Written answers

Tuesday, 8 November 2022

  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Departmental Functions
      2. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on representations made by him to An Taoiseach in respect of the establishment of a climate action unit...
    • Energy Policy
      14. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures that he is putting in place to ensure gas supply this winter, given the unexplained Nord Stream explosions...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      15. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has examined a recent report on offshore wind energy (details supplied); if recent withdrawals by named...
    • Post Codes
      16. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps that he is taking to ensure that new Eircodes are assigned in a timely manner rather than in batches every few...
    • Energy Conservation
      17. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions that his Department has taken to ensure that SEAI schemes will not see homeowners forced to pay upfront the...
    • Energy Prices
      18. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he, along with the CRU, has implemented protections or identified solutions to households that hold pay-as-you-go...
    • Climate Change Policy
      19. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 83 of 20 September 2022, the details of any engagement he has had since September...
    • Electricity Grid
      20. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are plans for the development of an electricity grid in the west of Ireland to facilitate the transfer to...
    • Offshore Exploration
      21. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current status of licensing new exploration of offshore gas in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Broadband Plan
      22. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of plans to fast-track the National Broadband Plan; the impact that this will have on Ireland’s carbon...
    • Departmental Licences
      23. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeline for processing Maritime Area Consent applications in his Department currently; and if he will make a...
    • National Broadband Plan
      24. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the rollout of the National Broadband Plan to include the number of premises passed; and...
    • Energy Policy
      25. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has engaged with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities on steps being taken to deter electricity and gas...
    • National Broadband Plan
      26. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is satisfied with the pace of the roll-out of the national broadband plan; the measures that are being taken to...
    • Fuel Sales
      27. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the impact for rural households of the ban on the sale of turf given the rising cost of all fuels; and if...
    • Energy Policy
      28. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to provide supports for district heating schemes to move to more cost-effective sources of energy; and if he...
    • Grant Payments
      29. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the plans regarding the provision of grants to install LED lighting for sports clubs across the country, with a view to...
    • Departmental Schemes
      30. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the clean export guarantee as part of the micro-generation support scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Electricity Grid
      31. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to develop strategies to develop grid infrastructure to advance and accelerate the deployment of offshore wind...
    • Energy Policy
      32. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the negotiations from the EU Energy Council negotiations on decoupling gas from...
    • National Broadband Plan
      33. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which broadband provision throughout the country is progressing as intended; if efforts continue to bridge...
    • Energy Policy
      34. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he will bring his security of energy supply recommendations to Government; and if he will report on the review of...
    • Departmental Bodies
      35. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the work of the district heating steering group; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Energy Conservation
      36. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to deal with the waiting list for the better energy warmer homes scheme; and the expected increase in demand...
    • National Broadband Plan
      37. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on broadband roll-out in Dublin south-west with particular reference to the rural mountains...
    • Fuel Sales
      38. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures that retailers with unsold smoky coal and other prohibited fuels are now expected to take with their...
    • Energy Policy
      39. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the redistribution of energy profits, especially those of the Corrib gas field; and if...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has had any communication with the Port of Cork authorities in relation to their support for an LNG...
    • Litter Pollution
      42. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the ways in which his Department supports measures to reduce the amount of litter on rural roads; and if he will make a...
    • National Broadband Plan
      43. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department’s position on the National Broadband Plan has changed or whether it remains the same (details...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      44. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 138 of 7 April 2022, the details of the RESS 1 community projects which have...
    • Climate Change Negotiations
      45. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the Government’s plans with regard to supporting a loss-and-damage finance facility at COP27; and if he will make...
    • Climate Change Policy
      46. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 107 of 20 September 2022, the status of the promised statutory guidelines for...
    • Climate Change Negotiations
      47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the goals and objectives of the Government for COP27; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55199/22]
    • National Broadband Plan
      48. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the projected number of premises that will be passed by 31 December 2022 by the NBI in its roll-out of high-speed...
    • Climate Change Policy
      50. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which he continues to ensure a balance between meeting emission reduction targets and ensuring the future...
    • Energy Prices
      51. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has examined bringing the Corrib gas field into public ownership on a temporary basis to control gas prices in...
    • Export Controls
      52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his proposals to reduce the amount of polyethylene terephthalate, PET, plastic exported from Ireland; if he has...
    • Grant Payments
      53. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of SEAI grants that have been granted in 2022; the average waiting time per application; the number of...
    • National Broadband Plan
      54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the roll-out of high speed rural broadband in Cork South West. [55046/22]
    • Energy Conservation
      57. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures that are being taken to address the continuing delays in works commencing for applications under the free...
    • National Broadband Plan
      58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the national broadband plan roll-out in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Public Sector Staff
      63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagements and meetings that he has held with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, relating to...
    • Energy Prices
      64. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he intends to increase the arrears limit on pre-pay electricity and gas meters to ensure that these households are...
    • Climate Change Policy
      65. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has examined the recent UN report which found that globally, the world is nowhere near reaching targets of...
    • National Broadband Plan
      66. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a comprehensive update on the roll-out of the National Broadband Plan. [47027/22]
    • Energy Prices
      67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which individuals and families living in multi-resident accommodation where there are separate electricity...
    • Climate Change Policy
      68. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on a report (details supplied) by an organisation. [55379/22]
    • Fuel Poverty
      69. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps that he is taking to address fuel poverty in homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47188/22]
    • Air Quality
      70. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of air quality monitoring stations that are being monitored by his Department in County Cork; the specific...
    • Departmental Funding
      71. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of successful applicants to the Climate Action Fund in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      72. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 150 of 20 September 2022, the status of the preparation of the finalised terms of...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Ukraine War
      73. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department and all bodies under his Department’s aegis have reviewed their estates' portfolio in the context of identifying unoccupied buildings that may be...
    • Departmental Properties
      74. To ask the Taoiseach the number and type of unused and or unoccupied buildings in his Department’s estates’ portfolio and all bodies under his Department’s aegis. [54243/22]
    • Live Register
      75. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons registered as unemployed at each employment exchange in County Mayo on the last convenient date and if he will provide comparative figures for the...
    • Departmental Staff
      76. To ask the Taoiseach the number of officials in his Department who have undertaken the Harvard Business School advanced management programme in the past ten years to date; the...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Ukraine War
      77. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department and all bodies under his Department’s aegis have reviewed their estates' portfolio in the context of...
    • Work Permits
      79. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if it is permissible for workers who are subject to work visas and permits, to be centrally contracted by recruitment agencies, and...
    • Employment Data
      80. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons employed within IDA and Enterprise Ireland-backed companies within County Mayo; and if he will make a statement...
    • Work Permits
      81. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if consideration will be given to extending the quota for employment permit applications for the role of dairy farm assistant, in view...
    • Consumer Protection
      83. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the rights and recourse opportunities available to consumers who have been affected by substandard building or contractor works, or...
    • Work Permits
      84. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the frequency with which a review of the critical skills and ineligible occupations list is undertaken; the date of the most recent...
    • National Minimum Wage
      85. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of criminal prosecutions that there has been for offences set out in the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 since its...
    • Work Permits
      86. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to remove home care workers from the Ineligible Occupations List, following publication of the Report of the Strategic...
    • National Standards Authority of Ireland
      87. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current names of the members of National Standards Authority of Ireland committee that are now reviewing I.S. 465 and details on...
    • Employment Rights
      88. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 14 September 2022, if he will provide an update on the meeting between the Commission and...
    • State Bodies
      89. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of form RBN3 processed by the companies Registration Office in each of the years 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, by county...
    • Public Sector Staff
      90. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of full-time vacant forensic accounts and enforcement lawyers in the Corporate Enforcement Authority as of 31 October 2022;...
    • Work Permits
      91. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that he is taking to address the bus driver shortage in Ireland; if he will address the delays in issuing work permits for...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      93. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will ensure that the supports available to employees with disabilities are offered in comparable forms to self-employed disabled...
    • Departmental Staff
      95. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of officials in his Department who have undertaken the Harvard Business School advanced management programme...
    • Work Permits
      96. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will arrange to have an employment permit issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Grant Payments
      99. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland insulation grant will be extended beyond 2011 up to and including homes...
    • Energy Conservation
      100. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will list the energy efficiency obligated entities for the most recent year for which data is available; the...
    • Ukraine War
      103. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department and all bodies under his Department’s aegis have reviewed their estates' portfolio in the...
    • Energy Prices
      105. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that energy providers are continued to be permitted to set the rate at which they purchase electricity back...
    • Departmental Consultations
      106. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the consultation on the wild salmon and sea trout tagging scheme regulations for 2023 will commence; and if he...
    • Grant Payments
      108. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the disbursement of grant funding for the remediation of environmentally-degraded...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      109. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the Poolbeg west strategic development zone is ready for supply to the Dublin district heating system; and if he...
    • Bord na Móna
      110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he or any of his officials had any engagement with Bord na Móna on the employee share scheme. [54444/22]
    • Energy Conservation
      111. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of applications that have been approved for the national home energy upgrade scheme to date in 2022; the...
    • Inshore Fisheries
      114. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the tourist angling measure funding for the Clare river system has delivered the 37 galvanised metal stream...
    • Energy Conservation
      115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that obligated parties are being removed from the better energy scheme; if an assessment has been made...
    • Climate Action Plan
      116. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a date has been set for the publication of the climate action plan 2023; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • North-South Interconnector
      117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will review correspondence from Monaghan County Council regarding the North South Interconnector (details...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the qualifications and experience of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be accepted by the Sustainable...
    • Energy Prices
      119. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if electricity credits provided for in Budget 2023 will be decoupled from MPRNs in the case where multiple individual...
    • Departmental Schemes
      120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the full scheme design for the microgeneration support scheme will be published; and if he will make a statement...
    • Energy Conservation
      126. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 34 of 27 September 2022, the status of the heat and built environment delivery...
    • Energy Policy
      128. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the development of the new action plan on energy poverty; the timeline for the publication of the action...
    • Energy Prices
      129. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to groups of housing units being charged commercial rates for gas usage; if he intends...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      130. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress that is being made in signing-off on pension increases due to retired An Post workers; and if he will make...
    • Legislative Measures
      131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views in relation to the penalties regarding new legislation around solid fuels (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Post Office Network
      132. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will seek an urgent implementation of the Private Members’ Motion passed by Dáil Éireann in...
    • National Broadband Plan
      133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on Broadband roll-out in an area of DSW, with particular reference to the rural mountains...
    • Departmental Licences
      134. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current status of the Barryroe oilfield application for drilling licence; if a decision has been issued; if not,...
    • Energy Prices
      138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which he has had discussions with his colleagues at EU level on the ever-increasing energy prices and...
    • Post Office Network
      140. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline his engagements with the Minister for Finance concerning An Post being a provider of community...
    • Energy Prices
      141. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the European Union energy crisis from an European Union perspective; the financial...
    • Energy Policy
      142. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to identify the research needs of the emerging hydrogen economy, particularly in the area of economic...
    • Departmental Staff
      144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of officials in his Department who have undertaken the Harvard Business School advanced...
    • Energy Conservation
      145. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps which he is taking to reduce the cost of insulating homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Strategies
      146. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of Ireland’s first clean-air strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47191/22]
    • Job Creation
      147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the discussions which he has had with stakeholders regarding the replacement of jobs in the midlands following the...
    • Fuel Sales
      148. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a person can sell a bag of turf at a market (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55556/22]
    • Energy Policy
      149. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the just transition arrangements and supports that are in place for registered coal merchants; and if he will make a...
    • National Broadband Plan
      151. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which the provision of broadband on a country-wide basis is proceeding according to plan; and if he will...
    • Telecommunications Services
      156. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which mobile telephone services remain good when compared with other European Union Member States or...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      157. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which emission reduction targets are being met or otherwise; if further steps are required to achieve...
    • Energy Prices
      161. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which he and his Department have identified the reasons given by energy providers for recent price...
    • Waste Management
      162. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which domestic waste is currently referred for incineration or landfill sites; the intended progression...
    • Electricity Generation
      163. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the percentage of electricity generation in this country now relying on non-fossil fuel sources; and if he will make a...
    • Energy Conservation
      166. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the low-interest loans to enable homes to retrofit will be available; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Traffic Offences
      168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the establishment of an online portal, in light of Assistant Garda Commissioner Paula Hillman's comments to the Joint...
    • Road Network
      169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will devise a scheme to allow funding applications from local authority for road improvements based on traffic data, especially...
    • National Transport Authority
      170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that funding applications to the National Transport Authority are given a three-week turnaround time; and if he will make a...
    • Ukraine War
      171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department and all bodies under his Department’s aegis have reviewed their estates' portfolio in the context of identifying...
    • Departmental Properties
      172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number and type of unused and or unoccupied buildings in his Department’s estates’ portfolio and all bodies under his...
    • Airport Security
      173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date that the next recruitment campaign will commence in respect of airport police officers; and the number of airport police in this...
