Written answers

Tuesday, 15 November 2022

  • Department of An Taoiseach
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Public Sector Staff
      81. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans his Department has to address the crisis in recruitment across multiple areas of the public sector; if these plans include...
    • Voluntary Sector
      89. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Dáil Éireann passing a motion on Wednesday, 12 October 2022 in support of pay increases for community and voluntary...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      95. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps his Department is taking to reduce the cost of building materials; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56229/22]
    • Office of Public Works
      96. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of any analysis carried out by his Department into the impact of the ongoing rise in rental prices on the cost...
    • Heritage Sites
      97. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has had engagement with other Departments with the view to providing Clare County Council with Exchequer money to make...
    • Flood Risk Management
      98. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the progress of the Enniscorthy flood defence scheme; if he will confirm whether the project will proceed...
    • State Bodies
      99. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason his Department requires State bodies to disclose more comprehensive information on the remuneration of their CEOs than it does...
    • Flood Risk Management
      100. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the selection of a contractor for the Glashaboy flood relief scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Public Services Provision
      101. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the up-to-date position regarding the provision of a site for a children's playground at Dún Chaoin; and if he will make a...
    • Cost of Living Issues
      102. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actions he has taken to deal with the rising cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56293/22]
    • Flood Risk Management
      103. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when flood defence construction works will advance for an Sulán River, Ballymakeera, County Cork; and if he will make a statement...
    • Office of Public Works
      105. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of projects under way by the OPW to improve the energy efficiency of the buildings it manages and owns; the...
    • Flood Risk Management
      106. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the flood relief scheme in Bantry, County Cork. [56220/22]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      107. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total underspend on capital allocated to Departments to the end of October 2022; the steps taken to streamline and speed up capital...
    • Flood Risk Management
      109. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the Glashaboy flood relief scheme. [56451/22]
    • Public Sector Pay
      110. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has conducted any recent evaluation on public sector pay rates or the minimum wage in view of rising rate of...
    • Freedom of Information
      112. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason for the delay in publishing the report on the review of the Freedom of Information Act 2014, which was scheduled for early in...
    • Fiscal Policy
      113. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures it is expected will be funded by the contingency reserve fund in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55591/22]
    • Ethics in Public Office
      114. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on when the review of ethics legislation will be published; if he will confirm that ten submissions were...
    • Office of Public Works
      115. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps being taken by the OPW to ensure buildings it has responsibility for are fully accessible for persons with disabilities,...
    • Irish Language
      116. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps taken since the enactment of the amended Official Languages Act 2021 to increase the intake of civil servants who are capable...
    • National Development Plan
      117. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an analysis of the impact the climate action plan will have on the revised national development plan; and if he will...
    • Equality Proofing
      118. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures his Department has taken and which have been effective in promoting equality in Ireland under equality budgeting; and if he...
    • Office of Public Works
      119. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will request a full assessment of the existing heating and lighting systems at Glendalough visitor centre; his plans regarding...
    • National Development Plan
      120. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the implementation of Project Ireland 2040; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56475/22]
    • EU Funding
      121. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 81 of 4 October 2022, the status of Ireland’s partnership agreement for cohesion funding...
    • National Development Plan
      122. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has carried out an analysis of infrastructure projects in the revised national development plan in respect of the new...
    • Public Services Provision
      123. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding public toilets provision on An Blascaod Mór; the up-to-date position regarding signage to help protect the...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has received an update regarding the business case submitted to the major projects advisory group within his Department for an...
    • Equality Proofing
      125. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way his Department is pursuing equality budgeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56422/22]
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      128. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if current expenditure is within profile for the year to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56446/22]
    • Courts Service
      129. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding remedial works being carried out on the Wicklow town courthouse; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • International Protection
      130. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the land, properties or buildings the OPW or his Department have made available in 2022 for housing or accommodation for Ukrainian...
