Written answers
Wednesday, 19 October 2022
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the United Nations General Assembly. [49900/22]
- United Nations
20. To ask the Taoiseach the extent to which the United Nations modus operandi appears to be in need of reform, with particular reference to a more dramatic and rapid response to emerging...
- Ukraine War
47. To ask the Taoiseach the extent to which discussions took place at the recent intergovernmental conference in Prague in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [51635/22]
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Industrial Relations
52. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on his Department's public consultation on collective bargaining; the number of submissions that his Department...
- EU Regulations
53. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the level of engagement that his Department has had on the European Union Chips Act; the impact that it will have on the semiconductor...
- Enterprise Support Services
54. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans to introduce a new fund for capital investment and expansion of existing enterprise centres; and if he will make a...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- EU Regulations
55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current status of Ireland's implementation of the eIDAS regulation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Energy Policy
56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will clearly outline the Government's plan to ensure security of supply of energy during the winter months; and if...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Bus Services
63. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if planning permission has been approved for the new BusConnects route due to travel down Highfield Road, Rathgar, Dublin 6; the number of...
- Driver Test
64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of HGV driving tests provided in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [52156/22]
- Bus Services
65. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has engaged with the National Transport Authority concerning the reliability of buses in Cork (details supplied); and if he will...
- Rights of People with Disabilities
66. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to reports that taxis for disabled persons in Dublin often do not turn up even when booked well in...
- Driver Licences
68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider amending regulations or relevant legislation to enable Irish citizens in possession of full driving licence in a...
- Department of Finance
- Budget 2023
69. To ask the Minister for Finance if private nursing homes will be eligible to apply for the €1.25 billion temporary business energy support scheme, announced in Budget 2023; and if he...
- Tax Reliefs
70. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline any supports or tax reliefs available to assist patients who have to avail of hearing aids. [52088/22]
- Tax Code
71. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagements that he has had with his counterparts in fellow EU Member States about the possibility of the implementation in the European Union of Pillar...
- Vehicle Registration Tax
76. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide statistics relating to the use of the seize and release VRT enforcement procedure to obtain roadside cash payment of compromise penalties...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Construction Works
77. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the permission if any that was needed and or granted for the construction works that are ongoing at Tom Johnson House; the times and days...
- Departmental Priorities
78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the staff retention issues in several areas including health and education, particularly in Dublin,...
- Office of Public Works
79. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reasons that the Office of Public Works will not provide a licence to access the swimming pool in the Garda college in Templemore in...
- Heritage Sites
80. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the visitor numbers to the visitor centre in the Phoenix Park for a specified timeframe (details supplied);...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Departmental Funding
81. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she envisages that the media fund for local reporting, proposed in the Future of Media Commission’s report, will be...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Regulatory Bodies
82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to expedite the establishment of the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority to ensure that the board is in place...
- Animal Diseases
83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions and processes that are taken and followed in the event that remains of unhealthy swans are discovered by the...
- Local Authorities
84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reasons for not applying the same rationale to officers in local government given the ongoing effect of Circular EL...
- Housing Schemes
85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when affordable housing schemes will become available in Rush, County Dublin; and the procedure in applying for the...
- Renewable Energy Generation
86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the level of engagement that his Department has had with the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications in the...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Passport Services
87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a person’s mother’s birth certificate submitted as part of an application for an Irish passport can be returned in the case...
- Pension Provisions
88. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who is in receipt of relevant increments for retirees in recent...
- Birth Certificates
89. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will expedite an application by a person (details supplied) for an Irish birth certificate; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Passport Services
90. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a copy of the business case undertaken by his Department on the establishment of a passport office in Belfast; the date on...
- Departmental Correspondence
91. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52444/22]
- Department of Defence
- Departmental Data
92. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a list of the arms industry companies from Ireland and other parts of the world that attended the recent 6 October 2022 arms...
- Defence Forces
93. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount that the Defence Forces spent on replacement musical instruments for members of the Defence Forces School of Music in the year 2021...
- State Properties
95. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to amend or replace the Curragh of Kildare Act 1961; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52339/22]
- Department of Education and Skills
- Air Quality
98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of grants that were allocated for indoor ventilation and mobile HEPA air filtration systems since 2020 to schools; and if she will...
- National Educational Psychological Service
99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department or the high-level working group, chaired by the Secretary General to examine the way in which the National Educational...
- Departmental Schemes
100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has plans to extend the roll-out of additional DEIS school status to additional schools in east Cork that were not included in...
- Special Educational Needs
101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 82 of 12 October 2022, if she will clarify where it has been recommended in a professional report that a...
- State Examinations
102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details regarding the outcome of rechecks undertaken in respect of Leaving Certificate examination papers this year; the...
- School Transport
103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 382 of 4 October 2022, the reason that the student’s application is deemed closed (details...
