Written answers

Tuesday, 27 September 2022

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Jobs Data
      1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a breakdown of the estimated number of full-time job vacancies in the State at present, by sector. [46455/22]
    • Departmental Reviews
      2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of the costs for all live studies, reviews and research projects undertaken or commissioned by him; and the details of the person or body...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      3. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department will be recognising Covid-19 as an occupational disease in health and social care and in domiciliary assistance as...
    • Industrial Development
      4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the efforts by the IDA to attract inward investment to counties Longford and Westmeath; and if he will make a...
    • Work Permits
      5. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will add home care assistants to the critical skills occupations list to address the crisis in recruitment for home carers; and...
    • Trade Agreements
      6. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the recent engagements that he has had with his European Union counterparts regarding the European Union-Mercosur trade agreement; and...
    • Industrial Development
      7. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA supported jobs in County Monaghan in each of the years 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022; the number of new IDA...
    • Work Permits
      8. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46695/22]
    • State Bodies
      10. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated full-year cost of recruiting two additional full-time senior principal scientific officers and two additional full-time...
    • Industrial Development
      11. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 7 of 8 September 2022, the number of companies from China, Japan, and South Korea that are...
    • Departmental Reviews
      12. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a schedule of the costs for all live studies, reviews and research projects undertaken or commissioned by him; and...
    • Industrial Development
      13. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied that the IDA is sufficiently focused on the potential for the Irish economy for assisting companies trading...
    • Business Regulation
      14. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the preparations that are being made in his Department for forthcoming European Union regulations on forced labour and corporate due...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      15. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if grant aid is available for a company (details supplied) to expand in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Bodies
      22. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of full-time staff vacancies by job title in IDA Ireland as of 21 September 2022; the estimated full-year cost of filling...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      23. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are business supports available to a person (details supplied) who is taking-over a family motor business; and if he will...
    • Jobs Data
      24. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs per county in IDA Ireland-sponsored companies in tabular form. [47213/22]
    • Trade Relations
      25. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has spoken formally with the United States trade representative (details supplied) in the past 12 months; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Enterprise Support Services
      26. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the Government will be prepared to target subsidies to help compensate businesses for loss of operations in the...
    • Energy Prices
      27. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will explore the possibility of decoupling the price paid to renewable energy and other suppliers from that of the...
    • Tax Code
      28. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a windfall tax on energy suppliers will be introduced in the short-term; if this tax will be linked to the profits...
    • EU Funding
      29. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way that he will ensure that Ireland will receive enough to supplement the national effort to address the pressing...
    • Fuel Sales
      30. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the ban on the commercial sale of turf will come into effect; the other fuel types that will be affected by the...
    • Energy Prices
      31. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to gas prices paid by some residents connected to district heating systems that seem to...
    • Illegal Dumping
      32. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will ensure that funds are made available as requested by Dublin City Council to tackle the illegal dump at a...
    • Energy Prices
      33. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that rural customers should pay a higher standing-charge than urban users; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Energy Conservation
      34. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the National Retrofit Steering Group, pursuant to the National Retrofit Plan; the membership of the group;...
    • Departmental Data
      37. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of heat pumps installed in existing premises in each of the years from 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and...
    • Energy Prices
      38. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of energy users who will have submitted gas and electricity meter...
    • Energy Policy
      40. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide clarity on the Government’s approach to national energy policy and security of supply over the...
    • Energy Production
      41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the Government will improve the procedures, systems and supports that are in place to enable businesses to sell...
    • Energy Conservation
      42. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has considered a comprehensive national education and awareness campaign related to energy conservation and...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      43. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has considered if greater investment in renewables should be made a Government priority to offset the consequent...
    • Offshore Exploration
      44. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps that his Department is taking to develop offshore energy exploration off the west coast of Ireland given that...
    • Energy Policy
      45. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the national policy and regulations on offshore energy creation and the need for it to be...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps that the Government is taking to seriously consider and explore alternative options for energy storage and...
    • National Broadband Plan
      48. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the National Broadband roll-out and the fact that some residences (details supplied) in County...
    • Public Service Obligation
      49. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to remove the PSO levy in order to assist businesses that are struggling with increasing energy costs; and...
    • Energy Conservation
      50. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position in relation to an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Waste Management
      51. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures that he is taking to ensure that refuse companies do not continue to increase their costs for consumers;...
    • State Bodies
      52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of full-time staff working in the National Cyber Security Centre as of 1 January 2021 and 20 September 2022,...
    • Energy Policy
      53. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the policy decisions that were made on the report by the Rental Sector Energy Efficiency Advisory Group’s...
    • International Agreements
      54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline the process and timeline for ratifying the modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty. [46913/22]
    • Data Centres
      55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on reports that United States government institutions such as the Pentagon and the United States Department of...
    • Semi-State Bodies
      56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 90 of 24 May 2022, if commercial semi-State bodies are exempt from obligations...
    • National Broadband Plan
      57. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a progress report on the roll-out of the National Broadband Plan; the number of properties connected...
    • Postal Services
      58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way that a person who wishes to have their address changed or an error corrected that is listed on the Eircode...
    • Departmental Reviews
      59. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a schedule of the costs for all live studies, reviews and research projects undertaken or...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      60. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has plans to engage with the stakeholders behind the Silvermines hydro-electric station to deliver storage given...
    • Legislative Measures
      61. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current status of the Inland Fisheries Consolidation Bill 2022; and when this Bill will move to the next stage....
    • Energy Prices
      62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline the way that pay-as-you-go electricity customers can avail of the recent energy credit of...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an issue raised by a person (details supplied) in relation to the cost of solar panels will be examined; and if he...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • National Car Test
      64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that the current average wait time for an NCT booking in the Dublin centres is six months; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Driver Licences
      65. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that a full driving licence was not issued for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement...
    • Road Projects
      66. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current earliest construction start and completion dates for the N2 Clontibret-to-the-Border road scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Reviews
      67. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the strategic rail review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46664/22]
    • Public Transport
      68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to extend youth fare reductions to 17 to-18-year-olds and ensure that reductions can be availed of by those travelling with...
    • Bus Services
      70. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the impact on students and workers of scheduled bus services being cancelled without notice, who then...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Transport Infrastructure Ireland is investigating a section of a road in County Cavan which has experienced a large number of accidents...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the contract for the provision of catering services on board Iarnród Éireann intercity rail services has been put out to...
    • Departmental Staff
      73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of full-time staff by job title working in the air accident investigation unit within his Department as of 1 January 2021 and...
