nature of the pills that they are transporting as part...
    • Medical Cards
      1805. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in processing a medical card for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30399/22]
    • Home Help Service
      1806. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30404/22]
    • Hospital Equipment
      1807. To ask the Minister for Health if University Hospital Kerry will consider putting a mammogram screening machine in place for patients who have to travel to Cork for urgent checkups (details...
    • Health Services
      1808. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the shortages of hormone replacement therapy; when the issue will be resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30409/22]
    • Home Help Service
      1809. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to ensure there are adequate numbers of home help carers to meet demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30411/22]
    • Health Services
      1810. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to ensure that early intervention services for autism are accessed as soon as possible for those referred; and if he will make a...
    • Abortion Services
      1812. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that his Department has made €60,000 available to a team of researchers based at a non-European Union university to gather the views of...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1814. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults who were removed from and added to the in-patient hospital waiting lists in 2021 to date by month and by hospital and further broken down...
    • Health Services
      1817. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who were removed from and added to diagnostic waiting lists in 2021 and to date, by month and by hospital, and further broken down by...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1818. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who were removed from acute hospital waiting lists as a result of validating the lists in 2021 and to date, by year and by hospital in...
    • Health Services Staff
      1821. To ask the Minister for Health the way that those who worked for private healthcare agencies during the Covid-19 pandemic and have since changed employers can apply for the Covid 19 bonus...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1822. 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. [30473/22]
    • Health Services
      1829. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he will take to remedy the lack of a diagnosis for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30487/22]
    • Departmental Data
      1832. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of full and partial lower limb amputations that were carried out by county and age in 2019, 2020 and 2021, in tabular form; the number of...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1841. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30540/22]
    • Health Services
      1845. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who is waiting to be assessed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30544/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1847. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30559/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      1871. To ask the Minister for Health if community swabbers who worked in Covid-19 testing centres from January 2021 onwards have been excluded from receiving the pandemic bonus payment; and if...
    • Disability Services
      1872. To ask the Minister for Health if the lack of service provision by the disability network team for a child (details supplied) will be examined and remedied; and if he will make a statement...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1873. To ask the Minister for Health the average wait times for persons who have applied for a new wheelchair. [30611/22]
    • Medical Cards
      1875. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards that the HSE has granted in cases where the applicant exceeds the income guidelines in each of the years 2017 to 2021 and to date...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1876. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Gortnahoe health centre, County Tipperary, has no waiting room or reception area meaning that patients have...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1877. To ask the Minister for Health if an appropriate wheelchair head-rest will be provided and fitted for a person (details supplied); if the matter will be expedited as they cannot travel to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1878. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a study (details supplied) which found significant evidence of neurological and psychological complications associated with...
    • Health Service Executive
      1881. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to ensure that there is robust oversight of HSE accruals and a legitimate basis for same following a review of HSE spending...
    • Health Services Staff
      1883. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time clinic liaison officer positions in ophthalmology clinics outside Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30663/22]
    • Health Services
      1884. To ask the Minister for Health if a day service for persons with acquired brain injury will be established in County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30664/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      1885. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for the recruitment of one additional whole-time equivalent clinical psychology for paediatric diabetes for Children's Health...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1886. To ask the Minister for Health the current status for the provision of a new accident and emergency department at Beaumont Hospital; when this project will move to the next stage; the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1887. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent consultant paediatric dermatologist attached to Children's Health Ireland, Crumlin in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in...
    • Departmental Data
      1891. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have visited the gastroenterology liver clinic at Tallaght University Hospital in each of the years of 2020, 2021 and to date in...
    • Health Services Staff
      1893. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of recruiting two additional whole-time clinical nurse specialists in neurology and two additional whole-time advanced nurse...
    • Departmental Funding
      1895. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of CHO area 7 funding by local team level for disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30675/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      1896. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time staff by job title working in each eating disorder teams; the number of vacancies by job title currently in each eating disorder...
    • Departmental Data
      1898. To ask the Minister for Health the number of knee joint replacement surgeries carried out at Roscommon University Hospital in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make...
    • Hospital Services
      1899. To ask the Minister for Health the additional services that will be delivered to St. Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30679/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      1900. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 670 of 31 May 2022, the action that the Nursing Care Plan for Stroke is taking with the Office of the Nursing and...
    • Mental Health Services
      1902. To ask the Minister for Health the managers that decided to close Owenacurra Centre in June 2021; if they consulted with any other HSE managers or stakeholders before arriving at the...
    • Health Services
      1904. To ask the Minister for Health if he will categorise the differences between parent consultation clinic appointments and individual family support plan appointments; the number of parent...