    • Legislative Reviews
      176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to review the Commercial Vehicle Roadworthiness (Vehicle Testing) (No. 2) Regulations 2013, in view of the current...
    • Cycling Policy
      177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe for the expansion of the public bike scheme to the Blackrock, Mahon, Douglas and Rochestown areas in Cork city. [54270/22]
    • Public Transport
      178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will respond to a person (details supplied) who contacted this Deputy regarding transport needs in County Donegal to get to and...
    • Road Projects
      180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the construction phase of a refurbishment and lighting project will commence on a bridge (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
    • Public Transport
      181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will examine proposals for improved public transport connectivity from a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will...
    • Dublin Bus
      184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the projected date of operation for route 22 under the redesigned Dublin Network BusConnects plan; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Cycling Facilities
      185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide for a cycle lane and footpath to a sports club (details supplied) in Prosperous, County Kildare. [54414/22]
    • Flood Risk Management
      186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a meeting will be arranged with the OPW to progress a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Transport
      187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied). [54487/22]
    • Driver Test
      188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will examine a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54525/22]
    • Road Projects
      192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on planned upgrade works to the N4 between Mullingar and Longford. [54596/22]
    • Departmental Data
      193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 210 of 25 October 2022, the number of disqualification court orders received from the Courts...
    • Public Transport
      194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to introduce tap-and-go Leap card machines at all train stations across the State, to ensure that passengers can move...
    • Fuel Prices
      195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will urgently seek approval to reintroduce the fuel cost subsidy or to reform the diesel rebate scheme; the additional measures...
    • Electric Vehicles
      196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps being taken to remove the barriers to having a fast electric vehicle charging point made available in Thurles, County...
    • Bus Services
      197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will install a bus gate at Mount Brown as a trial measure under section 38 of the Road Traffic Act 1961 to improve the new G-spine...
    • Driver Test
      198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when additional resources will be provided for a centre (details supplied) given that there are unacceptable delays in appointments,...
    • Road Network
      199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the preferred option will be selected for approval on the section of road on the N17 between Castleoye and Temple House Crossroads,...
    • Work Permits
      200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 48 of 27 October 2022, if his Department is liaising with the public employment service of the...
    • Ukraine War
      201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of certificates of professional competence that have issued to Ukrainian lorry drivers now based in Ireland to enable them to...
    • Driver Licences
      203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when certificate of professional competence courses for lorry drivers will be carried out online; the reason they are not carried out...
    • Taxi Licences
      205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered allowing the transferring of taxi licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54921/22]
    • Driver Test
      206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps, if any, that are being taken to alleviate the current long waiting lists for applicants who are endeavouring to apply for a...
    • Cycling Facilities
      207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has engaged with Dublin Airport regarding the availability of cycling equipment and infrastructure in the airport; and if he will...
    • Public Transport
      208. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if additional funding will be provided to expand the public transport operating times across counties Dublin, Kildare, Meath and Wicklow...
    • Legislative Measures
      210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 211 of 25 October 2022, if he will confirm the person or body that are the stakeholders mentioned....
    • Bus Services
      211. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of performance bonuses paid to a company (details supplied) for the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in...
    • Public Transport
      218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will take responsibility for ensuring fully accessible transport, including door-to-door services, under his remit to ensure full...
    • Bus Services
      219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request the reinstatement of the Bus Éireann service for Callan, County Kilkenny, given the significant impact that the...
    • Road Projects
      220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the project to extend and upgrade the Bandon Relief Road on the N71, including the completion date...
    • Bus Services
      222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department can ensure that transport solutions are put in place for the residents of an accommodation centre (details supplied),...
    • Public Transport
      223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to providing public transport options for Dublin airport workers in north Swords who want to be able to...
    • Bus Services
      224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the anticipated date that new routes will come into operation under BusConnects in Cork. [55276/22]
    • Heritage Sites
      225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on progress made in relation to the transfer of Shannon Heritage sites from the Shannon Airport group to the...
    • Aviation Industry
      226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the progress made in relation to a review of national aviation policy; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rail Network
      227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is concerned in relation to the negative impact on the Limerick-Shannon metropolitan area transport strategy due to regular...
    • Public Transport
      228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether in order to encourage the public to stop using their cars for environmental reasons, there must be a high quality...
    • Environmental Impact Assessments
      229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will condemn the action that has been taken for the preliminary stages of construction in relation to Ardee bog and the lack of...
    • Tax Code
      230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has engaged with the Minister for Finance in relation to the VAT rate applied to bicycles in Ireland, with a view to lowering the...
    • Official Engagements
      231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he last met the CEO of Iarnród Éireann; the topics discussed; and when the next meeting is scheduled. [55365/22]
    • Bus Services
      232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rationale for the extension of a company (details supplied) contract, given its ongoing poor and unreliable service which has...
    • Departmental Staff
      236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of officials in his Department who have undertaken the Harvard Business School advanced management programme in...
    • Bus Services
      237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Dublin Bus will provide an additional 41x bus journey departing Knocksedan going towards UCD Belfield at 08.00 am services and an...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of full-time staff by job title working in the marketing department of the Dublin Airport Authority as of 1 November 2022....
    • Rail Network
      239. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which Iarnród Éireann will commence the replacement of the roof at Newbridge train station. [55513/22]
    • National Transport Authority
      240. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the budget provided to the National Transport Authority in each of the past five years; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Data
      242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding allocated by the State on private security firms providing drug detection services for Irish Rail, Dublin Bus and Bus...
    • National Car Test
      243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will examine and expedite an urgently-needed NCT appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Rail Network
      244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify whether it is Government policy to commit to the proposed replacement of the Green Line Luas as the future southern...
    • Road Projects
      245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be provided for traffic-calming and safety measures at a very dangerous junction (details supplied) in County Kerry; and...
  • Department of Finance
    • Energy Prices
      246. To ask the Minister for Finance the position of GP and dental surgeries with regard to the temporary business energy support scheme. [55639/22]
    • Departmental Bodies
      247. To ask the Minister for Finance the current status of the Disabled Drivers' Medical Board of Appeal; if a new Board has been appointed; when outstanding appeals will be heard; and if he will...
    • Ukraine War
      248. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department and all bodies under his Department’s aegis have reviewed their estates' portfolio in the context of identifying unoccupied buildings...
    • National Asset Management Agency
      250. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding apartments held by NAMA in need of remediation; if he will seek an explanation...
    • Departmental Reviews
      251. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on his Department's retail banking review; the outstanding work to be completed in respect of this; the timeline for when it will...
    • Energy Prices
      252. To ask the Minister for Finance when the temporary business energy support scheme will open for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54299/22]
    • Insurance Coverage
      254. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the insurance difficulties facing activity and adventure providers; the measures that his Department is taking to address...
    • Tax Data
      255. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons, expressed as a percentage of the total workforce, who were in the highest income tax bracket in Ireland in each of the years 2012 to...
    • Electric Vehicles
      256. To ask the Minister for Finance the incentives, if any, that will be provided to companies and workers who require company vehicles, to move to EVs, especially in view of the impact of...
    • Crime Prevention
      257. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of drug seizures which were seized on entry into Ireland in 2022; the location of such seizures; if he is concerned regarding the level of drugs...
    • Tax Reliefs
      258. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps that are being taken to appease the concerns raised by an organisation (details supplied) regarding the uplift to section 481 for the film,...
    • Legislative Measures
      259. To ask the Minister for Finance the date in 2014 that section 126 (2b) of the Tax Consolidation Act 1977 was amended; if there was a regulatory impact assessment carried out in advance of...
    • Tax Clearance Certificates
      260. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Revenue Commissioners are currently writing to carers, widow’s pensioners, people on invalidity...
    • Tax Code
      261. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is envisaged that farmers who own their own land on the edge of a town, within the town boundary, will be liable for the proposed 3% land tax (details...
    • Departmental Data
      263. To ask the Minister for Finance the monthly number of automatic licence renewals to date in 2022, in tabular form. [54507/22]
    • Tax Collection
      265. To ask the Minister for Finance the total revenue collected from non-tax residents on eligible earnings such as rental income in Ireland in each of the years 2011 to 2021 and to date in...
    • Tax Reliefs
      267. To ask the Minister for Finance if a 50% discount on VRT for new cars for taxi-driving would increase the number of taxis. [54565/22]
    • Departmental Data
      269. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is a record kept of properties which have come into the possession of mortgage holding institutions, which have not been sold or rented, or of...
    • House Prices
      270. To ask the Minister for Finance his views that non-EU property investors are having an adverse impact on Ireland's property market; his plans to address same; and if he will make a statement...
    • Tax Code
      271. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider increasing the VAT turnover threshold from the current €37,500 to at least €50,000, given the increase in the cost of...
    • Departmental Schemes
      272. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has plans to make changes to broaden access to support under the disabled driver's scheme, and in particular accessing a primary medical certificate,...
    • Interest Rates
      274. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering any measures to specifically mitigate the impact of recent and future ECB rate increases on homeowners with variable or tracker mortgages...
    • Tax Code
      275. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are any plans by Government to incorporate protection for cohabiting couples under inheritance laws; if he is aware of any similar schemes in other...
    • Pension Levy
      277. To ask the Minister for Finance if a company is liable for the pensions levy when paying a pension out of its own company funds. [54815/22]
    • Departmental Reports
      278. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 6 October 2022, if he will provide an update on the retrieval of said document; and if he will make a statement...
    • Banking Sector
      279. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the need to keep bank charges at an affordable level for customers, given the financial pressures facing the public; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Code
      281. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reconsider the BIK rate change coming into effect in January 2023, in view of the impact that it will have on employees who have no choice but to...
    • Financial Services
      283. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the case of (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54988/22]
    • Departmental Bodies
      284. To ask the Minister for Finance if the disabled drivers’ medical board of appeal has been reinstated at the National Rehabilitation University Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, County...
    • Tax Code
      285. To ask the Minister for Finance if homeowners subject to payment of both service charges to an owner's management company and liability for payment of LPT to a local authority could be...
    • Budget 2023
      287. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will undertake an impact analysis indexed to prices, to illustrate the impact of measures on households in real terms, rather than nominal...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      288. To ask the Minister for Finance when the medical criteria for the primary medical certificate is expected to be updated. [55137/22]
    • Fuel Prices
      289. To ask the Minister for Finance if the rates paid under the fuel grant for disabled drivers will be reviewed in light of the increasing costs of fuel; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      290. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of full-time staff by rank in the large cases-high wealth individuals’ division within Revenue Commissioners as of 1 November 2022; the...
    • Housing Schemes
      291. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to apply the 'fresh start’ principle to the help-to-buy scheme, similar to the local authority home loan scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Banking Sector
      292. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps that he is taking to support community banking. [55432/22]
    • Post Office Network
      296. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department is reconsidering allowing post offices to become community banks, permitting them to provide all financial services and facilities that...
    • Departmental Staff
      297. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of officials in his Department who have undertaken the Harvard Business School advanced management programme in the past ten years...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      298. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55596/22]
    • Student Accommodation
      299. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that students who are staying in "digs" type accommodation as opposed to students who are staying in Residential Tenancies Board-registered...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Ukraine War
      300. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department and all bodies under his Department’s aegis have reviewed their estates' portfolio in the context of...
    • An Garda Síochána
      302. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54397/22]
    • Local Authorities
      306. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the drainage responsibility for the Inagh river in County Clare was transferred at some stage from the Office of Public Works to...
    • Flood Risk Management
      307. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the position in relation to a project (details supplied) following the feasibility study which was carried out by the...
    • Office of Public Works
      308. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason that the Office of Public Works will not allow a local commemoration group access to Roscrea Castle to mark the centenary of...
    • Climate Action Plan
      310. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of all commitments related to his Department in the climate action plan; and if he will provide an update on...
    • Defence Forces
      311. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department will provide an expected date for publication of measures agreed regarding the requests from Department of Defence for...
    • Office of Public Works
      312. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 244 of 20 September 2022, if a response will be provided to this query; and if he will make a...
    • State Properties
      313. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will clarify the plans that exist for the Garda station in the village of Doonbeg that was shut down in 2013; and if he will make...
    • Office of Public Works
      314. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a contract (details supplied) will be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54899/22]
    • Tax Code
      315. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the rationale of new mileage rates (details supplied) in comparison to the BIK rate changes from January 2023; and if he will make a...
    • Public Sector Pay
      316. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are any plans to restore the daily rate paid for interview work to the pre-FEMPI rates given that all other civil service...
    • Departmental Websites
      317. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will apply a fix to a website that is hosted by his Department (details supplied). [54994/22]
    • State Properties
      318. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the opening of Barryscourt Castle, in Carrigtwohill, County Cork. [55249/22]
    • Flood Risk Management
      319. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding a scheme (details supplied); when the works will commence on site; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Properties
      320. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the contract for the provision of restaurant/café service at Dublin Castle will next be out to tender. [55331/22]
    • Flood Risk Management
      321. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a river will be dredged or if flood relief works will be considered at a location (details supplied) in County Tipperary, in order to...