    • Fines Administration
      74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of fixed charge notices which have been issued by An Garda Síochána using the statutory instrument for dangerous...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      76. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the implementation of the statutory instrument for dangerous overtaking of cyclists since its introduction...
    • Electric Vehicles
      77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will introduce a specific targeted scheme to encourage car rental services to switch to electric vehicles in line with...
    • Taxi Regulations
      78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that taxi and hackney vehicles are subject to maximum age limit rules; if his attention has been drawn to issues impacting taxi...
    • Bus Services
      79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the route of the Rural Link bus managed from the Cavan/Monaghan Rural Link office to accommodate persons from the...
    • National Car Test
      85. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that his Department is taking to reduce the NCT waiting lists (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Reviews
      86. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a schedule of the costs for all live studies, reviews and research projects undertaken or commissioned by him; and the...
    • Coast Guard Service
      87. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the protocols for emergency responses to incidents on Dublin’s beaches; if the Dublin Fire Brigade is notified of incidents; or if...
    • Road Projects
      88. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a contractor has been appointed to a project (details supplied); the up-to-date position with this project; and if he will make a...
    • Public Transport
      90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider extending eligibility for the Leap card scheme to bus operators who run cross-border services, especially those...
    • Driver Test
      91. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a CPC practical driving test will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47081/22]
    • Bus Services
      92. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will urgently review the anomaly which will severely affect students at 18 years of age given that they are unable to access student...
    • Road Projects
      93. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expected timeline for the new bridge in Ballina and Killaloe to become operational given that construction has commenced; and the...
    • Parking Provision
      94. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when each of the public carparks within Dublin Airport was last remarked and or resurfaced; and when each of these public carparks will be...
    • Bus Services
      95. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passengers who used each Dublin Bus Nitelink bus route to date in 2022. [47166/22]
    • Road Safety
      96. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Transport Infrastructure Ireland has considered installing lighting in the underpass tunnel of the N18 dual-carriageway at...
    • Rail Network
      97. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional security personnel that will be provided by Iarnród Éireann at train stations, and onboard trains for the...
    • Road Projects
      98. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of the applications that are being considered by his Department relative to new roads infrastructure in counties...
    • Bus Services
      101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Transport Authority will fund two journeys in both directions on the Cavan 929 Local Link bus services on Sundays and...
    • National Car Test
      103. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a matter raised in correspondence by an organisation (details supplied) will be reviewed; the waiting times for NCT per county; the...
    • Driver Test
      104. 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...
    • Heritage Sites
      105. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the transfer of the Shannon Heritage sites into the management of Clare County Council. [46978/22]
    • Military Aircraft
      106. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 239 of 17 May 2022, if the same aircraft (details supplied) has landed at Shannon Airport on any...
    • National Car Test
      107. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that he is taking to improve the recruitment and retention of staff in NCT centres. [47343/22]
    • Bus Services
      108. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an additional bus stop will be provided on the western side of Bandon to facilitate elderly residence. [47345/22]
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Reliefs
      109. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that mandatory registration fees for veterinary nurses is not currently tax deductible when the mandatory registration fee is for other professions...
    • Banking Sector
      110. To ask the Minister for Finance the options that are available to persons who require Government-issued photographic identification for the purposes of opening a bank account and who do not...
    • Tax Yield
      111. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount raised through the carbon tax on glasshouse growers of food crops using CO2 enrichment in each of the years 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in...
    • Tax Code
      113. To ask the Minister for Finance if the rules in relation to flat-rate expenses will be amended to include podiatrists and chiropodists (details supplied). [46651/22]
    • Budget 2023
      117. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review correspondence (details supplied) ahead of Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46699/22]
    • Pension Levy
      118. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that private pension holders continue to pay a pension levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46711/22]
    • Enterprise Support Services
      120. To ask the Minister for Finance if a special wage support and other emergency subsidies will be targeted to help SMEs and entrepreneurs similar to the effective emergency measures supports...
    • Energy Conservation
      121. To ask the Minister for Finance if a special grant or tax measure will be considered for businesses to acquire more energy efficient equipment as a special short-term measure during the...
    • Tax Code
      122. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to benefit-in-kind on company cars; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Measures
      123. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that an Act which was never intended for small community groups is being applied rigorously to the community groups (details supplied); and if he...
    • Public Sector Staff
      125. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of full-time staff vacancies by job title in the Financial Services and Pension Ombudsman as of 19 September 2022; the full-year cost of filling...
    • Tax Code
      127. To ask the Minister for Finance if changes to benefit-in-kind in respect of company vehicles which will come into effect from January 2023 will be reviewed (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Housing Schemes
      128. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons that have availed of the help to buy scheme each year since its introduction. [46958/22]
    • Departmental Reviews
      129. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of the costs for all live studies, reviews and research projects undertaken or commissioned by him; and the details of the...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      130. To ask the Minister for Finance the frequency of the Revenue Commissioners not following the lead role of the Department of Social Protection in relation to employment status; when this has...
    • Departmental Data
      131. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of residential properties disposed of in each of the years 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022 in circumstances in which those properties were...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      132. To ask the Minister for Finance if financial supports will be put in place for those working from home given the ongoing increase in the cost of utilities; and if he will make a statement on...
    • State Bodies
      133. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress that has been made to replace the disabled drivers medical board of appeals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47212/22]
    • Departmental Data
      135. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated additional revenue that would be generated from a 3% surcharge on all taxable income above €400,000 and €750,000 respectively in...
    • Inflation Rate
      136. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) ahead of Budget 2023; if he will address these concerns; and if he will make a statement...
    • Pharmacy Services
      137. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) ahead of Budget 2023; if he will address these concerns; and if he will make a statement...
    • Tax Exemptions
      138. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update in relation to the removal of VAT on defibrillators being examined; the status of same; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Departmental Staff
      140. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm that vacancies for Higher Executive Officers in Government Departments are now taking applicants from the panel of...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      142. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department, the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer or Office of Government Procurement provide any advice to...
    • Flood Risk Management
      143. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on plans to resolve long-term flooding at a location (details supplied); the engagement that he has had...
    • Departmental Data
      144. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he or his Department receive reports from a company (details supplied) on the financial returns to its shareholders; if so, the...
    • Departmental Reports
      145. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current status of a report (details supplied) that was commissioned by him into the treatment of good causes funding in other...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      146. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the pursuit training which park rangers receive and if he will confirm that the pursuit observed on North...
    • Office of Public Works
      147. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a contract (details supplied) will be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46869/22]
    • Departmental Reviews
      149. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a schedule of the costs for all live studies, reviews and research projects undertaken or commissioned by him; and...
