Written answers
Thursday, 7 July 2022
- Department of Education and Skills
- Further and Higher Education
7. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will detail progress on supporting more students with disabilities to access further and higher education, including the status of the new...
- Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
15. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will detail the measures in place within the third level education sector to support a zero tolerance approach to sexual harassment and...
- Further and Higher Education
16. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department’s strategy to support universal design and inclusive practices in further and higher education; and if he will make a...
- Mental Health Services
17. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports in place for students to access to mental health supports in further and higher education, including waiting time for appointments;...
- Ukraine War
18. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is an ongoing evaluation of the various supports and helpline set up for displaced Ukrainian students wishing to apply for higher...
- Third Level Staff
19. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that he plans to address the ongoing issue of low pay and precarious contracts of many academic staff now exacerbated by the spiralling...
- Disadvantaged Status
21. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on measures to support students of DEIS schools to access further and higher education; and if he will make a...
- Third Level Fees
22. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm plans to reduce the student contribution charge as part of the next budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Ukraine War
23. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position in relation to the integration into the Irish higher education system of Ukrainian students and researchers who have been displaced...
- Grant Payments
24. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline measures to improve funding supports for students in further and higher education, including an update on the review of the...
- Gender Balance
25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline his Department’s strategy to encourage more female participation in science, technology, engineering and maths; and if...
- Grant Payments
26. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm that the recent changes to SUSI in terms of student holiday earning will not kick in until application for the 2023/2024...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
27. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the recent engagements he has with Solas and the higher education authority to identify additional solutions to address the large number of...
- Further and Higher Education
28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to develop and support further and higher education in County Monaghan. [35748/22]
- Third Level Education
29. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his engagement with the Minister for Health to increase the number of graduates from clinical therapies, including but not limited to occupational...
- Third Level Fees
30. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that the lowering of the student contribution charge will lessen the cost of living for students; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
31. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the provision of apprenticeship programmes, including new programme provision expected in 2022; and if he will...
- Further and Higher Education
32. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 112 of 19 May 2022, when the final report of the expert panel commissioned by Solas to review the funding...
- Third Level Costs
33. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that he is putting in place to address student poverty; if he will consider introducing free public transport and investing in...
- Mental Health Services
34. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied that all third level institutions have sufficient mental health and well-being measures in place for their students; his...
- Education and Training Provision
35. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expenditure measures that his Department has taken to reskill and retrain those who have been affected in their employment as a result of...
- Technological Universities
36. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capital budget that he will seek to allocate to the South East Technological University in the next Budget; and if he will make a statement on...
- Third Level Fees
37. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has plans to introduce free higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36675/22]
- Apprenticeship Programmes
39. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is successfully making apprenticeships available to marginalised groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35664/22]
- Grant Payments
40. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current levels of qualifying income for third level SUSI grants and fees; the average household income in the State at the moment; and if he...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
41. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has plans for further incentives for employers making apprenticeships available; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Dental Services
44. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the challenges facing the dental sector regarding the retention of dentists in Ireland following the completion...
- Departmental Strategies
45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline commitments under the Second National Strategy on Education for Sustainable Development – ESD to 2030 and accompanying...
- Ukraine War
46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the Department’s supports to assist Ukrainian people seeking access to third level education in the new...
- Education Schemes
48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the new Innovate for Ireland initiative, including supports and the planned process under the initiative; and if he will make a...
- Further and Higher Education
49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of progress made by Solas in reviewing an application of an organisation (details supplied) for capital funding in order to deliver on...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
50. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which his Department continues to facilitate the development of apprenticeship and upskilling educational and or retraining...
- Third Level Costs
51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received any estimates of the cost of participating in third level education, both when living at home and living away from home and the...
- Third Level Education
52. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the purposes for which the extra funding for third level education recently announced by him will be used; the amount of this extra funding that...
- Further and Higher Education
53. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views that the new places he has made available in higher education will be adequate to address the skills shortages right across the economy;...
- Third Level Education
54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that his Department is supporting incoming first year students from the national access routes HEAR and DARE; if he is concerned about the...
