Written answers

Tuesday, 18 October 2022

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Citizens' Assembly
      26. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline for the citizens' assemblies committed to in the Programme for Government. [45561/22]
    • Departmental Bodies
      29. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [45562/22]
    • Human Rights
      46. To ask the Taoiseach if it has become apparent that the United Nations needs to adopt a more vigorous stance on violations of human rights, hunger, famine and starvation and an immediate...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Further and Higher Education
      85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a full breakdown of the number of PhDs who are funded through State or State-funded bodies (details supplied) and an estimate...
    • Grant Payments
      89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who will benefit from the double payment of student grants per county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Further and Higher Education
      94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional medical, nursing, midwifery, and health and social care undergraduate places across further and higher education courses...
    • Grant Payments
      95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for when the double payment of student grants will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51358/22]
    • Healthcare Policy
      98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase the provision of health and social care places, and veterinary places to address the crisis in vacancies seen across these...
    • Further and Higher Education
      99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the development of Cavan Institute; the investment that his Department is allocating; and the works that will be...
    • Technological Universities
      100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional investment in the South East Technological University Waterford campus which he will make available in 2023; and if he will make a...
    • Student Accommodation
      101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the measures that he intends to take to make student accommodation affordable given that it is a major barrier to people...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Solas painting and decorating apprentices have to travel to Dublin to complete their...
    • Student Unions
      103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on any meetings with student unions in relation to the cost-of-living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the future farming apprenticeships which he plans to announce in the coming months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51225/22]
    • Education and Training Boards
      105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications for green cert places available through education and training boards in the academic years beginning in 2019, 2020,...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department plans to introduce additional funding for apprentices to support them to continue in their apprenticeships in view of the...
    • Further and Higher Education
      107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which students are encouraged to study medicine, veterinary medicine and similar professions currently suffering from a dearth of...
    • Grant Payments
      108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will increase the SUSI grant qualification threshold further for the next relevant academic year; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of women who are currently completing apprenticeships across Ireland; the steps that are being taken to continually increase...
    • Further and Higher Education
      110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that his Department is taking in order to address the shortage of educational psychologists in the State; and if he will make a...
    • Third Level Education
      111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that he intends to take to address the inequality in and the inadequacy of stipends across PhD research students which is now...
    • Student Accommodation
      112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his engagement with the Minister for Housing, Local Government, and Heritage concerning the shortage of accommodation for students attending...
    • Further and Higher Education
      113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the implementation group for the delivery of the new further education and training funding model; the membership of the group; the...
    • Grant Payments
      114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration is currently being given with respect to part-time students and their access to the SUSI grant scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Third Level Fees
      115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who will benefit from the €1,000 reduction in student contribution fee per county in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Student Accommodation
      116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the chronic shortage of affordable accommodation for students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51703/22]
    • Grant Payments
      117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has engaged with SUSI about the possibility of raising the income threshold to ensure that middle income earners who are struggling...
    • Third Level Education
      118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has examined the possibility of extending the €500 cost-of-living payment and stipend increase announced in Budget 2023...
    • Student Accommodation
      119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on student accommodation providers charging a full month’s rent to students where they have not spent a full initial month upon...
    • Third Level Education
      120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has met with universities in Cork to discuss the potential of a northside campus. [51643/22]
    • Student Accommodation
      122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions he has taken to maximise the availability of accommodation for third-level students; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Qualifications Recognition
      123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on pathways to CORU registration for social care students studying in the private sector; and if he will make a...
    • Research Funding
      124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that his Department provides for research for new antibiotics; his views on whether this is sufficient; and if he will make a...
    • Student Accommodation
      125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagements that he has had recently with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in relation to student accommodation. [51608/22]
    • Departmental Priorities
      126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that his Department is taking in order to ensure that there is an available and sufficient workforce with the requisite skills and...
    • Third Level Fees
      127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will abolish the fees for graduate entry medicine programmes, given the chronic shortage of doctors across the country; and if he will make...
    • Student Accommodation
      129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his engagement with third level student accommodation providers to ensure that the €600 electric credits announced in Budget 2023 are...
    • Third Level Fees
      130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to further reduce student contributions in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51363/22]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the initiatives that he has facilitated to encourage the recruitment of apprentices to the construction sector in order to...
    • Third Level Education
      132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide additional funding per registered PhD student to each university to allow them to pay an increased stipend, bringing their...
    • Grant Payments
      135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons that have qualified for a SUSI grant this year; the number of persons whose applications for a SUSI grant have been...
    • Third Level Fees
      136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he recognises the need to remove all fees for and financial barriers to further and higher education given the shortage of graduates and...
    • Budget 2023
      137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports he has provided in Budget 2023 to help with the costs of going to college both in terms of fees and grants; and if he will make a...
    • Student Accommodation
      138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that he has provided to University College Cork and Munster Technological University to build student accommodation in 2023. [51644/22]
    • Further and Higher Education
      139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which arrangements continue to be made whereby an adequate supply of apprentices or graduates in the most urgently required areas...
    • Education and Training Boards
      140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of regularising the terms and conditions of adult education tutors employed by education and training boards; the timeline to address...
    • Ukraine War
      142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement that he has had with the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Inclusion and Youth in relation to ensuring that Ukrainian...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which he and his Department plan to expand apprenticeship offerings in the north-east; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Veterinary Services
      144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the need to establish a veterinary college in the province of Munster; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51222/22]
    • Departmental Schemes
      145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new Innovate for Ireland scheme will be open for applicants; and the criteria that potential applicants will need to meet in order to be...
    • Further and Higher Education
      146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has had any contact with Carlow College St. Patrick's with regard to bringing about the full integration of Carlow College St....
    • Technological Universities
      147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans to upgrade the 1974 building in Munster Technological University, Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51496/22]
    • Further and Higher Education
      148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the development of Cavan Institute as a hub for further education and training. [51140/22]
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Programmes
      149. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Policing Reform Implementation Programme Office based in his Department. [49905/22]
    • Citizens' Assembly
      150. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timelines for the citizens’ assemblies committed to in the Programme for Government. [51664/22]
    • Judicial Reviews
      151. To ask the Taoiseach the number of judicial reviews taken against his Department in the past ten years to date in 2022, in tabular form; the body and or person that initiated judicial review...
    • Departmental Data
      152. To ask the Taoiseach the average wage and the median wage in Ireland in each of the years 2012 to 2021 and to date in 2022. [51118/22]
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      153. To ask the Taoiseach the total spend by his Department and the agencies under his remit on cybersecurity measures since 2019 to date in 2022 [51181/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      155. To ask the Taoiseach the names of all special advisors working in his Department; the Minister and Junior Minister who each advisor is associated with and their respective salaries, in...
    • Departmental Data
      156. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons in full-time employment who were on less than 60% of the median wage in Ireland in each of the years 2012 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular...
    • Official Engagements
      159. To ask the Taoiseach the extent to which he has had dialogue with his fellow heads of state at the recent meeting in Prague; and if distinctive action was agreed in respect of applicant...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Intellectual Property
      160. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he supports extending the World Trade Organization decision of 17 June 2022 on the TRIPS agreement to cover intellectual property...
    • Tax Data
      161. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons, expressed as a percentage of the total workforce, who were in the highest income tax bracket in Ireland in...
    • Film Industry
      162. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when this Deputy can expect a substantive reply to an as-of-yet unacknowledged email representation dated 4 October 2022, on the...
    • Employment Rights
      163. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that his Department has taken to transpose EU Directive (EU) 2019/1152 on Transparency and Predictability of Working...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      164. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total spend by his Department and the agencies under his remit on cybersecurity measures since 2019 to date in 2022; and if he...
    • Departmental Staff
      166. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the names of all special advisors working in his Department; the Minister and Junior Minister who each advisor is associated with and...
    • Work Permits
      167. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a company is entitled to the €1,000 application fee for international work permits in the case of an applicant who was...
    • Departmental Staff
      169. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a list of the names of each special advisor employed by his Department since 2015, the relevant Minister they...
    • Work Permits
      170. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason that a work permit application for a person (details supplied) was refused; if the application can be reviewed; and if he...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Environmental Schemes
      173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline the way that the waiver system for domestic refuse charges operates; and if he will make a statement...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total spend by his Department and the agencies under his remit on cybersecurity measures since 2019 to date in...
