Written answers
Thursday, 27 October 2022
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Enterprise Support Services
9. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has engaged with local enterprise offices on their funding allocation in Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement...
- Foreign Direct Investment
11. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the level of engagement that exists between his Department and the IDA to improve foreign direct investment in the midlands; and if he...
- Trade Data
15. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on post-Brexit trading patterns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53738/22]
- Foreign Direct Investment
16. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has a strategy to attract overseas investors to invest in Ireland's renewables sector; and if he will make a...
- Enterprise Support Services
17. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total budget allocated in 2021 to the funding of staff roles at the 31 local enterprise offices that are operated in a partnership...
- Cybersecurity Policy
18. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement that his Department has had with SMEs in relation to their cybersecurity measures given the heightened level of cyber...
- National Minimum Wage
21. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will support increasing the national minimum wage to €15 an hour in order that it becomes a living wage in the context of...
- Work Permits
22. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures that are being taken to address the shortage of care workers in Ireland; when work permit arrangements for non-EU-EEA...
- Renewable Energy Generation
23. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will detail engagement with Government colleagues regarding renewable sources of energy for businesses; and if he will make a...
- Work Permits
24. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he recently reviewed the critical skills list; his plans to expand the list to address skills shortages in Ireland; and if he...
- Energy Prices
25. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are any plans to consider sector-specific additional support in view of the continuing energy price inflation for the SME...
- Job Creation
26. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of new IDA jobs per county since 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53872/22]
- Employment Support Services
27. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the actions that he has taken to support and promote self-employment as a viable option for people with disabilities; and if he will...
- Trade Agreements
28. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current status of the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53596/22]
- Work Permits
29. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a breakdown of the number and category of employment permits that have been granted by his Department since January...
- Enterprise Support Services
32. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding the advance technology building for Tralee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53871/22]
- Departmental Strategies
33. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department is developing sectoral strategies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53402/22]
- EU Directives
34. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline his position regarding the EU Commission's proposal for a directive on corporate sustainability due diligence; and...
- Enterprise Support Services
35. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on IDA activities in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53897/22]
- Transport Policy
36. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that his Department is taking to complement the local government provision of local infrastructure and connectivity enabling...
- Departmental Schemes
37. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the take-up of the green transition fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53387/22]
- Economic Policy
38. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if assurances will be given that his Departmental officials will engage in the setting up of the southeast economic forum similar to...
- State Bodies
40. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has considered the introduction of the unified patent court; if plans are being made on holding a referendum on its...
- European Social Charter
42. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that his Department has taken to address the issues raised in the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission report to the...
- Official Engagements
44. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has met with representatives of an organisation (details supplied) since the opening of a European hub in Ireland; and if so,...
- Energy Prices
45. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline any future plans for energy cost supports and assistance for businesses; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Strategies
46. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied that Action 2.10 of the Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People with Disabilities is being implemented; and if...
- Industrial Development
47. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the work that is being carried out to promote the IDA's 240-acre strategic site at Athenry, County Galway, to international investors....
- Work Permits
48. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding the establishment of a work permits quota for bus drivers from non-EU and non-EEA countries given the shortage...
- Living Wage
49. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the introduction of a living wage; when he anticipates this to be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Digital Hubs
50. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which he and his Department engage with local authorities regarding the development of digital hubs; and if he will make...
- Living Wage
51. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the living wage recommendation proposed by the Living Wage Technical Group. [53831/22]
- Work Permits
52. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which efforts continue to be made to ensure the availability of adequate qualified staffing levels to meet the...
- Industrial Development
53. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has a policy in relation to the industrial promotion of the military arms industry in Ireland and if so, if ethical...
- Employment Rights
54. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that his Department is taking to ensure that there is oversight in relation to the use of algorithmic control to ensure that...
- Living Wage
55. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons who are currently employed for less than the living wage; and his plans to remedy this. [53845/22]
- Legislative Measures
57. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the changes that are being made to the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2021. [53832/22]
- Trade Data
58. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the exports of Irish-owned companies are being successfully diversified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53403/22]
- Job Creation
59. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the targets for delivery of IDA supported jobs in County Monaghan for 2023. [53597/22]
- Departmental Bodies
60. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to the publication of the review of the atypical scheme for non-EEA crew in the Irish fishing fleet, the status of the...
- Employment Rights
61. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 20 of 8 September 2022, if he will report on his Department's approach to the High Court...
