Written answers

Tuesday, 11 October 2022

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Cabinet Committees
      39. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Brexit will meet next; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48331/22]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Transport
      55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the delay in providing a school bus for the pupils attending the ASD unit at a school (details supplied). [49827/22]
    • School Funding
      61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the result that the €90 million cost-of-living increase and energy relief measures fund is designed to achieve; and the way in which her...
    • School Transport
      65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the operation of the school transport scheme in order that it treats children of no religion the same as children from minority...
    • Education Policy
      66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider funding trainee educational and child psychologists in the same way that their trainee counselling psychologist colleagues...
    • School Transport
      67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for the school transport scheme in 2023. [49939/22]
    • Education Policy
      68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she intends to ensure similar funding for educational psychologists considering the shortage of educational psychologists and also the recent...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proposal, if any, to extend the DEIS programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49942/22]
    • School Accommodation
      70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on work to secure a temporary location for a school (details supplied) while a permanent building is under...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the provisions of the Workplace Ventilation (Covid-19) Bill 2021 that passed second stage in October 2021; the...
    • School Transport
      73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she can address the outstanding issues on school transport, with particular reference to ensuring that children who were...
    • School Staff
      74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any flexibility can be given to rural schools to retain a teacher in cases in which the number of students falls to ensure that rural schools...
    • Citizens' Assembly
      75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has agreed a commencement date for a Citizens’ Assembly on Education; and when she hopes that the Assembly will take place. [49936/22]
    • Energy Conservation
      76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the delivery of a retrofitting programme for schools built before 2008 as committed to in the National Development Plan;...
    • Pleananna Oideachais
      77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad é an dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir leis an bplean chun polasaí cuimsitheach don Ghaeilge sa chóras oideachais,...
    • Special Educational Needs
      78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being undertaken now to plan for summer provision in summer 2023; if the programme still appropriately serves the children for...
    • Education and Training Boards
      80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that ETBs no longer have the authority to grant cover for workforce leave as they did prior to the moratorium; and if she will make a...
    • School Curriculum
      81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she and her Department are considering a specified role for physical education teachers in primary schools as part of the primary curriculum...
    • School Staff
      82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the crisis of recruitment and substitute teachers in the major urban centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs
      84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that each school (details supplied) in Dublin 12 will have an autism class; the status of same; and if she is prepared to...
    • School Transport
      85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the review of school transport places following the additional funding provided in Budget 2023; the timeline for its...
    • Schools Building Projects
      86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the building project for a school (details supplied). [49675/22]
    • School Transport
      88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her long-term plans to address the issue of school bus transport to ensure that all children who require it receive it; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the requirements that would need to be in place in order for her Department to support the establishment of a special school in east Cork; and if...
    • School Funding
      90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria set out for the Irish and bilingual grant; the reason that some schools in the same geographic area are included and others are not;...
    • Special Educational Needs
      92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that she is taking to increase the lack of places in primary and secondary schools for young persons with special educational needs and...
    • School Textbooks
      93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the anticipated cost of the provision of free schoolbooks for all second level students; if the matter was given consideration in the context of...
    • State Examinations
      95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date that the results of the Junior Certificate will be made available to candidates. [49938/22]
    • School Transport
      99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any extra buses or bus capacity have been procured for school transport in Cork south west; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Curriculum
      100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give a direction to schools to ensure that they provide students that do not attend subjects in religious instruction under section...
    • Education Policy
      101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement and research her Department has undertaken and is undertaking to upgrade existing second level schools and to provide new second...
    • Schools Building Projects
      102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the proposed permanent school build for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Education Policy
      103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department last assessed the need for an additional secondary school in Dublin 8; and if her Department will do so again on foot of the...
    • Early School Leavers
      104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that County Carlow has the third highest national rates of early-school-leaving, and that absenteeism...
    • Education Policy
      106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions that she has taken to ensure that universal design learning and universal design principles are implemented in primary and secondary...
    • Schools Building Projects
      108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has engaged with the principal and the board of management of a school (details supplied) to discuss her Department's future plans with...
    • Special Educational Needs
      109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the shortage of teachers which results in classes including special education classes not going ahead (details...
    • School Costs
      110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the views of a person (details supplied) who remarked that, after Budget 2023, schools will still require...
    • Special Educational Needs
      111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of education professionals who engaged with summer provision in 2022; if that matched the demand for places; and if she will make a...
    • Education Policy
      112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which she and her Department continue to upgrade, replace and improve schools in the primary and second level sphere in County...
    • School Staff
      113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the pathway forward for a teacher (details supplied) who was employed in a principal release post in a school (details supplied) in the school...
    • Schools Building Projects
      114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details including the location, completion timeline and patronage of the new post primary school (details supplied) in Dublin...
    • School Transport
      115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of families that have been impacted by the technical issues pertaining to an email addresses (details supplied); the proportion of...
    • National Council for Special Education
      116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that the changes in the resources in the National Council for Special Education planned for 2023 will be deployed for the benefit of...
    • State Examinations
      118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Leaving Certificate and Junior Certificate students currently waiting for their exam results; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Creative Youth Plan
      119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on expanding the creative clusters under the school's excellence fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49602/22]
    • School Transport
      120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support organising bus transport for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49595/22]
    • School Textbooks
      121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the implementation of the free primary schoolbooks scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49603/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to just two post-primary schools in all of Dublin 24 have ASD classes offering just 18 places for 204 children;...
    • Schools Building Projects
      124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the provision of a permanent site for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Pleananna Oideachais
      125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad é atá pléite aici leis na páirtithe leasmhara maidir le straitéisí don Ghaeilge sa chóras oideachais; agus...
    • School Funding
      126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures included in Budget 2023 to increase the financial supports available to all school boards of management to ensure that they can meet...
    • School Staff
      127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to school principals across Dublin that are reporting teachers leaving because they cannot afford to live in...
    • Legislative Measures
      128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if changes are planned to the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018 in relation to school children with special educational needs; and if she...
    • State Examinations
      129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on her engagements with the State Examination Commission in relation to ensuring the availability of assistive...
    • Special Educational Needs
      130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if each child who requires a place in an ASD unit will obtain same in September 2023. [49677/22]
    • Education Policy
      132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has adopted a strategy for improving leadership and performance evaluation in schools. [49766/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the building project for a school (details supplied). [49674/22]
    • State Examinations
      134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that are being taken to provide candidates, parents and schools with certainty regarding the arrangements for issuing the Junior...
    • Special Educational Needs
      135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the system in place to track and measure need for school places for children with disabilities; and if she will...
    • School Accommodation
      136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a school (details supplied) that will be forced to fundraise for an adequate school hall in its new school...
    • Education Policy
      137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the need for a further primary school in the high growth area of Castletroy, Limerick; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Funding
      138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to extend the Irish and bilingual grant to all post-primary Irish medium schools in the country; the reason that multi-denominational...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proposals, if any, to amend the criteria for inclusion in the DEIS programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49943/22]
    • School Funding
      140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase the capitation grant for both primary and post-primary pupils; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49738/22]
    • Legislative Reviews
      142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the review of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Data
      144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of gaelscoileanna currently operational in the State. [50003/22]
    • Educational Disadvantage
      146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons that a primary school (details supplied) was denied DEIS status despite all other schools in the locality being provided DEIS status;...
    • Education Policy
      147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which Budget 2023 will support well-being in schools. [49917/22]
    • Departmental Programmes
      151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the rollout expansion of the Schools Energy Retrofit Pathfinder Programme for 2023-2024; and if she will make a...
    • School Facilities
      152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the mechanism that will be used to roll out the solar schools initiative; the way that schools will be able to avail of the scheme; the...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • International Protection
      153. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of the number of staff by grade who are assigned on a full-time basis to liaise and provide support to the Department of Children,...
    • Cabinet Committees
      154. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Cabinet Committees that are in place; if he has created any new Cabinet Committees in the past year; the Cabinet Committee that deals with Energy; and the...