    • Departmental Staff
      177. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the names of all special advisors working in his Department; the Minister and Junior Minister who each advisor is...
    • Pension Provisions
      179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that pensioners of an organisation (details supplied) and An Post who were civil servants prior to the...
    • EU Directives
      180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide update on progress made towards transposing article 2 (15) of the Directive (EU) 2019/944 regarding...
    • Energy Conservation
      182. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of attics that would have been insulated by 2021 assuming that the rate of attic insulation would have...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      198. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total amount of installed solar photovoltaic capacity in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Sector Pensions
      199. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 47 of 8 September 2022, if he will clarify the reason An Post does not propose to...
    • Natural Gas Grid
      200. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way that he intends to support the eight new Ireland gas-fired power plants with natural gas supplies from Ireland...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      203. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the supports that are available for commercial solar energy; if there are plans to increase these supports; and if he...
    • Energy Conservation
      204. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment in relation to Question 131 of October 6 2022, if he will provide the actual timeframe for work being completed /...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      206. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the backlog in credit awarded to solar panel holders who contribute electricity to...
    • Departmental Staff
      207. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a list of the names of each special advisor employed by his Department since 2015, the relevant...
    • Departmental Schemes
      208. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 67 of 9 September 2022, if he has received the final report of the independent...
    • Fishing Industry
      209. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on a matter (details supplied). [51876/22]
    • Building Energy Rating
      210. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the grant for smart heating controls is reduced based on the BER rating of the dwelling; and if he will make a...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      211. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that the Government is not looking at bio-mass technology as an option (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Enterprise Policy
      212. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will introduce a ban on advertising and sponsorships by fossil fuel companies; and if not, the reasons. [51961/22]
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Cycling Facilities
      214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he was informed that the proposed cycle path from Whitestrand to the Barna Road, Galway, would remove a section of public road space...
    • Bus Services
      215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to many issues that commuters are reporting with the reliability of the Real Time passenger information...
    • Rail Network
      217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the ongoing issues that commuters are experiencing with the reliability of the scheduled 8.20 am train...
    • Bus Services
      218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide assistance in relation to the lack of a bus shelter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Rail Network
      219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of instances in which an Irish rail bridge has been struck by a vehicle in Dublin county and city in the past two years to...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total spend by his Department and the agencies under his remit on cybersecurity measures since 2019 to date in 2022; and if he will...
    • Fuel Prices
      222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action that is being taken to support businesses with the cost of petrol and diesel, particularly those that employ drivers, in view...
    • Bus Services
      223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review a bus service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51219/22]
    • Driver Test
      224. 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. [51220/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the names of all special advisors working in his Department; the Minister and Junior Minister who each advisor is associated with and...
    • Bus Services
      226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way he intends to address the issue of a lack of morning bus services to Limerick city from Charleville, County Cork which is an...
    • Public Transport
      227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way he intends to address the issue of Charleville students trying to access college in Limerick and Cork without adequate morning...
    • Rail Network
      228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will extend the deadline for submissions for Metrolink beyond the deadline of 25 November 2022, in order to allow residents time to...
    • Departmental Policies
      230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of new active transport infrastructure projects completed in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51369/22]
    • Taxi Regulations
      235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the substantial delays experienced by taxi operators when booking appointments to recalibrate and seal...
    • Bus Services
      236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the anomaly whereby 18-year-old students in some instances cannot qualify for the 50% fare reduction...
    • Electric Vehicles
      237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will urgently seek a deadline extension to applicants who have received approval for funding through the eSPSV grant scheme to...
    • Bus Services
      238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will increase the number of buses that are placed on the Navan NX route (details supplied). [51454/22]
    • Driver Test
      240. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request a review of an application by a person (details supplied) waiting on a driving test for work purposes; and if he will...
    • Road Safety
      242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department can review the rules and regulations concerning rickshaws; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51478/22]
    • Electric Vehicles
      243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that he and his Department will take to expand access to EV charging facilities for persons living in terraced housing given...
    • Bus Services
      244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will contact and request Go Ahead Ireland to reinstate its 7:30 am service on bus route 17 as a matter of urgency. [51480/22]
    • Programme for Government
      245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the public transport shareholders' forum will be established as is provided for in the Programme for Government; and if he will make...
    • Public Transport
      246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of fines issued by Dublin Bus, Irish Rail and the Luas operator to passengers for fare evasion and being in possession of an...
    • Bus Services
      247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will examine the feasibility of increasing the frequency of the new Route 60 bus as part of the G-Spine Bus Connects. [51765/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of the names of each special advisor employed by his Department since 2015, the relevant Minister they worked...
    • Bus Services
      249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of new buses that have been added to the Dublin Bus fleet in 2021 and to date in 2022; the number of buses withdrawn from the...
    • Official Travel
      250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Minister of State within his Department met with senior officials of airline corporations (details supplied) when she recently...
    • Rail Network
      251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount that Iarnród Éireann spent on installation of artwork display at Howth Junction/Donaghmede train station. [51856/22]
    • Departmental Schemes
      252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to his statement in Dáil Éireann on Thursday 22 September 2022 that 16-, 17- and 18-year-olds would be added to the...
    • Driver Licences
      253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a system in place where a person who travels extensively for work and needs to exchange their UK driving licence for an Irish...
    • Rail Network
      254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the scheduled work at Kishogue train station; when work is expected to commence; when work is expected to...
    • Driver Test
      255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that it is taking a minimum of 19 weeks in County Meath to get an invitation to book a...
    • Airport Policy
      256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the breakdown of the amount of funding that was provided to each airport for the years 2015 to 2021 and to date in 2022. [51960/22]
    • Bus Services
      257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered the consequences for persons who have already purchased an annual bus ticket in relation to the latest extension of...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Code
      260. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the specific laws, policies or exemptions that mean that stipends are untaxed income. [51836/22]
    • Defective Building Materials
      262. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will instruct NAMA to urgently pay for the remediation costs of the building defects leading to fire safety and water ingress issues at a location...
    • Tax Code
      263. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of tax that was raised in 2020 and 2021 by the 3% levy on self-employed income above €100,000; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      265. To ask the Minister for Finance the total spend by his Department and the agencies under his remit on cybersecurity measures since 2019 to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tax Code
      267. To ask the Minister for Finance if an anomaly (details supplied) that is preventing self-employed sole trader professionals from claiming expenses for food and so on when out working will be...
    • European Central Bank
      268. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to recent media reports that the ECB has purchased millions of dollars in bonds issued by companies linked to deforestation of...
    • Tax Data
      269. To ask the Minister for Finance the effective tax rate in the form of dividend withholding tax paid by Irish real estate funds as a proportion of operating and pre-tax profits respectively...
    • Departmental Staff
      270. To ask the Minister for Finance the names of all special advisors working in his Department; the Minister and Junior Minister who each advisor is associated with and their respective...
    • Tax Data
      271. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual corporate tax, and other named taxes, paid by the revenues generated by aircraft leasing firms based here in each of the years between 2014 and...
    • Budget 2023
      272. To ask the Minister for Finance the assessment his Department has made of the planned payment of three €200 electricity credits to multiple homeowners in their distributional analysis...
    • Question Heading for question(s) 273
      273. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update in the case of a person (details supplied); the extent to which the perceived benefit is payable, taxable or otherwise; and if he...
    • Tax Collection
      274. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a comprehensive breakdown of the tax compliance measures, including PAYE compliance interventions and increased debt management activity,...
    • Departmental Schemes
      275. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update with respect to the review of the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme; the funding that was allocated towards it in...
    • Tax Credits
      276. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is scope without new legislation for refundable tax credits to be introduced through the income tax system given the use of refundable tax credits...
    • Tax Collection
      277. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of compliance interventions made by the large cases high wealth individuals division; the money recouped as a result of these interventions in each...
    • Vacant Properties
      278. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated number of properties that will fall under the scope of the vacant homes tax in 2023; the average tax in nominal and percentage terms that will...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      279. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a number of Revenue Commissioners staff working in County Tipperary who have been informed that they were wrongly paid a...