    • Waterways Issues
      150. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if additional funding will be granted for clearance works along the Kilmastulla River in Birdhill, County Tipperary given that the level...
    • Defibrillators Provision
      151. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if each OPW-staffed heritage site has at least one defibrillator on site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47249/22]
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Sports Funding
      152. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if it has been decided when the next call for funding under the sports capital grant will be made; and if changes are planned in...
    • Tourism Promotion
      153. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if Tourism Ireland plans to have a billboard advertisement campaign in major bus and train stations and in major international...
    • Departmental Funding
      154. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will be providing details of the funding schemes that are available for local festivals and events; and if she...
    • Departmental Reviews
      157. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a schedule of the costs for all live studies, reviews and research projects undertaken or commissioned by her;...
    • Legislative Measures
      158. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if consideration will be given to the inclusion of an individual complaints mechanism within the Online Safety and Media...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Housing Provision
      159. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount of general Government capital expenditure on social and affordable housing by local authorities, approved...
    • Housing Schemes
      160. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the vacant property refurbishment grant will be made available for urban areas; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Ukraine War
      161. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a national breakdown, per local authority, of the number of accommodation places that each local authority...
    • Defective Building Materials
      163. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary who is having ongoing issues with pyrite and other contaminants appearing...
    • Housing Schemes
      165. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications that have been received to date for grants under the Croí Cónaithe towns fund, vacant...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      168. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will accelerate the process of granting a foreshore licence to the ESB for the development of the Moneypoint offshore...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      169. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the resources and funding that have been allocated to Clare County Council for the provision of emergency accommodation; if...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      170. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his Department's winter plan in relation to funding and resources allocated by the Department to county councils to deal with...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      171. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of prosecutions that have been taken by the National Parks and Wildlife Service against other State bodies; and if...
    • Housing Policy
      172. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will remove the working family payment from the list of income that is assessable when considering social housing...
    • State Bodies
      173. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to reports indicating that the Residential Tenancies Board has spent millions of euro on a...
    • Vacant Properties
      174. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 623 of 26 July 2022, the number of local authorities currently employing a full-time...
    • Gaeltacht Policy
      175. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 28 of 23 June 2022, the status of the development of the promised section 28 guidelines...
    • Flood Risk Management
      176. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the National Parks and Wildlife Service will schedule works on a river (details supplied) for completion in September 2022,...
    • Departmental Reviews
      177. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a schedule of the costs for all live studies, reviews and research projects undertaken or commissioned by...
    • Planning Issues
      178. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of un-commenced Part 8 planning permissions for residential units that have been granted by local authorities and...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      179. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that no wildlife park ranger has been assigned to County Cavan to date; and the status of same. [47072/22]
    • Burial Grounds
      181. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on negotiations with Dublin City Council concerning the transfer of a property (details...
    • Housing Provision
      182. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new build public houses that he is planning to build in Tipperary in 2022, 2023 and 2024. [47115/22]
    • Departmental Reports
      183. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47135/22]
    • Wildlife Regulations
      184. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the consultative committee on urban gulls will consider the possibility of imposing fines for feeding seagulls in urban...
    • Housing Schemes
      185. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has signed the Ministerial Order to enact the announced changes to the incremental tenant purchase scheme; and if not,...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      186. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the qualifications that a National Parks and Wildlife Service inspector has; if a vet with experience attends the inspections...
    • Housing Policy
      188. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the report on social housing eligibility that reviewed income threshold eligibility amongst other...
    • Urban Development
      189. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the key strategic urban regeneration and development fund project for Carlow; and if he will...
    • Housing Schemes
      190. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to review the HAP payment levels given the rental increases nationwide and particularly in Cavan Monaghan. [47256/22]
    • Rental Sector
      191. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will introduce a ban on evictions into homelessness to address rising homelessness levels; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Passport Services
      193. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will examine and expedite a passport application for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46585/22]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      194. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when foreign birth registration applications will be processed for siblings (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Passport Services
      195. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a name change by deed poll will be considered for a child (details supplied) for a passport application; and if he will make a statement...
    • Data Protection
      197. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on reports that US government institutions such as the Pentagon and the US Department of Justice store data in Ireland as part of...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      198. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the foreign birth registration for a child (details supplied). [46974/22]
    • Departmental Reviews
      199. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a schedule of the costs for all live studies, reviews and research projects undertaken or commissioned by him; and the...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      200. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a decision has been made on a foreign birth registration application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • International Relations
      201. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken directly with the Malaysian Foreign Minister in the past 12 months. [47172/22]
    • Departmental Data
      202. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of companies that applied for the contract for the construction of Ireland House in Tokyo but were unsuccessful; and if he will...
    • EU Meetings
      203. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps that the Minister of State at his Department took to meet all Irish Members of the European Parliament and not just...
  • Department of Defence
    • International Relations
      204. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has spoken formally with his United Kingdom counterpart in the past six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46777/22]
    • Defence Forces
      205. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department is considering an increase in the daily budget for catering in the Defence Forces, given the increase in the cost of living;...
    • Departmental Reviews
      207. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a schedule of the costs for all live studies, reviews and research projects undertaken or commissioned by him; and the...
    • Defence Forces
      208. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of full-time civilian staff vacancies at the Defence Forces training centre; and when each of these vacancies will be filled in...
    • Military Honours
      209. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if arrangements can be made to allow for the provision of a service medal for the Defence Forces (details attached) in an effort to acknowledge...
    • Defence Forces
      210. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of females currently qualified as military pilots within the Air Corps; the number of females currently in training to become...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Special Educational Needs
      211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide funding for pilot occupational therapy programmes in schools; if any such initiatives have taken place to date; and if she...
    • School Transport
      212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that Bus Éireann does not provide a direct service for students from Castleblayney or Carrickmacross to Maynooth; and if she will...
    • School Staff
      213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to reinstate the 1,800 assistant principal positions at primary and special school levels that remain outstanding since the end of...
    • Capitation Grants
      214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the discrepancy of 72 cent per pupil per day in the capitation grant rate for primary school students at a mainstream rate of...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if provision will be made in budget 2023 to expand the operational budget of the National Educational Psychological Service; and if she will make...
    • School Transport
      216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that children (details supplied) who have availed of school transport to their secondary schools for the past four and five...
    • Education Policy
      227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will seek additional detail on the research and evidence upon which a statement (details supplied) by the interdepartmental group that...