    • Census of Population
      155. To ask the Taoiseach if the preparations and planning for Census 2027 will include a review of the possibility of including a third gender on the census form. [49156/22]
    • Departmental Bodies
      156. To ask the Taoiseach the name, function and establishment date of all the organisations and agencies that are funded by his Department; the number of employees in each; and the salary of the...
    • Census of Population
      157. To ask the Taoiseach when the Central Statistics Office will begin its consultation with the general public and data users on the questions for Census 2027 to include questions on gender...
    • Departmental Properties
      159. To ask the Taoiseach the number of dedicated spaces for breastfeeding and expressing breast milk in workplaces within his Department and the workplaces of public bodies and agencies under...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Intellectual Property
      160. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will support the 17 June 2022 WTO decision on the TRIPS Agreement to therapeutics and diagnostic tests without further...
    • Departmental Transport
      161. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there is a policy regarding the appropriate use of domestic flights in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the...
    • Work Permits
      162. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a decision will be made in relation to an application by a person (details supplied) for a work permit; and if he will make a...
    • International Bodies
      163. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount paid to the European Space Agency from 2002 to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49534/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      164. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are small business loans available to a publican and restaurant owner who is under ongoing financial pressure as a result of...
    • Employment Rights
      165. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he will honour the terms of the Employment Regulation Order for the security industry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Bodies
      166. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of whole-time equivalent staff vacancies by job title in the Health and Safety Authority as of 3 October 2022; the...
    • Trade Data
      167. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of the overall value of goods imported into Ireland from South Africa in each of the past three years. [49995/22]
    • Low Pay Commission
      168. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the recommendation of the Low Pay Commission to prepare a report examining the issues around retaining, removing, or expanding...
    • Trade Missions
      169. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a trade mission to the west coast of United States of America is planned before the end of 2022; and if he will make a statement...
    • Work Permits
      170. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there is a pathway for employers to apply for a visa to employ a mechanic from outside the EEA in a situation in which the...
    • Departmental Properties
      174. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of dedicated spaces for breastfeeding and expressing breast milk in workplaces within his Department and the workplaces of...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Departmental Transport
      175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there is a policy regarding the appropriate use of domestic flights in his Department and bodies under the aegis of...
    • Cost of Living Issues
      176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of proposals to provide an annual support towards the cost of bin charges for homes in which a family member...
    • Crime Prevention
      177. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the participation that his Department has in the National Metal Theft Forum, to develop a metal theft prevention and...
    • Grant Payments
      178. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the significant issues highlighted by a person (details supplied) in respect of access to solar...
    • Energy Policy
      180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount that the large energy-user rebalancing subvention raised in each year since its introduction; if this...
    • Energy Conservation
      183. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a house built in 2005 with an MPRN from 2006 can qualify for the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland funding...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      184. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way that the electricity credit will be paid to those in multi-developments, for example, apartment blocks and...
    • Departmental Funding
      185. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline the funding allocations for the Western Lakes draft management plan for loughs Corrib, Mask, Carra,...
    • Cost of Living Issues
      186. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration will be given to providing the proposed €600 energy credit to those living off-grid and...
    • Energy Policy
      187. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has put restrictions on the work of obligated entities to support household energy upgrades; if he will identify...
    • EU Directives
      188. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount Ireland has been fined to date for the failure to fully transpose the European Electronic Communications...
    • Budget 2023
      189. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if local community centres will be included in the €600 energy credits announced in Budget 2023; and if he will...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      190. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will bring forward a cybersecurity Bill. [49992/22]
    • Public Service Obligation
      191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total amount collected through the PSO levy in each year since 2001; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Schemes
      192. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the deposit return scheme for plastic bottles and aluminium cans, for which the regulations were signed in...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      193. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeline and date for the roll-out of broadband in an area (details supplied) of County Leitrim; and if he will...
    • Grant Payments
      194. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland better energy grant requirement for a technical assessment to ensure...
    • Energy Policy
      196. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the procedures that ESB Networks has in place for distributing details of clean-export guarantee eligibility to each...
    • Natural Gas Imports
      203. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he can give an assurance that any of the gas coming into Ireland is not fracked gas (details supplied); and if he...
    • Energy Policy
      204. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that householders and bill payers in a development (details supplied) have...
    • Departmental Projects
      205. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update in relation to the Avoca remediation project; the projected funding that will be provided...
    • Energy Policy
      206. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that not every household will receive the energy credits promised given...
    • Energy Conservation
      207. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of contracting companies that are awaiting entry into the "One Stop Shop" under the home energy upgrade...
    • Energy Policy
      212. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the process by which the feed-in tariff for the microgeneration support scheme is set; his view on whether the...
    • Departmental Properties
      213. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of dedicated spaces for breastfeeding and expressing breast milk in workplaces within his Department and the...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Vehicle Testing
      214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50262/22]
    • Departmental Transport
      215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a policy regarding the appropriate use of domestic flights in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department....
    • Traffic Fines
      216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will increase the fine for parking bus lanes in line with doubling of the fixed-charge penalty for parking on footpaths, cycle...
    • Public Transport
      217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the areas in which the funding that was allocated in Budget 2023 for BusConnects and MetroLink will be spent on. [49473/22]
    • Aviation Industry
      218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the flight paths of commercial airlines are prohibited or restricted from flying over Ballyboughal, County Dublin from the new north...
    • Departmental Policies
      219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the regulations or guidelines in place, if any, to ensure that car manufacturers in Ireland install catalytic converters in such a way...
    • Bus Éireann
      220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the latest data in respect of service disruptions including cancellations of Bus Éireann services in Waterford...
    • National Transport Authority
      221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number and value of fines levied by the National Transport Authority on bus, Luas and rail services for contract breaches by each...
    • Electric Vehicles
      222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of electric charging points that are now operational in public areas in Cork city and County, broken down by fast chargers and...
    • Taxi Licences
      224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered allowing taxi drivers to transfer their taxi licence to another driver who is licensed but who does not hold a taxi...
    • Bus Éireann
      225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on proposals to improve the frequency and capacity of Bus Éireann route 329 through Bruff, County...
    • Bus Services
      226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a bus shelter in Bruff, County Limerick for passengers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49606/22]
    • Driver Test
      227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for their driving test; and if this date will stand; and if he will make a statement...
    • Aviation Industry
      228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the percentage of east-bound flights on runway 10 in Dublin Airport that do not follow their designated flight-path; and the percentage...
    • Driver Test
      230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will expedite a driving test for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49747/22]
    • National Car Test
      231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the minimum or optimum number of mechanics who should be employed in each of the 49 NCT centres in Ireland, listed individually; the...
    • Driver Test
      232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) will receive a driving test date in order that they can take up employment. [49802/22]
    • Tax Code
      233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will allow registered company owners to pay commercial rates of motor tax on certain vehicles (details supplied) once...
    • Driver Test
      234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that a person (details supplied) is waiting so long for a driving test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49909/22]
    • Haulage Industry
      235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the suspension of an operator licence for a company (details supplied) will be delayed until February 2023 to give the owner time to...
    • Bus Services
      236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated number of additional buses that would be required if buses on each route on H-spine increased their frequency to every ten...
    • Rail Network
      237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of revenue generated through parking charges at Irish Rail train stations in each of the years of 2019 to 2021 and to-date in...
    • Bus Éireann
      238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of revenue generated by Bus Éireann from the €2 processing fee for members of the public with the free travel pass...
    • Public Transport
      241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50009/22]
    • Driver Licences
      242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address the matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to the NDLS fees and payment methods policy; and if...
    • Bus Services
      243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of electric hybrid buses in operation on public service obligation transport routes at present; the areas that these are...
    • Electric Vehicles
      244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated amount that it would cost if the home charger grant scheme for electric vehicles increased to €850 based on 2019...
    • Official Engagements
      245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has spoken with the Commissioner of United States Customs and Border Protection (details supplied) since 1 March 2021; and if he...
    • Bus Services
      246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when funding for TFI Local Link daily return routes from the towns of Ballyjamesduff and Kilnaleck to the town of Cavan as applied for by...