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      280. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will assist those whose mortgages have been sold by their banks to vulture funds in accessing fixed rates from the new owners of these mortgages...
    • Banking Sector
      281. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the €1,000 cost-of-living payment being made by two banks (details supplied) to their staff; if he will make...
    • Fuel Prices
      282. To ask the Minister for Finance the percentage of each of the different costs which make up the price the consumer pays for petrol, diesel and agricultural diesel at the pumps; and if he...
    • Customs and Excise
      283. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide clarification on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51535/22]
    • Banking Sector
      284. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has been notified of the withdrawal by a bank (details supplied) of its digital payments service from Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Defective Building Materials
      285. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has engaged with mortgage lenders with respect to forbearance measures and solutions put in place for mortgage holders where their mortgage loan is with...
    • Customs and Excise
      286. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are no TARIC codes, or appropriate codes for ancient coins, and that collectors and dealers are having...
    • Tax Code
      288. To ask the Minister for Finance the recent assessment or analysis his Department has made in the trends and levels of incidence of push payment fraud; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      296. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of the names of each special advisor employed by his Department since 2015, the relevant Minister they worked under and the date...
    • Budget 2023
      297. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 153 of 6 October 2022, his views on a matter (details supplied). [51824/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      298. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is in the spirit of the EWSS and TWSS given that it was to support business through the pandemic to have granted and then withdrawn from a company...
    • Mortgage Resolution Processes
      302. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of tracker mortgage cases currently before the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman, disaggregated by complaint stage, investigation,...
    • Film Industry
      303. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of section 481 tax-relief claims that have been rejected on application stage in each of the years 2016 to 2020; the number of section 481...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • National Lottery
      304. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the report on the independent review of the allocation and utilisation of National Lottery funding. [51120/22]
    • Office of Public Works
      305. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list and status for OPW-owned and controlled properties in County Longford. [51127/22]
    • State Properties
      306. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the former Garda station in Ardagh, County Longford (details supplied). [51128/22]
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      307. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total spend by his Department and the agencies under his remit on cybersecurity measures since 2019 to date in 2022; and if he will...
    • Departmental Staff
      309. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the names of all special advisors working in his Department; the Minister and Junior Minister who each advisor is associated with and...
    • Budget 2023
      310. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works has concluded phase 1 works at the National Monument located on 14 to 17 Moore Street, Dublin 1; if the...
    • Departmental Staff
      311. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of the names of each special advisor employed by his Department since 2015, the relevant Minister they worked...
    • Office of Public Works
      312. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW will fund the purchase of defibrillator and cover the costs of the training of the usage of defibrillator by OPW staff based...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      315. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total spend by her Department and the agencies under her remit on cybersecurity measures since 2019 to date in 2022; and if...
    • Departmental Staff
      317. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the names of all special advisors working in her Department; the Minister and Junior Minister who each advisor is associated with...
    • Budget 2023
      318. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide the timeline for the roll-out of the €35 million in funding set aside in Budget 2023 to help sports...
    • Sports Funding
      320. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding will be made available to the Irish Athletic Boxing Association to ensure that all those who have qualified for...
    • Departmental Staff
      321. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a list of the names of each special advisor employed by her Department since 2015, the relevant Minister they...
    • Official Engagements
      322. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she or her officials have formally met with a person (details supplied) since 1 October 2021. [51860/22]
    • State Bodies
      323. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount that Fáilte Ireland spent on marketing the Ireland’s ancient east initiative in each of the years 2019 to...
    • Artists' Remuneration
      324. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason for which 27 artists declined the offer of the basic income for the arts. [51918/22]
    • State Bodies
      325. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a list of all individuals and entities who obtained funding from Screen Ireland under the Covid-19 production...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all farmers with special areas of conservation lands will be entitled to apply for the scheme and be admitted to National...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total spend by his Department and the agencies under his remit on cybersecurity measures since 2019 to date in 2022; and...
    • Legislative Programme
      330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the proposed new planning legislation in preparation by his Department (details supplied); and...
    • Water Charges
      331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the way the waiver system for domestic water charges operates; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Planning Issues
      332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the number of appeals to An Bord Pleanála that are currently in excess of the 18-week...
    • Departmental Staff
      334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the names of all special advisors working in his Department; the Minister and Junior Minister who each advisor is associated...
    • Local Authorities
      335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of the number of acquisitions that have been made by local authorities of homes with tenants in...
    • Electoral Process
      336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the Government’s intended response to TRIS notification numbers 2022/376/IRL and 2022/184/IRL with...
    • Housing Schemes
      337. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an annual breakdown of the private rented and private ownership homes target for each year with respect to...
    • Defective Building Materials
      338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the procedure that is in place in terms of the decanting of social housing tenants, both in local authorities and approved...
    • Local Authorities
      339. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the totality of wholetime equivalent staff directly employed, by each local authority, for each of the years 2019 to 2021 and...
    • Housing Schemes
      340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide 50% flexibility to homeless HAP in Galway city, as is provided for in Dublin; and if he will make a...
    • Planning Issues
      342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a review of all planning permissions granted by An Bord Pleanála under the strategic housing development provisions...
    • Local Authorities
      343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of building control officers who are employed by each local authority; his views that the numbers are sufficient;...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51559/22]
    • State Bodies
      345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on his Department's engagement with the European Commission on the implications of State aid...
    • Planning Issues
      346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on recent issues within An Bord Pleanála; and the steps he has taken in relation to the organisation’s...
    • Rental Sector
      348. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider asking councils not to consider working family payment and carers’ allowance when calculating rent;...
    • Wildlife Regulations
      350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a comprehensive copy of the briefing notes and recommendations that he received from his Department in...
    • Animal Diseases
      353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government with regard to the warnings to the general public posted on his Department/NPWS’s website concerning the current,...
    • Housing Provision
      357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of the proposed development of affordable housing by the Land Development Agency, Sandy Road, Galway; if...
    • Local Authorities
      359. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions that he has taken to advance the recommendations of the National Women’s Council toolkit for local...
    • Housing Provision
      360. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which companies seeking to provide fit-for-purpose accommodation units for disabled and elderly communities can...
    • Water Supply
      361. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department receives reports from Irish Water regarding the length of time it is taking to connect new residential...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 212 of 15 September 2022, the maximum spend permitted for Traveller accommodation in...
    • Fire Stations
      363. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his Department’s plans for the fire stations in Ballyshannon and Bundoran; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rental Sector
      364. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of notices of termination that have been submitted to the Residential Tenancies Board since the beginning of July...
    • Housing Schemes
      365. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeowners who have availed of the repair and leasing scheme in each county since its inception, in tabular...
    • Derelict Sites
      368. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the powers that local authorities have with regards to derelict properties; and if he will make a statement...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      369. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total spend by his Department and the agencies under his remit on cybersecurity measures since 2019 to date in 2022; and if he will make...
    • Middle East
      371. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is concerned in relation to the continuous silencing of critical voices regarding the Palestinian struggle for justice, in the name of...
    • Departmental Staff
      372. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the names of all special advisors working in his Department; the Minister and Junior Minister who each advisor is associated with and their...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      373. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on two foreign birth registration applications (details supplied);; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Ukraine War
      377. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if consular assistance is being provided to Irish citizens in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine; if any Irish citizens in Russia have...
    • Departmental Staff
      378. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a list of the names of each special advisor employed by his Department since 2015, the relevant Minister they worked...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      379. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the applications to the foreign births registry for two siblings can be linked to their third sibling’s application (details...
    • Middle East
      380. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will support the rights of Palestinian refugees living in refugee camps across Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and the Gaza...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      381. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current waiting times for processing foreign birth registration applications; and if there are plans in place to further resource the...
    • Military Neutrality
      382. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the person who is responsible for inviting four separate NATO-connected warships to visit Cork harbour in recent months; the reason that...
  • Department of Defence
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      384. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total spend by his Department and the agencies under his remit on cybersecurity measures since 2019 to date in 2022; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      386. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the names of all special advisors working in his Department; the Minister and Junior Minister who each advisor is associated with and their...
    • Defence Forces
      387. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will detail both the maximum and the current strength levels of the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51594/22]
    • Ukraine War
      400. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the meetings of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group that have been attended by representatives of Ireland in which those meetings took place; and...