    • Departmental Staff
      322. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of officials in his Department who have undertaken the Harvard Business School advanced management programme...
    • Office of Public Works
      323. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the refurbishment works that the OPW plans to carry out at Garda stations within the DMR over the next six months; the nature of these...
    • Public Sector Staff
      324. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason that service by a temporary clerical officer (details supplied) in the public service has not transferred to a local...
    • Office of Public Works
      325. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the meeting that the OPW was to organise between itself, Mayo County Council and the Department of Transport in relation to the...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • EU Directives
      328. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 215 of 20 October 2022, the reasons for the delay in ensuring that all online streaming...
    • Ukraine War
      329. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department and all bodies under her Department’s aegis have reviewed their estates' portfolio in the context of...
    • Sports Funding
      331. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she expects the review of the 2021 sports capital and equipment programme to be published; when she expects that a new...
    • Broadcasting Sector
      332. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if any consideration will be given to removing the broadcasting levy paid by independent radio stations; and if she will make a...
    • Sports Funding
      333. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding streams that are available to a club (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54375/22]
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      334. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has engaged with the IRFU on its work to encourage more female rugby players to turn professional. [54540/22]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      335. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a breakdown of Vote 33 across programmes A to E, inclusive of programme A to E subheads, including both...
    • Departmental Programmes
      338. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a report on the safe to create programme. [54860/22]
    • Sports Funding
      339. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total amounts of monies allocated and drawn down to soccer clubs affiliated to the Football Association of Ireland in the past...
    • Official Travel
      341. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will report on her recent visit to New York; and the companies and-or officials she spoke to during her trip. [55335/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      342. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of officials in her Department who have undertaken the Harvard Business School advanced management...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Water Services
      344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Government carried out a review of the service level agreement between Irish Water and local authorities to provide a...
    • Agriculture Industry
      345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider extending the period to spread slurry given that the inclement weather has prevented farmers from...
    • Rental Sector
      346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm the date that he intends to introduce a temporary ban on eviction; the impact, if any, that the proposal...
    • State Properties
      347. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of State-owned properties on derelict sites registers, by local authority, in tabular form. [54158/22]
    • Planning Issues
      348. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to initiate a review into the planning process regarding the Moore Street site. [54165/22]
    • Water Safety
      349. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement that he has held with Irish Water on boil-water notices currently in effect in the State; and if he will make a...
    • Planning Issues
      350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that a decision has not been made in an An Bord Pleanála appeal (details supplied) which was lodged on 10...
    • Housing Provision
      356. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes bought by local authorities by county with tenants in situ to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Valuation Office
      357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress being made in each county with Reval 2021. [54194/22]
    • Flexible Work Practices
      358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress being made with the Programme for Government commitment to require local authorities to be more flexible with...
    • Departmental Properties
      359. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number and type of unused and or unoccupied buildings in his Department’s estates’ portfolio and all bodies...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      360. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it has been drawn to his attention that his office was requested on 6 October 2022 to forward a copy of the revised tenant...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      361. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the National Parks and Wildlife Service will provide a rowing club in County Kerry (details supplied) with permission to...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications for Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora certificates...
    • Rented Dwellings Register
      363. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there will be a rebate for landlords who registered their property with the Residential Tenancies Board in 2021 and paid...
    • Rental Sector
      364. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm that tenants who fail to pay their HAP payment can be evicted from their tenancy during the eviction ban...
    • Departmental Data
      365. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average all-in cost of social housing units approved by local authorities for the past five years in tabular form; and if...
    • Vacant Properties
      366. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of all vacant properties identified by the local authorities, an organisation (details supplied) and...
    • Departmental Staff
      367. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons working in the Land Registry Office in a specific location (details supplied) at the present time; the...
    • Defective Building Materials
      369. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will engage with insurance companies and the Fire Service to delay any evacuations from an apartment block (details...
    • Building Energy Rating
      371. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority houses that have a BER rating below B2; his Department’s target for retrofitting local...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      372. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a timeframe for the roll-out of the pandemic special recognition payment to Dublin Fire Brigade paramedics; the...
    • Housing Schemes
      373. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of housing assistance applications received and processed by each local authority from January to June 2022;...
    • Defective Building Materials
      374. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the membership of the cross-departmental working group on building defects; its terms of reference; the number of times that...
    • Housing Schemes
      375. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes delivered under various schemes (details supplied) for each of the years 2020 to 2021 and to date in 2022....
    • Departmental Schemes
      376. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is any insurance scheme or support provided by the Government to help owners of thatched cottages to insure their...
    • Wildlife Regulations
      377. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a comprehensive copy of the briefing notes and recommendations that he received from his Department in...
    • Departmental Schemes
      379. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications for the shared equity local scheme; the number of approvals; if he will provide a breakdown of...
    • Rental Sector
      380. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration has been given to allowing HAP recipients who fall behind in rent payments to pay arrears through an...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      381. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the outcome of the investigation into complaints by a person (details supplied); the actions taken by his Department to...
    • Housing Policy
      382. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of stage 1 approvals for social housing projects by local authorities that have been refused in each of the years...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      383. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 86 of 26 October 2022, if he will confirm that the Department has requested local...
    • Archaeological Sites
      384. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is correct that there are delays currently in his Department issuing archaeological licences for archaeological...
    • Housing Schemes
      385. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review correspondence from the local authority (details supplied); if he will address the issues outlined; and if...
    • Housing Provision
      386. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review correspondence from a local authority (details supplied); if he will address the issues outlined; and if he...
    • Energy Policy
      387. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to increase the home grants for older persons and people with a disability given the current inflation rate; and if...
    • Departmental Data
      389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the annual cost of the housing assistance payment in each of the years from its inception until 2022, by county in tabular...
    • Legislative Measures
      390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if section 3 of the Planning and Development, Maritime and Valuation (Amendment) Act 2022 has been commenced; the date that it...
    • Defective Building Materials
      394. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that he has not tasked the Housing Agency to assist families availing of the defective blocks scheme to relocate to...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if council rates can be waived for community employment offices; if any other supports are available; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Policy
      396. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports that are available to small landlords who are trying to gain vacant possession of their own property for their...
    • Planning Issues
      398. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has received a recommendation from the Office of the Planning Regulator in relation to the South Dublin County Council...
    • Housing Schemes
      399. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the case of (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54987/22]
    • Departmental Surveys
      400. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the results of a recent thatched building survey undertaken by his Department; and if he will confirm if a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the Department's plans to support the owners of thatched buildings with rising and crippling public liability insurance costs....
    • Turf Cutting
      402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the cessation of a turf cutting compensation application made by a person (details supplied). [55072/22]
    • Planning Issues
      403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider reviewing the Planning and Development Act 2000 in relation to public consultations where a licence is...
    • Legislative Process
      404. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects the Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Local Authority Elected Members) Bill 2022...
    • Planning Issues
      405. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rationale, from a policy perspective, for issuing a directive to South Dublin County Council to reverse the ban on new...
    • Local Authorities
      406. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government where he will publish zoned land maps as submitted by local authorities. [55145/22]
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      407. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an organisation, which is a voluntary organisation that uses a property exclusively for charitable purposes and otherwise...
    • Rental Sector
      408. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to reports (details supplied) that average private rent prices have almost doubled since 2012;...
    • Vacant Properties
      409. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons who have availed of the vacant property refurbishment grant in each of the past ten years and to date in...
    • Planning Issues
      413. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that the planning fee for use of land as a burial ground is more than three times higher than the planning fee for...
    • Energy Policy
      414. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the expected publication of the revised wind energy development guidelines considering the...
    • Water Conservation
      416. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 326 of 11 October 2022, if the lack of a management or conservation plan for the...
    • Water Quality
      417. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is concerned that there was no improvement reported in 78% of the water bodies in the LAWPRO second cycle "priority...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      418. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that ceiling track hoists are not provided for under the Housing (Adaptation Grants for Older People and People...
    • Legislative Process
      419. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of the emergency management and fire and public safety Bill 2020; and when this Bill will proceed to the...
    • Housing Policy
      420. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to introduce any flexibility on the 12-month income rule for determining social housing support eligibility in...
    • Departmental Staff
      421. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of officials in his Department who have undertaken the Harvard Business School advanced management...
    • Housing Policy
      424. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will give urgent consideration to a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55549/22]
    • Electoral Process
      426. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the next electoral boundary review will be established and concluded. [55640/22]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      427. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on a foreign birth passport (details supplied). [54168/22]
    • Foreign Policy
      429. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current position regarding the joint comprehensive plan of action in respect of the Iran nuclear deal; if he will list the new sanctions...
    • Ukraine War
      430. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department and all bodies under his Department’s aegis have reviewed their estates' portfolio in the context of identifying...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      432. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on a foreign birth register application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Passport Services
      434. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the passport application status of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      435. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason that an application for registration of a foreign birth submitted in 2019 has yet to be processed (details supplied). [54440/22]
    • Passport Services
      436. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 90 of 19 October 2022, if he will provide the analysis of estimated costs to establish and run an...
    • Foreign Policy
      437. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount allocated to overseas development aid for 2023; the priorities for funding; his views on whether Ireland's overseas development...
    • Climate Change Policy
      438. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will support the call for a loss and damage financing facility at COP27; the Government's view in relation to this; and if he will...
    • Foreign Policy
      440. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the likely declaration of famine in Somalia; the steps that the Irish Government proposes to do in regard to this deteriorating...
    • United Nations
      442. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his view on comments made by the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, on the need for...
    • Foreign Policy
      443. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps the Irish Government is taking in a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54753/22]
    • Foreign Conflicts
      444. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps Ireland is taking in response to the Israeli defence forces and mounting violence in the West Bank; and if he will make a...
    • United Nations
      445. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to issues relating to the United States' visa waiver programme being experienced by Irish and other...
    • Middle East
      446. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a list of options available to the EU and member states, in relation to the destruction of Irish-Aid funded projects by Israel, to secure...
    • Passport Services
      447. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will assist in the expeditious processing of a passport for a person (details supplied). [54855/22]
    • Foreign Policy
      449. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will seek an investigation into the disappearance of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54863/22]
    • United Nations
      451. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps that he has taken and intends to take in regard to the brutal oppression being inflicted by the Iranian regime on protestors in...
    • Foreign Policy
      455. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if “he is satisfied with the status of the Chinese embassy” given recent allegations of illegal policing at Chinese embassy...
    • Defence Forces
      456. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views in relation to reports that this Deputy’s office has received from County Donegal of USAF planes and other NATO aircraft...
    • British-Irish Co-operation
      457. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the proposals, if any, to hold a meeting at an early date of the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference at Taoiseach and prime...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      458. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to reports that the United Nations Commission of Inquiry into rights' abuses by Israel and the Palestinians...
    • Foreign Policy
      459. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the most recent report by Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in...
    • Ukraine War
      460. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the numbers of Ukrainian refugees and numbers of persons seeking international protection that each European Union Member State has received...
    • United Nations
      461. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Government’s position in relation to the need for a UN binding treaty on business and human rights, in order to tackle corporate...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      462. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken formally with the Lithuanian foreign minister in the past three months. [55334/22]
    • Foreign Policy
      463. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of times that the Irish Consul General and or Vice Consul in San Francisco have visited Seattle in Washington state to date in...
    • Departmental Staff
      464. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of officials in his Department who have undertaken the Harvard Business School advanced management programme in...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      465. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the foreign birth registration application for a person (details supplied) can be reviewed and expedited; and if he will address matters...
    • Foreign Policy
      466. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he plans to invite the United States secretary of state to Ireland early in 2023. [55524/22]
  • Department of Defence
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      467. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Defence Forces members who are entitled to claim the pandemic bonus payment; the number who have been paid to date; and if he will...
    • Defence Forces
      468. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the review on mandatory retirement ages for the Defence Forces personnel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54198/22]
    • Ukraine War
      470. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department and all bodies under his Department’s aegis have reviewed their estates' portfolio in the context of identifying...
    • Departmental Properties
      471. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number and type of unused and or unoccupied buildings in his Department’s estates’ portfolio and all bodies under his...
    • Defence Forces
      472. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount of funding and investment provided for and spent in the Curragh training camp in County Kildare in each of the past three years; and...
    • Ukraine War
      481. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 356 of 25 October 2022, the locations within Brussels and Ramstein that those meetings took place. [54675/22]
    • Defence Forces
      482. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number, name and location of former military barracks still in State ownership; the amount of land in each of these barracks; and if he will...
    • Ukraine War
      492. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will detail Irish participation in an EU training exercise for the Ukrainian military; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Foreign Policy
      493. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will outline Ireland’s relationship with NATO under the NATO-PfP; the funding that Ireland has supplied under the NATO-PfP to date;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      495. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the type of non-clinical assistance and administrative supports offered by location, cost and duration to nursing homes and other residential...
    • Departmental Properties
      496. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of army reserve training centres, excluding military barracks or military camps, that are currently owned or leased by his...