- Further and Higher Education
55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 135 of 19 May 2022, the status of the Higher Education Reform Implementation Review Group; the membership of...
- Grant Payments
56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the benefits that will accrue to students this autumn as a result of changes to the adjacent and non-adjacent grant system rules; the breakdown of...
- Renewable Energy Generation
57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the engagement he has had with the offshore renewable sector; if he is conscious of the need to ensure a steady pipeline of...
- Grant Payments
58. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who had their SUSI grants withdrawn from them during the academic term in each of the past ten years and to date in 2022....
- Technological Universities
59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when new signage for the Technological University of the Shannon, Ennis campus will be erected. [36580/22]
- Apprenticeship Programmes
61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will detail progress on apprenticeship commitments, including take up of apprenticeships by sector and county to date in 2022, in tabular...
- Third Level Admissions
62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will detail the increase in university places in September 2022; his plans to further expand course places in the coming years; and if he...
- Further and Higher Education
63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 158 and 173 of 19 May 2022, if his Department has reviewed the 2023 funding provision to support Local...
- Student Accommodation
64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagements he has had with a view to increasing the provision of on campus accommodation for students. [35749/22]
- Third Level Education
65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of health care courses or programmes available to persons wishing to enter or remain in therapy disciplines including speech and...
- Third Level Admissions
66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase undergraduate and graduate entry places for medical, nursing, health, social care and well-being further and higher...
- Grant Payments
67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons granted a SUSI grant in each of the past ten years and to date in 2022. [36550/22]
- Apprenticeship Programmes
69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered an increase to the apprentice pay rates given the rising cost of living. [36772/22]
- Further and Higher Education
71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he will take to ensure that universal design for learning policies that are embedded within each further and higher education...
- Technological Universities
74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his future plans for MTU Kerry Campus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36718/22]
- Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that he is taking to ensure the roll-out of a sexual violence response programme (details supplied) to all third level educational...
- Special Educational Needs
76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will detail new initiatives to support autistic students and those with an intellectual disability to access third level education; and if...
- Grant Payments
78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm that the 25 per cent increase recommended SUSI review does not take account of recent price increases; if his Department will...
- Departmental Funding
79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capital expenditure in 2021 for further education colleges; the level of capital funding provided for this sector in 2022; and if he will make...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Children in Care
85. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which his Department or appropriate body under his aegis continues to monitor the treatment and...
- Childcare Services
94. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has avenues of support in place to assist owners of crèches and preschools who are facing serious...
- Children in Care
95. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to support the development of fostering services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35390/22]
- Departmental Funding
96. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department provides funding for the development or refurbishment of playgrounds; if so, if he will provide...
- Official Engagements
97. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report from his engagement in the Council of Europe Joint Project CP4Europe - Strengthening National...
- Education Schemes
98. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of the education and training bursary scheme for young people who have experienced...
- Proposed Legislation
99. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline progress regarding the provision of statutory domestic violence leave; and if he will make a...
- Asylum Seekers
100. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the initiatives his Department is taking to assist LGBTI+ asylum applicants with specific vulnerabilities while...
- Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
101. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 546 of 17 May 2022, the expected timeline for the establishment of the...
- Education Policy
102. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way his Department is supporting the European Year of Youth initiative; and if he will make a statement on...
- Childcare Services
103. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on his Department’s strategy to make childcare more affordable for parents...
- Children in Care
104. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 537 of 15 February 2022, the number of children currently in State care by...
- Childcare Services
105. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has had discussions recently with representative organisations in relation to the core funding model given...
- Artists' Remuneration
106. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has engaged with a campaign (details supplied), the Department of Social Protection and the Department of...
- Proposed Legislation
107. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the strategy and goals of the work life balance Bill 2022; the positive impacts he expects...
- Childcare Services
108. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures he will take to address the staffing issues in the childcare sector; and if he will make a...
- Direct Provision System
109. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that, almost 18 months after publication of the White Paper on...
- Child Protection
110. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he and his Department can ensure early intervention in all cases where children may be at...