    • Departmental Staff
      401. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a list of the names of each special advisor employed by his Department since 2015, the relevant Minister they worked under...
    • Defence Forces
      402. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the estimated full-year cost if the daily food allowance for personnel within the Defence Forces of €4.20 per day per personnel was...
    • Naval Service
      403. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of vacant engineer room artificer technicians currently in the Naval Service; and when these vacancies will be filled in tabular...
    • Air Corps
      404. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has undertaken a review of the operation to evacuate Irish citizens from Kabul in Afghanistan; if a review, if any, examined the mode of...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Mental Health Services
      407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which mental health professionals will be recruited to deliver much-needed mental health supports in schools. [51693/22]
    • School Transport
      408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if experienced bus drivers aged 70 years and over, and meeting all health criteria, will be eligible for employment by Bus Éireann or by...
    • School Accommodation
      411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 389 of 4 October 2022, if her attention has been drawn to an application by a school (details supplied) for...
    • Special Educational Needs
      412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of ASD units that will be provided in north County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51136/22]
    • School Transport
      413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she intends to provide a school transport service in this current school year for all post-primary students attending their second nearest...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51164/22]
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total spend by her Department and the agencies under her remit on cybersecurity measures from 2019 to date in 2022; and if she will make a...
    • School Transport
      417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is any scheme to help support a bus service to a school (details supplied) where a significant number of pupils come a significant...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proportion of her Department’s IT data stored in the cloud; the proportion of the data held by all agencies and subsidiaries of her...
    • Departmental Staff
      419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the names of all special advisers working in her Department; the Minister and junior Minister whom each adviser is associated with and their...
    • Special Educational Needs
      420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene to support a special school (details supplied) to keep its classes open for children with autism. [51278/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the status of a project for a school (details supplied) in Clondalkin; and if she will provide a timeline for...
    • Irish Language
      422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the Irish language allowance previously available to teachers was discontinued; and if there are plans to reintroduce the allowance....
    • Departmental Schemes
      423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to the re-instatement of a band 3 in DEIS for schools that are not successful for entry to band 1 or band 2 but...
    • School Staff
      424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department plans to provide professional supervision for teachers and, if not, if it will be considered in order to support teachers...
    • Schools Building Projects
      425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the status of a project for a school (details supplied) in Saggart; and if she will provide a timeline for the...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will be provided with an Internet connection. [51334/22]
    • School Transport
      427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consideration being given to the residents of counties Longford and Westmeath who await places on school transport, given the additional...
    • School Accommodation
      430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the temporary accommodation for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the permanent school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Examinations
      433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the State Examinations Commission has completed its assessment of the junior certificate examinations; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Admissions
      434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact there remain Ukrainian children living in a hotel (details supplied) who have not been provided with...
    • Schools Building Projects
      435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the status of a proposed new school under the strategic development zone, SDZ, for an area (details supplied);...
    • School Admissions
      436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school places currently unfilled in schools in Lucan, County Dublin at both primary and secondary school level. [51449/22]
    • School Transport
      438. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can examine a case (details supplied) in relation to the free school transport scheme, where the applicants were classified as late...
    • School Accommodation
      439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 182 of 5 October 2022, if she will sanction the supply to the school concerned of the 200m2 modular...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that her Department is providing to schools to assist children missing school due to the effects of long-Covid; and if she will make...
    • School Transport
      441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a request for school transport for a child (details supplied) that was passed some time ago is still not in place [51492/22]
    • School Patronage
      443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the legislation upon which the school patronage process is based; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51511/22]
    • Special Educational Needs
      444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans she has in place to introduce a personal assistant service (personalised budget) for children with disabilities in schools, which could...
    • Schools Building Projects
      452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will see work commence on their new school building; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51575/22]
    • School Staff
      454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to provide clinical supervision to primary school teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51577/22]
    • Departmental Schemes
      455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to expand the DEIS criteria to reflect the changing cultural and economic changes communities are facing; and if she will make...
    • Teacher Training
      456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to shorten current two year-long professional masters in education courses to one year; if consideration has been given to...
    • State Examinations
      457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the Junior Certificate results will be released to those persons who sat their Junior Certificate in June 2022; and if she will make a...
    • School Transport
      458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a bus route (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51616/22]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to a query on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51660/22]
    • School Transport
      462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement that she has had with Bus Éireann, private bus operators and school boards of management in relation to the school transport...
    • Departmental Staff
      464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of the names of each special advisor employed by her Department since 2015, the relevant Minister they worked under...
    • School Funding
      465. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 90 of 11 October 2022, the reason that some schools in the Gaeltacht qualify for the Irish and bilingual...
    • Environmental Schemes
      466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools (details supplied) will be considered for future iterations of the Schools Energy Retrofit Pathfinder Programme; if this programme...
    • Schools Building Projects
      467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a payment (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51905/22]
    • Departmental Policies
      468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that educational psychology is now the only professional psychology training programme not in receipt...
    • School Transport
      469. 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...
    • Budget 2023
      470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to the case of a student who was not awarded a concessionary school transport ticket in 2022 but had been awarded a concessionary school...
    • School Transport
      471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a school bus ticket is issued to a child (details supplied); the reason that the size of the bus for the route in...
    • Scrúduithe Stáit
      472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad iad uimhreacha rolla agus ainmneacha na scoileanna sin a raibh scoláirí iontu a rinne scrúdú T1 Gaeilge an Teastais...
    • School Transport
      473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any plans for parents of school-age children who have no access to public buses to offset the price of this service (details...
    • Schools Building Projects
      474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her support in securing a meeting for a school (details supplied) with the planning and building unit of her Department; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is the intention to increase the grant payment for behavioural support to a school (details supplied) given that this post is not...
    • School Transport
      477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a child (details supplied) who has always travelled with their twin siblings on the bus to school can continue to travel with them; and if she...
    • School Enrolments
      478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a school (details supplied) that is seeking details on the past-pupil status of a child’s brother or...
    • Question Heading for question(s) 480
      480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51997/22]
    • School Staff
      482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the attention of her Department has been drawn to issues relating to the recruitment and retention of school principals; and if so, the...
    • Residential Institutions
      485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of all monies paid by each religious order under the residential institutions redress scheme and all monies still...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      487. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the €500 disability support grant will be accessible to a person who has recently signed up to a course and is paid...
    • Domestic Violence
      489. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the domestic abuse rent supplement will be maintained or adjusted for inflation purposes in the next year; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      491. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a carer's allowance appeal by a person in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      492. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in view of the recognition of long Covid as an occupational disease for healthcare workers by the EU Commission, and the EU...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      493. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue on an appeal for a one-parent family payment for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and...
    • State Pensions
      495. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that those paying the D stamp and who were recruited prior to 1995 are not eligible for the State pension...
    • Pension Provisions
      496. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the processing time and backlog in terms of the number of applications for new invalidity pension claims; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      498. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal in the case of a person (details supplied) in respect of alleged...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      499. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total spend by her Department and the agencies under her remit on cybersecurity measures since 2019 to date in 2022; and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      500. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal has now been registered in the case of a person (details supplied) in respect of the person's recent refusal of...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      501. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the proportion of her Department's IT data that is stored in the cloud; the proportion of the data held by all agencies and...
    • Television Licence Fee
      502. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the television licence is covered as part of household benefits in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she...
    • Budget 2023
      503. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a married couple now qualify for fuel allowance given the recent changes as a result of budget 2023, whose incomes have...
    • Departmental Staff
      504. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the names of all special advisers who work in her Department; the Minister and junior Minister with whom each adviser is...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      505. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce a payment, similar to that of the pandemic unemployment payment, for individuals with monkeypox who...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      506. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an email address can be used to create a mygovid account if it was previously used on a different account that has since...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      507. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the situation facing old age pensioners who have lost their entitlement to fuel allowance,...
    • Question Heading for question(s) 508
      508. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will confirm that refurbishment works at the INTREO centre, Navan Road, Dublin 7 have commenced; if so, when the works...
    • Employment Support Services
      509. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff working in the INTREO centre, Parnell Street, Dublin 1 in October 2021, and currently, in tabular form....
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made to date in the determination of an application for the Working Family Payment in the case of a person...