    • Office of Public Works
      131. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on efforts by the Office of Public Works to increase public access to the Dunsink observatory; and the way...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      132. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are many Cvil Service pensions that were eligible for the pension increases that took place on 1 October 2022; the number of...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Functions
      133. To ask the Taoiseach if a climate action unit has been established in his Department. [55387/22]
    • Departmental Bodies
      134. To ask the Taoiseach the number of meetings that have taken place to date in 2022 of the climate action delivery board; and the number scheduled for the remainder of 2022. [56201/22]
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Work Permits
      135. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the appeals of persons (details supplied) can be accepted based on extenuating circumstances where an IT glitch played a role in...
    • Industrial Development
      136. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the breakdown of the number of site visits hosted by IDA Ireland in counties Galway, Clare and Limerick to date in 2022, by county;...
    • Business Supports
      138. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports in place for small businesses to support them with increasing costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Work Permits
      139. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of work permits that have been applied for in Dublin for bus drivers in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date 2022,...
    • Departmental Schemes
      140. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there will be an emergency humanitarian support scheme provided for Clongeen and Folksmills in south County Wexford, which have...
    • Job Losses
      141. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the person or body he has met to date within the tech sector to discuss specifically the threat to Irish tech sector jobs; the person...
    • Departmental Schemes
      142. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Ireland's Best Young Entrepreneur competition will recommence following its suspension due to the Covid-19 pandemic; if not,...
    • Trade Missions
      143. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are plans to have a trade and investment mission to Australia early in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Emergency Planning
      144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if any meetings of the national emergency co-ordination group have taken place during 2022 to discuss the State's...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      145. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when Eir retirees, who were formerly classified as Post and Telegraphs and Telecom Éireann employees who were...
    • Departmental Bodies
      146. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 151 of 2 June 2022, if he is satisfied that the appointments in Inland Fisheries...
    • Data Protection
      148. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he and-or the Commission for Regulation of Utilities granted ESB Networks permission to extract granular data from...
    • Departmental Strategies
      150. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he plans on publishing the national green hydrogen strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56400/22]
    • Departmental Schemes
      152. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the budget allocation for attic and cavity wall insulation for 2022; the number of applications to date in 2022 for...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      153. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the action the Government is taking to expand the role wave and tidal energy can play in Ireland's renewable energy...
    • Departmental Reports
      154. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a list of reports used in the preparation of the sectoral emissions ceilings; the cost of...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      156. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he expects offshore wind in the north-western waters will be able to be constructed; the plans in place to allow...
    • International Agreements
      158. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if Ireland, as a founding member of the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance with Costa Rica and Denmark, will ensure that the...
    • Building Energy Rating
      159. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the grant assistance available for a person who recently purchased a house and is looking to complete works in order to...
    • Fuel Sales
      160. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if, under the proposed new regulations on the sale of turf, a vendor of turf who sources their product from a supplier...
    • Water Services
      161. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the resolutions tput forward for persons living in the Robinstown and Shambo area of County Meath whose well has...
    • Offshore Exploration
      162. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding an application in respect of a location (details supplied); if the application will be approved;...
    • Departmental Schemes
      163. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of heat loss indicator assessments completed under the SEAI home retrofitting programmes on a monthly basis;...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • National Car Test
      168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to reports that NCT tests are now being conducted by non-qualified workers; his views that this should...
    • Taxi Regulations
      169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider waiving the requirement for taxis to be less than ten years old due to the ongoing disruption in the supply chain for...
    • Driver Test
      170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to lengthy waiting times for driving tests at a test centre (details supplied); and the action that his...
    • Transport Costs
      171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which the National Transport Authority and his Department are treating the annual tax-saver rail ticket already purchased by...
    • Park-and-Ride Facilities
      172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expected timeline for new park-and-ride facilities in Cork; and if he will provide a commitment that one will be located on the north...
    • Driver Test
      173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will expedite a driving test for a person (details supplied) as they are unable to take up an mechanic apprenticeship without a...
    • Rail Network
      174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the return of quiet carriages on the Dublin to Cork rail line; if a wider roll-out of this initiative...
    • National Car Test
      175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56237/22]
    • Bus Services
      177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the current crisis of bus driver shortages and recruitment; the way in which the BusConnects programme...
    • Road Projects
      178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the delay in relation to the selection of a route (details supplied); the length of time that land has been sterilised...
    • Driver Licences
      179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of learner permit holders disqualified in each year since 2016; the number who surrendered their learner permit to the RSA...