- Human Rights
62. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 14 September 2022, the status of his Department’s engagement with the Department of...
- Proposed Legislation
64. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the new legislation on tips and service charges will be up-and-running. [53836/22]
- Work Permits
65. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the efforts to make it easier for employers to access work permits; and if he will make a statement on...
- State Bodies
66. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline his position with respect to the unitary patent system and the unified patent court; his plans to hold a referendum...
- Industrial Development
68. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on efforts by the IDA to attract inward investment to counties Cavan, Monaghan and Meath; and if he will...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Departmental Policies
80. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the Towns First Policy which was launched recently; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Rural Schemes
81. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the Programme for Government’s commitment for an expanded town and village renewal scheme to bring vacant and...
- Greenways Provision
84. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the proposed works for the Mell greenway, Drogheda, for which Louth County Council received €200,000 through the...
- Rural Schemes
85. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the progress of the town and village renewal scheme. [53399/22]
- Departmental Policies
86. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the roll-out of the Towns First Policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53707/22]
- Public Transport
87. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on her engagement with the Department of Transport to improve rural public transport services and pilot...
- Island Communities
88. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the Islands’ Action Plan. [53613/22]
- Community Development Projects
89. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the up-to-date position on the pilot scheme to support community hubs being established in rural pubs which was being run in...
- Regional Development
90. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the degree to which she continues to fund infrastructure throughout the country in such a way as to encourage the retention of jobs and...
- Departmental Funding
91. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the enhanced Community Centres Investment Fund for the delivery of new build community centres, promised under Budget 2023, will...
- Departmental Schemes
92. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will report on the progress of establishing town teams under the Town Centres First Initiative; and if she will make a statement...
- Departmental Strategies
93. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on her Department’s progress in implementing Action 128 of the Mid-Term Review of the National...
- Library Services
94. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the long-term plans for the Drogheda library; if larger alternate sites are currently being considered...
- Departmental Programmes
95. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will detail some of the successes of the social inclusion and community activation programme since its creation; the impact that...
- Cost of Living Issues
96. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the details of the way that her Department's Budget 2023 measures will benefit persons living in rural areas in dealing with the...
- Community Development Projects
97. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has conducted any examination or reviews into the benefits of the community wealth-building model as a template for...
- Broadband Infrastructure
98. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the work of the Broadband Mobile Phone Task Force, particularly the work being that is being carried out to provide...
- Departmental Policies
99. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her intended timeframe to implement an effective rural proofing model. [53599/22]
- Harbours and Piers
100. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the work that her Department has undertaken to provide a short-term solution regarding Céibh an...
- Community Development Projects
101. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the work that her Department has undertaken to ensure greater connectivity between rural and urban communities in terms of local...
- Island Communities
102. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 15 September 2022, the status of the new policy for the islands; if she will provide an...
- Rural Schemes
104. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will examine the possibility of new CLÁR designations for additional villages in the west of Ireland; and if she will make...
- Departmental Programmes
106. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the position regarding the processing of the applications for the new restructured Community Services Programme funding model; and if...
- Community Development Projects
109. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the LEADER Programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53709/22]
- Public Transport
111. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the engagement that she has had with Department of Transport on the lack of rural transport as a consequence of private bus operators...
- Derelict Sites
112. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will establish a grant scheme towards the renovation of derelict rural properties for the purposes of providing tourism...
- Rural Schemes
113. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her views on increasing the annual funding for the CLÁR programme. [53614/22]
- Departmental Policies
115. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which she continues to liaise with urban and rural communities with a view to addressing such concerns as isolation and...
- Official Engagements
116. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will report on her recent attendance at the OECD rural conference. [49953/22]
- Island Communities
117. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will meet a delegation from Inis Oirr to discuss the deficits in infrastructure on the island that need special support from...
- Road Projects
118. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on local improvement scheme waiting lists per county; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Public Sector Pay
119. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her views on the remuneration of staff at Pobal. [44811/22]
- Departmental Schemes
120. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the roll-out of the town centre first initiative; and when a fresh round of calls is planned. [53401/22]
- Rural Recreation Policy
121. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the engagement that she has had with the stakeholders of a local amenity (details supplied) to include it under the outdoor recreation...
- Departmental Funding
122. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if any efforts will be made to provide an organisation (details supplied) based in County Donegal with an alternative source of...
- Recycling Policy
123. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will report on the progress of the pilot Bike and E-Bike Upcycling Initiative; if she is considering extending the scheme; and...