    • State Pensions
      514. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a State pension (non-contributory) will be paid to a person in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      515. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a PPS number will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the working family payment claim of a person (details supplied). [51467/22]
    • State Pensions
      517. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a pension appeal of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51488/22]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      519. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on assessing a person’s eligibility for certain payments, including the State pension non-contributory and...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      520. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to increase the pay of community employment supervisors in view of the fact the sector has not had an uplift in pay...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      521. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the €500 lump sum payment for those in receipt of disability allowance includes disabled persons who have been...
    • Employment Support Services
      523. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise on a review of services provided by INTREO and Social Welfare Offices in 2021; if this review is publicly...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      525. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a vacant commercial property over ten years old that is in need of extensive refurbishment in order to be of any...
    • Cost of Living Issues
      527. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full list of payments that will qualify for the cost-of-living measures in Budget 2023, in tabular form; and if she will...
    • Pension Provisions
      528. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise on an application by a person (details supplied) regarding a pension. [51674/22]
    • Ministerial Staff
      529. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a list of the names of each special advisor employed by her Department since 2015, the relevant Minister...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      530. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she agrees with jobseekers’ benefit recipients being taken off electronic funds transfer and being compelled to...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      532. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the correct level of disability allowance has been determined and is payable in the case of a person...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      533. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will examine a case whereby a person (details supplied) has had their disability allowance application rejected. [51933/22]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      534. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 491 of 11 October 2022, if those in receipt of illness benefit will not be receiving...
    • Social Insurance
      538. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if records have now been updated to reflect payments of PRSI in the case of a person (details supplied) in 2021 and to date...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      539. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will be eligible for all or part of the disability support grant. [52006/22]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      541. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the length of time in advance of 1 January 2023 that applications for fuel allowance under the increased income threshold can...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      544. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a school (details supplied) has not been approved for the hot meal scheme following a successful trial run; if...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      545. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the new income guidelines for fuel allowance coming into effect on 23 January 2023 will apply to a couple (details...
    • Pension Provisions
      546. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider reinstating one-member arrangements and make those with less than ten members exempt from the additional...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Departmental Correspondence
      547. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51328/22]
    • Children in Care
      548. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when Tusla will publish its fostering service improvement plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      549. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the options available to a preschool (details supplied) in terms of getting additional space for 2023. [51126/22]
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      553. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total spend by his Department and the agencies under his remit on cybersecurity measures since 2019 to date...
    • Departmental Schemes
      555. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on scheme A funding application (details supplied). [51231/22]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      556. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will commit to including the cuts in childcare costs announced in Budget 2023 in aspects of the ECCE given...
    • Ministerial Staff
      557. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the names of all special advisers working in his Department; the Minister and Junior Minister who each advisor...
    • Departmental Functions
      558. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide the timeframe for the completion of the transfer of disability functions from the Department...
    • Mental Health Policy
      559. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will clarify the way in which his Department will interact with the Minister of State for Older People and...
    • Departmental Reviews
      560. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the childminding steering group; and when the group is expected to publish its...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      562. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress that has been made to amend the policy regarding parents' leave and benefit to allow lone parents...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      563. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an application for ECCE time extension exemption for a child (details supplied) which was refused will be...
    • International Protection
      564. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of transfers between different IPAS accommodation centres for each month to date in 2022, in tabular...
    • Departmental Contracts
      566. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a case with an accommodation provider (details supplied) will be fully addressed. [51539/22]
    • Asylum Seekers
      567. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding refugees being moved; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Staff
      568. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a list of the names of each special advisor employed by his Department since 2015, the...
    • Asylum Seekers
      569. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a list of vacant properties (details supplied) offered for accommodation of refugees has been with...
    • Childcare Services
      570. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the basis that Section 56 childcare organisations which were previously Section 38 organisations, identified as...
    • Departmental Schemes
      571. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on a person’s (details supplied) childcare subsidy claim; and if he will...
    • Asylum Seekers
      572. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagements that he has had with HIQA over inspections for IPAS contracted properties. [51896/22]
    • Homeless Accommodation
      573. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which his Department is competing with other Government agencies for private sector accommodation,...
    • Childcare Services
      575. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the admissions policies of early years providers; if he has plans to put in place a legal basis for...
    • Gender Equality
      576. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he has taken to progress the recommendation of the Different Paths, Shared Experiences: Ethnic...
    • Maternity Leave
      577. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress that he has made to date in advancing a statutory entitlement to maternity leave for Members of the...
    • Asylum Seekers
      578. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of adults and children with leave to remain living in direct provision, with a breakdown by local...
    • Youth Services
      579. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will urgently seek a review concerning the level of funding for youth services such as Waterford and South...
    • Domestic Violence
      581. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the person or body that is responsible for housing victims of domestic violence when the six-week refuge period...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Education Schemes
      582. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive their Solas safepass card given that this one-day course was completed on 29...
    • Education Costs
      583. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has plans in view of the reduction in the student contribution charge for undergraduate students for a corresponding reduction in the...
    • Education Schemes
      585. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for a higher education grant in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      586. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total spend by his Department and the agencies under his remit on cybersecurity measures since 2019 to date in 2022; and if he will make a...
    • Education Schemes
      588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to undergraduate students in the Marino Institute of Education not being eligible for the recent supports which...
    • Departmental Staff
      589. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the names of all special advisors working in his Department; the Minister and Junior Minister who each advisor is associated with and their...
    • Agriculture Industry
      590. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that are being taken to increase and encourage women to pursue a career in farming through education and agriculture courses; and if...
    • Education Policy
      591. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update to an organisation (details supplied) on his promise to consult it in various relevant committees convened from...
    • Education Standards
      592. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of PhD researchers who have dropped out of their studies in the past three years in tabular form. [51696/22]
    • Education Schemes
      593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to extend the free fees scheme to students attending part-time courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51732/22]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      594. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeships currently waiting to start off-the-job training; the expected timeline for the clearing of the backlog; and if he...
    • Education Policy
      599. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of PhDs that are funded through State or State-funded bodies (details supplied); and the estimated number of privately funded PhDs...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the importance of apprenticeships in society moving forward; the steps that his Department is taking to increase staffing levels in...
    • Departmental Staff
      604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of the names of each special advisor employed by his Department since 2015, the relevant Minister they worked under and...
    • Education Policy
      605. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason part-time students are excluded from the reduction in student fees outlined in the recent Budget; if has attention has been drawn to...
    • Education and Training Boards
      606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on plans for the development of the Longford Westmeath Education and Training Board further education campus on the...
    • Cost of Living Issues
      607. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, as an urgent measure, he will look into reforming the need for social work students to do four months unpaid full-time placements, especially...
    • Education Schemes
      608. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new Innovate for Ireland scheme will be open for applicants; if he will clarify the criteria potential applicants will need to meet in...
    • Education and Training Provision
      610. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a full breakdown of numbers of PhDs who are funded through State or state-funded bodies (IRC, SFI, HRB, Bord Bia, National...
    • Cost of Living Issues
      613. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the various cost-of-living measures for postgraduate and PhD students and researchers that were announced in Budget 2023 will be provided;...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      614. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the capital expenditure provided to University College Dublin since 2018, in tabular form. [51858/22]
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      615. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with respect to the sale of a large site in Dublin city centre (details supplied), if his Department will consider including a clause in the sale...
    • Budget 2023
      616. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the exact process that will operate for the refund process as announced in Budget 2023 and the criteria for the refund of fees, in each third...
    • Third Level Costs
      617. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a college course (details supplied) qualifies for a SUSI grant; if it qualifies for the €1,000 repayment as recently announced in...
    • Further and Higher Education
      618. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of progress achieved the main stakeholders in providing an adequate supply of suitably qualified graduates for the marketplace; and if...
    • Third Level Education
      627. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure the continued access to third-level for all students seeking to avail of education at this level; and if he will make a...
    • Third Level Costs
      630. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 511 of 4 October 2022, if he will give further consideration to the need to provide the once-off...
    • Further and Higher Education
      631. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase the number of places in further and higher education facilities in the 2023/2024 academic year to study speech and language...