    • Eating Disorders
      1906. To ask the Minister for Health when the new eating disorder unit at Mount Carmel will be opened; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30773/22]
    • Disability Services
      1908. To ask the Minister for Health if children who received a preliminary team assessment or an assessment of need prior to the 15 January 2020 will require reassessment; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Priorities
      1911. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the report by an organisation (details supplied); the actions that have been taken and will be taken by his Department as a result of this; and...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1913. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to reimburse international normalised ratio test strips and machines for warfarin patients (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1914. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied); the plans, if any, that the HSE has to address the problems outlined; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Policies
      1915. To ask the Minister for Health his Department’s position on the European Health Data Space; the engagement that his Department has had with the European Commission regarding its...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1916. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that are in place to ensure consultation and engagement with all stakeholders in the preparation of the national genetics and genomics strategy; and...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1917. To ask the Minister for Health if a follow-up appointment for a person (details supplied) who was supposed to be recalled within two weeks following his appointment on 3 May 2022 for...
    • Substance Misuse
      1918. To ask the Minister for Health the way he intends on dealing with the exponential increase in cocaine use and addiction in younger people that has been outlined in the latest Health...
    • Nursing Homes
      1919. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide support for an application for the fair deal scheme (details supplied); the estimated timeline for completion of the application; and if he...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1920. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment for a child (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30854/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      1921. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that he did not agree to meet with representatives of an organisation (details supplied) in relation to the use of kaftrio for 35 children who are...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1923. To ask the Minister for Health his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to neurology nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30866/22]
    • Health Services
      1924. To ask the Minister for Health if a woman attending a midwifery led unit can be discharged from the unit’s care due to having a positive test for group b streptococcus; and if he...
    • Hospital Equipment
      1925. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that insulin pump upgrades have been paused in Cork University Hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30869/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1926. To ask the Minister for Health if any consideration has been given by his Department to the provision of devices (details supplied) and self-test strips free of charge for persons who...
    • Health Service Executive
      1928. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that many HSE teams, specifically in the primary healthcare settings are required to complete their administrative work in paper format as opposed...
    • Health Services
      1929. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a matter (details supplied) regarding a service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30952/22]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1930. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for a procedure; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30953/22]
    • Hospital Staff
      1931. To ask the Minister for Health when the vacant cognitive behavioural therapy position in Mallow General Hospital will be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30957/22]
    • Substance Misuse
      1932. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the increase in the use of illegal drugs among young people; if any specific measures are likely to address this issue...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1934. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under six years of age of the qualifying cohort who are able to avail of free general practitioner care, given the difficulty of...
    • Departmental Data
      1936. To ask the Minister for Health the key performance indicators used to monitor improvements and deterioration in the performance of emergency departments; the targets in this regard; and if...
    • Departmental Funding
      1938. To ask the Minister for Health the number of non-statutory agencies receiving funding to provide health and social care services by name and by category (details supplied) in tabular form;...
    • Health Services
      1939. To ask the Minister for Health the status of recommendation 6.2 (details supplied) from the Report of the Independent Review Group established to examine the role of voluntary organisations...
    • Departmental Funding
      1940. To ask the Minister for Health the way that money spent on non-statutory agencies in the provision of health and social care services is quantified in respect of cost-benefit analysis; and...
    • Departmental Reports
      1941. To ask the Minister for Health if a Delivering Specialist Mental Health Services report will be published this year given that the last report was in 2019; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Services Staff
      1942. To ask the Minister for Health the number of locum consultants currently working in CAMHS services by CHO in tabular form; the total amount paid to locum consultants in each year; and if he...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      1944. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the pre-lay grapnel and route clearance operations along the route of the proposed sub-sea fibre...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1945. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 726 of 24 May 2022, the intended duration of the temporary delay in the introduction of the...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1946. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 730 of 24 May 2022, if he intends to avail of the co-financing mechanism of the European...
    • Animal Breeding
      1947. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the representation that his Department has on the Foal Levy Committee of an organisation (details supplied) and those bodies...
    • Forestry Sector
      1952. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of Coillte felling licences issued per week for the month of May 2022; the number of such felling licences approved...
    • Organic Farming
      1955. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of organic farming scheme participants that exited the scheme in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1964. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 278, 279, 280, 281 and 282 of 11 May 2022 and the response of the European Commission to...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      1965. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of funding allocated by Horse Sport Ireland to the sport horse industry in each of the past five years; the number of...
    • Interest Rates
      1966. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the State agencies, organisations or boards under the responsibility of his Department or that receive funding from his Department...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      1967. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the written complaints being made to Horse Sport Ireland in relation to the allocation of funding...