    • Transport Costs
      180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that someone under the age of 24 years with valid ID cannot avail of the young adult discounts on public transport; the reason...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made to date with the development of a ports policy for the wind energy sector; when the policy will be published and...
    • Driver Test
      182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the delay in driving tests in County Wexford; if there are plans to provide additional testers to...
    • Air Services
      183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the flights by a company (details supplied) from Carrickfinn to Dublin; the number of flights which have...
    • Transport Costs
      184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will examine extending the disability toll exemption scheme to parents of children who are patients in hospital, noting the cost...
    • Departmental Schemes
      185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the budget allocation for the low-emissions vehicle toll incentive for 2022; the number of persons who are signed up to the scheme; the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update regarding the large convoy of propelled aeroplanes and helicopters that flew across north County Dublin at...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an application for Rosslare Port to become a renewable energy hub was resubmitted for central European Union funding in September...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of incidents that have taken place on the Dunkettle roundabout and approach roads around the Jack Lynch Tunnel north and south...
    • Greenways Provision
      189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has met with Irish Rail officials to discuss progress on the Broadmeadow Way Donabate to Malahide greenway project; if so, the...
    • Bus Services
      190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to have a direct Bus Éireann PSO route from Dublin to Clare in both directions via Offaly; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Code
      191. To ask the Minister for Finance if biofuels are regarded as fossil fuels for the purpose of carbon tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56612/22]
    • Pension Levy
      195. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of the moneys raised from private pension funds in each of the years during which the emergency pension levy applied; the estimated number of fund...
    • Tax Reliefs
      197. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has requested the Revenue Commissioners to review the present tax reliefs for remote working with a view to making the relief less cumbersome to...
    • Data Protection
      199. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or his Department have given an exemption to the data protection laws to a business (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Real Estate Investment Trusts
      200. To ask the Minister for Finance the research that has been carried out into the occupancy of properties owned by REITs for which they are claiming exemption from corporation tax for the past...
    • Financial Services
      201. To ask the Minister for Finance the current timeframe for a complaint to be adjudicated upon under the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman once a complaint leaves the informal dispute...
    • Post Office Network
      202. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps being taken to create a community banking system within the post office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56309/22]
    • Tax Collection
      203. To ask the Minister for Finance the outstanding balance of local property tax for a person (details supplied). [56327/22]
    • Credit Availability
      204. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received any report detailing the level of finance being given in loans by banks to builders of homes over the past ten years; and if he will detail...
    • Tax Code
      205. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the fact farmers will have to pay a 3% tax on the value of the land when they might never have any intention of developing (details supplied);...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      208. To ask the Minister for Finance if the relevant funding will be made available to enable the expansion of the criteria for eligibility for the primary medical certificate. [56499/22]
    • Insurance Industry
      212. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that a person (details supplied) is waiting over the advised 90 days on authorisation to commence trading as an insurance intermediary; and if he...
    • Departmental Meetings
      215. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to have a bilateral meeting with his Cypriot counterpart; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56732/22]
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Flood Risk Management
      216. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the River Shannon Management Agency Bill 2020. [56742/22]
    • Public Sector Pensions
      224. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the deductions made from the pensions of retired teachers arising from the financial crash 2008 will be restored. [56139/22]
    • Legislative Measures
      225. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to progress the River Shannon Management Agency Bill 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56282/22]
    • Public Sector Pensions
      226. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total cost of payments made for all public sector pensions, including Civil Service pensions, over the past five years, in tabular...
    • Office of Public Works
      228. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to develop a strategy for the repurposing of vacant OPW buildings and unused OPW sites for public housing or community use;...
    • Insurance Coverage
      229. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the supports available to homeowners who have been impacted by flooding and cannot secure home flood insurance; the measures being taken...
    • Swimming Pools
      230. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if persons in his Department sought additional financial supports from the State to cover the additional energy costs of running the...
    • EU Funding
      231. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made to date in implementing the national recovery and resilience plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Strategies
      232. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the digital initiatives underway within his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56547/22]
    • An Garda Síochána
      233. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the major refurbishment works at Portlaoise Garda station has commenced; the expected timeframe of completion of these works; and if...