    • Schools Building Projects
      228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans in place to build new secondary schools in Dublin 5, Dublin 13 and Dublin 17, or to expand capacity of existing schools in the...
    • School Staff
      229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will seek to reverse the decision to make the positions of one full-time permanent teaching post and three SNAs redundant at a school...
    • School Accommodation
      230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current situation regarding the development of much-needed works for a school (details supplied) following numerous requests to her...
    • School Facilities
      231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grant funding that is available under her Department for a new-build sports hall or multi-purpose hall for a school (details supplied); the...
    • After-School Support Services
      232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will author a policy document advising schools on a way to establish after-school services; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Facilities
      233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding applications that are open to a national school to apply for (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Enrolments
      234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that there will be enough post-primary school places available in the school planning area covering the Dublin 17 area; the...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the DEIS review for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46645/22]
    • School Transport
      237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will investigate the reason that a pupil (details supplied) who applied for a school bus ticket in April 2022 and who has been using the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that a school can make an application for funding for a sensory room; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46671/22]
    • Oideachas trí Ghaeilge
      240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cé mhéad duine i scoil Ghaeltachta a fuair díolúine ón nGaeilge ar an mbonnleibhéal agus ar an...
    • School Transport
      241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student (details supplied) will be accommodated on the school bus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46693/22]
    • School Staff
      245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department's online claims system will be amended to allow schools to place a substitute teacher in a non-filled temporary post in order...
    • Schools Building Projects
      246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the interim building will be in place for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46802/22]
    • School Transport
      248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the cut-off age for drivers of school transport services will be reviewed given the difficulty in recruiting drivers at present. [46867/22]
    • Disadvantaged Status
      249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if officials from her Department will meet with the administrative staff of a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary that was refused DEIS...
    • State Examinations
      250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when junior certificate examination results will be available to candidates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46920/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that special schools are not sanctioned for the post of home-school liaison officers; if consideration has been given to expanding the...
    • School Transport
      252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding is available through her Department to assist a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary to upgrade its transport facilities; and...
    • School Costs
      253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 865 of 8 September 2022, if she will request schoolbook companies to provide licences for eBook downloads...
    • Special Educational Needs
      254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is any specific restriction on the appointment of a home school liaison officer for special schools. [46969/22]
    • School Enrolments
      256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the school catchment area in which Clonshaugh, Dublin 17, is located; the primary and secondary schools in the catchment area; the nature of each...
    • School Equipment
      257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to the State of a policy to provide devices such as notebooks or similar to each student who is required to have them; and if...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a response will issue to correspondence (details supplied) that was sent to her by this Deputy on 26 April 2022. [46988/22]
    • Education Schemes
      259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 311 of 20 September 2022, the reason that the issue of applying for a remote grant lies with Bus...
    • Special Educational Needs
      260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the delivery of an ASD class for a school (details supplied); if there has been a review of its DEIS band one status; and if she...
    • School Transport
      261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to expand the eligibility criteria for school transport given the demonstrated need; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Promotion
      262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a progress update on the Primary School Healthy Eating Education Programme as outlined in the Programme for Government. [47031/22]
    • School Transport
      263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if transport will be provided to a student (details supplied) who is attending a school with no bus route; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Reviews
      264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a schedule of the costs for all live studies, reviews and research projects undertaken or commissioned by her; and the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when work will commence on a permanent school (details supplied); when the project will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Ukraine War
      267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Ukrainian refugees that have been taken in by private schools as of 21 January 2022, by county in tabular form. [47117/22]
    • School Staff
      268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the 90-day rule or cap on career-break substitute teaching will be removed. [47118/22]
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will regain its previous access to a psychologist and referral service. [47119/22]
    • School Transport
      271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered supports for schools that are not in the school transport scheme that seek to organise public transport to the school to...
    • Special Educational Needs
      274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost in 2023 if an additional 900 special needs assistants were recruited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47238/22]
    • State Examinations
      275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has plans to move the average points awarded in the leaving certificate back to the type of normal distribution which prevailed before...
    • School Transport
      276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47310/22]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be any provision in budget 2023 to allow class sizes to be reduced by two points in order to be brought to the European average as...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Government will accept calls by an organisation (details supplied) for a wider availability of age-appropriate supports through the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department plans to reinstate and expand the in-school and early years therapy support demonstration project; and if she will make a...
    • School Transport
      281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on the appeals made by a person (details supplied) in County Louth against the decision not to be provided school...
    • Schools Building Projects
      282. 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 timeframe for the commencement of...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      285. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if matters raised in correspondence by an organisation (details supplied) will be reviewed; if her Department is considering...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      287. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons may reapply for the one-parent family payment immediately in circumstances in which the relationship ends and the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      288. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to reducing the six-month eligibility rule to move from illness benefit to partial capacity...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      289. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for disability allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
    • State Pensions
      290. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the State pension (contributory) will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Pension Provisions
      291. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if Statutory Instrument 295 of 16 May 2022, which removed the exemption of one member arrangements and executive pension...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      292. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for an additional needs payment from a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      295. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to reopening applications for the diet supplement payment (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Fuel Poverty
      297. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost in 2023 if the fuel allowance were to be increased to €41 per week. [46821/22]
    • Community Welfare Services
      298. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of community welfare officer positions that are filled and vacant, respectively by county; the number of community...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      299. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reasons that a service (details supplied) was shut down; if there are plans to reopen this service; and if she will make...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      301. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address the pay-scales and current pay rates of the community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors;...
    • Fuel Poverty
      302. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will review the status of a fuel allowance application by a person (details supplied). [46868/22]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      303. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 362 of 14 September 2022, if she will advise on the matter considering that her...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      304. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if Covid-19 is an occupational illness under the occupational injuries' benefits scheme; and if not, if her Department...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      305. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a qualified adult dependent allowance for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a...
    • State Pensions
      306. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the means test for State pension (non-contributory) as it applies to money on deposit; if she will...
    • Disability Services
      307. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if sufficient funding will be provided to an organisation (details supplied) to continue the ability programme in 2023; and...
    • Widow's Pension
      308. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for a working person in receipt of a widow's pension being unable to claim illness benefit if they fall ill; if...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      310. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a disability allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) will be processed and paid from the period of...
    • Parental Leave
      312. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46937/22]
    • Public Transport
      314. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the analysis that her Department has carried out into decoupling the free travel scheme from other social welfare payments,...
    • Departmental Funding
      316. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 385 and 398 of 14 September 2022, if funding is available for this programme in 2023...