- Poverty Impact Assessment
124. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the instruments being used by her Department to identify and address intergenerational poverty; and if she will make a statement on...
- Departmental Strategies
126. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the role that her Department is taking in the National Drugs Strategy. [53843/22]
- Flexible Work Practices
127. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on her efforts to support remote working; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52968/22]
- Harbours and Piers
128. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 103 of 15 September 2022, if she will provide an update on the development of the pier on Inis...
- Island Communities
131. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the Islands Strategy; when the Strategy will be published; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Rural Schemes
132. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the work of the town and village renewal scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Energy Prices
133. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the approximate number of community groups that are eligible for the Enhanced Community Group Fund to help with energy costs. [53844/22]
- Rural Recreation Policy
134. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the efforts that her Department is making in Coillte owned forest parks across the country; her views on the tourism and economic...
- Community Development Projects
135. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her views on increasing the annual funding for the Leader programme. [53615/22]
- Tidy Towns
137. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the measures that are being considered in providing grant assistance to support the important work carried out by local tidy towns...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Cost of Living Issues
139. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which individual cost items have been identified where small or sole trade enterprises are under increasing pressure...
- Departmental Funding
140. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide details of any funding received by a company (details supplied) from Enterprise Ireland or other agencies in the...
- National Standards Authority of Ireland
141. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the average wait time for approval by the National Standards Authority of Ireland of new bio-based construction materials. [53932/22]
- Workplace Relations Commission
143. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider making recommendations made by the Workplace Relations Commission obligatory to be honoured where it finds...
- Cost of Living Issues
144. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which support is being made available to small businesses including sole traders who are under economic pressure...
- Small and Medium Enterprises
145. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which he and his Department continue to encourage employment in various small enterprises in towns and villages...
- Economic Growth
150. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the degree to which he and his Department have identified specific issues which are currently inhibiting the growth of employment,...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Energy Policy
151. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the implementation of the clean-export guarantee tariff to allow payment for...
- Emergency Services
152. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of times that the ECAS call system has been down in the past five years and when did these happen; and for...
- Environmental Policy
153. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department would consider introducing legislation to ban specific devices in domestic settings where they could...
- Fuel Prices
154. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans, if any, to engage with the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities to seek a reversal of charges (details...
- Exploration Industry
155. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has determined the viability of proven undeveloped gas accumulations in areas of the Celtic sea...
- Post Office Network
156. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when in 2023 can post offices expect to receive the €10 million financial support package; if he will outline...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
157. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he proposes to publish sectoral emission ceilings for the current carbon budget period 2021-2025, as required...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Electric Vehicles
158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the level of engagement that his Department has had with the Department of Transport and the Department of the Environment, Climate and...
- National Car Test
159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average waiting time to access an NCT appointment; if he accepts that reported six-month delays on an annual test risk compromising...
- Legislative Measures
160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the recent commitment by the assistant Garda commissioner to provide an online portal for the submission of dashcam evidence...
- Public Transport
161. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a timeline for the expansion of the public bike scheme (details supplied) in County Cork. [53982/22]
- Electric Vehicles
162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of electric vehicle charging points that are currently in operation in Ireland; the targets that have been set by Government;...
- Rail Network
167. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which he will publish the all-island rail review; and the amount expended on the review to date.; and if he will make a...
- Airport Policy
168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the review his Department have undertaken on restoring Irish Government funding for the City of Derry...
- Road Projects
169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm that the Irish Government is still committed to co-funding the upgrade of the A5 road in the North of Ireland, as...
- Dublin Bus
170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will use whatever powers that are available to him to urgently compel CIÉ Dublin Bus to refurbish and bring Nos. 10-13...
- National Car Test
171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that he is taking to reduce the waiting times at NCT test centres throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on...
- Department of Finance
- Budget 2023
172. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reconsider the BIK changes introduced in Budget 2023 which will have a huge impact on workers during the cost-of-living crisis. [53902/22]
- Energy Prices
173. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make provision for small group water schemes (details supplied) in the temporary business energy support scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
- Departmental Bodies
174. To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects to appoint the new members of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeals to be appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Tax Credits
177. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that a person (details supplied) in County Cork is not eligible to claim the incapacitated childcare credit given that they have two children in...
- Tax Exemptions
178. To ask the Minister for Finance if homeowners awaiting the 'taking-in-charge' of estates, the process of which is taking an inordinately long period of time, can be exempt from paying local...