    • Electric Vehicles
      249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a national scheme to register custom-built electrical trikes for road worthiness as in the case of a person (details...
    • Bus Services
      250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the issues experienced by students when using the 17, 116 and 175 bus routes (details supplied); if he...
    • Public Transport
      251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the eligible age for a Leap card will be changed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50168/22]
    • Driver Licences
      252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in New South Wales, Australia, after holding a P2 licence for two years, one...
    • Departmental Properties
      253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of dedicated spaces for breastfeeding and expressing breast milk in workplaces within his Department and the workplaces of...
  • Department of Finance
    • Energy Policy
      254. To ask the Minister for Finance if a centre (details supplied) is entitled to receive the temporary business energy support scheme. [49803/22]
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      255. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50262/22]
    • Departmental Transport
      256. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is a policy regarding the appropriate use of domestic flights in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department. [50120/22]
    • Tax Reliefs
      257. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to increasing the rate of remote working relief in view of the increase in inflation and cost of living. [49451/22]
    • Tax Credits
      258. To ask the Minister for Finance if renters under a licence agreement will be entitled to the renters' tax credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49452/22]
    • Departmental Policies
      259. To ask the Minister for Finance when the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal will be set up and operating again (details supplied); the way in which the huge backlog of applicants will...
    • Cycling Policy
      260. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department is considering the expansion of the cycle-to-work scheme to the self-employed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49507/22]
    • Insurance Industry
      262. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties that the owners of dwellings with thatched roofs are having securing home insurance; if he will raise the...
    • Fuel Sales
      263. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) in relation to the sale of coal; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this is adversely impacting a...
    • Tax Code
      264. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a query raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49593/22]
    • Budget 2023
      265. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter in relation to the squeezed middle (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49620/22]
    • State Properties
      268. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the apartments in Finglas, known as Prospect Hill, that were taken back into possession of Dublin City Council; if they remain in full ownership...
    • Tax Collection
      269. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Revenue Commissioners are now demanding that businesses settle tax owed under the debt warehousing scheme...
    • Tax Code
      270. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reconsider the current approach to one member pension arrangements and changes to personal retirement savings accounts in the Finance Bill 2022 in...
    • Budget 2023
      271. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is any provision for an increase in the tax exemption limit for people over 65 years of age in budget 2023 given the increase in the cost of living;...
    • Legislative Measures
      272. To ask the Minister for Finance the timeline that he is working towards for amending the relevant legislation to incorporate the right to be forgotten for people living beyond cancer,...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      274. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of vehicles seized by Revenue Commissioners under section 141 of the Finance Act 1992 in 2020, 2021 and to-date in 2022 in tabular form. [49979/22]
    • Customs and Excise
      275. To ask the Minister for Finance if the tendering process for a replacement customs cutter vessel will commence before the end of the year. [49980/22]
    • Tax Code
      276. To ask the Minister for Finance the plans, if any, that are in place to reduce the current 13.5% VAT rate to the beauty industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50114/22]
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      278. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50146/22]
    • Tax Code
      279. To ask the Minister for Finance the limited number of period products that will be reduced to a zero per cent VAT rate from 1 January 2023, as announced in budget 2023; and if he will make a...
    • International Agreements
      281. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on suggestions from the European Commission and some European Union member states that an enhanced cooperation procedure should be used for the...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      283. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the details on the expected timelines for the reopening of the offices of the Revenue Commissioners to facilitate face-to-face engagement...
    • Civil Service
      284. To ask the Minister for Finance the action, if any, which he intends to take in respect of a senior civil servant (details supplied) in light of the findings of a recent report which raises...
    • Departmental Properties
      285. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of dedicated spaces for breastfeeding and expressing breast milk in workplaces within his Department and the workplaces of public bodies and...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • An Garda Síochána
      286. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current status and estimated completion time for the new Garda station at Clonmel, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement...
    • Public Sector Pay
      287. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will address the matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Gambling Sector
      288. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the Government plans to prohibit bookmaking firms from operating bets on the National Lottery; and if he will make a statement on...
    • An Garda Síochána
      289. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Garda stations within the Clare Garda division that were refurbished by the OPW with costs in excess of €5,000 in 2021 and to...
    • Office of Public Works
      290. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of qualified gas engineers employed by the OPW as of 31 December 2020 and 4 October 2022, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Heritage Sites
      291. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 270 of 4 October 2022, the engagements that he has had concerning the OPW's engagements with the...
    • Departmental Transport
      292. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there is a policy regarding the appropriate use of domestic flights in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department....
    • Public Sector Staff
      293. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in relation to someone transferring from a public service position in the Prison Service to a State owned enterprise Dublin Airport...
    • Museum Projects
      294. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 113 of 4 October 2022, if there has been a competitive tendering process for the promotion of the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      295. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason that his Department will not permit public access to the swimming pool in the Garda College in Templemore, given that there...
    • Departmental Properties
      296. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of dedicated spaces for breastfeeding and expressing breast milk in workplaces within his Department and the workplaces of...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Departmental Transport
      297. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there is a policy regarding the appropriate use of domestic flights in her Department and bodies under the aegis of the...
    • Sports Funding
      298. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she plans to open the next round of sports capital grants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49906/22]
    • Departmental Bodies
      299. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the dates in 2022 on which she spoke formally with the chief executive officer and-or chairperson of each State agency under the...
    • Budget 2023
      301. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding that she announced for cultural events in Budget 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50202/22]
    • Sports Organisations
      302. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to an organisation (details supplied) that has lifted its ban on Russian and Belarussian athletes...
    • Departmental Properties
      303. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of dedicated spaces for breastfeeding and expressing breast milk in workplaces within her Department and the workplaces...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Defective Building Materials
      304. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the unfolding humanitarian crisis in County Donegal whereby families who have to move out...
    • Departmental Transport
      305. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a policy regarding the appropriate use of domestic flights in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the...
    • Culture Policy
      306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the membership, including directors and shareholders, if any, of Galway Culture company, further to his announcement on 29...
    • Housing Schemes
      307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans he has to review the tenant incremental purchase scheme to allow those who were tenants of Part V houses prior to...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 221 of 14 September 2022, the number of applications received by the National Parks and...
    • Defective Building Materials
      309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the financial obstacles for persons affected by mica at different stages of the remediation...
    • Public Sector Staff
      311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if incremental credit will be awarded to assistant and executive planners, as well as cognate professionals, within local...
    • Housing Schemes
      312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the current incremental tenant purchase scheme permits council tenants in homes classed as a maisonette to avail of...
    • Housing Policy
      313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans, if any, to review the income threshold to qualify for social housing following Budget 2023 and the slight increase...
    • Housing Provision
      315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will request local authorities not to remove a person who has entered addiction rehabilitation from the social housing...
    • Local Authorities
      316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a restriction on recording full council meetings in either a statutory instrument or legislation. [49657/22]
    • State Properties
      318. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the apartments in Finglas, known as Prospect Hill, that were taken back into the possession of Dublin City...
    • Wildlife Protection
      319. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the regulations which he recently made to protect the basking shark cetorhinus maximus under Section 23(2)(a) of the...
    • Local Authorities
      320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities are obliged to publish the system of fees they charge homeowners for the purchase of the fee simple for...
    • Planning Issues
      321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the percentage of planning applications that have been rejected in the past 12 months by Louth County Council; and if he will...
    • Vacant Properties
      322. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when local authorities will be accepting applications from rural applicants following the recent announcement of the expansion...
    • Energy Conservation
      323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an estate (details supplied) is being considered under the energy efficiency funding scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to local authorities currently at capacity in terms of their emergency accommodation...
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date on which he will prepare a management plan for the River Boyne and River Blackwater special area of conservation; the...
    • Ukraine War
      327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the role that his Department has in the provision of accommodation for Ukrainian refugees; the guidelines his Department is...
    • Housing Policy
      328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will announce a package to deal with the issue of apartment fire defects in Celtic tiger-era apartments; and if he...
    • Housing Schemes
      329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if income from the working family payment can be included in calculating eligibility for housing assistance payment; and if he...