    • Brexit Supports
      234. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total number of projects funded under the Brexit adjustment reserve to date; the impact of these projects; and if he will make a...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      235. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actions he is taking to manage the significant shift in inflationary pressures and supply chain disruptions that are impacting...
    • Vacant Properties
      236. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 of 8 February 2022, if he will confirm whether any of the properties in Galway outlined...
    • Public Sector Pay
      237. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the remaining actions that remain to be implemented as part of the Building Momentum pay agreement; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Cost of Living Issues
      238. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total projected expenditure in 2022 in relation to assisting households and persons with the rising cost of living; and if he will...
    • Swimming Pools
      239. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the agreement to reopen the swimming pool in the Garda College in Templemore to the public will include public classes, as well as...
    • Departmental Strategies
      240. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the benefit accruing to the Exchequer arising from the implementation of reform proposals across all Departments and subsidiaries...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      243. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which reform has been become a feature of public procurement with a view to ensuring prompt delivery of projects and...
    • National Development Plan
      244. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree to which he expects all Government projects to continue to be completed on time and within budget; and if he will make a...
    • Public Sector Pay
      248. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which any outstanding matters arising from FEMPI have been concluded or are in course thereof; if groups throughout...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      249. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree to which he remains satisfied that public expenditure and reform proposals are sufficiently embedded in the system in order...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Business Supports
      250. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason Waterford as the fifth largest city in the State was not awarded a night-time economy advisor; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Meetings
      251. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she last spoke with the chief executive officer of Fáilte Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56559/22]
    • Energy Prices
      252. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way in which a club (details supplied) can apply for assistance with its excessive energy bills; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Bodies
      253. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of vacancies at Tourism Ireland; when the competition for each of these vacancies will end; the anticipated timeframe...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Natural Resources
      254. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position with regard to the European Commission's nature restoration law, which would see at least 35% of peatlands...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the revised wind energy development guidelines will be commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56483/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      256. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects paramedics employed by Dublin Fire Brigade to receive the pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Schemes
      257. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the proposals relating to financial assistance packages for first-time buyers or renovators that have been brought to his...
    • Departmental Bodies
      258. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the position of chairperson of An Bord Pleanála has been advertised; and the timeline for recruitment of the position....
    • Derelict Sites
      259. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish all reports given to him by various Departments on derelict properties in their ownership. [56128/22]
    • Housing Schemes
      260. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of the number of properties that have availed of the repair and lease scheme by county to date in 2022. [56164/22]
    • Housing Provision
      261. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of the Housing for All targets localised to County Kerry to date in 2022. [56165/22]
    • Emergency Accommodation
      262. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the eviction ban covers those in emergency accommodation who receive an eviction notice for refusal of alternative...
    • Urban Development
      263. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider allocating space and funding for a public allotment in all new public parks, particularly those under the...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      264. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent on Traveller housing by each local authority in each of the years from 2019 to 2022, in tabular form. [56231/22]
    • Building Regulations
      266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter regarding a complaint made to the Ombudsman Office concerning a breach of a statutory requirement,...
    • Water Services
      267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the report on the rural water framework will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56268/22]
    • Defective Building Materials
      268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the General Scheme of the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Remediation...
    • Housing Schemes
      269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the ready to build scheme, serviced sites for new homes will be extended to rural areas as part of the croí...
    • Housing Policy
      270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when an increase in the social housing income thresholds in County Tipperary will be increased; the reason that the thresholds...
    • Water Services
      272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will be expanding the €50 million scheme providing funding for water services infrastructure in rural villages...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of group sewerage schemes that were approved funding in each county in the years 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in...
    • Election Management System
      274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason certain parts of the Voter.ie website are only available if a person lives in Dublin; when Voter.ie was...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 159 of 27 September 2022, the amount of capital carryover for each of these categories...
    • Housing Schemes
      276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will issue guidance to local authorities requesting that they facilitate housing assistance payment tenants who wish to...
    • Fire Safety
      277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that a redress scheme for houses and apartments with fire defects will include all impacted apartments, be...