    • State Pensions
      317. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a statement of contributions regarding the eligibility of a person (details supplied) for the State...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      319. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the community employment scheme; the number of persons currently availing of the scheme; her...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      321. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will authorise the payment of eligible social welfare payments into an account (details supplied) given the limited...
    • Departmental Funding
      322. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide funding in Budget 2023 for the Ability Programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47033/22]
    • Departmental Reviews
      324. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of the costs for all live studies, reviews and research projects undertaken or commissioned by...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      326. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to include long-Covid as an occupational disease for front-line workers considering the European Union ACSH...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      327. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if provision will be made for parents whose domiciliary care allowance application is delayed due to the long waiting list...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      328. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to social welfare regulations that disincentivise workers from taking on extra employment; if...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      329. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of a carer’s allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Community Welfare Services
      330. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of full-time community welfare officers in each Intreo office in County Kildare as of 20 September 2022, in...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      331. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a reply will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47180/22]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      332. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) qualifies for the benefit payment for 65-year-olds. [47182/22]
    • Social Welfare Rates
      333. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry is on the correct rate of pension. [47185/22]
    • State Pensions
      334. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to her announcement that carers will receive entitlements and contributions towards an old age pension, the basis on...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      335. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a person (details supplied) in County Cork had their claims disallowed in respect of the working family...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      336. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a supplementary welfare application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      337. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry who is in receipt of disability allowance can transfer to invalidity pension;...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Children in Care
      338. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will review matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if he will address the queries raised;...
    • Special Educational Needs
      339. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if SNAs can be secured under the access-and-inclusion funding model in Montessori schools; and if he will make a...
    • Childcare Services
      340. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he or his Department will intervene in relation to the suspension of childcare provision at a community...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      341. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if it is possible for the parents of a child (details supplied) to avail of one-and-a-half-years’ of free...
    • Childcare Services
      342. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to use school buildings for after-school childcare services; if his Department has engaged...
    • Departmental Schemes
      344. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if schools (details supplied) will be included in the proposed mother and baby home redress scheme; and if he...
    • Departmental Funding
      345. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if funding is available through his Department to assist a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary to...
    • Children in Care
      346. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to increase the foster care allowance; if further financial supports are available to foster...
    • Ukraine War
      347. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of a contract between a person (details supplied) and a business regarding the housing of Ukrainian...
    • Departmental Schemes
      350. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when survivors can expect to see their share of the approved €800 million of expenditure over the life...
    • Medical Cards
      351. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the enhanced medical card regarding the redress scheme proposed for mother-and-baby home survivors will be...
    • Children in Care
      352. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the payment assistance that is available for relative foster carers; the criteria that they have to meet to...
    • Departmental Reviews
      353. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a schedule of the costs for all live studies, reviews and research projects undertaken or...
    • Health Services Staff
      354. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the case of workers in Section 56 organisation (details supplied) who are...
    • Maternity Leave
      355. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the work of his Department in addressing legislation that prohibits women from...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Grant Payments
      356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be granted the non-adjacent special rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46572/22]
    • Further and Higher Education
      357. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the recently announced new minimum annual stipend rate for PhD students of €28,000 will be expanded to include current PhD students...
    • Grant Payments
      358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of current or previous students at a college (details supplied) who have been awarded a SUSI grant; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Official Engagements
      360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the dates in 2022 that he has met with the CEO of Dublin-Dún Laoghaire Education and Training Board. [46824/22]
    • Grant Payments
      361. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that illness benefit is not included in the SUSI special rate award of eligible Department of Social Protection payments in...
    • Departmental Reviews
      362. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a schedule of the costs for all live studies, reviews and research projects undertaken or commissioned by him; and the details...
    • Grant Payments
      363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that are in place for students who live away from home under the age of 23 years to ensure that they can carry on with their studies...
    • Further and Higher Education
      365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Youthreach learners availing of the services in each location available in counties Cavan and Monaghan in 2021 and to date in 2022,...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Departmental Transport
      366. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the forty cars procured for Government Ministers are electric, hybrid, or otherwise. [46767/22]
    • State Bodies
      367. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she intends to reduce the size and capacity of the Criminal Assets Bureau during or after its move to a new premises; and if...
    • Citizenship Applications
      368. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of citizenship applications that are in hand currently; the number of staff that are assigned to the processing of...
    • An Garda Síochána
      369. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of ML10 forms for persons who wish to open a bank account in circumstances in which they do not have a driving...
    • Visa Applications
      373. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the visa application by a person (details supplied); and if he will ensure that this visa is processed in a swift...
    • Departmental Programmes
      374. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 619 of 11 May 2022, if she will provide the names and details of the sporting clubs that...
    • An Garda Síochána
      375. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí per capita in each county in the State; and if she will ensure that she facilitates the increase of...
    • Departmental Data
      378. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of hate crimes that have been recorded in each county for each of the past five years. [46690/22]
    • An Garda Síochána
      379. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of operational members in An Garda Síochána who have an automatic number-plate recognition device; and the...
    • Citizenship Applications
      380. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to difficulties regarding the payment of fees for citizenship applications from spouses and...
    • An Garda Síochána
      381. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of arrest warrants received by An Garda Síochána from Dublin District Court and the Dublin District Family...
    • Legislative Measures
      383. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the implementation of reforms to the duty of care legislation announced by her Department in May 2022; when...
    • Legislative Programme
      384. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the publication of the Family Courts Bill 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46752/22]
    • Visa Applications
      385. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of visa applications by persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46762/22]
    • Death Certificates
      386. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a full death certificate for a person (details supplied) will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46776/22]
    • An Garda Síochána
      387. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to the drugs unit in the Cavan/Monaghan Garda division. [46793/22]
    • Immigration Policy (1 comment)
      388. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 40 of 5 July 2022, the status of the Afghan Admissions Programme; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Data
      392. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank attached to the Dublin Metropolitan Region west roads policing unit as of 1 January 2021 and...
    • Official Engagements
      393. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she met with the New York State Attorney during her recent visit to New York. [46826/22]
    • An Garda Síochána
      394. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank attached to the Garda dog unit as of 1 January 2021 and 20 September 2022, in tabular form....
    • Public Sector Staff
      395. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the recruitment campaign for the recently announced additional Data Protection Commissioner’s posts will be...
    • An Garda Síochána
      396. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 736 of 12 July 2022, if she has received the necessary information from the Garda...
    • Legislative Programme
      397. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the public consultation on the disregarding of historical offences for the LGBT community will take place. [46873/22]
    • An Garda Síochána
      400. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of incidents of suspected drink spiking reported to An Garda Síochána in 2021 and to date in 2022...
