Written answers
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Employment Rights
46. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has a court hearing date for the Security Industry Employment Regulation Order High Court injunction. [53628/22]
- Pension Provisions
47. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans to extend rights to consult on changes in pension schemes in the workplace to the representatives of pensioners; and if he...
- Energy Prices
48. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the supports available to businesses with the rising cost of energy in running a business. [53720/22]
- Low Pay
50. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 84 of 14 September 2022, the status of the report by the Low Pay Commission on universal basic...
- EU Directives
51. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 77 of 15 September 2022, if he will provide details of any engagement that he has had at...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Daylight Savings Time
52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans in relation to daylight savings time; his views on the merits of forgoing the winter daylight saving time...
- Energy Conservation
53. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will engage with the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland in respect of its refusal to pay a grant to a person...
- Telecommunications Infrastructure
56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of private wire and direct line applications that were made in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in...
- Energy Policy
57. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department will examine the feasibility of harvesting the excess heat from the proposed jet engines being bought...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Driver Test
60. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will expedite a driving test for an employee (details supplied) who cannot get to work unless they can drive; and if he will make a...
- Bus Services
62. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an adequate transport service will be put in place for students (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Road Projects
63. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects work to begin on the Mallow relief road project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53727/22]
- Transport Policy
64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the process for issuing a licence for the commercial vehicle roadworthiness test; the number of such centres throughout the country; the...
- Bus Services
65. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to increase the scheduled service on the Kinsale to Cork bus route (details supplied); and if he will make...
- Road Projects
66. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if she will increase the existing goodwill and ground survey payments to landowners for national road schemes; and if he will make a...
- Bus Services
67. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a bus stop will be installed at a location (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53808/22]
- Department of Finance
- Tax Reliefs
68. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify whether a recipient of the State pension can qualify for the €500 renters' allowance which was announced in Budget 2023. [53642/22]
- Fuel Prices
69. To ask the Minister for Finance his views regarding the additional measures that he will implement to support persons and operations of the freight industry in response to the concerns raised...
- Tax Reliefs
70. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of homeowners availing of the rent-a-room relief scheme each year since its introduction in 2001, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Office of Public Works
71. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when planned work on the Garda station in Kenagh, County Longford, will be completed by the OPW (details supplied). [53639/22]
- Public Sector Pensions
72. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will address the matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Ukraine War
73. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated number of modular units that he expect to have built for Ukrainian refugees by the end of 2022. [53801/22]
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Sports Funding
76. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding that the Ból Chumann associations received in each the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if she will...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Water Quality
77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to correspondence (details supplied); if he will provide a schedule of EU Directives that his...
- Housing Schemes
78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is flexibility within the Housing Agency rules in cases in which a person who has been approved for a local authority...
- Housing Policy
79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will increase the income threshold for social housing applications to €50,000 (details supplied) following a...
- Water Services
80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding that has been allocated to Kerry County Council under the multi-annual rural water programme in the past...
- Undefined
81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53637/22]
- Water Services
82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 321 of 29 March 2022, if Kerry County Council has drawn down funding for a group water...
- Marine Protected Areas
83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of Ireland’s marine protected areas. [53258/22]
- Housing Schemes
84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the vacant property refurbishment grant has been extended to rural one-off houses; if so, the qualifying criteria; and if he...
- Legislative Measures
85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there has been further correspondence or reasoned opinion issued by the European Commission on the Electoral Reform Act...
- Homeless Persons Supports
86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department's monthly homeless report includes all households in family-hub accommodation and all households in own-door...
- Defective Building Materials
87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures that he can take to protect second-hand homebuyers from purchasing homes with defective concrete blocks, given the...
- Housing Schemes
89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has received a progress update on the implementation of the blue green cities' initiative in the southern region; and his...
- Local Authorities
91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that local authority county and city development plans are being prepared or amended to take account of the...
- Electoral Commission
92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an up-to-date timeline for the establishment of the Electoral Commission, along with expected budget and...
- Electoral Process
93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the implementation of the provision for a pending electors list for persons aged 16 and 17...
- Wastewater Treatment
95. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps that he is taking in response to the EPA finding that just 51% of Ireland’s sewage was treated to the European...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Passport Services
96. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way that a child (details supplied) can obtain an Irish passport. [53623/22]
- Foreign Birth Registration
99. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are any plans in place to speed-up the processing time of the foreign birth register at present (details supplied). [53812/22]
- Rockall Island Ownership
100. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details of his engagements with the British government concerning the status of Rockall and its implications for Irish...