    • Departmental Consultations
      632. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagements that his Department has had with the Department of Health, the HSE and the Higher Education Authority since July 2020 to identify...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Visa Applications
      633. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will account for the long delays faced by non-EU PhD researchers when applying for their yearly stamp; if her Department...
    • An Garda Síochána
      634. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 322 of 6 October 2022, the number of gardaí who were assigned to the Cobh district...
    • Immigration Status
      636. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the residency status in the case of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51135/22]
    • Prison Service
      637. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a full update in respect of an independent investigation into allegations against a company (details...
    • Departmental Contracts
      638. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of contracts for service that her Department and or bodies under her aegis have with a company (details supplied);...
    • Visa Applications
      639. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for a visa in the case of a person (details supplied); when same...
    • Deportation Orders
      640. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 538 of 4 October 2022, if a person or organisation under the aegis of her Department...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      641. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total spend by her Department and the agencies under her remit on cybersecurity measures since 2019 to date in 2022; and if...
    • Visa Applications
      642. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason that a visa has been refused in the case of a person (details supplied); if the application can be reviewed at an...
    • Undefined
      644. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will urgently examine an application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51213/22]
    • An Garda Síochána
      645. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda cars and motorcycles attached to Donegal roads policing unit as of 31 March 2021 and 5 October 2022, in...
    • Human Trafficking
      646. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has had sight of a report (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51233/22]
    • Electronic Tagging
      647. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times that electronic tagging of criminals has been used since the introduction of legislation enabling it in...
    • Ministerial Staff
      648. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the names of all special advisors working in her Department; the Minister and Junior Minister who each advisor is associated...
    • An Garda Síochána
      649. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí who have resigned for each of the past five years. [51294/22]
    • Antisocial Behaviour
      650. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that has been made to date in putting in place a multi-agency structure to progress a plan to tackle the causes...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      652. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date in the determination of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied);...
    • An Garda Síochána
      653. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of community gardaí posts nationally broken down by division; and the total number of such posts...
    • Departmental Data
      655. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of successful applications for the immigrant investor programme in each of the years 2020, 2021 and to the 1 October...
    • An Garda Síochána
      656. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána who are at present unavailable for work due to sick leave, suspension and...
    • Departmental Priorities
      657. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the increasing use of libel actions to intimidate new retail outlets and politicians; the...
    • Departmental Staff
      660. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a list of the names of each special advisor employed by her Department since 2015, the relevant Minister...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      661. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) which...
    • Family Law Cases
      662. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are plans to set up a formal register for suitably qualified persons such as social workers or child psychologists to...
    • An Garda Síochána
      663. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí within the Kildare division who successfully completed the protestor removal course in 2021 and to...
    • Probate Applications
      665. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current average length of time to process probate. [51875/22]
    • Legislative Programme
      666. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the promised legislation on gambling regulation will come before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if she will make a...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      667. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) will be considered for naturalisation given the precarious nature of their position; and if...
    • Prison Service
      668. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to delays relating to security clearance for prospective employees of an organisation (details...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      669. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); and...
    • Citizenship Applications
      670. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the details of a citizenship application (details supplied) which has been ongoing since 2006...
  • Department of Health
    • Regulatory Bodies
      671. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that CORU social care worker registration status has not been given to the BA in professional social care (disability) degree from Open Training...
    • Medical Cards
      672. To ask the Minister for Health the list of schemes that qualify under employment incentive schemes or education opportunity schemes that entitle medical card holders to retain their medical...
    • Pension Provisions
      673. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person did not receive a 1% increase in their pension (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51098/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      674. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the recognition of long Covid by the EU Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work as an occupational disease for healthcare workers, if he...
    • Health Services
      675. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients waiting on radiation therapy since January 2022 until the end of September 2022, by county and radiotherapy centre in tabular form; if...
    • Medicinal Products
      676. To ask the Minister for Health if NDT thyroid tablets have been removed from the reimbursement list for the drugs payment scheme and medical card; is so, the reason for same; if they will be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      677. To ask the Minister for Health when the Covid-19 recognition payment will issue to health care workers who work for organisations funded under section 39; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Services
      678. To ask the Minister for Health his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) in respect of radiation therapy services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51113/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      679. To ask the Minister for Health if he will remove any roadblocks by Government Departments to the setting-up of the independent radiation therapist review, in addition to his commitment to...
    • Health Services
      680. To ask the Minister for Health the status of all local health centres in County Tipperary that closed during Covid-19; the centres that have re-opened; the centres that remain closed; when...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      681. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which workers in the section 39 organisation Brampton Care Home, Oranmore, County Galway, will receive the pandemic recognition payment; and if he...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      682. To ask the Minister for Health the total spend by his Department and the agencies under his remit on cybersecurity measures since 2019 to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Cards
      683. To ask the Minister for Health if supplements (details supplied) will be included under the medical card scheme given that those on waiting lists for transplants rely on such medication....
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      684. To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of his Department’s IT data stored in the cloud; the proportion of the data held by all agencies and subsidiaries of his Department in...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      685. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department can provide clarity as to the outcome in the matter of the double welfare payment due where nursing homes have automatic access to and...
    • Industrial Relations
      686. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene to ensure that a review (details supplied) will proceed without delay. [51229/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      687. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that the staffing crisis in radiation therapy is addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51230/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      688. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) is waiting so long for a bed in the Dún Laoghaire acquired brain injury unit; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Services
      689. To ask the Minister for Health the current average processing time for the payment of completed applications under the EU cross-Border Directive; the date when current applications being...
    • Health Services Staff
      690. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time optometrists employed by the HSE working in County Donegal in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and the locations where...
    • Medical Research and Training
      691. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2023 if the number of training places for GPs increased to 293. [51237/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      692. To ask the Minister for Health if access to out-of-hours and weekend cover for mental health services is available in the County Donegal catchment area of the HSE, including nursing,...
    • Hospital Staff
      694. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time and part-time radiographers based at Ennis General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51245/22]
    • Hospital Admissions
      695. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long for a place in NRH Dún Laoghaire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51247/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      696. To ask the Minister for Health the names of all special advisers working in his Department; the Minister and Minister of State who each adviser is associated with and their respective...
    • Nursing Homes
      697. To ask the Minister for Health his views on patients in public nursing homes being charged €100 for transport between one hospital and another for a scope, especially in light of the...
    • Disability Services
      698. To ask the Minister for Health when therapies will be reinstated for two children (details supplied) through either an organisation or the east Meath disability team in Ashbourne. [51277/22]
    • Care Services
      706. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people inappropriately living in nursing homes who were supported to move to appropriate living options in each month to date in 2022, in tabular...
    • Disability Services
      708. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the €29.3 million budget 2023 disability funding for new developments, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      709. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the completion of the transfer of disability functions from his Department to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration...
    • Healthcare Policy
      711. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the way in which existing commitments such as publication of the Action Plan on foot of the Disability Capacity Review and the establishment...
    • Disability Services
      712. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which his Department will interact with the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in relation to psychosocial...
    • Housing Policy
      713. To ask the Minister for Health when a change, subject to a recent Regional Group Private Members’ motion that houses within the fair deal scheme could be made available to the rental...
    • Hospital Staff
      714. To ask the Minister for Health the number of endometrioses specialists who are employed in the Coombe Hospital endometriosis clinic; the number of clinical nurses who are employed in the...
    • Hospital Services
      715. To ask the Minister for Health if the Coombe Hospital endometriosis clinic can receive electronic results of MRI scans from outside hospitals and clinics, including a particular clinic...
    • Health Service Executive
      716. To ask the Minister for Health the dates and attendees of any meetings which HSE officials had with any Oireachtas Members from the mid-west, counties Tipperary, Limerick or Clare from 1...
    • Healthcare Policy
      717. To ask the Minister for Health if Ireland will be participating in the European Union joint action on diabetes and cardiovascular disease initiative; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Service Executive
      718. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has plans to set targets for green procurement in 2022 and in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51321/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      719. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 391 of 6 October 2022, the reason that the Government is funding one cohort of trainees but not another, even though both...
    • Medical Cards
      720. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the application by a doctor (details supplied) to be added to the medical card list. [51348/22]
    • Healthcare Policy
      721. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 840 of 5 July 2022, if he will give a date for when the evaluation of the obesity policy and action plan undertaken by...