    • Defence Forces
      499. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on the purchase and provision of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear suits for members of the Defence...
    • Departmental Staff
      501. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of officials in his Department who have undertaken the Harvard Business School advanced management programme in the...
    • Naval Service
      502. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the contract to replace LÉ Eithne will be put out to tender before the end of 2022. [55525/22]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Public Sector Pay
      504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views in relation to Haddington Road hours (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54601/22]
    • Child and Family Agency
      505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will publish the Tusla’s first quarter 2022 reduced day outcome report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54786/22]
    • Budget 2023
      506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the funding allocated to educational psychologists in Budget 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55573/22]
    • School Transport
      507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that will be taken to alleviate the issue of overcrowding on school buses from Kinlough and Bundoran to Ballyshannon, given that...
    • School Facilities
      509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress on the repair of the wheelchair lift at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54147/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that are available for a school (details supplied) to install solar panels on the roof of its building; and if she will make a...
    • School Transport
      511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport will be provided to a student (details supplied) in County Mayo. [54163/22]
    • Departmental Funding
      512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she intends to make funding available to trainee educational and child psychologists in 2023/2024, as is available to such trainees in...
    • School Enrolments
      513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will assist a school (details supplied) with a matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54208/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider a school (details supplied) for a pilot programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54209/22]
    • Ukraine War
      515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department and all bodies under her Department’s aegis have reviewed their estates' portfolio in the context of identifying...
    • Departmental Properties
      516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and type of unused and or unoccupied buildings in his Department’s estates’ portfolio and all bodies under his...
    • School Staff
      517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there has been any analysis of shortages in second level teachers, specifically in geography and by subject; and if she will provide the...
    • Teacher Training
      518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures, if any, that are being taken to identify and address obstacles to training and recruiting second level teachers. [54256/22]
    • School Transport
      519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications received for the academic year for transport for children with additional needs; and the number that have been...
    • Education Policy
      522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if gambling awareness workshops have been rolled-out in secondary schools in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54275/22]
    • School Transport
      523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to a person (details supplied) who contacted this Deputy regarding school transport needs; and if she will make a statement...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1169 of 26 July 2022, if she recognises that her Department’s reliance on the Pobal HP deprivation...
    • Teacher Training
      525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1134 of 26 July 2022, when arrangements for next year’s supplementary panel, as referred to in her...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 203 of 5 October 2022, if her Department's broadband technical team has been able to resolve the problems...
    • School Transport
      527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student (details supplied) will be given a school bus ticket; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54376/22]
    • State Examinations
      528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Leaving Certificate exam will be available in Ukrainian language for students to sit the Leaving Certificate in June 2023 (details...
    • Special Educational Needs
      529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54383/22]
    • Departmental Data
      530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of fee-paying primary schools in Ireland by county; the number of children in fee-paying primary schools; and if she will make a...
    • Education Schemes
      531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the anticipated cost per child of the proposed extension of the free book scheme as in Budget 2023; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an application for wheelchair-accessible school transport for a pupil (details supplied) will be reviewed and a decision issued on same; and...
    • Special Educational Needs
      536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 109 of 25 May 2022, if she will provide an update on a student struggling (details supplied); and if she...
    • Schools Building Projects
      538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for the expansion of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54406/22]
    • Disadvantaged Status
      539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will undertake a review of the assessment for DEIS to take into account demographic changes, particularly changes in areas...
    • Schools Administration
      540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department intends to provide administrative support to schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54421/22]
    • Teacher Training
      541. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that the MA programme for teachers was increased to two years; if this is having an impact on recruitment of teachers; and if she will...
    • Education Policy
      542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a limit on the number of educational assessments made available to students in schools on an annual basis; and if so, the way in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      545. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the funding request for an autism unit for a school (details supplied). [54426/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      546. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the status of a capital project for a school (details supplied); and if she will provide a timeline for the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      547. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional resources that will be provided to schools following the recent announcement that the NCSE would be nominating an 'appropriate...
    • Schools Building Projects
      549. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the land next to Clongriffin DART station, which is earmarked as a school site; and the current plans, if any, for a school at that...
    • Grant Payments
      550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a remote area grant application of a family (details supplied) outstanding for the past two years; and if she will make a statement...
    • School Transport
      552. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the alternative bus transport services that are available for pupils (details supplied) who have been left without a bus service to their school...
    • School Staff
      553. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 444 of 11 October 2022, the number of teaching posts that are vacant as of today's date (details supplied)....
    • Special Educational Needs
      554. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the roles that SENO and NEPS have regarding the new guidelines for assessments of needs. [54526/22]
    • School Transport
      559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on an appeal made by a person (details supplied) in County Louth against the decision not to provide a school bus...
    • Special Educational Needs
      560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools accept and comply with a new direction issued from the NCSE and her Department, concerning children with additional needs (details...
    • School Costs
      562. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the information or circulars that have been provided to schools in relation to voluntary contributions, and the advice that the schools should...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      563. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will expedite an application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54660/22]
    • School Transport
      564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the bus service that served schools (details supplied) can be reinstated to a two-bus service, with one for each school; and if she will make...
    • Special Educational Needs
      565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to have teachers carry-out assessment of need plans for children with disabilities rather than the NEPS service; the way in which a...
    • Departmental Data
      566. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new ASD units for schools in Rathangan (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54712/22]
    • School Transport
      567. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children that were accommodated on the school transport scheme for this academic year; the number that was accommodated last year;...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      568. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the solar schools' initiative announced in Budget 2023; the number of schools that will have solar panels...
    • Education Policy
      569. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that the Government intends to further promote education on climate change and climate action in primary and post primary schools; and if...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      570. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the application for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54724/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      571. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the planned extension for a national school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54772/22]
    • Education Policy
      572. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will publish research into the use of a reduced school day conducted under the schools' inspectorate; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Traveller Education
      573. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will launch the consultation on the Traveller Education Strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54788/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department intends to provide additional counselling supports to schools, given the increase in young person's experiencing difficulties...
    • School Staff
      576. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the SNA allocation will be increased for a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54827/22]
    • Departmental Reviews
      578. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the review of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 is likely to be completed; when the review will be...
    • Departmental Properties
      579. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the future educational needs of children in Newcastle, County Dublin, will be catered for; if a post-primary school could be...
    • School Enrolments
      580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54892/22]
    • Departmental Funding
      581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if concerns regarding funding provided to a school (details supplied) for summer projects to improve its exterior environment can be resolved to...
    • Disability Services
      582. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the delivery of the autism unit at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54922/22]
    • Departmental Reviews
      583. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the results of the school transport scheme review that closed on 10 February 2022 will be published; the way in which the results of the...
    • Departmental Data
      584. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have received disability intervention programmes for students and are expected to run such programme without...
    • Departmental Funding
      587. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will make family-tracing funds available to survivors of industrial schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Psychological Assessments
      588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child (details supplied) will be seen to; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55060/22]
    • School Transport
      589. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review an application by a person (details supplied) for the special education school grant; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Funding
      590. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of approved funding for capital works that has been made available to a school (details supplied) over the past five...
    • School Transport
      592. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the special transport grant rate was last increased; the details of such an increase; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55170/22]
    • School Staff
      593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that her Department is taking to address the shortage of primary school teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Data
      594. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the staffing complement at primary schools in County Meath; for the number of schools days lost in Meath primary schools as a...
    • School Staff
      595. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that her Department is taking to address the shortage of primary school teachers at a school (details supplied) in County Meath; and...
    • School Enrolments
      596. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if special educational needs places at a school can be allocated to pupils (details supplied). [55194/22]
    • School Staff
      598. 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. [55212/22]
    • Disadvantaged Status
      599. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the decision not to award DEIS status to a school (details supplied) given that all three other schools in the same town have...
    • Schools Building Projects
      600. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of building underway at a school (details supplied); and the timelines in place for opening to students. [55247/22]
    • School Transport
      602. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school transport will be facilitated in the case of a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55255/22]
    • School Facilities
      603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the proposed car-park lease in respect of a school (details supplied); when the lease will be issued; and if she...
    • School Staff
      604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being taken to ensure that replacement teachers and SNAs are available for schools where staff are out on sick leave; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update in respect of teachers and the special leave with pay for Covid-19 payment; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Services
      607. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on an application by a school (details supplied) for an ASD class; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Funding
      608. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to educational psychologist trainees, if her attention has been drawn to concerns raised by students in relation to the working group...
    • Special Educational Needs
      609. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to recent instructions to teachers and principals to conduct...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      610. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria which apply for a primary school to meet DEIS status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55373/22]
    • School Discipline
      612. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide clarity on the extent of section 29 appeals during and since Covid in each of the years 2020 and 2021 and to date in 2022, in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      613. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposal from the NCSE that school principals and or teachers would carry out assessments of the needs of students. [55428/22]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      614. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) will be completed; the estimated cost of this project; and if she will make a statement...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      615. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently review the decision to deny the DEIS appeal from a school (details supplied) despite the school being located beside three...
    • Departmental Staff
      617. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of officials in her Department who have undertaken the Harvard Business School advanced management programme in the...
    • School Funding
      618. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific budgetary measures which she has put in place to provide for the increased energy costs for recognised schools in the free education...
    • School Enrolments
      619. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide for the immediate provision of additional post-primary schools in the Dublin 8 planning zone given that figures supplied by...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      620. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capital expenditure on schools in each of the constituencies in County Cork in each of the past ten years in tabular form. [55538/22]
    • Schools Amalgamation
      621. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the proposed amalgamation of two schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Teaching Qualifications
      622. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that teachers who qualified abroad have access to the Droichead framework, in order that they can register with the Teaching...
    • Special Educational Needs
      623. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the future planned ASD unit additions in north County Dublin by school, number of places expected; the year of opening; and if she will make a...
    • School Curriculum
      624. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the organisations that participated in the consultation process for the reviewed RSE programme; when she expects to complete the review of the...
    • School Enrolments
      626. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current steps being taken to increase the availability of multi or non-denominational secondary school places in Dublin 9 and 11; and if she...
    • School Transport
      627. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a child (details supplied), who is currently eligible for school transport, can be accommodated on the 2pm school transport service being...
    • Special Educational Needs
      628. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the situation of a student (details supplied) who requires an SNA. [55652/22]
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Cost of Living Issues
      629. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to provide ongoing monitoring of the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on lone parents, with a...
    • State Pensions
      630. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will abolish the means test for persons in receipt of a State pension who have a disability, in view of the...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      631. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54156/22]
    • Ukraine War
      633. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department and all bodies under her Department’s aegis have reviewed their estates' portfolio in the context of...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      635. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      636. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for domiciliary care allowance made by a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Pension Provisions
      638. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      639. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a carer’s allowance appeal for a person (details supplied) can be allowed without further delay. [54339/22]
    • School Meals Programme
      640. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of providing school meals to every primary school by county in tabular form. [54349/22]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      641. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there has been a change in the way that joint bank accounts are assessed as means (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      643. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a payment will issue to a person (details supplied) [54392/22]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      644. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the qualification criteria for the fuel allowance payment have been expanded in Budget 2023 to include those in receipt of...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      646. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of allocated or seconded staff to community welfare sections in each INTREO office to deal with the additional...
    • Pension Provisions
      647. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider adapting a new procedure (details supplied) to negate situations of overpayments following death; and if...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      649. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an exemption can be provided to a person with a disability who is receiving a birth negligence case settlement award, to...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      651. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection , further to Parliamentary Question No. 451 of 25 October, if she will clarify whether or not the accounts for the businesses...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      652. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has plans to recognise Covid-19 as an occupational illness; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Payments
      653. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending illness benefit to those workers who are also in receipt of another social welfare payment...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      657. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide the full list of organisations under the aegis of her Department which are involved in the community...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      658. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of community welfare officer posts that are currently vacant in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      660. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection with reference to the answer given by An Taoiseach in Questions on promised legislation on 26 October, the progress of work...
    • Public Services Card
      661. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the Intreo offices that are currently open for public services card appointments in Dublin; if her attention has been drawn...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      662. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on a carer's benefit review for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      664. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the loss of a caretaker in a community organisation (details supplied) who works under the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      665. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the double week cost-of-living support payment to those on illness benefit; if not, the reason; and the...
    • Mortgage Resolution Processes
      667. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when funding will be put in place to continue the abhaile scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54868/22]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      668. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the eligibility criteria for fuel allowance from 1 January 2023 to cater for persons who meet the means...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      669. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on an appeal by a person (details supplied). [54906/22]
    • State Pensions
      670. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider expanding access to the State pension for those on a Stamp D who have worked their entire career in...
    • School Meals Programme
      671. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the entitlements of schools in band 1 of the DEIS hot meals programme for schools; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      673. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current process for community supervisors applying for the ex-gratia payment; if her attention has been drawn to resource...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      674. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive their payment; the reason for the delay in same; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Consultations
      675. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on the consultation process under the review of child maintenance arrangements launched by her Department...