- Child and Family Agency
112. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to concerns expressed by HIQA in connection with Tusla services in Cork; and if...
- Disability Services
113. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of Ireland’s ratification of the Optional Protocol of the United Nations Convention on the...
- Ukraine War
114. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report his Department to further improve the inclusion and integration of Ukrainian refugees across...
- Childcare Services
115. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans for helping parents with childcare costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36720/22]
- Departmental Strategies
116. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will detail the progress regarding the development of the autism innovation strategy; and if he will make...
- Disability Services
117. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a research report published on 29 June 2022 by family carers...
- Direct Provision System
119. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount paid to a company (details supplied) in 2022 for catering in direct provision. [36769/22]
- Early Childhood Care and Education
120. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on funding supports for ELC and SAC providers, including for ECCE-only providers;...
- Education Schemes
122. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of book bags that have been distributed under the Little Library Initiative; the learnings that have...
- Departmental Projects
123. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of a research project launched by his Department (details supplied); and the date upon which he...
- Disability Services
124. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the process that he has in place to closely consult with and actively involve persons with disabilities,...
- Asylum Seekers
125. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way he plans to cope with providing accommodation for asylum seekers; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
126. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of ELC and SAC providers who have closed down in each of the past five years and to date in 2022, by...
- Equality Issues
127. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his Department’s current working projects to tackle harassment perpetrated on the LGBTQ+ community; and...
- Departmental Strategies
129. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the successor to the Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures: the National Policy Framework for children...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
131. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 149 of 22 June 2022, the measures being taken by his Department to assist...
- Departmental Strategies
132. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline commitments under Ireland’s National Action Plan for the EU Child Guarantee; and if he...
- Children in Care
133. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the rate of payment per week to foster parents for the care of foster children both from Tusla and from private...
- Ukraine War
134. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position regarding the way his Department has scaled up to enable it to manage the humanitarian response to...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
136. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the level of take-up for the Transition Fund for Early Years providers; the estimates of the way this payment is...
- Anti-Racism Measures
140. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the national action plan against racism will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Strategies
141. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth following the publication of Better outcomes, Brighter futures Annual Report, the actions his Department is...
- Departmental Funding
142. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of projects that are funded under the Community Integration Fund announced recently; the purposes for...
- International Protection
143. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will urgently establish a unit within the International Protection Accommodation Services for Oireachtas...
- Childcare Services
144. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount that he expects parents to financially save under the proposals to tackle the cost of childcare; and...
- Departmental Schemes
145. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expected to receive the priority review of the disabled drivers and disabled passenger’s scheme....
- Children in Care
147. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department plans to increasingly help and support parents who have fostered children in getting the...
- Cúrsaí Gaeilge
148. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth toisc ról lárnach a bheith ag an nGaeilge mar phríomhtheanga oifigiúil an stáit agus...
- Departmental Funding
150. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of any proposed integration funding which may be made available to local authorities;...
- Ukraine War
151. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the procedures Tusla employs to care for separated children from Ukraine; the number of such children that have...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Workplace Relations Commission
152. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount in unpaid wages that has been returned to workers following workplace investigations by the Workplace Relations Commission...
- Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement
156. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of increasing the funding to the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement by 10%, 15%, 20% and 25% in...
- State Bodies
157. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of increasing the funding to the Companies Registration Office by 10%, 15%, 20% and 25% in tabular form. [36852/22]
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board
158. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of increasing the funding to the Personal Insolvency Advisory Board by 10%, 15%, 20% and 25% in tabular form....
- State Bodies
159. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of increasing the funding to the Health and Safety Authority by 10%, 15%, 20% and 25% in tabular form. [36854/22]
- Low Pay Commission
162. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost increasing the funding to the Low Pay Commission by 10%, 15%, 20% and 25% in tabular form. [36858/22]
- National Standards Authority of Ireland
163. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 97 of 30 June 2022, the names of the members of the panel that designed I.S. 465 for the...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- National Broadband Plan
164. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the national broadband plan will be rolled out at an address (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Energy Infrastructure
166. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to support the development of any new pumped storage stations in Ireland; and his views on whether such...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Driver Test
168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when an applicant (details supplied) will receive a date for their driving test given their extenuating circumstances. [36812/22]
- Public Transport
169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding progress on renovation works on the public toilet facilities at Heuston Station, Dublin; the anticipated timeline...