    • Housing Provision
      334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No 288 of 4 October 2020, if he will provide a breakdown of the 2,800 homes to be delivered...
    • Legislative Measures
      335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Electoral Reform Act 2022 is currently in law and enacted; and if the criteria regarding registration of a political...
    • Housing Provision
      336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing units that have been delivered under the long-term social housing leasing scheme in the Dublin City...
    • Departmental Contracts
      338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of external consultants that have been hired by his Department in each of the years since 2016 to date in tabular...
    • Local Authorities
      340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify the situation regarding liability for local authority rates by social welfare offices; and if he will make...
    • Housing Provision
      342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of all the section 10 organisations funded in 2021 and 2022, respectively; the amount allocated to...
    • Departmental Properties
      343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of dedicated spaces for breastfeeding and expressing breast milk in workplaces within his Department and the...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Departmental Transport
      344. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there is a policy regarding the appropriate use of domestic flights in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department. [50120/22]
    • Election Monitoring Missions
      345. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade that date on which an invitation was received from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe to nominate Irish election...
    • Irish Aid
      347. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the assistance that has been provided by the Irish Government to the government of Pakistan in the context of the ongoing severe floods in...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      348. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of accredited diplomats from the Russian Federation who are based in Ireland; the number who are located at the Russian Embassy;...
    • Foreign Policy
      349. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he plans to invite his Portuguese counterpart to Ireland before the end of 2022. [49990/22]
    • Consular Services
      350. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on recent activities of the Irish Consulate in Mumbai, including staffing numbers. [49991/22]
    • Passport Services
      351. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the passport application by a person (details supplied). [50059/22]
    • Diplomatic Representation
      352. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken with the Irish ambassador to Indonesia (details supplied) in the past six months; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Passport Services
      353. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that the passport application of a person (details supplied) will be processed urgently by his Department; and if he will...
    • Departmental Properties
      355. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of dedicated spaces for breastfeeding and expressing breast milk in workplaces within his Department and the workplaces of public...
  • Department of Defence
    • Departmental Transport
      356. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if there is a policy regarding the appropriate use of domestic flights in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department. [50120/22]
    • Defence Forces
      357. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence given the retention and recruitment crisis in the Defence Forces, and considering their experience and knowledge, the involvement that veterans...
    • Departmental Data
      362. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide the details of an event (details supplied) organised by his Department; the details of the organisations and companies that...
    • Departmental Properties
      363. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of dedicated spaces for breastfeeding and expressing breast milk in workplaces within his Department and the workplaces of public...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Departmental Policies
      364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that trainee educational and child psychologists receive the same salary and educational funding as trainee clinical...
    • School Facilities
      365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of schools which will get solar panels; the number of schools on an annual basis that will be fitted with free solar PV panels...
    • Departmental Transport
      367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a policy regarding the appropriate use of domestic flights in her Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department. [50120/22]
    • School Curriculum
      368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the implementation of a science-led and age appropriate relationship and sexual education programme that is mandatory across all...
    • Special Educational Needs
      369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will restore the special education teaching hours for a school (details supplied) in order that they can continue to provide the support...
    • School Transport
      370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review a school transport issue for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49462/22]
    • School Facilities
      371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will provide for the installation of contactless refill water units in all schools, colleges and universities as part of an...
    • School Admissions
      372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Ukrainian children that have been unable to secure school places in the Fingal area (details supplied); the way that she plans to...
    • School Curriculum
      373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the progress to date in developing an education stream in schools that addresses gender-based violence. [49499/22]
    • School Transport
      374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will confirm receipt of an application for school transport for a pupil (details supplied); if the distance between the...
    • Education Policy
      375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a new gaelscoil for primary school pupils will be provided in the Killester, Raheny, and Clontarf school planning area due to increasing...
    • School Accommodation
      376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the outstanding development work at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Education Policy
      377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans, if any, from the Government to address the serious lack of teacher supply in the Dublin area; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Examinations
      378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the results for the Junior Certificate examinations which took place in June will be made available; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding any recent meetings held between her Department and the Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board in relation to a...
    • Education and Training Boards
      381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) was entitled to an increment between January and June 2019 while they were employed by Galway and Roscommon...
    • School Accommodation
      382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the request submitted for additional accommodation to include three temporary classrooms for a school (details supplied); if a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average timeframe between the special needs’ assistant exceptional reviews taking place in primary schools and the review outcomes...
    • State Examinations
      384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when students who completed their Junior Certificate in 2022 will receive their results; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49615/22]
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a National Educational Psychological Service psychologist has not been assigned to a school (details supplied); and if this...
    • Education Policy
      386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to make funding available to fund a training programme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49629/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the building project for a school (details supplied). [49648/22]
    • School Transport
      393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school transport will be provided for a pupil (details supplied) with special educational needs to and from school; and if she will make a...
    • Education Policy
      394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new gaelscoil for Athenry, County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49729/22]
    • School Accommodation
      395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that a school (details supplied) needs to take to deal with additional accommodation needs; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a child (details supplied) will be provided with school transport; if she will review the circumstances of this case; and...
    • State Examinations
      399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when students who sat their Junior Certificate examinations in 2022 can expect to receive their results; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) has a special educational needs coordinator; if not, the reason for this; if the school has been allocated 1.5...
    • School Equipment
      401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an appeal by a person (details supplied) for assistive technology support will be concluded; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Education and Training Boards
      402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address an anomaly in the system which has resulted in retired Cork ETB teachers (details supplied) not receiving the 1% pension...
    • School Transport
      403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that the school transport section of her Department has failed to reply to correspondence on five separate occasions from a Donegal...
    • School Accommodation
      407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will expedite permission to proceed with construction work for approved additional accommodation without further delay at a school...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a pupil (details supplied) will receive an assessment from the National Educational Psychological Service as recommended; and if the...
    • School Accommodation
      410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a detailed breakdown of moneys spent on new ASD classes as part of an extension works on to existing schools for each of the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if new ASD units will be opened in post-primary schools in Dublin south west; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49840/22]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any flexibility can be given to a school (details supplied) when it comes to student-teacher ratio; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Examinations
      414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the junior certificate results will be available. [49842/22]
    • Education Welfare Service
      415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has been consulted about proposed restructuring of educational welfare services within Tusla; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Education Policy
      417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the new Gaelscoil for Athenry, County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49893/22]
    • Pleananna Oideachais
      418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills maidir leis an bpolasaí nua atá beartaithe don Ghaeilge sa chóras oideachais ón réamhscoil go dtí an tríú...
    • Education Policy
      420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has issued a circular or memo to primary and or second level schools in respect of advising teachers on the way in which they assign...
    • Departmental Functions
      422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the developments that have been made in considering the demographic need for a college (details supplied); if the process has been completed...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received an application for DEIS status for a school (details supplied); when a decision will be made on the application; and if she...
    • Bus Services
      424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address complaints raised by parents in relation to the safety of a bus stop (details supplied) located in County Tipperary; if...
    • Special Educational Needs
      425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the amount of special class places that have been sanctioned in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Education Schemes
      426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the assistive technology scheme; if she will provide an update on the review of the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Examinations
      427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the junior certificate results will be released; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50089/22]
    • School Accommodation
      428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans that are being put in place to bring a building (details supplied) on Arranmore island up to the standard required to make the school a...
    • School Transport
      429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a school bus ticket is issued to a pupil (details supplied). [50093/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that the application for planning permission for a school (details supplied) was submitted with no up-to-date green measures which is...
    • School Accommodation
      433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will investigate the requirement for an additional three classrooms for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Schools Building Projects
      434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a comprehensive account of the circumstances that have caused a school building project (details supplied) to be delayed and...
    • School Transport
      436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on an application for school transport for a number of pupils (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of ASD spaces available for post-primary students in the east Meath catchment area (details supplied); if urgent intervention...
    • State Examinations
      439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the definitive date for the publishing of 2022 junior certificate results; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50186/22]
    • School Transport
      440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when sanctioned school transport will be put in place for a pupil (details supplied) in Dublin 9; the reason for the delay; and if she will make...