    • Departmental Reviews
      676. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the review of child maintenance arrangements will be complete; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55004/22]
    • Money Advice and Budgeting Service
      677. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the expected waiting time for an appointment with the Money Advice and Budgeting Service per centre in tabular form. [55012/22]
    • Poverty Impact Assessment
      679. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on matters in correspondence (details supplied). [55017/22]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      680. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the length of time that persons are waiting for the additional needs’ payment...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      681. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the remuneration package currently on the table for the Supervisor and Assistant Supervisor of a centre (details...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      682. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will amend the Social Welfare Bill 2022 to increase core rates to a minimum of €8, the QCI for children over 12...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      683. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the living-alone allowance to one-parent families in receipt of the fuel allowance. [55035/22]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      686. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if the matter will be expedited. [55048/22]
    • State Pensions
      687. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) has sufficient contributions to qualify for a pension in her own right; if her spouse is in...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      688. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 454 of 25 October 2022, the reason a person (details supplied) was told ‘there...
    • Community Welfare Services
      689. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of community welfare officers employed in each location in County Mayo in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Money Advice and Budgeting Service
      690. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average waiting times and waiting list figures for accessing Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS); and if she will...
    • Community Welfare Services
      691. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the plans to recruit 80 additional staff to community welfare services; if posts have been...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      692. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal in the name of a person (details supplied) will be backdated to the date that they commenced giving the care in...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      694. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the review of a disability allowance claim in the name of a person (details supplied) has been completed; and if all...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      695. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expedite an application by a person (details supplied) for disability allowance; and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      696. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures in place to assist young persons in need of social welfare support at an INTREO office (details supplied); and...
    • Departmental Reviews
      698. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has any plans to act upon the recommendations and findings, when published, of the child maintenance review...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      699. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a carer’s allowance review of a person (details supplied). [55121/22]
    • Cost of Living Issues
      700. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has plans to introduce targeted measures to improve the circumstances of one-parent families in 2023, given that there...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      703. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will amend social protection legislation to allow persons in receipt of farm assist payments to receive the household...
    • State Pensions
      704. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify the contribution history of a person (details supplied); and if these contributions can be amended to...
    • Public Transport
      705. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who has been unsuccessful in their application for...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      706. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an elderly couple (details supplied) will qualify for the fuel allowance payment following the changes in budget 2023; if...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      708. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost-of-living measures available to those living in congregated settings, in which all are over 70 years, to assist them...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      709. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will confirm that her Department will give serious consideration to recognising Covid-19 as an occupational disease in...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      710. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to include those on the jobs initiative scheme to be eligible for fuel allowance given that their income...
    • Pensions Reform
      711. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered suggested innovations in the management of the pool of funds generated by the auto-enrolment scheme,...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      712. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an applicant who pays extra costs for a spouse in a nursing home on the nursing home support scheme can have these costs...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      713. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 465 of 25 October 2022, if her attention has been drawn to the EU Strategic Framework...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      714. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the bonus payment for one-parent families will represent the full amount of the payment; if any maintenance payments...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      715. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase remuneration packages for community employment scheme supervisors and assistant supervisors considering...
    • School Meals Programme
      716. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost if the maximum rate of payment per child per day for breakfast-snack were increased to...
    • Departmental Staff
      717. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff working in the INTREO centre in Carrick-on-Shannon as of 1 November 2020 and 1 November 2022, in tabular...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      718. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that the calculation for illness benefit does not penalise individuals on maternity leave for the period...
    • Departmental Staff
      720. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of officials in her Department who have undertaken the Harvard Business School advanced management...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      721. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that bonus payments are not being paid to persons in receipt of illness benefit; her views on whether this is...
    • Community Welfare Services
      722. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of community welfare officers based in County Kildare, by town and area of coverage per CWO in each of the years...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      724. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of exceptional needs’ payments processed in County Kildare in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      725. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will consider routinely contacting those who turn 70 years of age to inform them of their eligibility for...
    • Departmental Staff
      726. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 509 of 18 October 2022, the total number of staff currently working in the INTREO...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      728. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of persons aged 70 years and over receiving the household benefits package; and the number of that cohort...
    • Social Welfare Application Forms
      731. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to create an online application process for persons applying for domiciliary care allowance; when this is expected...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      734. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the delay in approving an application by a person (details supplied) for a State pension (contributory). [55603/22]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      735. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if any further consideration has been given to extend eligibility of the disability support grant to include those in receipt...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      736. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that individuals in receipt of disability allowance who take up a place in the community employment scheme...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      737. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on amending the Social Welfare Bill 2022, in order to increase the QCI for children aged over 12 years by...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Child Poverty
      740. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to develop a new National Child Poverty Plan with a dedicated unit to ensure an integrated and...
    • Ukraine War
      741. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of tourism accommodation bedrooms that have been taken up, both nationally and per county, with...
    • Departmental Properties
      744. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number and type of unused and or unoccupied buildings in his Department’s estates’ portfolio...
    • Ukraine War
      745. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on matters relating to houses pledged for refugees (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      747. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding increases, if any, that have been made to the early childhood care and education scheme since its...
    • Childcare Services
      748. 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...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      749. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the level of profitability for sessional services funded through the early childhood care and education scheme;...
    • Child and Family Agency
      752. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details on funding allocated to Tusla's capital investment and projects therein; and if he...
    • Departmental Funding
      753. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details on the direct payments and grant funds for provision of services to children and...
    • Childcare Services
      754. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has any plans to reintroduce capital grants scheme for childcare facilities; and if he will make a...
    • Residential Institutions
      755. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions that he plans to take to provide those who were subjected to racial discrimination and systemic...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      756. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a person (details supplied) who was staying at a location qualifies for redress. [54460/22]
    • Child and Family Agency
      757. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the future allocation from Tusla to an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      758. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will increase the ECCE capitation from €69 per child per week to €76 per child per week with...
    • Residential Institutions
      759. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will respond to concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in respect of a local industrial school...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      760. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the payment level for the ECCE scheme was last revised; if he has assessed whether it continues to...
    • International Protection
      761. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if additional resources have been directed to the IPAS finance section to address the numerous accommodation...
    • Adoption Services
      762. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Adoption Authority is currently in a position to respond to applications for information under the Birth...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      765. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the legal costs incurred by his Department in the eight judicial reviews that were settled in December 2021; and...
    • International Protection
      766. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will respond to concerns raised (details supplied) from a Ukrainian provider's perspective; and if he will...
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      767. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated timeline for publication of the codes of practice under the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity)...
    • Workplace Discrimination
      769. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to progress the Employment Equality (Amendment) (Non-Disclosure Agreements) Bill 2021 through the...
    • International Protection
      770. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will review correspondence (details supplied); if he will outline the reason that this property has been...
    • Departmental Funding
      772. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of local authorities that have applied for funding through a fund (details supplied) in order to fund...
    • International Protection
      774. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when money due to a service provider of accommodation to Ukrainian refugees will be paid (details supplied); the...
    • Legislative Measures
      775. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the 30-day statutory requirement for responses to be issued to applicants seeking information under the Birth...
    • International Protection
      782. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of the number of Ukrainian refugees who arrived in the State under the temporary...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      786. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline all of the supports and grants currently available for community-funded childcare facilities...
    • Legislative Measures
      788. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to ensure that dioceses and parishes in the Roman Catholic Church are fulfilling their...
    • Child and Family Agency
      789. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on Tusla redacting records being released to persons under the Birth Information and Tracing Bill....
    • Departmental Staff
      791. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of officials in his Department who have undertaken the Harvard Business School...
    • Child and Family Agency
      792. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of vacancies for social workers positions that Tusla currently has available; and the steps being...
    • Public Sector Staff
      793. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of full-time therapists and child arts psychotherapists directly employed by Tusla, by Tusla area and...
    • Childcare Services
      794. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the childcare subsidy announced in budget 2023 is applied as a reduction on the hourly rate as...
    • Ukraine War
      795. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a reply will issue to a query which this Deputy raised with the Ukraine temporary accommodation unit on...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Public Sector Staff
      799. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views in relation to Haddington Road hours (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54601/22]
    • Third Level Fees
      800. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if repeating first-year students are eligible for the fee reduction announced in budget 2023, in cases where a student has changed course after...
    • Grant Payments
      801. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider adding graduate-entry medicine students to the SUSI grant scheme to help alleviate the costs of that programme for low-income...
    • Third Level Fees
      802. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the omission of graduate-entry medicine students from lowered contribution fees for higher education students announced in budget...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      804. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who have applied for additional scholarships for underrepresented and disadvantaged students announced on 29 July 2022;...
    • Grant Payments
      805. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of graduate-entry medicine scholarship students who have retained funding from the National Access Plan; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Properties
      806. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department and all bodies under his Department's aegis have reviewed their estates portfolio in the context of identifying unoccupied...
    • Student Accommodation
      808. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding increasing the quantity of student accommodation available for undergraduate students in Ireland. [54260/22]
    • Education Policy
      809. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the new international education strategy will be published before the end of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54314/22]
    • Substance Misuse
      810. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is concerned regarding the levels of drug-taking within Ireland's third level student community; the efforts that can be taken to clamp...
    • Public Sector Staff
      812. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made in issuing adult educators with public service contracts (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Third Level Education
      813. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the Higher Education Authority call for expressions of interest in creating more places for student vets and...
    • Student Accommodation
      815. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider recommending that third level institutions provide access to online, remote, recorded lectures to assist students who are...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      816. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Construction Safety Licensing Bill 2022 will impact on QQI certifications that have already been awarded to persons; and if he will make a...
    • Third Level Fees
      817. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if college students who are returning to full-time education to complete a second level 8 qualification will be able to avail of the...
    • Third Level Admissions
      818. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students currently enrolled in social care programmes in Munster Technological University. [54818/22]
    • Qualifications Recognition
      819. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the matter whereby students currently enrolled in social care programmes in Munster Technological University...
    • Education Schemes
      820. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that there is assistance provided to college for a student (details supplied) so that they can return to in-person learning as...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      821. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the situation regarding the validity of qualifications received from previous regional technical colleges and institutes of...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      822. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of candidates who are affected by the backlog for apprenticeships for electricians, carpenters and plumbers, including those waiting...
    • Education Policy
      823. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that Solas is sponsoring an RTÉ radio show for apprenticeships when the purpose of Solas funding is for education; and if he will...
    • Third Level Fees
      824. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider making the one-off €1,000 reduction in the undergraduate student contribution fee for higher education students a...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      825. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeships taken up in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to 31 October 2022, in tabular form. [55330/22]
    • Third Level Fees
      826. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a student (details supplied) was excluded from the student fee reduction announced in budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Education and Training Boards
      828. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current number of ETB places and the number of trainers and teachers in Ireland for electricians, plumbers and carpenters; the number of same...
    • Departmental Staff
      829. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of officials in his Department who have undertaken the Harvard Business School advanced management programme in the...
    • Third Level Fees
      830. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) will receive the benefit of the reduction in the fees payment recently announced; and if he will make a statement...
    • Third Level Admissions
      831. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of medical students currently enrolled in the six medical schools in Ireland for the most recent five-year period, segmented to...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Departmental Programmes
      833. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will request information from the Revenue Commissioners on the total amount remitted by investors of the immigrant...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      834. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the establishment of an online portal, in light of Assistant Garda Commissioner Paula Hilman's comments to the...
    • Visa Applications
      835. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a refusal of visa can be urgently reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied) who has provided evidence of return to...
    • Antisocial Behaviour
      836. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will establish a dedicated transport police unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54192/22]
    • Departmental Properties
      837. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department and all bodies under her Department's aegis have reviewed their estates portfolio in the context of...
    • An Garda Síochána
      839. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has ever received reports on crime detection rates from An Garda Síochána; and, if so, if she will provide the...
    • Antisocial Behaviour
      840. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the number of incidents of drug use, crime and antisocial behaviour around Railway Square in...
    • Immigration Status
      841. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a GNIB card is likely to issue in the case of a person (details supplied), who is awaiting a number of weeks for same; and...
    • Departmental Data
      842. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are data available on the number of prosecutions taken for assault of front-line health workers since the enactment of...
    • Legal Aid
      843. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received a work-in-progress report on the civil legal aid review; and when the review intends to accept submissions...
    • Probate Applications
      844. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the efforts that can be made to expedite probate cases where a delay in finalising probate is resulting in properties remaining...
    • Asylum Seekers
      845. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the gender and age breakdown of refugees and asylum seekers arriving in Ireland in each of the past five...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      846. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on development of the zero-tolerance plan; the timeframe for its implementation; and if she will...
    • Bench Warrants
      847. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the execution of bench warrants issued to An Garda Síochána by the District Court,...
    • Court Sittings
      848. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of court trials of the Central Criminal that have been heard in Limerick courthouse since it was opened. [54394/22]
    • Swimming Pools
      849. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has held discussions with officials within An Garda Síochána in relation to the swimming pool in Templemore...
    • Immigration Status
      850. 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...