    • Departmental Appointments
      402. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1423 of 8 September 2022, if she will confirm when the national guidelines were...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      403. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of buildings that are in the ownership, use or rental of her Department in which non-essential lighting is left on...
    • Immigration Status
      404. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will advise on an immigration issue of a person (details supplied). [47006/22]
    • Departmental Reviews
      405. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a schedule of the costs for all live studies, reviews and research projects undertaken or commissioned by...
    • An Garda Síochána
      407. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community gardaí assigned to three Garda stations (details supplied) in each of the years 2012 to 2021 and...
    • Home Repossessions
      410. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of repossession cases submitted by financial institutions to the courts since 2000 inclusive to date, against...
    • An Garda Síochána
      416. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new unmarked and marked Garda vans allocated to the Garda dog unit in 2021 and to date in 2022; and the number of...
    • Court Judgments
      418. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions before the Children's Court in 2019, 2020 and 2021; the number of orders for fines against the...
    • Legislative Programme
      419. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she proposes to publish legislation shortly reforming the alcohol licensing regime; if so, when this legislation can be...
    • An Garda Síochána
      420. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost to fit 100% of roads policing unit vehicles with automatic number plate recognition services; and if she...
    • Human Trafficking
      421. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cases that the Garda human trafficking investigation and co-ordination unit has dealt with in 2021 and to date in...
    • An Garda Síochána
      422. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a new contract for the provision of new Garda roads policing motorcycles will be put out to tender in Quarter 4 2022; and if...
    • Visa Applications
      425. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will provide a person (details supplied) with a visa while they recuperate and pursue recourse given the...
  • Department of Health
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      426. To ask the Minister for Health if the pandemic bonus payment has been paid to firefighters and paramedics to date; if not, the reason therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      427. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will be recognising the recommendation of the European Commission and the EU Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work to recognise...
    • Primary Care Centres
      428. To ask the Minister for Health if funding has been allocated to the building of primary healthcare centre in Drimnagh, Dublin; the timeframe for the commencement of building work; the...
    • Health Services
      429. To ask the Minister for Health if respite care will be granted for a person (details supplied) in a hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46587/22]
    • Dental Services
      431. To ask the Minister for Health the number of fourth-class children who will receive dental screening services under the Health (Amendment) Act 1994 during the current academic year by CHO...
    • Medicinal Products
      432. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the 2021 application by the HSE to have products (details supplied) included for reimbursement on the long-term illness scheme. [46605/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      433. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were approved for roche accu-chek insulin pumps through the HSE's aids and appliances community funds in each of the years 2016 to...
    • Hospital Services
      436. To ask the Minister for Health the requirements that are needed to be put in place in the University of Limerick Hospitals Group to offer insulin pump therapy as a treatment option for...
    • Medicinal Products
      437. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the process to include the cancer medicine, verzenios for reimbursement under the medicine access scheme for persons diagnosed with breast...
    • Health Services Staff
      438. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Research Board is conducting a scoping review for his Department on advanced practice physiotherapy grades and physiotherapists as referred to...
    • Budget 2023
      439. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a pre-Budget 2023 submission by an organisation (details supplied); if consideration has been given to its recommendations;...
    • Hospital Staff
      440. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 669 of 24 May 2022, the status of the current staffing levels for paediatric epilepsy services at University Hospital...
    • Health Strategies
      441. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will author a national diabetes strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46628/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      442. To ask the Minister for Health if funding for the cystic fibrosis drug kaftrio will be made available for children once they turn six years of age; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      443. To ask the Minister for Health when the early-intervention youth service for counties Sligo and Leitrim will be finalised (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mental Health Services
      444. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be seen under CAMHS. [46632/22]
    • Health Services
      445. To ask the Minister for Health if water birth will be made available in Ireland; the reason that the facilitation of water births has ceased; if the necessary reviews on this issue have been...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      446. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) is waiting so long for the pandemic bonus payment for healthcare workers; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      447. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment at Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Substance Misuse
      449. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1814 of 26 July 2022, if his officials have concluded their consultation with all members of the north inner-city drug...
    • Nursing Homes
      450. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a timeframe for when rental income from renting out the family home will be deemed exempt under the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      451. To ask the Minister for Health if he proposes to introduce a financial assistance scheme in order that persons who rely on machines to stay alive, for example for oxygen, dialysis etc., will...
    • Health Services
      452. To ask the Minister for Health if a child (details supplied) will be given access to occupational therapy in County Monaghan as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      453. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the many anomalies in the payment of salaries, premiums and overtime in the CHO 1 area in disability services since the adoption of a new system...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      455. To ask the Minister for Health if paramedics and firefighters in the Dublin ambulance service qualify for the pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46700/22]
    • Hospital Services
      456. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the establishment of a haematology day ward in University Hospital Kerry, equipped for ten patients, to facilitate the delivery of chemotherapy...
    • Hospital Facilities
      457. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support the installation of an isolator in University Hospital Kerry to facilitate load balancing between University Hospital Kerry and Cork...
    • Hospital Staff
      458. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expand the laboratory staff in University Hospital Kerry from a rota of one to five to one to ten to ensure that laboratory staff have sufficient...
    • Hospital Services
      459. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that haematology patients are often required to travel daily for prolonged periods of time, two hours each way,...
    • Medicinal Products
      460. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the roll-out under the drug treatment scheme of the new prescription medication, inclisiran, which is used to treat high cholesterol in persons...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      461. To ask the Minister for Health when paramedics from the Dublin Fire Brigade will receive their Covid-19 bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46712/22]
    • Health Services
      462. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be made available to speed-up the process of genetic testing for confirmation of TTR genotype, wild-type or hereditary, for transthyretin...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      463. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made in relation to the pandemic recovery payment due to 30 workers (details supplied) in private nursing homes in County Clare....
    • Medicinal Products
      464. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the availability of the provision of evusheld to immunocompromised patients in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46754/22]
    • Health Services
      465. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a timeline for the full implementation of the Chief Medical Officer’s report on The Use of Uro-Gynaecological Mesh in Surgical...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      466. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of the National Treatment Purchase Fund’s €150 million allocation that has been spent with private hospitals to date in 2022, as...
    • Disability Services
      467. To ask the Minister for Health the number of judicial review cases that have been taken against the State in relation to both delays in assessment of needs process’ as well as...
    • Health Service Executive
      468. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a copy of each annual S13 reports received from the HSE under the Disability Act 2005 since 2014; his views on instances where such reports...