- Greenways Provision
170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the construction of the south Kerry greenway will commence; and the funding that has been set aside by his Department for same....
- Public Transport
171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a schedule for funding of Local Link services on a service and county by county basis for the years 2021 and to date...
- Rail Network
172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there will be a third round of public consultations in relation to Dart West before the railway order is signed and if he will liaise...
- Road Projects
173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the 11 options that have been compiled as part of the development of plans for an M50 road resilience project; and if...
- Department of Finance
- Banking Sector
174. To ask the Minister for Finance the provisions that are in place for Ukrainian nationals to open bank accounts despite not having documentation such as a utility bill in their name; and if...
- Departmental Staff
175. To ask the Minister for Finance the salary of four roles within his Department (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36822/22]
- Tax Code
176. To ask the Minister for Finance to address a query (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36924/22]
- Tax and Social Welfare Codes
187. To ask the Minister for Finance the assumptions made when modelling the cost of increasing social welfare payments and other expenditures given that a portion of that money will be expected...
- Credit Unions
188. To ask the Minister for Finance when he intends to publish legislation to amend the Credit Union Act 1997; his plans to increase the role of credit unions in the banking sector; and if he...
- Insurance Coverage
190. To ask the Minister for Finance if advice will be given to a person (details supplied) in relation to mortgage protection insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36953/22]
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Brexit Supports
191. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total amount of funding in the Brexit reserve fund (details supplied); the way that it has been allocated to date; and if he will...
- Departmental Expenditure
192. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to assist with the reconstitution of the building of an organisation (details supplied). [36776/22]
- Flood Risk Management
193. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 132 of 30 June 2022, the reason that one gate remains open at Athlone weir and five gates remain...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
194. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he intends to develop a new payment scheme for public service workers suffering from long-Covid who do not work in healthcare,...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Commemorative Events
195. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there are plans to mark the death of Arthur Griffith as part of the centenary celebrations; and if she will make a statement on...
- Tourism Policy
196. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to develop the Lough Derg region in counties Tipperary, Clare and Galway as a tourism destination. [36879/22]
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Fire Safety
197. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that a sum is allocated in Budget 2023 for reimbursement of remediation costs on works that cannot await on...
- Flood Risk Management
198. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to a topical issue debate of 16 June 2022, the steps he is taking on foot of the correspondence he has received from...
- Insurance Coverage
199. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties that thatch property owners are facing in regards insuring their...
- Departmental Schemes
200. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Croí Cónaithe towns and cities funding will be open for applications; and if he will make a statement on...
- Electoral Commission
202. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 271 of 28 June 2022, the constituency boundaries and seat numbers that would apply in...
- Water Services
203. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to address concerns that the new framework for the future of water services which completes the transition of such services to...
- Planning Issues
204. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a media report (details supplied); his views on same; if consideration is being given to...
- Heritage Schemes
205. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a full list of successful applicants in the built heritage investment scheme and for allocations awarded....
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Passport Services
208. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to increase the accuracy of the passport tracking service online to show real-time data of each actual step of the application...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Special Educational Needs
221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that transport has not been sanctioned for July Provision for a school (details supplied). [36778/22]
- School Accommodation
222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that the factors such as, a very high proportion of pupils exiting the catchment, the lack of balanced mix of places for girls and boys...
- School Enrolments
223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give a breakdown by gender of the pupils entering or leaving Killester, Raheny and Clontarf school catchment area for secondary...
- School Accommodation
224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a detailed review of the need for new second level schools across Dublin will be undertaken in view of the surge in housing development....
- Special Educational Needs
225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if University College Dublin as a university is capable of offering accreditation at level 5 or 6 to the ten-month SNA course launched in 2020;...