    • Work Permits
      851. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54417/22]
    • Immigration Status
      853. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on an application by a person (details supplied) for a scheme; and if she will make a statement...
    • Prison Service
      856. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when SI 250 (suspension of rules related to prison visits) will be revoked; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • An Garda Síochána
      857. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if files from the Garda complaints board were retained after its dissolution; the locations in which retained files can be...
    • Departmental Properties
      858. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has made any proposal to purchase a site (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement...
    • Immigration Policy
      859. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on a matter in relation to the regularisation scheme for undocumented people (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • An Garda Síochána
      860. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a redress scheme for people if their property is damaged by An Garda Síochána; and if she will make a...
    • Alcohol Sales
      863. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has engaged with the taxi sector in relation to the reform of the opening hours of pubs and nightclubs, considering the...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      864. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of road traffic fatalities from 1 January 2022 by speeding and non-speeding causes, in tabular form; and if...
    • Immigration Status
      865. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the eligibility for naturalisation on the basis of marriage to an Irish citizen in the case of a person (details supplied); and...
    • An Garda Síochána
      866. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí employed in each of the divisional drugs units respectively in each of the years 2015 to date in...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      867. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for a certificate of naturalisation by a person (details supplied). [54859/22]
    • Defective Building Materials
      868. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 87 of 26 October 2022, in relation to the convenyancing process, the measures her...
    • Family Reunification
      870. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of family reunification applications under the terms of the International Protection Act received by her Department...
    • Visa Applications
      871. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will follow up on a visa application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55000/22]
    • Family Reunification
      874. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that should be taken by a person living in Ireland under international protection refugee status who wishes to bring...
    • Immigration Policy
      875. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if DNA testing is used as part of verifying applications through the Afghan admissions programme; if so, the number of times...
    • Travel Documents
      877. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process for non-EU passport holders who are resident and attend school in Ireland, travelling abroad with their school; the...
    • Prison Service
      878. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to reports (details supplied) that the highest number of prisoners was recently seen in...
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      880. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 500 of 25 October 2022, the specific allocation in budget 2023 to the budget of the...
    • Protected Disclosures
      881. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an independent investigation into penalisation arising from a protected disclosure submitted relative to the...
    • Departmental Staff
      882. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of additional staff and costing that would be required if her Department's registration office in Burgh Quay had its...
    • Departmental Data
      883. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the monetary value of fireworks seized by gardaí in 2021 and to date in 2022; and the number of persons successfully...
    • An Garda Síochána
      884. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding has been secured in 2023 to purchase extra vehicles for Garda armed support units. [55338/22]
    • Legislative Reviews
      886. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she expects her Department to complete and publish the promised review of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act; and if...
    • Departmental Data
      887. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department have access to statistics on the number prosecutions under the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act. [55414/22]
    • An Garda Síochána
      888. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the information her Department has on whether specialist training is provided to gardaí, in-service and in initial...
    • Departmental Staff
      889. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of officials in her Department who have undertaken the Harvard Business School advanced management...
    • An Garda Síochána
      890. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount An Garda Síochána has spent on vehicular recovery services within the Kildare Garda division in 2021 and...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      894. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has a policy of refusing applications for certificates of naturalisation where the applicant was previously illegally...
    • Drug Dealing
      896. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to expand the role of drug detection dogs operated by private security contractors in co-operation with day-to-day...
    • Courts Service
      897. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied). [55557/22]
    • An Garda Síochána
      898. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if gardaí will no longer sign ML10 forms for persons who need it to prove identity at financial institutions; the...
    • Prison Service
      899. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons (details supplied) who have been repatriated from Ireland to locations around the world for the past five...
  • Department of Health
    • Gender Equality
      902. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will consider initiating a project for a permanent memorial to a person (details supplied) given the recent ten-year anniversary of their...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      903. To ask the Minister for Health the date his Department intends to issue the €1,000 Covid-19 pandemic bonus payment to section 39 agency staff (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Abortion Services
      905. To ask the Minister for Health if the independent evaluation of the experiences of abortion service providers by a university (details supplied) will be made public; and, if so, if he will...
    • General Practitioner Services
      906. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the cessation of general practitioner services in a centre (details supplied) and that the services have not recommenced...
    • Dental Services
      907. To ask the Minister for Health for Health the number of children awaiting dental treatment in primary school settings by CHO and LHO, in tabular form. [54171/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      908. To ask the Minister for Health the plans to address difficulties in accessing clonazepam; if he will provide an update on work to ensure that there is a consistent supply of same; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      909. To ask the Minister for Health when staff of a nursing home (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive the €1,000 pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      910. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that is being made in the setting up of the independent radiation therapist review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54187/22]
    • Disability Services
      911. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that is being made in addressing the recommendations of the Cost of Disability Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54188/22]
    • Vacant Properties
      912. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made in bringing the vacant homes at a location (details supplied) back into use; his plans to refurbish the occupied homes; and if he will...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      913. To ask the Minister for Health if a consultation appointment can be expedited for a person (details supplied). [54203/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      914. To ask the Minister for Health when the pandemic bonus payment of €1,000 will be paid to a person (details supplied) who works in the emergency department of University Hospital...
    • Health Services
      915. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a child (details supplied); if he will seek to have the case expedited as soon as possible; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Properties
      916. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and all bodies under his Department's aegis have reviewed their estates portfolio in the context of identifying unoccupied buildings that may...
    • Health Service Executive
      918. To ask the Minister for Health the total cost to Cork University Hospital of the removal of trees on its grounds in October 2022; the rationale for the removal of an entire row of 16 mature...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      919. To ask the Minister for Health if proposals have been presented to his ministerial management committee to accelerate the conduct of assessments of need for children with special needs, in...
    • Hospital Procedures
      920. To ask the Minister for Health the number of laparoscopic gastric bypass surgeries performed in University Hospital Galway, St. Vincent's University Hospital, St. Michael's Hospital Dún...
    • Ukraine War
      925. To ask the Minister for Health his views on concerns from psychologists that the appropriate mental health supports specific to the needs of some refugees from Ukraine are not available; the...
    • Mental Health Services
      926. To ask the Minister for Health if a mental health support structure is being designed to accompany the location of modular house builds for refugees from the illegal invasion of Ukraine; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      927. To ask the Minister for Health when all non-HSE workers entitled to the Covid pandemic bonus will receive the payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54283/22]
    • Health Service Executive
      928. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied). [54287/22]
    • Healthcare Policy
      929. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the disparity whereby the Irish healthcare system does not have a chief pharmaceutical officer, but does have a chief medical officer, a chief...
    • Health Promotion
      930. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to any funding which could be available for a drug and alcohol awareness programme run in schools in County Donegal (details...
    • Dental Services
      932. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who are currently awaiting an orthodontic assessment in County Wicklow, broken down by 1, 3, 6 and 12 months plus; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      934. To ask the Minister for Health if a young person (details supplied) can get a scan and a referral to Temple Street Hospital for a number of serious seizures that they have experienced since...
    • Research Funding
      935. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that there is no HRB funding granted to Galway or Limerick hospitals to run clinical trials; if there are plans to change this; and if he will make...
    • Disability Services
      936. To ask the Minister for Health the budgetary provision that has been made for 2023 to meet the measures included in the Action Plan for Disability Capacity Review; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      938. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position in relation to the Action Plan for University Hospital Kerry; if he will outline timelines in the process to date; and if he will make...
    • Disability Services
      939. To ask the Minister for Health if capital funding will be provided for a respite facility (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54315/22]
    • Health Services
      940. To ask the Minister for Health further to this Deputy’s raising of the issue, the interventions that have been provided in respect of an individual (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Coroners Service
      941. To ask the Minister for Health the current average waiting time for post mortem examinations in County Kerry; if a Kerry-based pathologist would reduce the waiting times; if he will clarify...
    • Hospital Services
      942. To ask the Minister for Health if it is considered best practice for the next-of-kin of recently deceased patients at University Hospital Kerry to be brought in to see their loved one in a...
    • Pharmacy Services
      944. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that he is taking to support the viability of community pharmacies nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54325/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      945. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position regarding the provision of the CF drug kaftrio under the drug reimbursement scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Services
      946. To ask the Minister for Health if there are specific financial supports available to private parties to adapt premises to make buildings suitable to provide respite services for adults with...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      947. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the Government has not called for the extension of Medical Device Directive certificates until the notified body capacity is resolved, to...
    • Health Service Executive
      948. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied). [54334/22]
    • Home Help Service
      949. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Cork would be considered for home help services given their particular circumstances. [54335/22]
    • Vaccination Programme
      950. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to change the criteria for those who are eligible for the third booster to include people of under 50 years; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Services
      951. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the adequacy of HIV treatment and support services in Ireland; his views on the adequacy of the geographical spread of such services; if he is...
    • Hospital Staff
      952. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff who have been recruited in Sligo University Hospital and Letterkenny University Hospital as of 24 October 2022 to implement the winter...
    • Disability Services
      953. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the 'Jack Report Working Group'; if its recommendations have been implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Procedures
      954. To ask the Minister for Health the number of laparoscopic gastric bypass surgeries performed in University Hospital Galway, St. Vincent's University Hospital, St. Michael's Hospital Dún...
    • Departmental Funding
      956. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE Service Plan for 2023 will include funding for obesity surgery; and the number of such procedures to be funded. [54363/22]
    • Hospital Procedures
      957. To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals that will be allocated funding for obesity surgery in 2023; and the number of such procedures to be funded. [54364/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      959. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be allocated a transfer to the National Remedial Hospital for psychology and vocational training that they urgently...
    • Hospital Services
      960. To ask the Minister for Health the current capacity of the National Remedial Hospital; the plans, if any, to expand same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54371/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      962. To ask the Minister for Health when the staff at a facility (details supplied) will be awarded the pandemic recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54391/22]
    • Health Services
      963. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children eligible for a look-back review for paediatric audiology services by CHO and LHO for each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022,...
    • Health Services Staff
      964. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE physiotherapists currently in position in St. Vincent’s public long-Covid clinic; the number of vacant WTE physiotherapist posts in...
    • Health Services
      966. To ask the Minister for Health when named day centres (details supplied) will reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54410/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      967. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be released to allow a family to access urgent psychiatric opinion due to a child's urgent needs and the HSE being unable to provide for his...
    • Freedom of Information
      968. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that his Department will take to supply information requested under a freedom of information request to a named person (details supplied). [54416/22]
    • Primary Care Centres
      969. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the provision of a primary care centre in an area (details supplied). [54418/22]
    • Healthcare Policy
      970. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the increased use of electronic cigarette products among children and young people; if his Department intends to address...
    • Pharmacy Services
      971. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department is considering measures to expand access to contraception for women from local community pharmacies without the requirement for a...
    • Gambling Sector
      972. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 623 of 5 July 2022, the spend on agencies and private recruitment firms for each quarter of 2022, in tabular form; the...
    • Hospital Staff
      973. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical consultants who are employed under the consultant contract who have applied for category C status, by speciality; the number who have...
    • Healthcare Policy
      975. To ask the Minister for Health if any changes have been made in recent weeks to the discharge times for new mothers at University Maternity Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement...
    • Pharmacy Services
      976. To ask the Minister for Health when a payment, now approved under the application under the discretionary hardship arrangement, in the case of a person (details supplied) will issue, given...
    • Health Service Executive
      977. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied). [54445/22]
    • Primary Care Services
      978. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims for reimbursement which were made under the primary care reimbursement scheme for termination of pregnancy in each of the years 2019 and...
    • Health Service Executive
      979. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the HSE has not responded to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54450/22]
    • Home Care Packages
      980. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on an application for home support (details supplied). [54451/22]
    • Disability Services
      981. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will be placed on an “active list” with the CDNT. [54453/22]
    • Health Service Executive
      982. To ask the Minister for Health when a matter (details supplied) will be resolved. [54454/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      983. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be scheduled for surgery in Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Staff
      984. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical professionals who are certified to fit and remove long-acting reversible contraception; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Dental Services
      989. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists in New Ross, County Wexford, who are currently on the dental treatment service scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Nursing Homes
      993. To ask the Minister for Health the additional supports that will be put in place to help private nursing homes by way of an increase in the fee payable under the fair deal scheme to achieve...
    • Hospital Admissions
      994. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the next-of-kin of a person (details supplied) was informed of the revocation of their admission to a hospital for reasons which have yet to...
    • Health Services
      995. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a case (details supplied); and when the person can expect an appointment. [54514/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      996. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to add a medication (details supplied) to the GMS scheme. [54524/22]
    • Healthcare Policy
      998. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which his Department intends working to improve the net survival rate for all invasive cancers, in view of the fact that in the five-year average,...
    • Health Promotion
      1001. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the introduction of additional nationwide organised screening programmes for two of the four major cancers in Ireland,...
    • Dental Services
      1002. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with additional needs in CHO 7 who have had to travel outside of the CHO7 for dental care for each of the past five years; and if he...