    • Mental Health Services
      469. To ask the Minister for Health if CAMHS is currently accepting new patients in Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46772/22]
    • Dental Services
      470. To ask the Minister for Health if action will be taken to ensure that orthodontic treatment is provided for a child (details supplied) with cerebral palsy who has been assessed as category...
    • Health Services
      471. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who are currently awaiting an occupational therapy assessment in each LHO area in CHO8; the number waiting for treatment in each LHO area...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      473. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for when those in the health sector who have not yet received their pandemic bonus payment will receive same in tabular form; the sectors within...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      475. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive medical equipment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46794/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      476. To ask the Minister for Health the status of each of the thirty-five recommendations contained in the Maskey Report for South Kerry CAMHS in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Services
      484. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a service for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46812/22]
    • Home Help Service
      485. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be offered home-help hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46818/22]
    • Health Services
      486. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46819/22]
    • Hospital Services
      487. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients treated in the acute medical assessment unit at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown per day in August 2022. [46831/22]
    • Ambulance Service
      489. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost in 2023 of providing five additional ambulances in each HSE region. [46833/22]
    • Health Services
      490. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a service for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46842/22]
    • Disability Services
      491. To ask the Minister for Health when the parents of a child (details supplied) will be provided with respite care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46843/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      492. To ask the Minister for Health when the parents of a child (details supplied) will be provided with the necessary funding for a magnetic attachment for a car seat; and if he will make a...
    • Health Strategies
      493. To ask the Minister for Health the status of implementing the neurorehabilitation strategy in CHO6 and CHO7; when the service will be up and running; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      494. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a service for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46848/22]
    • Home Help Service
      496. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a service for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46860/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      497. To ask the Minister for Health the number of front-line workers who have received the pandemic bonus payment to date; when all payments are expected to issue to front-line workers eligible...
    • Health Services Staff
      498. To ask the Minister for Health the current average processing time for a nursing licence; if his attention has been drawn to any delays in the processing of such licences; and if he will...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      499. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment with a specialist will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46894/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      500. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the Covid-19 special recognition payments for home help workers have still to be processed; when these vital front-line workers will receive...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      502. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 567 of 20 September 2022, if he will provide details of the significant work done to date in relation to the...
    • Mental Health Services
      503. To ask the Minister for Health the number of diagnosed and suspected neuro-diverse children under the care of the CAMHS; the number of those who are currently prescribed medication; the...
    • Health Services
      504. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive their two-years old developmental check; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46945/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      506. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) cannot obtain a device which is necessary for their health issue; when the device will be made available to them;...
    • Healthcare Policy
      507. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has undertaken any research into the avian flu HPAI; if the flu poses a risk to humans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46964/22]
    • Home Care Packages
      508. To ask the Minister for Health the steps and arrangements that are being put in place to recruit staff members for home care packages and home care hours to ensure that eligible persons are...
    • Hospital Staff
      509. To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with the HSE to ensure that the current staffing numbers for neurology nurse specialists in the neurology department in University Hospital...
    • Medicinal Products
      510. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to make the drug evusheld available in Ireland given that it has been approved by the European Medicines Agency and is currently in use in...
    • Disability Diagnoses
      512. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a child (details supplied) who was assessed by an agency over the summer and whose parents were verbally informed that they meet the criteria...
    • General Practitioner Services
      513. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently establish a high-level working group on future general practice, to help find innovative solutions, and work collectively to address...
    • Hospital Procedures
      518. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to providing a standardised approach to electronic hospital discharges on a nationwide basis, to be delivered using health-mail...
    • General Practitioner Services
      519. To ask the Minister for Health if additional resources will be applied to general practices to enable sessional psychological and counselling services to be financed; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      520. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be an increase in the number of allied primary care professionals, including psychologists, community psychiatric nurses and mental health...
    • Dental Services
      522. To ask the Minister for Health if a child (details supplied) will be called for a medical appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47001/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      523. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of the €200 million allocated to the HSE for waiting lists has been spent to date in 2022; the amount spent in private and public hospitals;...
    • Medical Cards
      524. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to support general practitioners and dentists to begin to accept new patients covered by medical cards; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Ambulance Service
      525. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the provision of a new ambulance base in Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47017/22]
    • Medical Cards
      526. To ask the Minister for Health the circumstances under which medical card patients are exempt from charges for phlebotomy services; if he finds it acceptable that medical card patients are...
    • Hospital Equipment
      527. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to upgrade the radiology machine in a centre (details supplied); if there are plans to ensure both machines there are in full working order;...
    • Primary Care Centres
      528. To ask the Minister for Health when Tullow, County Carlow, will get a primary care centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47020/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      529. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the payment of the pandemic bonus to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47021/22]
    • Health Services
      530. To ask the Minister for Health when a list of doctors providing free contraception will be made available by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47022/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      531. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have received the pandemic bonus payment; and the number of applications received for same. [47023/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      532. To ask the Minister for Health if a payment for approved application under the discretionary hardship arrangement in the case of a person (details supplied) will be reinstated, which seems...
    • Disability Services
      533. To ask the Minister for Health when the day care services will resume to five days per week at a centre (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      535. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that there is a delay in issuing Covid recognition payments; when the Covid recognition payment will be made to agency healthcare assistants; and if...
    • Nursing Homes
      536. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be allocated to an applicant (details supplied) to the nursing home support scheme in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      537. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that are under way to ensure that adequate support is provided to home dialysis patients in the context of the current crisis to ensure that they...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      538. To ask the Minister for Health the number of care workers in both the voluntary and private care sectors yet to receive the pandemic bonus payment for front-line workers; when such...
    • Medicinal Products
      539. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will consider adding desmopressin nasal spray to the general medical services scheme given that the tablet version of the same medication is...
    • Emergency Departments
      540. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to close the accident and emergency department in Navan Hospital. [47114/22]
    • Dental Services
      541. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to reduce the waiting list of 900-plus grade 5 patients who are awaiting orthodontic treatment in CHO9; and if he will make a...
    • Budget 2023
      542. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give detailed consideration to the pre-budget 2023 submission by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Staff
      543. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the south east regional drug and alcohol task force has not had a full-time co-ordinator for almost three years; if all parties are acting with...
    • Vaccination Programme
      545. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the increase in respiratory syncytial virus cases in 2022; when RSV season will officially be opened; the date that vaccines will be rolled out;...
    • Medicinal Products
      546. To ask the Minister for Health the total medicines budget over the period 2019 to date in 2022, by year; if he will provide details of the specific amount of expenditure which was allocated...