- Department of Education and Skills
- School Accommodation
101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 121 of 19 October 2022, if she will request her Department to contact the consultants (details supplied)...
- School Staff
102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 123 of 19 October 2022, if her Department will allow cover for teacher absences through the use of...
- Special Educational Needs
103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the ongoing delay in the provision of promised therapists to a school (details supplied); and when they will finally be in place....
- School Accommodation
104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a matter in relation to additional accommodation at a school (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Staff
105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the lack of available substitute primary school teachers in County Wicklow; the initiatives that she is...
- Schools Building Projects
106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if final approval for a project (details supplied) will be granted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53694/22]
- Special Educational Needs
108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of professionals (details supplied) who were based within a special school setting in each of the five years prior to the introduction...
- School Staff
109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that teachers (details supplied) have not received payment from her Department for the teaching work they have completed since August...
- School Transport
110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a refund will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53760/22]
- School Staff
111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a national school (details supplied) which was informed that it will be losing a developing-school post due to...
- Schools Building Projects
112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the new school building for a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; the date which her Department foresees the...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- School Meals Programme
113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of schools availing of the school meals local projects scheme; the number of applications for inclusion in the...
- Social Welfare Schemes
114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will confirm the systems that are in place for persons with disabilities who find it extremely difficult to get a...
- Social Welfare Appeals
115. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the invalidity review appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Benefits
116. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a backlog in applications for the fuel allowance (details supplied). [53644/22]
- Social Welfare Code
117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending child benefit to parents of children, who are over 18 years, in full-time education and still...
- Social Welfare Payments
118. 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); if she will note that the...
- Social Welfare Appeals
119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the disability allowance appeal claim by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Community Welfare Services
120. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the community welfare service will be reinstated to provide a walk-in community service in the newly refurbished unit in...
- School Meals Programme
122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 544 of 18 October 2022, if consideration will be given to extending the hot-meal scheme...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
123. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if Section 39 community workers can qualify for the fuel allowance payment through the jobs initiative scheme for the...
- Social Welfare Appeals
126. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will ensure that a domiciliary care allowance is awarded to a person (details supplied) without further delay. [53780/22]
- Social Welfare Benefits
127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that a supplementary welfare allowance is awarded for a person (details supplied) without further delay....
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Asylum Seekers
128. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will detail the five towns and or villages with the smallest populations that have taken in groups of...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
129. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Early Learning and Care services that have engaged with County Childcare Committees in relation to...
- Departmental Policies
130. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he intends to respond to the recommendations related to his Department in the Ballymun A Brighter Future...
- International Protection
131. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons in accommodation provided by the International Protection and Accommodation Service who...
- Direct Provision System
132. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 147 and 149 of 19 October 2022, if he will request the International...
- Ukraine War
133. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a commercial offer of accommodation for Ukrainian refugees (details supplied) has been examined by IPAS; and...
- Mother and Baby Homes
134. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an external review of the investigation into mother-and-baby homes will be undertaken; and if he will make a...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
135. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to any early years' services that have closed recently; the circumstances of...
- Ukraine War
140. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of modular units that will be delivered and in place by the end of 2022 to house Ukrainian refugees...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Further and Higher Education
144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be taken to include courses (details supplied) as approved free-fees courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Justice and Equality
- International Protection
145. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on a matter (details supplied) in relation to the number of persons seeking international protection in the State;...
- Legislative Reviews
146. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 184 of 19 October 2022, when this review may be published. [53611/22]
- An Garda Síochána
147. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda recruits who have actually started training in Templemore in each month for the past five years; the...
- Deportation Orders
148. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deportation orders issued; the number of deportation orders which were affected from 2004 to date in tabular...
- Immigration Policy
150. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reasoning behind her proposed amendment to the Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022 which would reduce...
- Naturalisation Applications
155. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will detail the parameters of the good character requirement in the naturalisation application process; if her...
- Immigration Status
158. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of stateless persons in the country from 2000 to date; and the number of stateless children in the country from 2000...
- Immigration Policy
159. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department plans to introduce a formal process for determining statelessness, a regularised system for recognising...
- International Protection
160. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of applications that were made under section 56 of the International Protection Act 2015 in 2021 and to date...
- Legislative Measures
161. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 330 of 6 October 2022, when a response will issue; and if she will make a statement on...