    • Disability Services
      1005. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to provide a person (details supplied) who suffers from cerebral palsy and who is incapable of living independently, with full-time care...
    • Hospital Services
      1006. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the allocation of the €19 million to paediatric orthopaedics in 2022, including detailed amounts allocated for very...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1007. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with scoliosis on the operation waiting list by hospital; the number of those who have complex needs; the average waiting times for...
    • Hospital Staff
      1010. To ask the Minister for Health the number of tracheotomy nurses in paediatric orthopaedics in the CHI; the number of tracheotomy nurses available in the CHI in total, by hospital; and if he...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1011. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operations for scoliosis treatments in the CHI that have been cancelled by hospital on a monthly basis to date in 2022; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      1012. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that he will carry out an independent review of radiation therapy to deal with recruitment and retention in the sector; and if he will make...
    • Health Services Staff
      1013. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that his Department and the HSE are taking to address recruitment and retention in the radiation therapy sector; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Services
      1014. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that his Department will develop a long-term strategy which will assist in the radiation therapy sector; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1015. To ask the Minister for Health the number of house-bound persons still awaiting a second Covid-19 vaccine; the plans in place to administer the second and third booster vaccinations to this...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1016. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the Covid-19 bonus payment for a person (details supplied); the reason that this has not been received; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      1017. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) remains waiting for an assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54599/22]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1018. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a second booster vaccine; the reason that this has not happened to date; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Staff
      1020. To ask the Minister for Health the number of physiotherapists who treat patients at St. Vincent's Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4; the number of vacant physiotherapist posts in the hospital;...
    • Public Sector Pay
      1021. To ask the Minister for Health the plans to bring the pay of workers in Section 39 organisations in line with the public service pay agreement entitled Building Momentum and successor...
    • Departmental Investigations
      1022. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the detail behind the methodology employed for the north Kerry child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, sample audit; and if he...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1027. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the completion of the modular extension to Mallow Hospital, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54624/22]
    • Health Services
      1029. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a process through which people can apply for funding from the HSE in order to obtain medical treatment from private hospitals in which the HSE...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1030. 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. [54631/22]
    • Hospital Staff
      1031. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of dietitians employed by Cavan and Monaghan hospitals; the specific services within which these dietitians are employed, in tabular form;...
    • Hospital Charges
      1032. To ask the Minister for Health if a person must pay for the cost of staying in a community hospital for five weeks if the person is in receipt of a medical card; and if he will make a...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1033. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a child (details supplied) is granted a date for an assessment of need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54634/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1034. To ask the Minister for Health when front-line workers will receive the payment given that on his visit to Galway on 21 October 2022, he stated that contract services front-line workers who...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1035. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on a waiting list for an assessment of need, by CHO; the number overdue for completion for each month in the years 2020 and 2021 and to...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1036. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment at Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      1037. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied). [54643/22]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1038. To ask the Minister for Health when the new replacement 50-bed unit on the grounds of Midleton Community Hospital, County Cork will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1042. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which people can register for a monkeypox vaccine; and if the issues with the online portal system when it was first launched have been completely...
    • Medical Cards
      1043. To ask the Minister for Health if an emergency medical card will be extended for a person (details supplied). [54661/22]
    • Disability Services
      1044. To ask the Minister for Health if the progressive disability service that operated for students at the schools (details supplied) can be reinstated rather than the students having to visit...
    • Ambulance Service
      1045. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated to the National Ambulance Service for capital projects; if the base in Carlow is to be upgraded; and if a new site for the...
    • Mental Health Services
      1046. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the clinical governance structures in place for CAMHS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54681/22]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1048. To ask the Minister for Health the actions currently in hand to ensure that older persons are protected against influenza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54685/22]
    • Health Promotion
      1050. To ask the Minister for Health the proposed best protection for vulnerable groups, including the elderly, within the public health sphere to ensure their protection to the best possible...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1051. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the roll-out of the Covid-19 booster vaccine by CHO area. [54723/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      1052. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 151 of 20 October 2022, the number of additional places that have been agreed out of the 200 additional Irish-EU...
    • Nursing Education
      1053. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 151 of 20 October 2022, the number of additional places in nursing programmes out of the 135 announced in July that have...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1054. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be called for an appointment for initial assessment with a specialist in the Midlands Regional Hospital, Tullamore. [54728/22]
    • Hospital Services
      1055. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the emergency department in Letterkenny University Hospital giving the results of a chest X-ray to a person in County Donegal...
    • Mental Health Policy
      1056. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of subsection 3 of the Mental Health Act 2001 which people involuntarily committed between each of the years 2015 to 2021 and...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1057. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who is awaiting a hernia operation at University Hospital Limerick; and if he will...
    • Mental Health Services
      1058. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 214 of 19 October 2022 in which he referred to a previous reply (details supplied) which refers this matter back to his...
    • Nursing Education
      1059. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses from overseas who have applied to complete the aptitude tests within the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland for each of the years 2017 to...
    • Voluntary Sector
      1063. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 213 of 19 October 2022 in which he has referenced the latest publicly available data, if he will identify the source for...
    • Hospital Admissions
      1064. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of persons who presented or attended at an emergency department, by emergency department, for each month for the years 2018 to 2021 and to...
    • Medical Cards
      1067. To ask the Minister for Health if a cancer patient in receipt of a full medical card has to pay for a shingles vaccine (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Services
      1068. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a case (details supplied); the reason that personal assistance hours were cut in this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Care Services
      1069. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered removing the transport contribution charge for those travelling to HSE day centres; the amount that was raised by these fees to date in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1070. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify whether a person (details supplied) had to work in an area where there was a Covid-19 outbreak and continued Covid outbreaks to be eligible...
    • Disability Services
      1071. To ask the Minister for Health the number of professionals (details supplied) who were based within a special school setting in each of the five years prior to the introduction of...
    • Primary Care Services
      1072. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that will be taken to alleviate waiting lists in access to primary care appointments and pressure on primary care staff who are overwhelmed (details...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1073. To ask the Minister for Health if advice provided to him by the regional health areas advisory group is publicly available; if not, if he will publish this advice; and if he will make a...
    • Care Services
      1074. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to implement all 16 recommendations from the report of the strategic workforce advisory group on home carers and nursing home health care...
    • Home Care Packages
      1076. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to update the home care tender process; if it is still his intention to issue the invitation to tender towards the end of quarter 3 for...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1077. To ask the Minister for Health further to the announcement that 15,000 additional monkeypox vaccines have been secured, if he will outline the expected delivery schedule for the 5,000 doses...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1078. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have been seen in each of the post-acute clinics established under the interim model of care for long-Covid to date in tabular...
    • Medical Cards
      1081. To ask the Minister for Health if he has any plans to make changes to the medical card application forms to support those with chronic diseases such as arthritis; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Services
      1082. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to a query on behalf of a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54812/22]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1083. To ask the Minister for Health his views in relation to the meningitis B vaccine being excluded from the early childhood vaccination programme for children born prior to 2016, and its high...
    • Departmental Appointments
      1084. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the appointment of a new chief pharmaceutical officer to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54823/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1086. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a hip replacement surgery for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54838/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1087. To ask the Minister for Health following an agreement of the EU Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work on the need to recognise Covid-19 as an occupational disease, if he plans to...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1088. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in an MRI for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54862/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1089. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that funding has not been provided to a person (details supplied) for a ceiling track hoist; when the person can expect to have the hoist...
    • Hospital Services
      1090. To ask the Minister for Health when the minor injuries unit at Monaghan Hospital will be open at weekends; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54869/22]
    • Hospital Staff
      1092. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff and their respective titles currently employed at the minor injuries unit at Monaghan Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      1093. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients to date in 2022 that presented at the minor injuries unit at Monaghan Hospital who were instructed to attend another service such as an...
    • Home Help Service
      1095. To ask the Minister for Health if he will approve the retention of home help hours for a cancer patient (details supplied). [54874/22]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1096. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 529 of 20 September 2022 and 224 of 12 October 2022, where in the sequencing of HSE staff were members of the national...
    • Disability Services
      1097. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who were deemed non-complex and transferred to primary care as part of the progressing disability services for children and young...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1100. To ask the Minister for Health when the national working group working on prescribing guidelines and lists for aids and appliances will finalise its work; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1101. To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent surgery for a child (details supplied) can be arranged. [54891/22]
    • Health Strategies
      1102. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of developmental funding allocated towards the implementation of the national cancer strategy in budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Promotion
      1103. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the period poverty initiatives being rolled out across 26 local authorities, as committed to in the women's health action...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1104. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which a person (details supplied) can gain access to a mobility scooter that they need to comfortably move around their local town, given that the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1105. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a child (details supplied); and when they can expect an appointment. [54907/22]
    • Ambulance Service
      1106. To ask the Minister for Health the number of National Ambulance Service personnel based in County Clare and the station that they are based at, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Health Service Executive
      1113. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54920/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1114. To ask the Minister for Health the number of front-line workers who have received the pandemic bonus payment to date; when all payments are expected to issue to frontline workers eligible...
    • Business Regulation
      1115. To ask the Minister for Health if a business (details supplied) requires a licence to sell vapes. [54926/22]
    • Education and Training Provision
      1116. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered funding the counselling psychology doctorate programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54930/22]
    • Nursing Homes
      1117. To ask the Minister for Health if the nursing home support scheme will take a property into account (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54931/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1118. To ask the Minister for Health the status of surgery for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54952/22]
    • Departmental Funding
      1119. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide adequate resources for a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54956/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1120. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of persons who were refused access to FreeStyle Libre devices in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1122. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a HPV vaccine is provided to a person (details supplied). [54969/22]
    • Health Services
      1123. To ask the Minister for Health the length of the contract for wheelchair maintenance that an organisation (details supplied) has with the HSE; the oversight mechanisms, if any, that are in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1124. To ask the Minister for Health the actual circumstances, criteria and protocols that were applied by HSE when it requested assistance from the Defence Forces for nursing homes and...
    • Dental Services
      1125. To ask the Minister for Health if orthodontic treatment for children under the age of 16 can be expedited as children are suffering because of the lack of care; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      1126. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a pain treatment has been denied to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if this decision will be reviewed; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1128. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will issue for a person (details supplied). [55068/22]
    • Medical Cards
      1129. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that medical card income eligibility limits are increased in view of anomalies that may arise (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      1130. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the date of the High Court decision in the case of a person (details supplied); if the full extent of the court decision has been honoured...
    • Health Services
      1131. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting lists for eye care with the HSE, by age cohort and length of wait, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55082/22]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1132. To ask the Minister for Health the out-of-hours GP services which are contracted or in operation; the number of GPs with contracts; the number of GPs actively making claims, by month to...
    • Abortion Services
      1133. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received the independent evaluation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2015, commissioned by a university (details...
    • Home Help Service
      1134. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on home support waiting lists for funding and for a carer by CHO in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55090/22]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1139. To ask the Minister for Health his views with regard to home birth services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55096/22]
    • Home Help Service
      1140. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a home help package for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55103/22]
    • Medical Records
      1150. To ask the Minister for Health when medical records will be released for persons (details supplied) in County Donegal; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      1151. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Tipperary University Hospital is not covered by the NCCP grant for those travelling to the hospital for cancer treatment; and if he will make a...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1152. To ask the Minister for Health the input that midwives, clinicians and women’s health advocates had in framing the HSE recommendation to limit home births to women who live within 30...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1153. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the Covid-19 pandemic recognition payment for non-HSE and non-Section 38 healthcare employees; if a contractor is now in...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1155. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the status of home births being permitted in situations where women are living within 30 minutes of a maternity hospital; and...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1156. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on an outpatient waiting list for Beaumont Hospital; and their length of time on said list, broken down by wait-time and presented in...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1159. To ask the Minister for Health if he will liaise with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to ensure that all medical, clinical, nursing and...
    • Hospital Services
      1160. To ask the Minister for Health if he will immediately liaise with the HSE in CHO 4 to put in place a plan to ensure none of the acute mental health unit beds in Bantry General Hospital are...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1161. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HSE proposals to limit home birth services for women and pregnant persons living within 30 minutes of a maternity hospital. [55160/22]
    • Abortion Services
      1162. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to ensure that abortion healthcare services are available in all maternity hospitals. [55161/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1163. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the timeline for administering the Covid-19 pandemic recognition payment to healthcare professionals working in private sector...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1165. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55176/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      1166. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a large number of Covid-19 swabbers currently employed in testing centres face lay-offs in late November 2022; the exact numbers planned for...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1167. To ask the Minister for Health following on from the recent positive expansion of Westdoc services in the east of County Galway, when the service might be expanded to areas west of Galway...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1168. To ask the Minister for Health the plans to limit home births to women who live within 30 minutes of a maternity hospital; if his attention has been drawn to reports that this would...
    • Home Care Packages
      1169. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home care support packages active in County Longford. [55216/22]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1173. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the current restrictions imposed on homebirths by the HSE; the rationale behind the restrictions; and if restrictions will be reconsidered...