    • Special Educational Needs
      441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene in the case of a threatened expulsion of an autistic student from a autism class in a primary school (details supplied);...
    • School Transport
      442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who have applied for a school bus ticket in each primary and post-primary school in County Limerick in the current...
    • School Facilities
      443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 185 of 5 October 2022, the reason that a school (details supplied) cannot get a broadband connection given...
    • School Staff
      444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers who are registered on the teacher supply panel; the number currently on the panel who have not been assigned to a school;...
    • School Transport
      445. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she can continue to alleviate hardship caused by the lack of the availability of school transport in respect of various...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent of the expected impact on the improvement of pupil-teacher ratios at primary and second level in County Kildare and throughout the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school building projects currently in-hand in County Kildare at primary or second level; the expected dates of completion for each...
    • Bullying in Educational Institutions
      449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which procedures are in place to prevent school bullying; the number of reported incidents in all schools throughout the country in...
    • Education Policy
      450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which forward planning for extra school places at primary and second level throughout Kildare north continues; and if she will make...
    • Schools Building Projects
      453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current position in regard to the replacement of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50299/22]
    • Education Policy
      455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which second and third level education continues to focus on the need to supply suitably qualified staff, in both the public and...
    • School Staff
      457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers who are currently employed at primary level throughout the country; the extent to which this meets requirements at the...
    • Education Policy
      458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which provision continues to be made to ensure the viability of smaller and denominational rural or urban schools; and if she will...
    • School Accommodation
      459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current and expected position in regard to the provision of permanent accommodation on a single site for a proposed school (details...
    • Departmental Circulars
      460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date that a Departmental circular which states that schools should avoid using resources developed by the alcohol industry was issued; if she...
    • School Curriculum
      461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline that she is working towards for updating the social personal and health education curriculum, in particular alcohol misuse education...
    • Departmental Properties
      464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of dedicated spaces for breastfeeding and expressing breast milk in workplaces within her Department and the workplaces of public...
    • School Staff
      465. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a teacher (details supplied) can be paid given that they are awaiting their payment for seven weeks; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the overall number of applications received for school bus transport for the school year starting September 2022; the number of those that were...
    • Special Educational Needs
      469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline information in relation to newly established collaborative efforts between HSE children's disability services and education...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Rates
      470. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the domestic abuse rent supplement will be maintained or adjusted for inflation in the next year; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      471. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown of the number of persons who have availed of domestic abuse rent supplement by month since...
    • Departmental Transport
      472. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a policy regarding the appropriate use of domestic flights in her Department and bodies under the aegis of the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      473. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) who has a claim for arrears of carers allowance has been refused as this person is...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      474. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of community welfare officers employed at the Finglas Social Welfare office for the past five years; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      478. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an applicant has a right to an oral hearing when requesting an appeal of a social welfare decision; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      479. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if those pensioners who may qualify for the fuel allowance under the new threshold limits will be automatically granted the...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      482. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to introducing a travel stipend to support community employment participants in rural...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      483. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision can urgently issue on an supplementary welfare allowance claim for a person (details supplied) given that their...
    • State Pensions
      484. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a response will issue to a query in relation to the State Pension (Non-Contributory) of a person (details supplied); and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      485. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a carer's support grant will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Meals Programme
      486. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the funding that her Department has put in place for the 2023 school meals programme; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      487. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for the disability allowance will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      488. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49563/22]
    • Social Welfare Code
      489. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will remove the income threshold for deserted wife benefit which is in place for the years 3 August 1992 to 2 January...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      491. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the categories of welfare payment recipients (details supplied) that will receive the November 2022 cost-of-living double...
    • State Pensions
      492. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review an application by a person (details supplied) for the State pension (non-contributory). [49583/22]
    • Community Employment Schemes
      493. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the materials budget for community employment participants was increased in Budget 2023, given that it currently stands at...
    • State Pensions
      494. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there any plans to introduce a scheme for carers who are long-term carers claiming carer's allowance for ten-plus years...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      495. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if multiple claimants in the same household will be eligible for the €500 bonus on the working family payment,...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      496. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the payments that have been made to An Post in each of the years 2017 to 2031 for the delivery of social welfare payments in...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      498. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision will be made on an application for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Public Services Card
      499. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the process through which a person (details supplied) can have their name changed to their married name on their Public...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      500. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) who is in receipt of a disablement pension of €190 per month is entitled to the fuel...
    • Ukraine War
      501. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if assistance is available to an employer to take on Ukrainian refugees and to assist in the necessary training. [49749/22]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      502. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider adjusting the means test for the carer's allowance in order that reasonable mortgage repayments for the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      503. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application by a person (details supplied) for a disability allowance will be expedited due to extenuating...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      504. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if recipients will receive a one-off payment for each grant that they are in receipt of, following the one-off payment for...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      505. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide clarification as to the social welfare recipients who are eligible for the lump-sum payment announced as...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      506. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of supplementary welfare offices in west Cork; if it is correct that Bandon and Castletownbere community welfare...
    • Community Welfare Services
      507. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will detail the plans to centralise community welfare officers in County Meath; the number and location of community...
    • Social Welfare Code
      508. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of making the entitlement to fuel allowance automatic for persons aged over 80 years. [49993/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      509. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount that she has made provision for in respect of the pandemic unemployment payment for the remainder of 2022 and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the free fuel allowance will be approved in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      511. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the breakdown of exceptional needs payments under the supplementary welfare allowance paid in each month; the total and...
    • Social Welfare Code
      512. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify the changes in relation to fuel allowance in Budget 2023 (details supplied). [50094/22]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      514. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a reply will issue to a person (details supplied);; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50113/22]
    • Community Welfare Services
      517. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will ensure that the community welfare service remains in Trim and Kells, County Meath to maintain face-to-face...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      518. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the announced one-off payments announced in Budget 2023 are expected to be paid across October, November and December...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      519. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if social welfare offices throughout the country which are owned by her Department are liable for commercial rates; if she...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      520. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who was unaware of their entitlement to household benefits when over the age of 70 years can claim retrospection...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      521. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 234 of 5 October 2022, the average processing time for applications for additional...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      522. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
    • Departmental Properties
      523. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of dedicated spaces for breastfeeding and expressing breast milk in workplaces within her Department and the...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      524. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports that are in place for workers with children who are required to isolate or stay at home due to...
    • Adoption Services
      525. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that adoption information applications can be received from people resident in the United...
    • United Nations
      526. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on Ireland's ratification of the optional protocol of the UN Convention on the...
    • Ukraine War
      527. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a decision will issue in relation to an email (details supplied) submitted by this Deputy to the Ukraine...
    • Childcare Services
      528. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the income assessed subsidy under the national childcare scheme will be increased following Budget 2023; and...
    • Departmental Schemes
      529. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to a statement (details supplied) issued by United Nations human rights experts...
    • Residential Institutions
      532. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way in which his Department is facilitating and addressing subject data access requests by survivors of...
    • United Nations
      533. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he intends to make reservations to the UNCRPD Optional Protocol; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Residential Institutions
      534. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on populating the Advisory Board, concerning the forthcoming examination of the Tuam site under the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      536. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a decision has been made to act on the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability,...
    • Ukraine War
      537. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will intervene in the case of a Ukrainian refugee (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Funding
      539. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position regarding a timeline for decisions to issues on applications to his Department for funding...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      540. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will establish a DNA database for families and survivors of mother and baby homes to enable extended...
    • Children in Care
      541. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he recognises the outstanding contribution that foster carers make to Irish society; his plans, if any, to...
    • Voluntary Sector
      543. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a list of all section 56 funded organisations in 2021 and 2022, respectively, in tabular...
    • Ukraine War
      544. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the role that his Department has in the provision of accommodation for Ukrainian refugees; the guidelines his...
    • Departmental Policies
      547. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to educational psychology now being the only professional psychology training...
    • Child and Family Agency
      548. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that nine locations in Dublin, Louth, Bray, Limerick city and Cork were selected as pilots for the...