    • Healthcare Policy
      548. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the growing trend of disposable e-cigarette use among teenagers; the measures that his Department and the HSE will implement...
    • Departmental Data
      549. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prosecutions and-or fines made against manufacturers or importers of e-cigarette products for breaches of restrictions within SI 271/2016 in the...
    • Mental Health Services
      550. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting list to access CAMHS in counties Galway and Roscommon, respectively; the number of children directly engaged with each...
    • Hospital Services
      551. To ask the Minister for Health when a facility (details supplied) will open; the staffing and bed complement at this refurbished facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      552. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid to construction contractors by the HSE in respect of large infrastructure projects at Tallaght University Hospital in the past four years to...
    • Health Services Staff
      553. To ask the Minister for Health the staff turnover of audiologists within children's disability services in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [47162/22]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      555. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received an invitation to meet with the families who lost loved ones in a nursing home (details supplied) during the third wave of the pandemic at...
    • Home Help Service
      556. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider abolishing the consumer-directed home support grant, given that the criteria to fulfil the grant are too onerous for elderly and vulnerable...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      557. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1766 of 26 July 2022, the timeframe for paramedics employed by Dublin Fire Brigade to receive their pandemic special...
    • Health Services Staff
      558. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the appointment of a chief pharmaceutical officer; and if he will expedite the recognition of non-European Union pharmacy qualifications,...
    • Health Services
      559. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a report on waiting lists for a genetic test for BRCA1; the number of persons who are waiting; the average waiting times per hospital in...
    • Health Services Staff
      561. To ask the Minister for Health the number of genetic counsellors who are employed by the HSE; the plans, if any, to recruit more; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47211/22]
    • Health and Safety
      562. To ask the Minister for Health when a health and safety inspection was carried out on a premises (details supplied); and if he will request the Food Safety Authority of Ireland to visit the...
    • Hospital Staff
      563. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultant dermatologists based in each hospital that is part of the RCSI group as of 12 September 2022; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      564. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of children awaiting appointments for HSE paediatric ENT services by hospital in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Health Services
      565. To ask the Minister for Health the podiatry waiting list by location and waiting times by month in counties Cavan and Monaghan in August 2022; the number of HSE podiatry clinics by location;...
    • Nursing Homes
      566. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a nursing home scheme application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [47253/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      568. To ask the Minister for Health his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47301/22]
    • Third Level Admissions
      570. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the need for additional third level pharmacy student places; the proactive steps that he has taken to ensure that additional places are made...
    • Health Services Staff
      572. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on further information for agency roles working in the HSE; and their eligibility for the pandemic bonus payment. [47332/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      573. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be receiving the pandemic special recognition payment; and if a timeframe for same will be provided. [47334/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      574. To ask the Minister for Health if an assurance will be given that no patient has attempted suicide or has succeeded in ending their life by suicide in the centre for mental health care and...
    • Mortality Rates
      576. To ask the Minister for Health the number of natal and maternal deaths in each maternity hospital and unit annually since 1 January 2015. [47340/22]
    • Health Services
      577. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that he has taken since taking office to facilitate women and pregnant people seeking home births. [47341/22]
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Fishing Industry
      579. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for supporting the fish processing, fish exporting and fish retail sectors to deal with the challenges of rising energy...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      580. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in issuing a single farm payment to a person (details supplied). [46617/22]
    • Horse Racing Industry
      582. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 897 of 5 July 2022, the amount allocated to Horse Racing Ireland from the horse and greyhound...
    • Pesticide Use
      583. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the existing Government targets with regard to the reduction in use of chemical pesticides; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Nitrates Usage
      584. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 346 of 6 July 2022, the number of farmers availing of the nitrates derogation; the total number...
    • Animal Diseases
      585. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that a post-mortem was not carried out on birds (details supplied) within the specified timeframe following an incident;...
    • Forestry Sector
      586. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the ash dieback reconstitution and underplanting scheme is to be treated by applicants as a de minimis payment; and if he will...
    • Grant Payments
      587. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated net of VAT payment to applicants for the environmental report grant per file, outlined in circular 13/2022; and if he...
    • Forestry Sector
      588. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of the applications for the reconstitution of woodland scheme frost that have been issued an acknowledgement letter; and...
    • Pension Provisions
      590. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the pension rate for former Coillte employees will be adjusted upwards and linked to current employee salary agreements (details...
    • Animal Passports
      591. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to an Irish person bringing their dog home from England having to get it vaccinated each time that...
    • Grant Payments
      592. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the grant amount per hectare that is payable for site-clearance of diseased trees under the ash diebacks scheme administered by his...
    • Departmental Reviews
      593. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of the costs for all live studies, reviews and research projects undertaken or commissioned by him; and...
    • Animal Diseases
      594. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the protocols that should be followed when an incident arises where multiple swans die on waterways in Ireland; if he will outline...
    • Departmental Data
      595. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to an issue with a business (details supplied); if the persons involved in the business have received...
    • Brexit Supports
      596. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether the issues arising from Brexit for which funding from the European Union has been provided through the Brexit...
    • Fishing Industry
      597. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention and that of his Department has been drawn to the fact that Irish fishing boats that have landed in France and Spain,...
    • EU Programmes
      598. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 934 of 21 June 2022, the amount that currently remains unspent in the European Maritime and...
    • Fishing Industry
      599. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated number of jobs that are expected to be lost in the Irish fishing industry as a result of the impending Brexit...
    • Brexit Supports
      600. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a flexibility mechanism is built into the Brexit Adjustment Reserve Fund that will allow persons to secure funding and order...
    • Forestry Sector
      604. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there will be mandatory professional forester involvement in the small-scale tree planting scheme; and if he will make a statement...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      606. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the direct integration and compatibility mechanisms proposed for afforestation and the organic farming scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Forestry Sector
      607. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 647 of 14 September 2022, in stating that there is no licence requirement if a landowner wishes...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      609. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the development of a water activity hub in Carlow town park for users of the River Barrow as an amenity; and if she will...
    • Community Development Projects
      610. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the outcome of community centres investment fund applications will be known; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Programmes
      611. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her views on increasing the annual funding for the CLÁR programme; if there are any further allocations to be made in 2022; and...
    • Departmental Reviews
      612. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule of the costs for all live studies, reviews and research projects undertaken or commissioned by her; and...
    • Library Projects
      614. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the project under the library capital of Carlow town library, including the redevelopment of presentation buildings to...
    • Community Development Projects
      615. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of a Tullow road community hub development in Carlow town and if funding has been allocated. [47217/22]

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