    • Vacant Properties
      278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to widen the criteria (details supplied) for qualification to the vacant property refurbishment grant scheme to...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will furnish all correspondence and interactions between his Department and the Office of the Planning Regulator in the...
    • Housing Provision
      282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if approval will issue for a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56541/22]
    • Departmental Staff
      283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of full-time staff by grade working in the national directorate for fire and emergency management section within...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the budget allocation for the National Parks and Wildlife Service in each of the years 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in...
    • Special Amenity Areas
      285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of special amenity area orders in place nationally that were issued by ministerial order; their locations; and if...
    • Local Authorities
      286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will instruct local authorities to make the record of protected structures in their jurisdiction available on their...
    • Housing Provision
      287. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56593/22]
    • Housing Policy
      288. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will advise on the guidelines for local authorities regarding the inclusion of social welfare payments in calculating...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Part 8 stage one approval applications for Traveller-specific housing submitted to his Department by each local...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of participants in the National Parks and Wildlife Service farm plan scheme by farm system; and if he will make a...
    • Horticulture Sector
      292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the measures his Department is taking to support alternative sources of peat for the...
    • Defective Building Materials
      293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if persons with homes in Fingal, County Dublin, which have defective pyrite or mica blocks will be able to apply for an...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      294. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which the Government intends to support indigenous Irish businesses that are seeking to make the transition to...
    • Housing Policy
      296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the criteria for a local authority to purchase a house in cases in which the house is for sale on the open market and is...
    • Traffic Management
      297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which the necessary funding is being provided through the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF,...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department records the number of disabled persons in homelessness; and the number of disabled persons in homelessness...
    • Derelict Sites
      301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties on derelict and vacant site registers in each local authority area. [56735/22]
    • Housing Schemes
      302. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to make compliant non-compliant HAP tenancies; and if it is the policy of his Department to prioritise direct...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for Traveller-specific accommodation in Limerick. [56737/22]
    • Rental Sector
      304. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend rent pressure zones in Waterford. [56738/22]
    • Housing Schemes
      305. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the uptake of the croí cónaithe scheme nationally and in each county. [56739/22]
    • Emergency Accommodation
      306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the role of local authorities in the provision of emergency accommodation for persons presenting as homeless; and...
    • Housing Provision
      307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the provision of home heating for local authority housing in cases in which a council house has been...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Foreign Policy
      308. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has reopened diplomatic relations with the Government of Venezuela, led by Nicholás Maduro, or if it is still the...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      309. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a foreign birth certificate will issue for a person (details supplied) who applied in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Election Monitoring Missions
      310. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the timeframe for the establishment of a new election observation roster; the body that will be responsible for conducting the competition;...
    • International Bodies
      311. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way in which Ireland plans to engage with the IMF on its policy of austerity, with particular concern for the way that this policy is...
    • Passport Services
      312. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Passport Office plans to automatically email persons a minimum of three months in advance of their passport expiring where the...
  • Department of Defence
    • Emergency Planning
      313. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide details of the members of the national emergency co-ordination group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56339/22]
    • Naval Service
      315. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the progress made in selecting a location for a base for the Naval Service on the west coast to service the immense area of Irish waters off...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Staff
      316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 381 of 25 October 2022, when a revised salary certificate will issue (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Schools Building Projects
      317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the car park lease agreed as part of the building project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • School Transport
      318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way the extra funding allocated in budget 2023 for the school bus scheme is to be spent by her Department; if the list of names provided by...
    • National Council for Special Education
      320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the National Council for Special Education will complete and submit its policy advice on education provision in special classes and special...
    • School Transport
      321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an application for school transport will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that insufficient consultation took place ahead of the announcement of the proposed amalgamation of...
    • Schools Building Projects
      323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the selection of schools under the pathways school building retrofitting programme will commence; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Education and Training Provision
      324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the Donegal ETB request for additional resources to support students and staff directly affected by mica in County Donegal will be assessed;...
    • Education Policy
      325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has a policy and report on the future of second level education on the north side of Cork city. [56211/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to reports that a subcontractor (details supplied) employed by a main contractor on a school project has been...
    • School Transport
      327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school bus tickets can be issued to pupils (details supplied). [56270/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new facilities at a school (details supplied) will go to tender; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56271/22]
    • School Transport
      329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 19 October 2022, the number of applicants for the school transport scheme in County Monaghan in 2022...