    • Departmental Reviews
      722. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the work being undertaken by his Department in relation to the restructuring of the NIAC in order to facilitate its continuing...
    • Departmental Data
      723. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on plans to support women who were impacted by mesh implants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51387/22]
    • Departmental Reviews
      724. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a timeline that the working interdepartmental group established to review the report of the Special Oireachtas Joint Committee on...
    • General Practitioner Services
      725. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) whose key worker submitted an urgent request to the HSE for them to be assigned a GP could be assigned to one as a matter of...
    • Hospital Staff
      726. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time nurses in St. Joseph's Hospital, Dublin 5 in each of the years of 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if this number...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      727. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times for radiology reporting across all hospitals in the Saolta University Hospital care group for September 2020, 2021 and 2022, in...
    • Hospital Staff
      728. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant consultant posts by speciality currently at Mayo University Hospital; and when these vacancies will be filled in tabular form. [51406/22]
    • Hospital Services
      729. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the amount of theatre time available in public hospitals by hospital group and hospital in tabular form. [51407/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      730. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of children on waiting lists for grommet insertions in CHO6 by wait times (details supplied). [51408/22]
    • Departmental Projects
      731. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans for a new chronic disease clinic in Sligo-Leitrim. [51409/22]
    • Hospital Staff
      732. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time advanced nurse practitioners in urology oncology services in Beaumont Hospital in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if...
    • Health Services Staff
      735. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff members that are currently employed and working in children's disability network teams in County Laois by role and by team in tabular form;...
    • Hospital Staff
      736. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultant plastic surgeons working in Tallaght University Hospital in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [51414/22]
    • Departmental Data
      737. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Irish sign language interpreters currently available to assist deaf or hard-of-hearing patients attending Wexford General Hospital. [51415/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      738. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time psychologist posts in Donegal CAMHS teams in 2021 and to date in 2022. [51416/22]
    • Departmental Data
      739. To ask the Minister for Health the current and capital funding required for a second cataract theatre at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital. [51417/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      740. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time autism therapists and autism support workers in the Finglas children's disability network team in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular...
    • Departmental Data
      741. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hours provided at each of the locations in north Dublin in which D-Doc services operate in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in...
    • Hospital Staff
      742. To ask the Minister for Health the number of international recruitment fairs where staff from Letterkenny University Hospital were in attendance in the years of 2021 and to date in 2022, in...
    • Vaccination Programme
      743. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his Department have ever received any data, evidence or information from a drug manufacturer (details supplied) that indicates that its Covid-19...
    • Industrial Relations
      744. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made in getting a review (details supplied) up and running; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51422/22]
    • Hospital Staff
      745. To ask the Minister for Health the number of radiation therapists who have been recruited by the HSE in each of the years 2010 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Vaccination Programme
      746. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a medical recommendation to make a second booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine available to the broader public; his views on this; and if he will...
    • General Practitioner Services
      747. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to instances in which GPs are charging menopausal women fees well in excess of normal rates for appointments relating to the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      748. To ask the Minister for Health if he will issue a payment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51428/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      749. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for a public appointment with a cardiologist at St Vincent’s Hospital; the average waiting time for a public appointment with a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      750. To ask the Minister for Health when a former agency worker (details supplied), now permanent HSE employee, will receive their pandemic bonus payment. [51432/22]
    • Care Services
      751. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions that are in place to continue the care of a person (details supplied) who requires home support services but cannot avail of it due to the lack...
    • Hospital Facilities
      752. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1575 of 14 June 2022, if he will provide an update on the delivery of beds and planned for delivery under the given...
    • Healthcare Policy
      753. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that mammograms cease for women at the age of 69 years when the incidents of breast cancer are higher over the age of 70 years; and if he will make...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      754. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for surgery in Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51461/22]
    • Seirbhísí Sláinte
      756. To ask the Minister for Health an féidir leis an t-eolas is déanaí a chur ar fáil faoin dul chun cinn atá á dhéanamh chun an post buan mar dhochtúir...
    • Citizens' Assembly
      757. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the Citizens’ Assembly on drug use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51481/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      758. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of long-Covid care for young persons and children. [51482/22]
    • Mental Health Policy
      761. To ask the Minister for Health if he and or the HSE plans to modernise and or update the mental health protocols for public health nurses in the course of engaging mothers of newly born...
    • Healthcare Policy
      762. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review correspondence (details supplied); if he will have this reviewed in view of recent tragic events; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      763. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details with respect to a previous statement on Section 56 organisations that pay restoration in relation to organisations funded through...
    • Nursing Homes
      764. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the situation regarding beneficiaries of the nursing home support scheme; the way in which the balance of nursing home fees under the scheme...
    • Departmental Data
      766. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the figures for occupancy and waiting lists for a palliative care bed at a hospital (details supplied) in 2021 and to date in 2022; and if...
    • Hospital Staff
      767. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to recruit more radiotherapy nurses in hospitals (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51515/22]
    • Disability Services
      768. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to there being no adult speech and language therapy for adults with intellectual disabilities in south Tipperary resulting in...
    • Medical Cards
      769. To ask the Minister for Health if a disabled person will lose their entitlement to their medical card if they are accepted for the basic income for the arts pilot scheme; and if he will make...
    • Disability Services
      770. To ask the Minister for Health when the National Information Management System for the CDNT’s will be in operation; the timeline; the reason this is taking so long; and if he will...
    • Health Services Staff
      772. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department have carried out a review of the reason staff are leaving the HSE; if not, if he will establish a review team to carry out such a review and...
    • Health Strategies
      773. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to introduce an independent complaints body to investigate complaints of failures by the HSE particularly in relation to disability services;...
    • Medicinal Products
      774. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will fund coaguchek meters and self-test strips for patients who require long-term oral anticoagulant therapy with warfarin in order to...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      775. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the building project at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Mountmellick, County Laois; and the projected timescale for it to be up to total planned...
    • Disability Services
      776. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are available to a child (details supplied) with Down Syndrome and moderate or severe hearing loss; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services
      777. To ask the Minister for Health if CAMHS provide treatment for young people experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51579/22]
    • Medical Inquiries
      778. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to address the crisis in radiotherapy in Ireland’s hospitals with lengthening waiting lists due to a chronic shortage of...
    • Departmental Data
      779. To ask the Minister for Health the number of babies born with life-limiting conditions in each of the past ten years in Mayo University Hospital. [51584/22]
    • Health Services
      783. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a service (details supplied); what is being considered by his Department by way of extending the hours of this service; and if...
    • Health Strategies
      784. To ask the Minister for Health if he will remove any roadblocks by Government Departments to the setting-up of the independent radiation therapist review; and if he will commit to implement...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      785. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) who has been waiting 14 months for an operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mental Health Policy
      786. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding funding inequity for trainee educational psychologists (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Cards
      787. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug semaglutide will be made available to a person’s (details supplied) medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51752/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      788. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date of negotiations on a special scheme of paid leave for public health service employees with long-Covid; the expected timeline for the...
    • Medicinal Products
      789. To ask the Minister for Health if the drugs pentoxyphylline and clasteon are available in Ireland; if so, if there is a shortage of these drugs; if his attention has been drawn to the fact...
    • EU Regulations
      790. To ask the Minister for Health the actions taken around the new medical device regulation, MDR, which came into effect on 26 May 2021 (details supplied); the specific actions which he is...
    • Health Services Staff
      791. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE roles that will be put forward for social care worker registration; and the level three qualifications that will be approved; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      792. To ask the Minister for Health when a paediatric neurologist will be assigned to University Hospital Limerick, appreciating that the last paediatric neurologist left UHL in December 2021;...
    • Ministerial Staff
      793. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of the names of each special adviser employed by his Department since 2015, the relevant Minister they worked under and the date that...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      794. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will be assessed by CDNT as they have yet to receive an assessment and post-primary application dates are quickly approaching;...
    • Health Services
      795. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the work of his Department towards enhancing the provision of community-based vasectomy services; if he will provide an update on the work...
    • Children in Care
      796. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to tackle the waiting lists times for children in foster care for services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51793/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      797. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51794/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      798. To ask the Minister for Health the number of CAMHS pharmacists throughout Ireland; the location that each pharmacist is based; if there is any data on the number of people each pharmacist...