    • Health Services Staff
      1174. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) from a person working in a Covid-19 testing centre; if he will outline the current...
    • Care Services
      1175. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that day-care services in Loughrea are provided at the purpose-built facility on the St. Brendan's campus only one day each week with the service...
    • Mental Health Services
      1176. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made in establishing the trial mental health 24-7 de-escalation unit in Limerick; when he expects the unit to be operational; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1177. To ask the Minister for Health when a formal investigation into the Covid-19 related deaths at a nursing home (details supplied) in County Cork will take place; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1178. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who is waiting for an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Nursing Homes
      1179. To ask the Minister for Health the extent of communication undertaken by his Department with the families of residents at a nursing home (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1180. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have been prescribed therapy that requires the use of an energy-consuming medical device at home; the number of those patients who...
    • Nursing Homes
      1182. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the date when a request for help was made by a nursing home (details supplied) in County Cork to the HSE; the date when that help was...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1183. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on an appointment for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55238/22]
    • Home Help Service
      1185. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the specifics that the core home support service entails; the location where this information is available; the maximum number...
    • Health Services Staff
      1186. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the redeployment of staff who were employed as Covid swabbers and are due to be relocated within the HSE by the end of...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1187. To ask the Minister for Health the length of waiting lists for cancer screening services, by county and hospital, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55264/22]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1189. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to a recent suggestion from a leading oncologist to start using the vaccination ID for all hospital treatments, with a view to...
    • Health Strategies
      1190. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to developing an ovarian-breast cancer specific strategy in view of a recent study titled “Comparator Report on Cancer...
    • Medicinal Products
      1191. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department will publish a report (details supplied) in respect of the drug reimbursement process; when the key recommendations are expected to be...
    • Dental Services
      1192. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to cases where dental patients with medical cards are being taken off dentists’ medical card patient lists due to the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1194. To ask the Minister for Health the number of outpatient and inpatients waiting for pain management in the Saolta University Health Care Group region; the length of time that these persons...
    • Health Service Executive
      1195. To ask the Minister for Health if he will direct the HSE to respond on a matter (details supplied). [55311/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1196. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on funding for ceiling track hoists following the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage advising that this...
    • Departmental Funding
      1197. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding that has been allocated to University Hospital Kerry under the winter plan; the way in which this compares to other hospitals in the...
    • Mental Health Services
      1198. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to roll out out-of-hours crisis cafés across the State; the locations of each; and when they will be up and running. [55332/22]
    • Dental Services
      1199. To ask the Minister for Health if the screening of teeth for the 2022-23 second and fourth class students has commenced; and if not, when this will take place. [55333/22]
    • Health Services
      1200. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 302 of 27 October 2022, the fully staffed annual testing capacity of the new national cervical screening laboratory; and...
    • State Pensions
      1201. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he arrived at the conclusion that the increase in the State pension rates in budget 2023 would not make a substantial difference to the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1202. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address concerns that Covid swabbers who are due for redeployment after 21 November 2022, will be unpaid during the Christmas period; if he can...
    • Mental Health Services
      1204. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the definition of 'continuing care' mental health services, with particular reference to staff client ratios; if he will identify in each...
    • Health Services Staff
      1205. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to address the staff shortage in Cork Maternity University Hospital. [55433/22]
    • Animal Diseases
      1209. To ask the Minister for Health his views on public health warnings in relation to the persistent avian 'flu' and if he is aware of best practice on this matter (details supplied). [55438/22]
    • Infectious Diseases
      1210. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that similarly increased vulnerability also applies to infants, toddlers and very young children with regard to the national warnings to...
    • Disability Services
      1211. To ask the Minister for Health the full-year funding amount in the HSE service plan for progressing disability services for children and young people; the amount of this funding that has...
    • Health Services Staff
      1212. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the contractual or other legal basis for the effective demotion of a registered general nurse (details supplied) employed by the HSE...
    • Medical Cards
      1213. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical card application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55449/22]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1214. To ask the Minister for Health the status of early intervention support for a four-year-old child (details supplied) with autism who is currently waiting for over two years for their final...
    • Health Services
      1215. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports that new parents in Dublin 18 are still not being offered public health nurse developmental checks for their new...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1216. To ask the Minister for Health the measures and additional supports that the HSE is putting in place to assist GP practices and others across County Donegal to support Ukrainian refugees;...
    • Health Services Staff
      1217. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent dental radiographers employed by the HSE in 2021 and to date in 2022; the locations where these radiographers are located,...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1218. To ask the Minister for Health the annual value of the contract for the patient advocacy service; the number of staff that it supports; the annual funding for the service for each of the...
    • Hospital Staff
      1219. To ask the Minister for Health the number of resignations among nurses and midwives, respectively, for each hospital in 2021 and to date in 2022; the number who resigned in September and...
    • Departmental Staff
      1222. To ask the Minister for Health the number of officials in his Department who have undertaken the Harvard Business School advanced management programme in the past ten years...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1223. To ask the Minister for Health the status of discussions on home births with relevant stakeholders, including GPs, as of November 2022 and as promised by him as part of a national policy in...
    • Health Services
      1225. To ask the Minister for Health his views on restoring home birth services in the mid-west region, following the suspension of such services by the UL Hospitals Group earlier in 2022; and if...
    • Disability Services
      1227. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55500/22]
    • Hospital Staff
      1229. To ask the Minister for Health if the respiratory department at Naas General Hospital has a full complement of staff, including consultants, respiratory nurses, physiotherapists and...
    • Care Services
      1230. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new day support services that will be delivered to elderly persons in 2023, in tabular form; and the number of persons who will receive these...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1232. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an assessment appointment for a person (details supplied). [55541/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      1233. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allow access to the Ozempic weight loss drug for those on the drugs payment scheme without a diagnosis of diabetes; and if he will make a statement...
    • Abortion Services
      1234. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the research carried out by the Manchester Metropolitan University as part of the review of the State's abortion legislation; and if he...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1235. To ask the Minister for Health the status of surgery for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55565/22]
    • Medical Cards
      1236. To ask the Minister for Health if GPs should be charging medical card holders for blood tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55569/22]
    • Health Service Executive
      1237. To ask the Minister for Health the action that is being taken to reverse the dereliction of a HSE-owned building (details supplied). [55570/22]
    • Mental Health Policy
      1238. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE can add ADHD to the long-term illness scheme if Statutory Instrument No. 277 (9) is not revoked; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mortality Rates
      1239. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to address Ireland's excess mortality rate of 16.8% as of August 2022; if his attention has been drawn to the actions that are being taken...
    • Home Help Service
      1240. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 12 October 2022, the current timeframe for person (details supplied) to receive their full allocation of 15 hours...
    • Health Strategies
      1241. To ask the Minister for Health when the national cancer strategy implementation report 2021 will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55597/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      1243. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position regarding the regulation of psychotherapy and counselling under the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005; and if he will make...
    • Health Service Executive
      1245. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has completed transfer of its banking arrangements relating to employee payrolls at all locations from banks exiting the Republic of Ireland; and...
    • Departmental Staff
      1246. To ask the Minister for Health if bringing additional expertise for health and social care professionals, HSCPs, to his Department equates to a chief HSCP role on par with the chief nursing...
    • Mortality Rates
      1247. To ask the Minister for Health if he is concerned with the elevated death rate that exists in 2022 in Ireland (details supplied); if he has investigated the reason for this; if so, if he...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Forestry Sector
      1248. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 292 of 19 October 2022, the specific date that his Department began discussions with the...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      1249. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 800 of 11 October 2022, when a reply will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Animal Welfare
      1250. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to address the cruel practice of cropping dogs' ears; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54189/22]
    • Trade Promotion
      1252. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the city of Haarlem being set to become the first city in the world to ban most meat...
    • Trade Sanctions
      1253. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Irish companies are allowed to import fertiliser from an organisation (details supplied). [54207/22]
    • Departmental Properties
      1254. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department and all bodies under his Department's aegis have reviewed their estates portfolio in the context of identifying...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      1256. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54280/22]
    • Animal Diseases
      1257. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the regulations that govern whether a person will receive reimbursement for a TB test; if tests must be completed in a given...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1258. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on a budget announcement (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54377/22]
    • Fishing Industry
      1261. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of all payments made to fishermen and fish processing companies in County Cork for each of the years...
    • Forestry Sector
      1262. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will request that the forestry appeals committee provides him with an explanation as to the reason the committee will not...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1263. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the recently announced TAMS support for the installation of livestock underpasses could be provided to persons who installed...
    • Animal Diseases
      1264. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied). [54642/22]
    • Public Sector Pensions
      1268. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he can give permission to the Coillte Board to sanction an increase in pension payable to Coillte pensioners (details supplied);...
    • Departmental Meetings
      1269. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of times his Department officials met with a person (details supplied) with regard to the regulatory review undertaken as...
    • Forestry Sector
      1270. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 2151 of 8 September 2022, when an afforestation application by a person (details supplied)...
    • Environmental Impact Assessments
      1271. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the anticipated timeline for the completion of the EIA (agricultural) review; if his Department will consider a moratorium on...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1274. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive payment under the areas of natural constraints scheme. [54857/22]
    • Greyhound Industry
      1275. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that a greyhound trainer (details supplied) who was issued with an exclusion order by Greyhound Racing Ireland effective...
    • Forestry Sector
      1277. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when details of the new forestry scheme will be available in order that forestry businesses can plan in an attempt to prevent job...
    • Greyhound Industry
      1278. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department carried out an investigation into the discovery of greyhound remains in a bog in Newbridge in August 2022; if post...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1281. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department consulted and engaged with hill farmers before the ACRES scheme was launched; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Fishing Industry
      1286. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the direct diplomatic representations that have been made by the Irish Government to the governments of Norway, Iceland, the Faroe...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1287. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a farm payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55104/22]
    • Common Fisheries Policy
      1288. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline his engagement with the inshore fishing sector concerning the upcoming Common Fisheries Policy negotiations....
    • Fishing Industry
      1289. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking to support fishers facing rising fuel costs. [55148/22]
    • Departmental Funding
      1290. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will provide start-up funding to a producer organisation once it is approved to enable it to perform its...
    • Assisted Animal Reproduction
      1292. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of bovine embryos in total that were exported to Australia between the period 1 January 2018 to 5 October 2022; and if he...
    • Animal Diseases
      1297. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to a recent parliamentary question, where data was requested on his Department's decision to introduce mandatory TB testing...
    • Departmental Funding
      1299. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a report on funding provided to an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      1300. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the exact breakdown of figures for thoroughbred horses that are rendered, those that die in training and those...
    • Forestry Sector
      1301. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of planting, felling and road licences issued for forestry operations in each of the past five years; the volume of...
    • Fishing Industry
      1302. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way he has used the EMFAF crisis mechanism, triggered by the European Commission in March 2022, to support the fisheries sector,...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1305. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will give consideration to a scheme whereby landowners can apply for assistance with cutting back roadside trees with ash...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      1307. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total expenditure by his Department on pension payments to former civil servants in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date...
    • Departmental Staff
      1308. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of officials in his Department who have undertaken the Harvard Business School advanced management...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1309. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is a penalty for a farmer participating in the BDGP scheme who is exiting sucklers now on age grounds; and if he will make...
    • Agricultural Colleges
      1311. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of full-time students enrolled in Teagasc agricultural colleges in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [55523/22]
    • Departmental Data
      1312. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of containers inspected by his departmental officials following arrival into Dublin Port from 1 November 2021 to 1...
    • Animal Carcase Disposal
      1313. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the legislation that covers the safe and appropriate transport of animal carcasses; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1314. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of participants in agri-environmental schemes (details supplied) for each of the years 2014 to 2021 and to date in 2022;...
    • Data Protection
      1315. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has engaged with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner in respect of a person (details supplied) and their right to...
    • Brexit Supports
      1316. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the total amounts distributed under the business model adjustment scheme for the inshore fleet. [55645/22]
    • Forestry Sector
      1317. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking to ensure the processing of forestry licences from private companies. [55649/22]
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Departmental Properties
      1318. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department and all bodies under her Department's aegis have reviewed their estates portfolio in the context of identifying...
    • Departmental Funding
      1320. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there is any assistance currently available for a community group (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a...
    • Community Development Projects
      1321. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54448/22]
    • Rural Schemes
      1322. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has reviewed correspondence (details supplied). [54468/22]
    • Community Development Projects
      1323. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the community services programme will be open to new applicants; the latest criteria for the applicants; and if she will make a...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund
      1324. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will consider and implement a scheme using funds from the Dormant Accounts Fund to finance the compulsory purchase of derelict...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1325. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of local authorities that have applied for funding through the community enhancement programme and town and village...
    • Rural Schemes
      1326. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the criteria used in allocating funds to each county under the forthcoming LEADER programme; the weighting or marks awarded to each...
    • Departmental Staff
      1331. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of officials in her Department who have undertaken the Harvard Business School advanced management...
    • Men's Sheds
      1332. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will include an organisation (details supplied) in the recently announced men's shed support allocation. [55509/22]

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