- School Transport
226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 88 of 29 June 2022, the number of parents in receipt of remote transport grant at primary, special and...
- Education Policy
228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will implement appropriate education surrounding the LGBT+ community, particularly in relation to comprehensive and inclusive sexual...
- State Examinations
229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will be able to provide a definite date for the Leaving Certificate results given that the exams are now over and students are very...
- Special Educational Needs
230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a school (details supplied) in County Kerry has had its special education teacher allocation hours cut; and if she will make a...
- Schools Building Projects
231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a schedule to include sale price and location of school buildings that her Department has disposed of in the past 50 years to...
- Disadvantaged Status
233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a DEIS appeal by a school (details supplied) has been unsuccessful; the details of the analysis process that was undertaken in...
- Departmental Schemes
234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to matters raised in correspondence from the principal of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11; the steps that she plans...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Payments
235. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the entitlement to an interim social welfare payment in the case of a person (details supplied); if they are entitled to...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
237. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the eligibility for an interim social welfare payment in the case of a person (details supplied); if they have an entitlement...
- State Pensions
239. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a pension application by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Welfare Benefits
241. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36831/22]
- Social Welfare Payments
243. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress, if any, that has been made in attempting to have funds recovered following a transfer to an incorrect account...
- Departmental Data
244. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for social welfare assistance claims that were granted and refused, granted on review, granted on...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
248. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider modifications in the threshold for the fuel allowance, particularly in cases in which both spouses have...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Children in Care
249. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if discussions are expected to increase the allowance for foster carers given the escalating cost of living; and...
- Childcare Services
250. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the provision and affordability measures that are in place to assist the purchase of creches and childcare...
- Disability Services
251. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will introduce legislation to guarantee the right to a personal assistance service; if he will...
- Direct Provision System
252. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of inspections undertaken by the Health Information and Quality Authority on direct provision centres...
- Childcare Services
253. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the income thresholds for the affordable childcare scheme will be reviewed given the rising cost of living...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
256. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide clarity and information on the provision of core funding to approved childcare and early...
- Equality Issues
257. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider establishing the rights of trans persons as recommended by an organisation (details...
- Ukraine War
259. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a schedule of the number of persons from Ukraine that are being accommodated at a location...
- Children in Care
262. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children in State care at present; the extent to which this is sufficient; and if he will make a...
- Child Protection
265. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of children now deemed to be at risk; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37005/22]
- Child Safety
268. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has identified any deficiencies in the extent to which children's interests are kept to the fore in cases...
- Guardians Ad Litem
269. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which the guardian ad litem rules sufficiently protect the interests of children; and if he will...
- Child Protection
270. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if sufficient powers are available to his Department to protect the interests of children; and if he will make a...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Third Level Education
271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has examined the CAO system in conjunction with the skills shortage in Ireland; and if he has examined opening up further places in...
- Nursing Education
272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will extend post-graduate programmes in for example, nursing in order that they could provide therapeutic roles to alleviate the huge...
- Road Network
273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the future growth of the University of Limerick is limited by lack of road access from the Clare side of the campus. [36579/22]
- Education Policy
274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the FET College of the Future of Major Projects Fund investment for Cavan College; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Teaching Qualifications
276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if assistance will be provided to a person (details supplied) who requires their college transcripts to obtain a United States teaching licence;...
- Grant Payments
277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SUSI eligibility will be extended to students studying part-time in Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36898/22]
- Education Schemes
278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the recently announced Innovate for Ireland partnership will be open to applications from persons conducting PhD research in the arts and...
- Education and Training Provision
280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which adequate postgraduates are likely to be available to take up positions in the workplace in the current year and thereafter;...
- Gender Balance
284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of women who now hold positions of seniority in all third level institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36998/22]
- Technological Universities
285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent, if any, to which third level status is being sought by any further institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36999/22]
- Department of Justice and Equality
- An Garda Síochána
288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the research that has been conducted or the representations from her Department that have been made on finding a mechanism to...