    • Departmental Properties
      549. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of dedicated spaces for breastfeeding and expressing breastmilk in workplaces within his Department...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Departmental Transport
      550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a policy regarding the appropriate use of domestic flights in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department. [50120/22]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that are available to apprentices facing economic hardship; and if there are plans to raise the apprentice rates of pay. [49460/22]
    • Third Level Education
      552. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline his progress to date in developing an education stream and-or awareness campaigns in third level education settings that...
    • Third Level Fees
      553. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students from the North will be eligible for the €1,000 fee reduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49522/22]
    • Grant Payments
      558. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will exercise discretion in the matter of a person (details supplied) in receipt of a SUSI grant. [49668/22]
    • Official Engagements
      562. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will meet delegates from a representative body (details supplied) in October; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49746/22]
    • Third Level Education
      563. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that will be taken to ensure that there is adequate financial support for students commencing third level education in 2023. [49797/22]
    • Grant Payments
      564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consult SUSI about raising the income threshold to ensure that middle-income earners who are struggling can access third level grants...
    • Further and Higher Education
      565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the financial projections of the national training fund up to 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49816/22]
    • Third Level Fees
      566. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that students attending the University of Limerick are being charged €3,700 a year due to their being part-time students...
    • Technological Universities
      568. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her position regarding the future headquarters of the South East Technological University (details supplied) which is irreconcilable with that...
    • Third Level Fees
      570. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of moving all part-time courses at public higher education institutes under the free fee initiative on a pro-rata basis; and...
    • Student Accommodation
      572. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that he is taking to ensure that Ukrainians enrolled in third level courses are supported in accessing student accommodation, where...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      573. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider expanding the remit of the mitigating against educational disadvantage fund to provide rent-related funding to support...
    • Further and Higher Education
      575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the chronic shortage of graduates in the veterinary sector; and the efforts that are being made to remedy this...
    • Third Level Fees
      576. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the college fee re-imbursement announced in budget 2023 will apply to Irish students studying abroad; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Further and Higher Education
      577. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions that are being made available under budget 2023 to assist postgraduate students in relation to the cost-of-living crisis; and if...
    • Third Level Education
      579. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that he will take in relation to the fact that the only graduate-entry medicine specific loan has been removed by a bank (details...
    • Third Level Fees
      580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that he has in place for students who have paid repeat fees (details supplied); if they will be entitled to claim a refund as...
    • Departmental Properties
      581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of dedicated spaces for breastfeeding and expressing breast milk in workplaces within his Department and the workplaces of public...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Departmental Transport
      582. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a policy regarding the appropriate use of domestic flights in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      583. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to a report by the Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic...
    • Courts Service
      586. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the proposed arrangements for special exemption orders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49559/22]
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      588. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the provision of a women's refuge centre in Carlow; the immediate supports that will be...
    • International Protection
      590. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to parliamentary question No. 40 of 5 July 2022 and No. 389 of 27 September 2022, the total number of persons who have...
    • An Garda Síochána
      591. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who applied for or expressed an interest in joining An Garda Síochána in 2022. [49759/22]
    • Legislative Measures
      593. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Bill to outlaw grooming children into crime that was announced in January 2021 will be introduced in the Houses of the...
    • Visa Applications
      594. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on visa applications (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49772/22]
    • An Garda Síochána
      595. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated total cost of Garda drivers being provided to Ministers; and the number of gardaí who will be employed in...
    • Probate Applications
      596. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to delays in the Probate Office for issuing grants of probate; the efforts that are being made...
    • Courts Service
      597. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of special exemption orders granted to date in 2022. [49983/22]
    • Prison Service
      598. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of future planning for the Prison Service; and the way that additional capacity is being built in to cater for the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      599. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current status and estimated completion time for the new Garda station at Macroom, County Cork; and if she will make a...
    • Courts Service
      600. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current status and estimated completion time for the new family law court at Hammond Lane, Dublin; and if she will make a...
    • Immigration Policy
      601. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who were refused immigration clearance by Garda immigration officers at Shannon Airport in 2021 and to...
    • Prison Service
      602. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of days that educational programmes were prevented from proceeding due to staff shortages in the Irish Prison...
    • An Garda Síochána
      603. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of full-time civilian malware analysts working in the Garda cyber crime unit as of 31 December 2020 and 4 October...
    • Student Visas
      604. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a student visa will be approved for a person (details supplied). [50092/22]
    • Legislative Measures
      605. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the legislative timeline for the progression of the family courts Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50124/22]
    • Immigration Policy
      606. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will ensure that in-person appointments return to the immigration service delivery; and if she will make a statement on...
    • An Garda Síochána
      607. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to delays in An Garda Síochána approving driving licence applications for taxi...
    • Prison Service
      608. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide clarification on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50201/22]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      609. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50203/22]
    • An Garda Síochána
      610. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in the State as of 1 January in each of the years 2019 to 2022, in tabular form; and if she will make...
    • Departmental Properties
      612. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of dedicated spaces for breastfeeding and expressing breast milk in workplaces within her Department and the...
    • Domestic Violence
      613. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of the number of the domestic violence refuge beds and spaces available by county for each of...
    • Antisocial Behaviour
      615. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of anti-social behaviour orders issued for each of the years 2019 to 2021 and up to 1 October 2022, in tabular form;...
  • Department of Health
    • Magdalen Laundries
      616. To ask the Minister for Health when Magdalene survivors can receive their Health (Amendment) Act 1996 cards as promised in the redress package; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Properties
      617. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions that his Department has in place to have a bike station installed on the grounds of Wexford General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Transport
      618. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a policy regarding the appropriate use of domestic flights in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department. [50120/22]
    • Health Services
      619. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) is likely to be offered an urgent tonsillectomy having had eight infections in five months; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      620. To ask the Minister for Health if Coaguchek meters and self-test strips will be provided free of charge for warfarin patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49469/22]
    • Hospital Admissions
      621. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment for admission to Limerick University Hospital. [49471/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      622. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49472/22]
    • Dental Services
      623. To ask the Minister for Health the supports that are being put in place for children who require urgent orthodontic care as a result of a specific issue (details supplied) where the HSE have...
    • Mental Health Services
      624. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to situations with regard to children and young people who are discharged from CAHMS where these patients are referred to a HSE...
    • Health Services
      625. To ask the Minister for Health if adequate funding will be provided for trainee educational and child psychologists; if a working group to examine the funding of educational and child...
    • Care Services
      626. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the case of a person (details provided); if he will request additional care to be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • A Vision for Change
      627. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide updated figures on the number of whole-time equivalent psychologist positions filled in CAMHS given that only 92.3 of the 190 positions...
    • Health Services
      628. To ask the Minister for Health the supports that his Department and HSE are putting in place to ensure that sufficient educational and child psychologists are being trained and retained to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      629. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who worked in the frontline as an unpaid trainee in the child psychology and disability services during Covid and who has...
    • Primary Care Centres
      631. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update in relation to a project (details supplied); if the construction work has recommenced; the estimated timeframe for when the...
    • Mental Health Services
      632. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on plans to fund counselling psychology training; when the funding will be made available; the areas that the funding will cover;...
    • Departmental Schemes
      633. To ask the Minister for Health if fees paid by families under the fair deal scheme will be reviewed given the high costs for families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49535/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      635. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds that are in the mental health unit at Roscommon County Hospital; if there is a waiting list; the extent of same; the average time spent by a...
    • Medical Cards
      636. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the withdrawal of a medical card of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49538/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      637. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who has been wanting for a hospital appointment since October 2019; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Nursing Homes
      638. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed changes to the fair deal arrangements regarding the treatment of rental income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49568/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      639. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the availability of a drug (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49572/22]
    • Health Strategies
      640. To ask the Minister for Health if he will remove any roadblocks to the setting-up of the independent radiation therapist review; if he will commit to implementing the recommendations, if...
