Written answers
Wednesday, 22 June 2022
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Departmental Funding
1. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of increasing funding to local enterprise offices by 10%, 15%, 20% and 25%, respectively in tabular form. [32894/22]
- Departmental Bodies
2. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated agency own resource income that will be generated by agencies under his Department in 2022 and 2023, in tabular form....
- Environmental Schemes
3. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will expand the eligibility for the new €55 million Green Transition Fund to smaller businesses that are not supported...
- Company Law
4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if section 137 of The Companies Act 2014 will be amended to allow for directors in Northern Ireland to establish and register a company...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
5. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of claims submitted and the number of persons that have received enhanced illness benefit for Covid-19; the number of...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Energy Conservation
6. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the labour demand to meet retrofitting targets of 500,000 homes by 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Electricity Grid
7. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a household that does have an electricity account but has a sub-meter from the landlord's account should be entitled...
- Environmental Schemes
8. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason there is a requirement of seven years’ experience to be included in the register of energy auditors...
- Data Centres
9. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of data centres connected to the national grid; the number of new data centre applications presently approved...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Electric Vehicles
10. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are grants available for the purchasing of electric cars; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32836/22]
- Public Transport
11. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address concerns raised in relation to the frequency of trains (details supplied). [32857/22]
- National Car Test
13. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the shortage of NCT appointments for residents of north county Dublin, with some reporting that no...
- Bus Services
14. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the 20/X20 Bus Éireann service will be reinstated; if not, if a similar service connecting the eastern part of County Galway will...
- Departmental Schemes
19. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the active travel scheme will open for applications from local authorities in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Tax Code
21. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered a VAT reduction in retrofitting projects. [33141/22]
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
23. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps that are being taken to ensure that medical professionals who are suffering with severe post Covid-19 infection symptoms and...
- Public Appointments Service
24. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if feedback will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32838/22]
- Office of Public Works
25. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the OPW intends to provide comments back to Dublin City Council on the preliminary contract documents that have been furnished to it...
- Departmental Policies
26. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has plans to amend the guidance that comes from his Department in relation to PeoplePoint (NSSO) for those working in State...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Sports Funding
27. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the spending in 2021 on Sports Inclusion Grants; and the spending per stream of the grant and the cohort each stream is aimed at...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Angling Sector
29. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the working group established in 2018 to examine ways to improve fish access at Parteen Weir on the River Shannon has...
- Housing Provision
30. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the large number of families in Ballymun and Finglas who are on the Dublin City Council...
- Regulatory Bodies
31. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeframe for the establishment of the marine area regulatory authority [32853/22]
- Defective Building Materials
33. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the discussions that his Department had with Sligo County Council in relation to the inclusion of the county in the defective...
- Housing Schemes
34. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the housing assistance payment rates for single applicants will be extended; if so, when these rates will be extended in...
- Renewable Energy Generation
35. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if community buildings will be included in the changes to planning rules making it easier to install solar panels; and if he...
- Local Authorities
36. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to correspondence from a person (details supplied) in relation to Kerry County Council‘s...
- Building Regulations
38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the Departmental working group that was set up to investigate potential amendments to building...
- Homeless Accommodation
39. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of hotels, bed and breakfasts and guesthouses that are currently providing homeless accommodation; the number of...
- Housing Policy
40. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the guidelines pertaining to mobile homes can be relaxed or amended to take into account the housing crisis and the...
- Water Services
41. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an application for funding submitted by Kilkenny County Council under the developer provided water services infrastructure...
- Departmental Data
42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new cost rental units that have been delivered in Quarter 1 of 2022; the number of cost rental units currently in...
- Labour Market
47. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way that his Department intends to increase the labour demand by 27,500 by 2025 as per the Expert Group on Future Skills...
- Housing Schemes
48. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will take action to address the rising cost of inflation in respect of persons who plan to use the local authority home...
- Turf Cutting
49. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a person (details supplied) will be paid their turf cutting compensation payment. [33065/22]
- Appointments to State Boards
50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the circumstances relating to the appointment of a person (details supplied) to a company; the due diligence that was carried...
- Animal Welfare
51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider not issuing a licence for the capture of hares for hare coursing given the stress caused to the hares and...
- Homeless Persons Supports
52. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expected resourcing required to fully implement the Youth Homelessness Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Housing Schemes
53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expected date for the sale completion of the first phase of Boherboy Road in Cork city. [33132/22]
- Local Authorities
54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will support local authorities that are encountering increased costs due to construction inflation,...
- Housing Provision
56. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses to be built by Cork City Council and by Approved Housing Bodies in Cork, respectively, in 2022. [33135/22]
- Vacant Properties
58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding given by his Department to local authorities to tackle dereliction. [33137/22]
- Vacant Sites
59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the derelict sites levies collected by each local authority in 2021; the amount levied; the number of sites on each register...