- Citizenship Applications
289. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for citizenship (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36784/22]
- Crime Prevention
293. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she agrees that there is a need for comprehensive hate crime legislation in Ireland to help tackle the harassment and...
- Department of Health
- Disability Services
295. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to an urgent request for the publication of the Action Plan for the Disability Capacity Review coming from organisations that...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
296. To ask the Minister for Health if he will establish an occupational injury scheme for healthcare workers with long-Covid; if he his attention has been drawn to the EU Strategic Framework on...
- Disability Services
298. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish the action plan for the Disability Capacity Review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36785/22]
- Health Services
299. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take steps as a matter of urgency to ensure that a patient (details supplied) is approved for treatment under the treatment abroad scheme. [36786/22]
- Disability Services
300. To ask the Minister for Health if the Action Plan for Disability Capacity Review (details supplied) will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36800/22]
- Hospital Appointments Status
301. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and when the person concerned can expect an appointment in the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital,...
- Medicinal Products
302. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give an update on the provision of affordable cariban medication for women suffering from hyperemesis; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Ambulance Service
303. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); the steps that he is taking to improve the National Ambulance Service recruitment...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
304. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to provide funding in Budget 2023 for the provision of the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes aged over 21...
- Disability Services
305. To ask the Minister for Health if the implementation plan for the disability capacity planning to 2032 has been completed; if it will be published; and if pre-planning for the forthcoming...
- General Practitioner Services
306. To ask the Minister for Health if there are enough general practitioners to service the Palmerstown Dublin 20 area, given that residents have reported that they have had to resolve to going...
- Health Services Staff
307. To ask the Minister for Health the number and the grade of former employees of the Health Service Executive who were facilitated in retiring with the benefit of the enhanced abolition of...
- Disability Services
308. To ask the Minister for Health if approval will be given for funding a Cork-based disabilities service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36830/22]
- Health Services Staff
309. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be reached on an application for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo given the length of time that has passed since the application...
- Health Services
310. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider a comprehensive reform of trans healthcare in Ireland and a move towards an informed consent model; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Disability Services
312. To ask the Minister for Health when the Action Plan for Disability Capacity Review will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36847/22]
- Primary Medical Certificates
313. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for a primary medical certificate will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Disability Services
314. To ask the Minister for Health when it is intended to publish the Action Plan for the Disability Capacity Review; the reason for the delay with this; if funding will be provided in this...
- Insurance Industry
315. To ask the Minister for Health the amount that consumers subscribe by way of payments for cover to all private health insurers on an annual basis; the number of consumers who subscribe to...
- Hospital Services
316. To ask the Minister for Health when ultrasound general practitioner referrals will be returning to Nenagh Hospital. [36876/22]
- Hospital Admissions
317. To ask the Minister for Health the longest period that any inpatient has stayed in one admission in each acute hospital in the country over the past ten years in tabular form. [36880/22]
- National Children's Hospital
318. To ask the Minister for Health the current projected total cost of the National Children’s Hospital; the amount by which it has increased since 2018; if the contract has been amended...
- Ambulance Service
319. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the review of the ambulance service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36885/22]
- Abortion Services
320. To ask the Minister for Health the number of surgical terminations of pregnancy provided at each location which should be providing the service in tabular form; if he will request this...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
321. To ask the Minister for Health the funding drawn down by the National Treatment Purchase Fund in each of the years 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; the amount of funding in...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
322. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) is entitled to the pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36888/22]
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- EU Funding
338. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the application by the Government to the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund; the date that the application was...
- Animal Diseases
339. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of the number of identified outbreaks of bovine tuberculosis that his officials have worked on in the...
- Legislative Measures
340. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if and when he plans to conduct a review of the legislation which established Coillte, notably the Forestry Act 1988. [36903/22]
- Forestry Sector
341. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any of the frost reconstitution applications lodged with his Department have been processed; and if he will make a statement on...
- Animal Diseases
349. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the presence of avian flu in Ireland; the number of birds culled having contracted or having been suspected of...
- Forestry Sector
350. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a query regarding the retrieval of forestry land (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