- Residential Institutions
104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will include industrial school survivors in the redress scheme, which would see them also receive a State pension (contributory) and...
- Teaching Council of Ireland
107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether it is just or equitable, that there appears to be no mechanism for persons who made a complaint about the behaviour of a...
- School Transport
112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student (details supplied) who has missed nearly ten days of school this year due to lack of transport can be approved for a school bus...
- Departmental Schemes
113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that the DEIS status was not granted to a school (details supplied) despite approximately 80% of its student population residing in an...
- Schools Building Projects
114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school build project (details supplied) will move to the tender stage. [52295/22]
- School Staff
115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that the developing school post at a school (details supplied) in County Meath is retained, the loss of which would result in...
- School Transport
116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 96 of 12 October 2022, the number of applicants from County Monaghan for the school transport scheme in...
- Schools Building Projects
117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on an application by a school (details supplied) for a school building; and if she will provide a timeline for...
- School Transport
120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport will be provided for a pupil (details supplied). [52373/22]
- School Accommodation
121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to an additional accommodation project for a school (details supplied) which is with her Department since October...
- School Transport
122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an eligible pupil (details supplied) in County Mayo will be provided with school transport, in light of the additional funding which was...
- Departmental Correspondence
123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to correspondence from a person (details supplied); her plans to address the concerns raised by this school...
- School Staff
124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools identified as non-compliant with the provisions of the 2015 Arbitration Agreement in relation to school secretaries and...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Benefits
128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the double autumn social welfare payment will be paid to recipients of jobseeker's benefit, jobseeker's allowance or...
- State Pensions
129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is currently eligible for any form of State pension; the reason she was refused access to the...
- Official Engagements
132. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has spoken with her United States counterpart to date in 2022. [52155/22]
- Social Welfare Eligibility
133. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is entitled to the fuel allowance. [52223/22]
- Community Employment Schemes
136. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the plans to address the pay scales and current pay rates of the community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors,...
- Social Welfare Payments
137. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the applications for an invalidity pension and fuel allowance in the name of a person (details supplied) will be expedited...
- Public Services Card
139. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the Intreo offices that are currently open for public services cards appointments in the Dublin 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11 areas....
- Social Welfare Eligibility
140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) qualifies for fuel allowance based on his entitlement to a State pension (contributory); and...
- Assisted Decision-Making
141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of agents acting on behalf of a person who cannot manage their own financial affairs within the Department;...
- Social Welfare Benefits
143. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to reports that in order to claim illness benefit for Covid-related illness, a PCR test is...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Assisted Decision-Making
144. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the Government will fully commence the Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act 2015; and if he will make a...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
145. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of indications received by his office in recent weeks, from early childcare providers, stating that...
- Mental Health Policy
146. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the mental health survey carried out by an organisation (details supplied);...
- Departmental Correspondence
147. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he will respond to correspondence from this Deputy’s office dated to August 2022; and the reason...
- Direct Provision System
148. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the entity that is responsible for the physical maintenance of direct provision centres. [52203/22]
- Children in Care
150. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will seek a proper debate in Dáil Éireann on the topic of historical child abuse within the...
- Commissions of Investigation
151. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when it is expected that the Farrelly Commission of Investigation will produce its final report. [52207/22]
- Children in Care
152. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide statistics of the death rate among persons under 18 years in Ireland; and the death rate...
- Asylum Seekers
153. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions that he is undertaking to reduce the death rate among asylum seekers within the Internal Protection...
- Child Poverty
154. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions that his Department is taking to reduce child poverty and child homelessness. [52210/22]
- Traveller Community
156. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider issuing a State apology to members of the Travelling community regarding the systematic...
- International Protection
157. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of international protection applicants who have undergone an assessment for eligibility under...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
165. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of AIM supported childcare positions available in County Tipperary together; the location of all AIM...
- Ukraine War
166. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on plans to relocate 60 Ukrainian families to Thurles; if the essential educational...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Disability Services
167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the membership of the disability advisors' working network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52082/22]
- Technological Universities
175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what his Department intends to use the Technological University of Dublin, Aungier Street premises for in the future; and if he will make a...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who have achieved QQI qualification in childcare, early childhood education and care, or montessori, by NFQ level, in each...
- Legislative Programme
177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will set out a timeline to publish a general scheme of a new research Bill in the context of the Impact 2030 strategy; and if he will make...
- Technological Universities
178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the plan for moving TU Dublin students from the Aungier St. campus to Grangegorman; the plans for the building...
- Grant Payments
179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student has to repeat a year in college due to ill health will receive the €1,000 cost-of-living payment of tuition regardless of the...