    • Hospital Facilities
      802. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the new 96-bed ward block at Wexford General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51818/22]
    • Hospital Equipment
      803. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the new MRI scanner for Wexford General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51819/22]
    • Departmental Funding
      804. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding for radiographers to staff the new MRI scanner for Wexford General Hospital has been ringfenced; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Reviews
      805. To ask the Minister for Health when it is scheduled to begin the independent review of radiation therapy, as committed to by his Department at the Workplace Relations Commission in 2021; and...
    • Health Services Staff
      807. To ask the Minister for Health the current vacancy rate, that is the number of WTE posts, for radiation therapists in each of the hospital groups; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      808. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting time to start radiation therapy in each of the hospital groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51829/22]
    • Independent Review Mechanism
      810. To ask the Minister for Health if he will remove any roadblocks by Government Departments to the setting up of the independent radiation therapist review (details supplied) in addition to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      811. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline on the payment of the €1,000 pandemic payment to eligible healthcare workers who are not employees of the HSE; the total number of workers...
    • Vaccination Programme
      815. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 80 of 31 March 2022, the status of plans to introduce a no-fault vaccination compensation scheme for severe adverse...
    • General Practitioner Services
      816. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GP services that are available, by head of population, in counties Cavan and Monaghan between Monday and Friday, between 9am to 5pm; the way the...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      817. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in CHO7 waiting for a HSE approved shower chair; and the average waiting time for same. [51862/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      819. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultant cardiologists at Naas General Hospital in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [51864/22]
    • Legislative Measures
      820. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that "exclusion zones", as referred to in commitment in the Programme for Government, are now being referred to as "safe access zones" in the...
    • Abortion Services
      821. To ask the Minister for Health the number of abortions carried out by general practitioners for each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      823. To ask the Minister for Health if persons on public health waiting lists are impacted by refusing the option of taking care through the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if their...
    • Hospital Facilities
      824. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his Department officials are in discussions with any particular provider about an elective hospital being built in Limerick city or county; and if he...
    • Health Services
      826. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his officials on his behalf, have met with an organisation (details supplied) recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51889/22]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      827. To ask the Minister for Health the details of any agreement that the HSE has with private providers in Limerick to treat patients off waiting lists. [51890/22]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      828. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients from Limerick who have been treated by the National Treatment Purchase Fund over the past two years; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Staff
      829. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant consultant posts in University Hospital Limerick; the specialities they are in; the number recruited over the past two years; and if he...
    • Health Strategies
      830. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that there is no nursing representative on the strategic advisory group on monkeypox; if there are plans to amend the membership of this group to...
    • Pharmacy Services
      831. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 768 of 11 October 2022, the engagements that his Department has had with relevant stakeholders regarding the guidelines...
    • Ambulance Service
      832. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the ambulance service for counties Offaly, Westmeath, Laois, Longford and Kildare, the number of ambulances serving each county; the ratio of...
    • Mental Health Services
      833. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51909/22]
    • Health Services
      834. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise which State body, if any. monitors the residential service providers to ensure if they are implementing the family forum guidelines (details...
    • Mental Health Services
      836. To ask the Minister for Health the reason counselling psychologists have been favoured over educational psychologists for funding even though both trained and are qualified for work in...
    • Home Help Service
      837. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be allocated their full 28 home support hours in order that they may leave hospital step-down; if his attention has been...
    • Hospital Staff
      838. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the chronic shortage of radiation therapists which is leading to even longer waiting lists; the efforts that are being made...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      839. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Freestyle Libre2 application for reimbursement on the HSE’s long-term illness scheme through the community-funded aids and appliances;...
    • Hospital Services
      842. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons attending University Limerick Hospital Group’s paediatric diabetes service and using insulin pump therapy to manage their...
    • Dental Services
      845. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that there is no dental emergency treatment for adults with disabilities (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51994/22]
    • Nursing Homes
      846. To ask the Minister for Health if any emergency fund exists to assist with gaps in fair deal funding with particular reference to the case of a person (details supplied), who has no family...
    • Hospital Services
      847. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons attending the adult diabetes service in University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52002/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      848. To ask the Minister for Health when the staff at a nursing home (details supplied) will be awarded the pandemic recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52007/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      849. To ask the Minister for Health if any progress is being made to make the cariban medication free for pregnant women suffering from morning sickness; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services
      850. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE intends to downgrade the services in Bantry Hospital centre for mental healthcare and recovery from an 18-bed unit to 12 beds; if resources have...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      851. To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals which are still enforcing visiting rules which were brought into effect during the Covid-19 pandemic, specifically relating to end-of-life...
    • Health Services
      853. To ask the Minister for Health if the appropriate level of care at the highest possible level can be provided in the case of a person (details supplied) whose case is considered a high...
    • Prescriptions Charges
      854. To ask the Minister for Health if retired pensioners from the UK living in Ireland are exempt from paying the prescription charge under the EU Social Security/Bilateral Agreement with the...
    • Domestic Violence
      855. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the Government’s nationwide strategy on step-down accommodation when a person leaves a domestic violence refuge; and if he will make...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      856. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total spend by his Department and the agencies under his remit on cybersecurity measures since 2019 to date in 2022; and if he...
    • Animal Welfare
      857. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if dog owners with more than ten dogs are required to register with his Department; the rules that are in place; and if he will make...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      858. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proportion of his Department’s IT data that is stored in the cloud; the proportion of the data held by all agencies and...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      859. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment will be made to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51208/22]
    • Ministerial Staff
      860. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the names of all special advisers working in his Department; the Minister and Junior Minister who each advisor is associated with and...
    • Greyhound Industry
      861. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on a capital project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51270/22]
    • Animal Diseases
      863. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the legal obligations placed on farmers to facilitate TB inspections in the event that a neighbouring farm has positive cases; and if...
    • Forestry Sector
      864. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to any semi-state body connected with forestry that is putting together a special vehicle to draw...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      865. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter regarding the ACRES scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51516/22]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      866. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51517/22]
    • Nitrates Usage
      867. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are plans to reduce organic nitration limits from 250kg to 220kg which effectively would mean reducing the stocking rates...
    • Animal Culls
      871. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he hopes to introduce changes to the valuation of reactor cattle who have contracted bovine tuberculosis and if he replaces...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      872. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51560/22]
    • Fisheries Protection
      874. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding pair trawling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51574/22]
    • EU Regulations
      875. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether the Government provides sufficient research support in relation to understanding antimicrobial resistance; and...
    • Departmental Staff
      876. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of the names of each special advisor employed by his Department since 2015, the relevant Minister they...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      877. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to concerns by farmers regarding a new scheme (details supplied); if clarity can be provided on the...
    • Ministerial Staff
      880. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of full-time superintending veterinary inspectors and senior superintending veterinary inspectors employed by his...
    • Greyhound Industry
      881. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of individuals and their county of location who have been issued an exclusion order pursuant to Section 47 of the...
    • Fishing Industry
      882. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are plans in place to allow dual registration of fishing boats to allow boats to be registered on the register of fishing...
    • Harbours and Piers
      883. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will instruct Howth harbour to respond to person (details supplied). [52010/22]
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Voluntary Sector
      884. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she intends to ensure that any funding streams available for community organisations to assist with increased energy costs will...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      885. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the total spend by her Department and the agencies under her remit on cybersecurity measures since 2019 to date in 2022; and if she...
    • Proposed Legislation
      886. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the Dog Breeding Establishments (Amendment) Bill 2021; the timeline for its implementation; and if...
    • Ministerial Staff
      888. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the names of all special advisers working in her Department; the Minister and Junior Minister who each advisor is associated with and...
    • Departmental Data
      889. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the address location of all operational and proposed regional work hubs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51301/22]
    • Library Services
      890. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of members of the National Library Service in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022, by county in tabular...
    • Departmental Funding
      891. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason that certain organisations (details supplied) were deemed ineligible for the community centre investment fund; if there is...
    • Ministerial Staff
      893. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development If she will provide a list the names of each special adviser employed by her Department since 2015, the relevant Minister they worked...
    • Departmental Funding
      894. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason that an organisation (details supplied) was unsuccessful in their application for funding; and if she will make a statement...

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