    • Mental Health Services
      641. To ask the Minister for Health if any consideration has been given to providing persons above the age of 16 years suffering with long-term mental illness, to be included in the HSEs...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      642. To ask the Minister for Health when the pandemic bonus payment for frontline workers will be rolled out to all eligible workers in the State, including those in private nursing homes; and if...
    • Budget 2023
      643. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated to the National Cancer Strategy in Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49585/22]
    • Health Services
      644. To ask the Minister for Health the no-show rates at chemotherapy appointments at each of the designated cancer centres in each of the years 2017 to 2022, in tabular form. [49586/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      645. To ask the Minister for Health the barriers to training and provision of doctors, general practitioners and consultants in Ireland; the number of students who are studying each discipline of...
    • Medicinal Products
      647. To ask the Minister for Health pursuant to Budget 2023, the timeline for when cariban will be made available on the drugs payment scheme and through the medical card; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      648. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of when non-HSE workers entitled to the Covid bonus payment will receive this payment. [49637/22]
    • Vaccination Programme
      649. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the way young women who did not receive the HPV vaccine in schools can access the vaccine. [49638/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      650. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide mental health beds within County Tipperary; his further plans to ensure that persons in need of secure psychiatric beds are not...
    • Disability Services
      651. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the current 12 month wait times for each children's disability network team in CHO9 that is, the number of children that are waiting for one,...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      652. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for delay in a family (details supplied) receiving an appointment for a replacement paediatric neurology consultant; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Staff
      653. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies for the post of paediatric neurology consultant at University Hospital Limerick; the length of time that these positions have been...
    • Primary Care Centres
      656. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are currently being provided in each primary care centre in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49663/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      657. To ask the Minister for Health the annual salary of a trainee clinical psychologist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49665/22]
    • Health Services
      661. To ask the Minister for Health if his proposed exclusion zones of 100 metres surrounding abortion-providing buildings would have the impact of banning a pro-life march, such as an annual...
    • Health Services Staff
      663. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered funding trainee HSE child psychologists as is done for clinical psychologists and those on counselling doctorate courses; and if he will...
    • Health Services
      664. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to increase medical card thresholds in line with the recently announced increase in social welfare payments; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      666. To ask the Minister for Health the status of nursing registration for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49735/22]
    • Medical Cards
      667. To ask the Minister for Health when an emergency medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) who suffers from a life-threatening illness; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      668. To ask the Minister for Health when agency staff that are still waiting on their Covid bonus payment will receive same (details supplied). [49739/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      669. To ask the Minister for Health the average length spent on the waiting list for PrEP after a referral has been sent to the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital; and if he will make a...
    • Nursing Homes
      670. To ask the Minister for Health the expected timeline for when rental income from renting out the family home will be deemed exempt under the fair deal scheme, given the significant number of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      671. To ask the Minister for Health when the special pandemic recognition award will be paid to the eligible private sector and section 39 workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      672. To ask the Minister for Health if he will remedy the lack of services provided to a child (details supplied) after being privately diagnosed with ASD; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Reviews
      673. To ask the Minister for Health when the independent radiation therapist review will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49817/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      674. To ask the Minister for Health when the review process in relation to the role of radiation therapists will be concluded; if his attention has been drawn to there being no review of the...
    • Mental Health Services
      675. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the funding that is available within his Department for charitable organisations that provide support for persons suffering from...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      677. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49831/22]
    • Departmental Funding
      678. To ask the Minister for Health his views on funding the PhD in educational psychology to emulate the subsidised training for clinical psychologists during which trainees and related...
    • Hospital Services
      679. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that his Department is taking in order to ensure that there is consistency across all level 4 hospitals in relation to the provision of insulin pump...
    • Disease Management
      680. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the establishment of the national diabetes register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49836/22]
    • Hospital Staff
      681. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the recruitment of a diabetes podiatrist in University Hospital Waterford, given the estimated three-year waiting list to see a...
    • Hospital Services
      682. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider building a public elective hospital in the mid-west given recent comments by the Taoiseach on the issue in Dáil Éireann on 4...
    • Infectious Diseases
      683. To ask the Minister for Health the consideration that would be given by his Department and the HSE to screening for vancomycin resistant enterococci in respect of all hospital patients on...
    • Health Services
      684. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 129 of 21 September 2022, if the families of residents whose files were sent to a legal firm (details supplied) were...
    • Health Services Staff
      685. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to ensure vacancies are filled at and additional resources are provided to the Health Service Executive Human Resources National...
    • Departmental Staff
      686. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to create a chief health and social care professionals officer in his Department; his views on same; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      687. To ask the Minister for Health if a response will issue to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49850/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      689. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against medical, nursing, midwifery and other health and social care professionals across HSE hospitals and community...
    • Dental Services
      690. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists who submitted claims under the dental treatment services scheme for each month in 2022 to date, by CHO and LHO in tabular form; and if...
    • Health Services
      691. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on community healthcare waiting lists for each primary care service for July, August and September 2022 in tabular form; the breakdown...
    • Disability Services
      692. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on disability service waiting lists by CHO; and the length of time they have been waiting, in tabular form. [49855/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      693. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on CAMHS waiting list by CHO and by length of wait, in tabular form. [49856/22]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      694. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that have been removed from National Treatment Purchase Fund waiting lists as a result of validation for the months of January to...
    • Departmental Data
      695. To ask the Minister for Health the number of scheduled care cancellations by appointment type, in the months of July, August, and September 2022 by hospital group and hospital in tabular...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      701. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with spina bifida waiting for an orthopaedic or urology procedure at the end of August and at the end of September 2022; the number...
    • Departmental Data
      702. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancer related appointment by appointment type cancelled in July, August and September 2022, for each hospital in tabular form; if he will...
    • Hospital Admissions
      704. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who left an emergency department post-registration but pre-admission in the month of July, August and September 2022, by hospital in...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      705. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people under 18 years and the number of persons over 65 years on national T-recorded hospital waiting lists, by inpatient and outpatient lists...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      706. To ask the Minister for Health the number of care workers employed by the voluntary and private sector who have yet to receive the €1,000 bonus payment for frontline workers during...
    • Home Help Service
      707. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria in the next phase of the upcoming HSE tender for homecare in order to ensure the best offers of quality care services from homecare providers; if...
    • Legislative Programme
      709. To ask the Minister for Health when the Human Tissue (Transplantation Post-mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill will be discussed in Dáil Éireann; and if he will...
    • Hospital Services
      710. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons attending University Limerick Hospital Group adult diabetes service and using insulin pump therapy to manage their condition; and if he...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      714. To ask the Minister for Health the process employed by UL Hospitals Group in moving persons from the waiting list to the adult outpatients diabetes clinic list; the way in which the waiting...
    • Hospital Staff
      715. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent posts in consultant endocrinologists, advanced nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, staff nurses and dietitians...
    • Health Services
      717. To ask the Minister for Health the frequency with which the adult diabetes clinic is run; and the number of speciality diabetes clinics that are run, including a young adult clinic, type 1...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      719. To ask the Minister for Health the current average waiting times for each of the children's disability network teams in CHO8. [49986/22]
    • Hospital Services
      720. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of scans and x-rays awaiting reading by a radiologist at the Ireland East Hospital Group by hospital. [49987/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      721. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish in full the report that he received from a person (details supplied) into the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic; the date that he received...
    • Health Services
      722. To ask the Minister for Health when guidelines (details supplied) were rolled out by the HSE; if any service provider has adapted them and set up family forums since in their community; and...
    • Departmental Reviews
      723. To ask the Minister for Health the status of setting up an independent review within a profession (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50039/22]
    • Health Services
      725. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that home help hours for a person (details supplied) were reduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50041/22]
    • Departmental Reviews
      726. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Independent Review of Radiation Therapy as agreed at the Workplace Relations Commission between an organisation (details supplied), the HSE...
    • Budget 2023
      727. To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of the health budget for 2023 that has been designated towards health promotion and prevention measures for conditions such as obesity, cancer...
    • Medicinal Products
      The Department is not in a position to confirm the 2023 allocation towards such measures until the Revised Estimates are available, similarly allocations toward such measures within the HSE...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      728. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received the business case in respect of the proposed new national maternity hospital; if the external assurance process for major capital projects...