- Further and Higher Education
180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase the availability of third level places for pharmacy students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52347/22]
- Grant Payments
182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that third level students from a college (details supplied) are not entitled to the €1,000 rebate on their college fees...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Banking Sector
183. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will clarify the situation where elected representatives are deemed as politically exposed when trying to get loans and...
- Legislative Reviews
184. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the review of the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011; and when this review may be published....
- Legislative Measures
185. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current status of the Explosives Bill 2021. [52157/22]
- An Garda Síochána
186. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to community policing and regular policing unit in Ballymun sub-district for the past five...
- International Protection
192. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if Ireland will opt-in to Regulation (EU) 2021/2303 on the European Union Agency for Asylum; and if she will make a statement...
- An Garda Síochána
197. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 221, 222 and 223 of 28 September 2022, when full replies will be issued. [52284/22]
- Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
198. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the development of a statutory agency with a dedicated focus on domestic sexual and gender-based violence; and if...
- Legal Aid
199. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will introduce a digital system of appointment of legal aid lawyers for persons in Garda custody; and if she will make a...
- An Garda Síochána
200. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the funding that has been made available to the Garda Youth Division Programme (GYDP) in Limerick for the years 2019, 2020,...
- Visa Applications
201. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on a visa application by a person (details supplied). [52469/22]
- Department of Health
- Health Services
202. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 690 of 4 October 2022, if he will provide rates provided to each CHO; if procedures can be outlined that qualify for...
- Health Services Staff
203. To ask the Minister for Health in his Department's active pursuit of recruitment to vacant posts across the healthcare services, how many of the 123 occupational therapy graduates of 2021...
- Mental Health Services
207. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a memorandum of understanding agreement to provide access to private mental health beds in the absence of public beds for children attending CAMHS;...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
208. To ask the Minister for Health if a contract is now in place for processing payment of the pandemic recognition payment to non-HSE/non Section 38 healthcare employees covered by the...
- Hospital Equipment
209. To ask the Minister for Health when a hoist will be available for use in the x-ray department at St. Joseph’s care campus in Longford town (details supplied). [52094/22]
- Medical Aids and Appliances
210. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Freestyle Libre 2 application for reimbursement on the HSEs long-term illness scheme through the Community Funded AIDS and Appliances; and if...
- Voluntary Sector
213. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the difference between organisations and entities in the context of pay rises for those working in the community and voluntary sector...
- Mental Health Services
214. To ask the Minister for Health : if he will provide details of the €210,000 that was secured through Social Inclusion Ireland from dormant funds to fund a full time mental health post...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
215. To ask the Minister for Health the directive or clinical recommendations that the HSE gives its medical consultants for prescribing insulin pumps for adults diagnosed with type 1 diabetes;;...
- Abortion Services
219. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the research commissioned by his Department to inform the three-year review on the implementation of Termination of Pregnancy Services (the...
- Assisted Human Reproduction
220. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the IVF funding to be made available; and the criteria for acceptance. [52108/22]
- Abortion Services
221. To ask the Minister for Health if the research commissioned by his Department to inform the three-year review on the implementation of termination of pregnancy services has been completed;...
- Departmental Funding
222. To ask the Minister for Health when the €750,000 funding for counselling psychology training places in 2023 will commence; if it will be accessible for current students or only for...
- Departmental Data
224. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of beds available in Cork University Hospital in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022 by department. [52153/22]
- Cybersecurity Policy
226. To ask the Minister for Health the total cybersecurity structures currently in place within the health service; the number of persons who are employed in cybersecurity in Ireland; and the...
- Hospital Transfers
227. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be transferred to the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Schemes
228. To ask the Minister for Health the progress on introducing the proposed transport support scheme to replace the removal of the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant which were...
- Hospital Procedures
229. To ask the Minister for Health when urgent cranioplasty surgery will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied) who needs to move to the National Rehabilitation Centre in the...
- Hospital Admissions
231. To ask the Minister for Health if an orthopaedic bed can be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52247/22]
- Hospital Inspections
232. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE’s performance management and improvement unit presented him with a report on its findings and recommendations, following its four-week visit...
- Disability Diagnoses
233. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) who is 7 years of age and was only recently diagnosed with autism will receive much needed supports. [52252/22]
- Medicinal Products
234. To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to outline Ireland's national position in respect of the revision of the EU pharmaceutical strategy; if his Department intends to meet with...
- Disability Services
235. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 227 and 228 of 28 September 2022, if he will provide a further breakdown of the total current HSE residential budget for...
- Cost of Living Issues
237. To ask the Minister for Health the supports that the Government is putting in place to help support a vital service during the cost-of-living crisis (details supplied). [52276/22]
- Hospital Appointments Status
238. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52279/22]
- Gender Recognition
239. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children referred from Ireland to a clinic (details supplied) for gender identity treatment in each of the past ten years. [52287/22]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
244. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on and projected timeframe for payment of the pandemic bonus for frontline workers in eligible organisations outside of the HSE;...