- Department of Health
- Disability Services
162. To ask the Minister for Health if a disability manager from CH07 disability services in the primary care critical support team can provide ongoing and necessary supports to persons (details...
- Health Services Staff
163. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the targeted recruitment of staff psychologists, clinical psychologists and administrative support staff by the HSE by CHO...
- Mental Health Services
164. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the national recruitment campaign to replenish the psychology assistant panel; the length of time this is expected to take; the...
- Medical Cards
165. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53610/22]
- Health Services
166. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to include adults with ADHD on the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53619/22]
- Disability Services
167. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the ongoing delay in the provision of promised therapists to a school (details supplied); and when they will finally be in place. [53624/22]
- Health Services
169. To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to respond to the recommendations related to his Department and the HSE in the Ballymun A Brighter Future Report commissioned by Dublin City...
- Disability Services
170. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 145 of 12 July 2022, the number of psychologists, dietitians, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech and...
- Protected Disclosures
173. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the progress that has been made to date on the investigation into allegations made by a whistle-blower in April 2020 as a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
174. To ask the Minister for Health the number of residents that tragically lost their lives to Covid during the Covid outbreak in a care centre (details supplied) in January 2021; if he will...
- Departmental Staff
176. To ask the Minister for Health the number of employees who are eligible to apply for the cycle to work scheme in his Department and the HSE in of the past five full calendar years from 2017...
- Vaccination Programme
177. To ask the Minister for Health if there is any subsidy for parents who wish to have their child vaccinated against meningococcal B (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Disability Services
178. To ask the Minister for Health if a speech and language appointment will be expedited for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53656/22]
- Vaccination Programme
179. To ask the Minister for Health if assistance will be provided in the case of a young person (details supplied) who has to pay for their HPV vaccines; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Disabilities Assessments
180. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a child (details supplied) is granted an earlier date for an assessment of need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53668/22]
- General Practitioner Services
181. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the lack of GP places; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53678/22]
- Health Services
182. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide clarification on a request by a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53717/22]
- Disability Services
183. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Donegal will obtain an appointment for occupational therapy services; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
184. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) is waiting so long for the Covid bonus payment for healthcare workers; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
185. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the integrated care hubs that are already operating or scheduled to open; the full staff compliment for each hub; the number of...
- Hospital Transfers
186. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be transferred from Letterkenny University Hospital to Galway University Hospital; and if he will make...
- Medical Cards
187. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to increase the threshold for the over 70s medical card to ensure that the increases in social welfare payments are not negated;...
- Health Services
188. To ask the Minister for Health the supports that are being provided to a family (details supplied). [53816/22]
- Medicinal Products
189. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports (details supplied) of increasing misuse of fentanyl; the steps that his Department is taking to combat abuse of this...
- Legislative Reviews
190. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish an independent review (details supplied) conducted as part of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 review. [53885/22]
- Vaccination Programme
191. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that all teachers, teaching and school staff are made eligible to receive a Covid-19 booster vaccination immediately. [53886/22]
- Wastewater Treatment
192. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to examine the implications of the EPA report on Urban Waste Water Treatment in 2021 and its findings on public health. [53887/22]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
193. To ask the Minister for Health the existing staffing levels in each of the long-Covid clinics and post-acute clinics established under the interim model of care for long-Covid, by role, in...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Animal Identification Schemes
194. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53696/22]
- Environmental Policy
195. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that farming organisations have not been engaged with by his Department in relation to the EU Nature Restoration Law...
- Forestry Sector
197. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the impact that the EU Restoration Law proposal may have on the 8,000 hectare per year afforestation target and...
- Live Exports
199. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will adopt recommendations by the veterinary official who accompanied a livestock shipment and the recommendations highlighted...
- Agriculture Schemes
201. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider including the purchase of fertiliser spreaders in the TAMS scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Wastewater Treatment
204. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking to examine the implications of the EPA report on Urban Waste Water Treatment in 2021 and its findings on...
- Forestry Sector
205. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 2116 of 8 September 2022, when he will be informing the Director-General of the Environment of...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Departmental Funding
207. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development in the context of a correspondence item sent to the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee (details supplied) by the Secretary General...
- Dormant Accounts Fund
208. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide details of the €210,000 that was secured through Social Inclusion Ireland from the dormant funds to fund a...
- Departmental Schemes
209. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when a community support grant funding application decision (details supplied) will be announced; and if she will make a statement on...