- Fire Stations
62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of the review into the retained Fire Service that commenced in 2021; if the final report will be made...
- Planning Issues
65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions taken by his Department on foot of formal complaints regarding alleged planning irregularities in County Wicklow;...
- Natural Heritage Areas
66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his response to the concerns raised by an organisations (details supplied) concerning the natural heritage and biodiversity of...
- Planning Issues
67. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider initiating a review of An Bord Pleanála decisions made in respect of the granting of permissions to...
- Housing Policy
68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to incentivise right-sizing on a voluntary basis, especially for those whose accommodation is too big for their...
- Departmental Reports
69. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the report into housing income thresholds will be published and put in place. [33241/22]
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Passport Services
70. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application (details supplied) given that it has exceeded the target issue date and the applicant's travel date is...
- Human Rights
71. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to Saudi Arabia's Court of Appeal decision to uphold a death sentence (details supplied); if he will request...
- Passport Services
75. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport application will be finalised for a child (details supplied) in view of the fact that the original application was made in...
- Departmental Correspondence
76. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a response will issue to correspondence (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Passport Services
81. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if all efforts will be made to ensure that a person (details supplied) receives their passport on time for travel on 25 June 2022, the...
- Foreign Birth Registration
109. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason that it is taking in excess of two years for foreign birth registration applications to be processed; the proactive steps that...
- Human Rights
110. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will request his Department to engage with the National Unity Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar on issues regarding...
- Passport Services
113. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications that were made monthly between 1 January 2018 and 31 May 2022, inclusive; the number of passport...
- Foreign Policy
121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Citizens Assembly will examine the topic of neutrality and NATO membership; if so, the timeframe in which this will be examined; and...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces
122. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 905 of 21 April 2021, the intended future use of the land by his Department; and if he will make a...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Schools Building Projects
123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a series of concerns in relation to a school (details supplied) will be addressed. [32851/22]
- Equality Issues
124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policy of her Department in relation to the flying of rainbow flags at State funded schools in support and solidarity with the LGBTQ...
- School Staff
125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 147 of 15 June 2022, when a response will issue containing the information requested (details supplied);...
- School Transport
126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to attempts to downsize the school bus service for a route and a school (details supplied); if this decision will...
- Childcare Services
127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools which currently accommodate an afterschool care service on their property; the supports which her Department provide to...
- Departmental Data
128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the analysis that her Department has carried out on the impact of the recent change to the rules regarding the career break scheme for teachers...
- School Staff
129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will approve the retention of a sixth classroom teacher for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Special Educational Needs
130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if children diagnosed with Koolen De Vries syndrome are eligible for the Summer Education Programme. [33154/22]
- State Examinations
131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that she is taking to provide an alternative leaving certificate exam for students who cannot sit the regular exams due to illness or...
- School Accommodation
132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the inappropriateness and shortfall in accommodation in respect of a Gaelcholáiste (details supplied) in Maynooth,...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Benefits
134. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the State supports that exist for those availing of assisted living and or the providers of the assisted living schemes; and...
- Employment Support Services
135. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the employment placement supports that are available through her Department and associated agencies in order to assist those...
- Social Welfare Payments
136. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are delays in processing payments for the disability benefit following application approval; the average processing...
- Social Welfare Benefits
138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the jobseeker's benefit application by a person (details supplied). [33201/22]
- Departmental Data
139. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of expanding the fuel allowance to include those in receipt of the working family payment. [33247/22]
- General Register Office
141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the registration provisions for stillbirths following the consultation by the General Register Office. [33249/22]
- State Pensions
142. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider removing the necessity for dependent spouse State pensioners from having to apply separately for dental...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Family Support Services
143. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the funding that was made available for family support services in Budget 2021 was distributed through a...
- Departmental Properties
144. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will purchase the land at Bessborough or investigate if a compulsory purchase order is possible to protect...
- Ukraine War
145. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans to accommodate in Ireland the 500 vulnerable Ukrainian refugees who fled to Moldova as was announced...
- Emergency Accommodation
147. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number and type of premises in County Wicklow used by the State for accommodation for refugees and asylum...
- Ukraine War
148. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the long-term plans for the accommodation of Ukrainian refugees currently staying in a hotel (details supplied)....
- Childcare Services
149. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions that he is taking to ensure that creche and childcare facilities and places for babies and children...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Departmental Policies
150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will set out a timeline to legislate for the creation of a new competitive funding research agency; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Residency Permits
157. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that non-European Union citizens must apply online for Irish Residence Permit cards...
- An Garda Síochána
159. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1348 of June 14 2022, when she expects the appropriate mechanism to facilitate...