- Primary Medical Certificates
179. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline in full the qualifying criteria for a primary medical certificate. [54082/22]
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- An Garda Síochána
180. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of vacant and derelict buildings respectively by county in the ownership of An Garda Síochána. [54056/22]
- Public Sector Pensions
181. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it is possible for pensioners to get a printed copy of their civil service pension payments in the event that they are not available...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Broadcasting Sector
182. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will remove the broadcasting levy applied to independent radio given that it is estimated to cost the sector approximately...
- Heritage Policy
183. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide details of her engagements with the Minister for Foreign Affairs concerning negotiations with governments of...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Grant Payments
184. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the terms of the grant to build accommodation for a person with a severe disability, or to substantially...
- Housing Provision
185. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of units that have been purchased by local authorities under part V in the past five years, in tabular form by...
- Departmental Data
186. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of HAP recipients who have received the increased discretionary rate since the change to the HAP discretion rate...
- Vacant Properties
187. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of residential voids within social housing stock for each of the local authorities throughout the country at...
- National Monuments
188. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of meetings at which the national monument section of his Department or his Department generally was represented on...
- Defective Building Materials
189. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will amend the legislation or regulations that limit the reconstruction of homes with defective blocks to the same...
- Departmental Reports
190. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will publish the Mulcahy Report into alleged planning corruption in Donegal; and the actions that he plans to take...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Foreign Birth Registration
191. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a foreign birth registration certificate will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Passport Services
192. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive their passport card which was applied for several months ago. [53956/22]
- Northern Ireland
193. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts that his Department is making to restore the Executive in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54077/22]
- Human Rights
194. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details of his engagement with the Ambassador for the Islamic Republic of Iran concerning recent protests for women's...
- Department of Education and Skills
- School Accommodation
195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the application for additional accommodation for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54091/22]
- Tax and Social Welfare Codes
196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm what home tutors are considered self-employed for tax and pension purposes when engaged in the July Provision/Summer...
- Schools Building Projects
197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the progress of a new school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Funding
199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options that are available for schools who are continuing to experience a shortfall in funding despite measures introduced in Budget 2023 and...
- School Transport
200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made in relation to the provision of a school bus ticket for a person in County Louth (details supplied); and if she will...
- Special Educational Needs
201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a lack of secondary school places for children coming from special schools in Cork city. [53954/22]
- School Transport
202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to deal with contracting issues on the Bus Éireann school transport scheme that have resulted in pupils being left without...
- Disadvantaged Status
203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons that a primary school (details supplied) has not been granted DEIS status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53958/22]
- School Transport
204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will directly intervene in the cases of two school transport routes (details supplied) where children are left without a means to get the...
- Teaching Council of Ireland
205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the pathway that is available to registration with the Teaching Council for a person (details supplied) that has completed a masters in teaching...
- School Transport
206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on an appeal filed by a person (details supplied) in County Louth on a decision not to provide school transport; and...
- School Staff
207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter in relation to incremental credit (details supplied). [53964/22]
- Home Schooling
208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to instituting a review to classify home tutors as employees of her Department in view that continuity of work is...
- School Accommodation
214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will be provided with ten extra classrooms as agreed with her Department; if the delivery of the classrooms will...
- Third Level Education
215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider funding all trainee educational psychologists, as has recently been announced for trainee counselling psychologists; the...
- Education Policy
217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are Departmental guidelines in relation to the length of classes at second level (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
- Teaching Council of Ireland
218. 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. [54003/22]
- Schools Building Projects
219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm the schedule now being followed in respect of plans for a new school building at (details supplied); if she will appreciate...
- Special Educational Needs
221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason behind the change to assessment of need applications as recently communicated to schools by the NCSE; her views that it is appropriate...
- School Staff
222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a teacher returning from teaching outside the EU would be denied an application for incremental credit on the basis of having...
- School Accommodation
223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the board of management of a school (details supplied) will be entitled to rent additional space in order to accommodate the students in the...
- Derelict Sites
224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vacant and derelict buildings respectively by county in the ownership of her Department in tabular form. [54058/22]
- Child Abuse
226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that she is taking to ensure that all moneys pledged by religious orders to address the cost of compensation of historical abuse cases...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Eligibility
227. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for DCA in the case of a person (details supplied) can be re-examined on the basis of the strong medical...