    • Turbary Rights
      1968. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if persons in possession of a folio number for bog plots will not have their turbary rights removed or infringed upon by either the...
    • Departmental Staff
      1969. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any former Secretaries General are seconded from his Department; the locations of same; the purpose of the secondment; the...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      1972. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 358 of 12 May 2022, if he will request Horse Racing Ireland to explain the discrepancy in...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1974. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive their 2021 results-based environment agri pilot programme scheme balancing payment;...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1976. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the provision of agricultural internships within the State for those from other European Union states and non-European...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1977. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on an appeal by person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29706/22]
    • Ukraine War
      1979. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is in full compliance with the Commission Recommendation (EU) 2022/554 of 5 April 2022 on the recognition of...
    • Departmental Staff
      1980. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of staff members posted at the Irish Permanent Representation to the European Union, including all counsellors and...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1981. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered extending the €1,000 incentive to grow silage to small dairy farmers in designated disadvantaged areas;...
    • Forestry Sector
      1982. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) who applied for a felling licence in 2018 will receive a decision; and if he will make a statement...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1983. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if herd numbers will be reactivated for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30450/22]
    • Farm Inspections
      1984. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Department inspectors permanently employed to carry out farm inspections relative to the schemes operated by his...
    • Departmental Funding
      1985. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding that has been released under the Fisheries Local Area Group Programme by county in tabular form; and if he...
    • Fisheries Protection
      1986. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he has taken since being appointed to implement the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority capability review, with a view...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1987. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will allow farmers under the GLAS low input permanent pasture measure to take a forage crop off in 2022 to meet projected...
    • Greyhound Industry
      1989. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the numbers of greyhounds that suffered injuries, died or were killed at official trials, unofficial trials and sales auctions in...
    • Environmental Impact Assessments
      1990. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of the number of screening applications that have been received and approved by county under EIA (Agriculture)...
    • Land Issues
      1993. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a query regarding the retrieval of land for biodiversity purposes (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1994. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to help the forgotten farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30938/22]
    • Greyhound Industry
      1995. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the greyhound track attendance figures for 2021 and to date in 2022 by track and a breakdown of the figures into paid...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Departmental Programmes
      1996. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated full-year cost of establishing an island-specific local action group and allocating the maximum monthly LEADER funding...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1998. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated full-year cost of increasing funding for small-scale rural projects, such as CLÁR by 10%. [28951/22]
    • Community Development Projects
      2002. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated cost of establishing a training fund of €100 per staff member for all community, rural development projects and...
    • Departmental Data
      2003. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the manner in which her Department supports agricultural shows; the individual shows supported; the allocation and expenditure from...
    • Departmental Bodies
      2004. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the divisions and units that operate within her Department; the agencies that operate under its aegis; and if she will make a...
    • Land Issues
      2005. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the progress that has been made since the formation of Government regarding the liability of farmers with land that is accessible by...
    • Departmental Policies
      2006. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when she expects to receive a report on rural-proofing; if it will be immediately published; when she intends to bring forward...
    • Harbours and Piers
      2007. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of stage 3 of the development of An Caladh Mór on Inis Meáin; and the schedule of works for An Caladh Mór;...
    • Interest Rates
      2008. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the State agencies, organisations or boards under the responsibility of her Department or that receive funding from her Department...
    • Departmental Staff
      2009. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if any former Secretary Generals are seconded from her Department; the locations of same; the purpose of the secondment; the...
    • Sports Funding
      2010. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the financial support or grants that are available for a rural school to build a small all-weather sports facility on its grounds for...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund
      2011. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the person or body that can access the dormant accounts fund; if the school completion projects access this fund; the way in which...
    • Animal Breeding
      2012. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will address a matter (details supplied) in relation to dog licensing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29475/22]
    • Library Services
      2014. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the €155,240 allocated to Roscommon County Council for the refurbishment of Ballaghaderreen Library has been drawn down; if...
    • Sports Facilities
      2016. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of an application for a sports facility (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30078/22]
    • Dormant Accounts Fund
      2017. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the projected size of the Dormant Accounts Fund for each of the next five years. [30192/22]
    • Departmental Programmes
      2018. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 785 of 17 May 2022, the reason that works cannot commence at a location (details supplied)...
    • Departmental Funding
      2019. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the range of facilities that have been approved funding out of the island's capital subheading of her Department’s allocation...
    • Departmental Schemes
      2020. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of a CLÁR application by a club (details supplied). [30521/22]

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