- Coroners Service
164. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 581 of 17 May 2022, the way in which the State discharges its European Convention on...
- Visa Applications
165. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that can be taken to help a person (details supplied) with an application; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Court Judgments
166. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to a judgment (details supplied); her plans to develop legislation and or consult with the Law...
- Department of Health
- Health Services Staff
167. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter in relation to the redeployment of community swabbers (details supplied) [32828/22]
- Health Services
170. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with an address in County Kerry who are waiting for a cataract consultation; the number who are waiting for a cataract operation,...
- Medical Qualifications
171. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are many qualified nurses living in Ireland who received their qualifications in Australia but they are...
- Nursing Homes
172. To ask the Minister for Health if health care assistants at a nursing home (details supplied) are eligible for the pandemic payment. [32869/22]
- Social Welfare Benefits
173. To ask the Minister for Health the State supports that exist for those availing of assisted living and or the providers of the assisted living schemes; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Data
174. To ask the Minister for Health the average length of time from application that it takes for a professional (details supplied) with qualifications from abroad to register with CORU; and if...
- Primary Care Centres
177. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the inclusion of diagnostics such as x-ray and ultrasound to be included in the range of services in the new east Meath primary care...
- Health Service Executive
181. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that asthma is not considered a long-term illness with the HSE, requiring persons to be reassessed regularly; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Child Protection
182. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a child (details supplied) will be examined and an effective care plan expedited. [33028/22]
- Hospital Staff
183. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to recruit additional neurology nurse specialists for a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33029/22]
- Health Service Executive
184. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can have their details corrected with by the HSE. [33030/22]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
185. To ask the Minister for Health the strategy for supporting and treating persons with long-Covid. [33035/22]
- Home Help Service
186. To ask the Minister for Health when the Covid bonus payment will be paid to home help and homecare assistance workers in an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Departmental Data
187. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with scoliosis who were waiting for more than four months for a procedure, by month in 2020 and 2021, in tabular form; and if he will...
- Mental Health Services
193. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the use of teleclinics or similar video communications as a means of consultant psychiatrist appointments for CAMHS; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Priorities
198. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to progress nurse prescribing of opioid substitution therapy; the status of the working group set up to examine this issue; the...
- Departmental Data
199. To ask the Minister for Health the annual cost per bed of the Keltoi facility when it was open. [33106/22]
- Hospital Admissions
222. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33146/22]
- Hospital Staff
223. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time equivalent radiation oncology professionals currently in post in the public system per 100,000 people in the population of Ireland; the...
- Departmental Data
227. To ask the Minister for Health the level of colonoscopy capacity per hospital group used by the Bowel Screen programme, the estimated level of colonoscopy capacity per hospital group in...
- Disability Services
228. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to recruit recent speech and language therapist graduates for roles in Children’s Disability Network Teams. [33183/22]
- Departmental Priorities
230. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to add spinal muscular atrophy to the new-born heel prick test. [33185/22]
- Hospital Staff
231. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to fill the optometrist role in Cork University Hospital which has been vacant since February 2022. [33186/22]
- Departmental Data
232. To ask the Minister for Health the number of clinical staff, including breakdown of consultants, in-consultant hospital doctors and therapeutic staff on each CAMHS team in CHO4. [33187/22]
- Mental Health Services
233. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 842 of 5 April and 308 of 18 May 2022, the percentage of appointments to senior psychologist posts in the adult mental...
- Health Services
235. To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent response will issue and if he will address the decision to downgrade the north east doctor on call services (details supplied) which was put down...
- Health Services Staff
236. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Parkinson’s disease nurse specialists currently employed in the health service per CHO area in tabular form. [33239/22]
- Disability Services
237. To ask the Minister for Health if he will assist a person (details supplied) in their application for residential services. [33242/22]
- Departmental Data
239. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women and pregnant persons who required hospital care as a result of untreated hyperemesis or dehydration or other effects of hyperemesis for...
- Health Services Staff
240. To ask the Minister for Health if health workers (details supplied) will be included for the Covid-19 bonus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33253/22]
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Ukraine War
241. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking to stop Russian imports to Ireland given that Russian associated ships and cargo carrying products made...
- Departmental Schemes
242. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32839/22]
- Departmental Funding
243. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will reopen the Rural Innovation and Development Fund to include capital projects such as composters under the waste reduction...
- Horticulture Sector
245. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking in response to calls from an organisations (details supplied) concerning the continued need for...
- Wildlife Protection
246. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the protections that are in place to preserve the nests of rare birds during nesting season when felling licences are being granted....
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Departmental Funding
247. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the applications for town and village renewal funding for organisations (details supplied). [33034/22]
- Flexible Work Practices
249. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to incorporate national regional development policy into the roll-out of the rurally based remote working hubs in an effort...