- United Nations
228. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her response to the campaign from an organisation (details supplied) highlighting the UN International Day for the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
229. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review a working family payment re-application (details supplied); and if she will provide an update on this...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
230. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the entitlements that are available to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Redundancy Payments
231. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the decision in relation to a statutory redundancy entitlement appeal in relation to a person (details...
- Social Welfare Payments
232. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an allowance payment for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Schemes
235. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to any scheme or funding available to assist a family whose home has been extensively damaged...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
236. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for fuel allowance has been received from a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if the applicant...
- Public Sector Pensions
237. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if community welfare officers who formerly worked under the HSE and paid a 5% contribution between 2011 and 2015 without any...
- Social Welfare Benefits
238. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a carer's benefit payment will be reinstated in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
241. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) qualifies for household benefits and fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
243. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an exceptional needs payment will be available in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Childcare Services
244. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that the national childcare scheme subsidy is paid based on hours attended rather than hours paid...
- Child and Family Agency
245. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53966/22]
- Ukraine War
246. 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...
- Public Transport
251. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of his engagement with the Minister for Transport concerning the provision of public...
- Mother and Baby Homes
252. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of the religious orders that he is engaged with concerning making payments to the...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Technological Universities
254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 178 of 19 October 2022, if any consideration has been given to keeping the Aungier Street campus in public...
- Energy Prices
255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that are available for adult education groups (details supplied) struggling with the rising cost of energy; and if he will make a...
- Further and Higher Education
256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the additional 50 bursaries of €5,000 per student for the most disadvantaged students including those with...
- Ukraine War
259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the assistance that will be given to students who previously studied in Ukrainian universities to enable them to continue their studies at the...
- Departmental Consultations
260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will establish a working group in advance of the publication of the newly proposed Research Bill; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Vacant Properties
261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vacant and derelict buildings respectively by each of the universities in tabular form. [54052/22]
- Third Level Fees
263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students that are repeating a year and are therefore not covered by the free fees' initiative are eligible for the €1,000 fee...
- Public Transport
265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of his engagement with the Minister for Transport concerning the provision of public transport services for disabled...
- Grant Payments
266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason only half of the higher education grant was paid in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Deportation Orders
267. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to a previous parliamentary question, if she will again consider the case of a person (details supplied); and if she...
- Residency Permits
269. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the Afghan Admission Programme; and her plans to extend it for persons wishing to leave that jurisdiction. [53920/22]
- Citizenship Applications
270. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a citizenship application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [53980/22]
- An Garda Síochána
271. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda numbers by rank, in each station in Cork city and county, in tabular form; and the number of cars and bikes in each...
- Asylum Seekers
272. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the veracity that exists to anecdotal claims made statements by members of the public that suggest up to 40% of asylum seekers...
- Vacant Properties
273. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vacant and derelict buildings respectively by county in the ownership of the Probation Services, the Irish Prison...
- Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
274. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied) which indicates a 7% increase in 2021 on the numbers contacting...
- Residency Permits
275. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current and or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
- Visa Applications
276. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a stamp 4 will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54122/22]
- Department of Health
- Health Strategies
277. To ask the Minister for Health the specific actions that his Department will take in relation to the iNAP2 plan, to ensure that cross-discipline research is enabled. [53904/22]
- Health Services
279. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53911/22]
- Hospital Admissions
280. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a timeline of admission for (details supplied) to the National Rehabilitation Centre, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Funding
281. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that are available to support an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53939/22]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
282. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to tackle the long waiting lists for audiology tests; his plans to establish a Departmental working group to assist in developing a cohesive,...
- Mental Health Services
283. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the psychiatric services in Dublin, which are working with children and adolescents, outside the Dublin CAMHS units; if he will provide an...
- Nursing Homes
284. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the list of 128 nursing homes of concern that HIQA provided the HSE as stated by the 2020 expert panel; the number of those homes that went...
- Hospital Admissions
287. To ask the Minister for Health the number of concerns that were received from directors of nursing regarding the non-transfer of residents to hospital who they felt had potential to benefit...
- Nursing Homes
288. To ask the Minister for Health if further funding will be made available to a nursing home (details supplied) to enable it to cover increasing costs and to avoid it being forced to increase...
- Departmental Bodies
289. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the minutes of the meetings held to date by the national working group developing policy and lists on aids and appliances for the year 2021...
- Legislative Reviews
291. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 334 of 20 October 2022, if he will confirm that a person (details supplied) is carrying-out the second phase of the...