- Dental Services
245. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that additional resources are provided, without delay, to enhance an inadequate health service at present (details supplied); and if he will...
- Hospital Services
246. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the CervicalCheck testing of samples will resume at a hospital (details supplied); the reason for the delay in resuming services at this...
- Health Services Staff
248. To ask the Minister for Health the number of doctors were recruited by the HSE in 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52318/22]
- Disability Services
249. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting to access child development services with the Brothers of Charity in County Tipperary; the number of child development services...
- Primary Care Centres
250. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 230 of 25 May 2022, the status of the development of a primary care centre on Inisbofin; if he will provide a progress...
- Care of the Elderly
251. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 943 of 12 July 2022, the number of respite beds currently operational within Merlin Park community nursing unit; and if...
- Hospital Staff
252. To ask the Minister for Health the number of physiotherapists currently employed in Clifden District Hospital; the details of any recruitment campaign or plans for same for physiotherapist...
- Primary Care Centres
253. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2056 of 8 September 2022, the status of the proposed primary care centre for Galway west; the status of development of...
- Departmental Data
254. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite beds currently operational in Galway city and county; the locations of same; when he expects respite provision to be restored to...
- Health Services
255. To ask the Minister for Health the engagement that he has had with the HSE with regard to the relocation in September 2022 of day care services from St Brendan’s CNU Loughrea to a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
256. To ask the Minister for Health when the Government will commence a full public inquiry into the deaths of residents and quality of care in nursing homes during the pandemic, and systemic...
- Pharmacy Services
257. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the fees paid to pharmacists for the dispensing of medicine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52342/22]
- Health Services
258. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make free contraception available through community pharmacies without prescription; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52343/22]
- General Practitioner Services
260. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the crisis due to the lack of availability of general practitioners in counties Kildare, Laois and Offaly; and if he will make a statement...
- Dental Services
261. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the crisis due to the lack of availability of dentists in counties Kildare, Laois and Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
262. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on planned works at the Monasterevin day-care centre; when it is expected to re-open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52355/22]
- Hospice Services
263. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 281 of 28 September 2022 and 682 of 11 October 2022, if he has reconsidered his position regarding creating an elective...
- Mental Health Policy
264. To ask the Minister for Health the number of educational psychologists who are currently employed by the Health Service Executive; if the HSE intends not to employ educational psychologists...
- Departmental Data
265. To ask the Minister for Health the number of open beds in each HSE and voluntary hospital on 13 October in each of the years 2019 to 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
266. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money that has been allocated to a third-party contractor to administer the pandemic recognition payment to non-HSE staff; and if he will make a...
- Vaccination Programme
267. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered the merits of extending the Laura Brennan HPV vaccine catch-up scheme to women up to age of 35 years; and if he will make a statement on...
- Departmental Consultations
268. To ask the Minister for Health the engagements that he or his advisers have had with organisations (details supplied) in relation to winter planning for 2022/2023; and if he will make a...
- Assisted Human Reproduction
269. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the fine detail of fertility treatments will be moved from primary legislation to AHR Regulatory Authority regulation and medical...
- Budget 2023
270. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the qualifying criteria for the €100 million one-off health sector fund announced in Budget 2023; when section 39...
- Nursing Homes
272. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the severe impact of inflation on rural nursing homes, in light of the number of rural nursing homes which are closing; the...
- Medical Cards
273. To ask the Minister for Health if he is considering introducing medical cards on a mandatory basis for amputees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50601/22]
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Forestry Sector
274. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the call from a group (details supplied) for forest premiums in the next forestry programme not to be available to...
- EU Regulations
275. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on concerns from farmers that the implementation of the EU Animal Health Law Regulations 2016/429 may distort competition...
- Agriculture Schemes
285. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in payment under the ANC scheme for a person (details supplied); when they expect the cause of any delay to...
- EU Funding
286. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 226 of 12 October 2022, the total amount of co-financing provided by the State in relation to...
- Organic Farming
288. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of hectares under or in conversion to organic production for the years 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022; the number...
- Agriculture Schemes
289. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the schemes that will be available for beef farmers in 2023; the financial allocation to same; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Horticulture Sector
290. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the progress made in implementing the actions of the working paper to address challenges related to peat supply...
- Forestry Sector
292. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when his Department initiated contact with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform regarding the next forestry programme; and...
- Agriculture Industry
296. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is currently planning the introduction of payments and compensation to farmers to reduce herd sizes to meet climate...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Rural Schemes
297. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans, if any, to introduce capital funding schemes modelled on the REDZ scheme to invest in the development and or expansion of...
- Budget 2023
298. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will confirm the way the €60 million announced in Budget 2023 to support community and voluntary organisations with...