    • Disability Services
      729. To ask the Minister for Health the name, address, service provider and area served for each of the children's disability network teams in CH09. [50062/22]
    • Dental Services
      730. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 919 of 19 October 2021, the updated number of adult medical card holders presently eligible for dental services under the...
    • Health Services Staff
      731. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time faecal immunochemical test teams in each CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50074/22]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      732. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children aged under 18 years with an intellectual or sensory disability currently referred and waiting to be seen by HSE disabilities and special...
    • Ambulance Service
      733. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has considered replacing the ambulance on Arranmore island for a newer model in order that the ambulance can spend more time on the island...
    • Health Services Staff
      734. To ask the Minister for Health when Arranmore island will be assigned a full-time public health nurse to replace the island’s full-time public health nurse who retired in 2021; and if...
    • Health Services
      735. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the case of a person (details supplied) who is waiting on the receipt of an occupational therapy report from Ballynanty Health Centre...
    • Mental Health Services
      736. To ask the Minister for Health the number of female patients in Dóchas suffering with mental health conditions awaiting a specialist bed; the length of time that each has been waiting;...
    • Medicinal Products
      737. To ask the Minister for Health if the Government will support the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) (Amendment) Bill 2021; if he will support this Bill through the remaining...
    • Thalidomide Victims Compensation
      738. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department and the State will publicly acknowledge the wrongdoing that occurred to pregnant women who were prescribed thalidomide in the 1950s and...
    • Departmental Communications
      739. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide clarification on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50161/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      740. To ask the Minister for Health the requirements which need to be met in order that the University of Limerick Hospitals Group can offer insulin pump therapy as a treatment option for adults...
    • Health Services Staff
      741. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider funding a new procurement process and funding stream for private companies to tender to help with recruitment of much needed nurses and...
    • Care Services
      742. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite beds available in north and east Cork by institution and setting in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50182/22]
    • Medical Research and Training
      743. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to delays encountered by Ireland-based medical technology companies in obtaining certification under the EU medical device...
    • Ambulance Service
      744. To ask the Minister for Health the ambulance response times relative to key performance indicators for ECHO and DELTA callouts for the months of July, August, and September 2022 nationally...
    • Health Services
      745. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of services in an area (details supplied); if alterative arrangements are being made to provide the services in that locality; and...
    • Disability Services
      746. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children that are waiting on a CDNT appointment in CHO DNCC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50223/22]
    • Health Services
      747. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children that are waiting on a primary care speech and language therapy appointment in CHO DNCC; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mental Health Services
      749. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children that are waiting on a CAMHS appointment in CHO DNCC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50226/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      750. To ask the Minister for Health the average wait time for a patient referred for oncology care in Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50227/22]
    • Health Services
      753. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time a patient has to wait for a procedure before being included in the NTPF scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50230/22]
    • Departmental Reviews
      756. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commit to an interdepartmental working group involving the Department of Education, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      757. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an outpatient appointment at the orthopaedic clinic in Cavan and Monaghan Hospital given the discomfort that they...
    • Departmental Data
      758. To ask the Minister for Health the current average wait time for a chest x-ray in Nenagh General Hospital, from the point of referral until the x-ray is carried out; the reason that the time...
    • Health Services
      759. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider offering adult medical card holders the option to be assessed and treated by community audiologists who already provide care to working age...
    • Departmental Reviews
      760. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will establish an independent review to examine issues of recruitment and retention of radiation therapists in Ireland; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Functions
      761. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that educational and child psychology doctoral students, were not included in the €700,000 investment in psychology training announced as...
    • Hospital Staff
      762. To ask the Minister for Health if he will put adequate staffing and contingency plans in place to ensure that there is no recurrence of the closure of the Ennis injury unit (details...
    • Ambulance Service
      763. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time National Ambulance Service staff based in County Wexford in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if...
    • Hospital Staff
      764. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time theatre nurses working in Wexford General Hospital in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; if the...
    • Home Care Packages
      765. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons approved for homecare supports in County Wexford who are currently waiting on delivery of support hours; and if he will make a statement...
    • Psychological Assessments
      766. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on waiting times for assessments of children with autism in Dún Laoghaire; the number of children waiting for such an...
    • Thalidomide Victims Compensation
      767. To ask the Minister for Health the status of recommendations for future planning and pathways of care for thalidomide survivor’s health care needs; the engagements that he has had...
    • Medicinal Products
      768. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2069 of 8 September 2022, if he will undertake to review the guidelines for the sale of codeine products to protect...
    • Departmental Properties
      769. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dedicated spaces for breastfeeding and expressing breast milk in workplaces within his Department and the workplaces of public bodies and...
    • Disability Services
      770. To ask the Minister for Health if any of the 12 newly established CDNTs for the Dublin north city and county service serve the areas of Drumcondra, Phibsboro, South Glasnevin, Smithfield and...
    • Departmental Policies
      773. To ask the Minister for Health if any national guidelines and circulars or other written instructions related to best practice exist in relation to the way that individual CDNTs should...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Departmental Transport
      776. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is a policy regarding the appropriate use of domestic flights in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the...
    • Animal Passports
      777. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider introducing a system by which digital copies of equine passports can be sent electronically to his Department to...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      778. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a GLAS payment for 2021 will be made to a person (details supplied); the reason it is necessary for this person to make numerous...
    • Grant Payments
      779. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he expects to announce the 2022 ex-gratia grants for animal charities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49531/22]
    • Agriculture Industry
      780. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the financial supports that are available to beekeepers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49560/22]
    • Forestry Sector
      782. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to any potential impact on the price that Irish farmers receive for timber arising from Programme for...
    • Agriculture Industry
      783. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the maximum allowable allocation for on-farm investments in the 2023 to 2027 period per his CAP Strategic Plan; the allocation in...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      784. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that farmers (details supplied) who install photovoltaic panels supported by a targeted agriculture modernisation scheme...
    • Fishing Industry
      785. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions that he is taking to address the Programme For Government commitment to ensure that inshore waters continue to be...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      786. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he plans to open the agri-climate rural environment scheme to applicants (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Agriculture Industry
      790. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking to strengthen the sheep sector and to ensure its viability, including the indigenous and export wool...
    • Departmental Data
      791. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who received a payment from his Department in each of the years 2020 to 2022 that received their payment into...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      792. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications under TAMS for solar equipment; the grant rate; the average grant amount by farm system in each of the...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      793. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way that the €14.7 million Exchequer capital funding allocated to Horse Racing Ireland in 2022 will be spent. [49985/22]
    • Departmental Data
      794. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has undertaken any research to demonstrate the nutrient difference in the quality of eggshell from commercial birds...
    • Forestry Sector
      795. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if large-scale investors associated with a semi-state forestry company will be allowed to claim forestry premiums in the next...
    • Agriculture Industry
      798. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address the particular situation facing a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50176/22]
    • Greyhound Industry
      799. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the 18 month delay in his Department approving the commencing construction of a project (details supplied); if he will...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      800. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a reply will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50318/22]
    • Departmental Properties
      801. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of dedicated spaces for breastfeeding and expressing breast milk in workplaces within his Department and the workplaces of...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Budget 2023
      802. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the support packages announced for the private sector in Budget 2023 will also be extended to the charity sector, including the...
    • Departmental Transport
      803. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there is a policy regarding the appropriate use of domestic flights in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department....
    • Departmental Regulations
      804. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the exemptions that are available from the requirement for the general dog licence; and if she will confirm that an animal charity...
    • Ferry Services
      805. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the new Tory Island Ferry will be commissioned and will be in operation to allow for safe and reliable service to and from the...
    • Voluntary Sector
      808. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide all funding streams available to the community and voluntary sector; and the parameters and opening and closing...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      809. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department will provide financial support to community groups that are having to bridge the serious shortfall between the...
    • Departmental Properties
      810. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of dedicated spaces for breastfeeding and expressing breast milk in workplaces within her Department and the workplaces of...

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