- Nursing Homes
292. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration is being given to reforming the nursing homes support scheme, also known as fair deal; if so, the timeline that he is working towards; and if...
- Legislative Measures
293. To ask the Minister for Health if he has identified a timeline for updating the Dental Act 1985, as committed to in the national oral health policy in 2019; and if he will make a statement...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
294. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 248 of 28 September 2022, the status of the payment of the Covid-19 recognition payment to eligible workers in non-HSE...
- Medical Cards
295. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the expiry date on a medical card issued to a person (details supplied) until such time as the card renewal process is completed; and if a...
- Ukraine War
296. To ask the Minister for Health if trained medics amongst the Ukrainian community, including nurses, doctors and so on, could be allowed to practice in centres around the country, provided...
- Hospital Services
297. To ask the Minister for Health if discussions are expected to allow cataract operations to be carried-out privately in Ireland to medical-card patients and reimbursed to persons, in the same...
- Hospital Staff
299. To ask the Minister for Health the whole-time equivalent number of speech and language therapists for in-patients that have been available at Monaghan Hospital on the first day of each month...
- Emergency Departments
300. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for temporary facilities expected to be utilised to house the emergency department in the Mercy Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Service Executive
301. To ask the Minister for Health the number of independent investigations finalised by the HSE since January 2019; the reason that such investigations were carried out; the persons/companies...
- Health Services
302. To ask the Minister for Health when the National Cervical Screening Laboratory will open; the fully staffed annual testing capacity of the laboratory; the number of samples sent abroad for...
- Vacant Properties
303. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant and derelict buildings owned by the HSE and his Department respectively by each CHO in tabular form. [54054/22]
- Abortion Services
305. To ask the Minister for Health the number of initial consultations for termination of pregnancy services that were provided by general practitioners, family planning clinics and women's...
- Hospital Appointments Status
306. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who has been referred, by their rheumatologist, to see a pain specialist at St. John's...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
307. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make a commitment that the pandemic bonus payment of €1,000 will be paid to all those entitled to receive it by the end of 2022; and if he...
- Medical Cards
308. To ask the Minister for Health when an emergency medical card application will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54113/22]
- Disability Services
309. To ask the Minister for Health when speech, language and occupational therapy will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Departmental Strategies
310. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the specific actions that his Department will take in relation to the iNAP2 plan, to ensure that cross-discipline research is...
- Forestry Sector
312. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that the Forest Service does not routinely require the licensee to provide his Department with notification of when...
- Agriculture Schemes
315. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to reviewing the proposed ten-unit cap on milking parlours under the TAMS scheme, in view of this...
- Fishing Industry
316. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 866 of 18 October 2022, if he will provide clarification; and if he will make a statement on...
- Agriculture Schemes
317. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the timeframe for applications for a scheme (details supplied) can be extended; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Pension Provisions
319. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will assist in securing a rise for the pensions of retired Coillte employees (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Horse Racing Industry
320. 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. [54009/22]
- Forestry Sector
321. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the New Forestry programme will be launched as the sector has been anxiously awaiting the launch of the new Programme which is a...
- Greyhound Industry
323. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of the 4,859 samples taken from racing greyhounds at race meetings, sales meeting, private kennels and trails in 2021,...
- Forestry Sector
326. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the area of GPC3 plantations which have been approved by his Department since 1 January 2022 that have not yet progressed to...
- Agriculture Industry
329. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his response to an organisation's (details supplied) concerns regarding the cut in beef prices that farmers receive in factors and...
- Fishing Industry
330. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions that he is taking to prohibit pair trawling inside the six-mile limit. [54095/22]
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Departmental Funding
331. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which funding made available prior to or in the course of the recent budget is likely to benefit urban and rural...
- Rural Schemes
332. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a club was put forward for CLÁR funding (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53962/22]
- Departmental Schemes
333. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which she continues to address urban and rural community needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54135/22]
- Flexible Work Practices
338. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the degree to which she continues to assist towards the provision of communication hubs at local level to assist in the provision of...
- Departmental Schemes
341. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which she has received new applications for support from rural and community-based groups which might be affected by...
- Cross-Border Co-operation
342. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development given the recently produced "iCommunity" policy supported by the Northern Ireland Department for Communities, and by the shared Island...
- Departmental Meetings
343. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of times there have been direct meetings between her Department and the Northern Ireland Communities Minister (details...