    • Schools Building Projects
      330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 244 of 15 September 2022, when the next bundle of projects is due to progress; the timeframe for the...
    • Physical Education
      331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that will be taken to ensure that all children in attendance at a school (details supplied) will have access to the required number of...
    • Schools Building Projects
      332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update in respect of a capital project for a school (details supplied); if she will outline the remaining stages; and the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the general rules under which a special school is eligible to access administration support; and if there is any flexibility...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that special schools are excluded from the DEIS programme; and if this will be reviewed, given the disadvantage experienced by some...
    • State Examinations
      335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in the process of standardisation of leaving certificate results year-on-year, there is any aspect of school profiling; if that...
    • Schools Building Projects
      336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that her Department has chosen to proceed with a new build for a school (details supplied) with a proposed capacity of 650 pupils,...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the ability of elected members of the Teaching Council to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the extension works will be commenced for a school (details supplied). [56328/22]
    • Education Policy
      339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of implementing "ESD to 2030: Second National Strategy on Education for Sustainable Development"; the amount that has been...
    • School Transport
      340. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school transport service will commence for a pupil (details supplied) who started attending a special education class in September 2022...
    • School Curriculum
      341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether the drinks industry-funded programmes should be delivered in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56485/22]
    • Schools Amalgamation
      342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will furnish the details of the independent report regarding the amalgamation process between schools (details supplied) in Cork; and if...
    • School Transport
      345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that inspectors regularly inspect school transport bus services to ensure that all allocated seats are being used on a regular...
    • School Curriculum
      346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a gambling addiction preventative and awareness education programme has been rolled out in secondary schools; if so, when was it launched; if...
    • Schools Building Projects
      347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the outcome of the stage one report on the campus project at Clonard, County Wexford; the work that has progressed on the provision of the two...
    • School Staff
      348. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school secretaries will transfer to her Department’s payroll; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56539/22]
    • School Transport
      349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to provide a school bus to serve a secondary school in Dungarvan (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      350. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56545/22]
    • School Accommodation
      351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied); if same will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56552/22]
    • Schools Building Projects
      352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the timeline for the provision of new school buildings for schools (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • School Funding
      353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if financial supports are available for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56616/22]
    • School Transport
      354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will engage with a school (details supplied) regarding a student who missed vital deadlines as a result of having no school...
    • Education Policy
      355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if advice will be provided in relation to a matter (details supplied); the options that are available; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Staff
      356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the ongoing delay in the provision of promised therapists to a school (details supplied); and when they will finally be in place....
    • School Patronage
      357. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide policy documentation and details for her Department’s pilot programme for church divestment in schools; and if she...
    • School Curriculum
      358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of second level schools by county that have facilitated an education programme (details supplied) in the years 2021 and to date in...
    • Teacher Training
      359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of second level teachers who have taken part in teacher training programmes funded and delivered by organisations (details supplied)...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Code
      360. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reasoning as to if a person who is in receipt of disability allowance and that person takes up a community employment...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      361. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will have a decision on their invalidity pension claim; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      363. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the assistance available to persons diagnosed as deaf to replace their hearing aids should they become damaged; if there is a...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      364. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has sufficient contributions to qualify for invalidity pension. [56124/22]
    • Social Welfare Code
      365. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on her Department's position regarding the recognition of Covid-19 as an occupational disease...
    • State Pensions
      366. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application by a person (details supplied) for the State pension (contributory) could be reviewed according to section...
    • Community Welfare Services
      367. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to resolve the backlog of applications for supplementary welfare allowance in counties Carlow and...
    • Social Welfare Code
      368. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the autumn cost-of-living double payment will be considered as means for social welfare payments, such as those payments...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      369. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to increasing the level of pay that community employment supervisors receive; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Code
      372. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider raising the number of hours that a carer in receipt of carer's allowance can work from 18.5 hours to 20...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      373. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue on an application for SWA considering that the claim was received by her Department on 24 August...
    • Social Welfare Code
      375. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the qualifying payments required currently for fuel allowance will remain when the new income criteria are implemented in...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      376. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Dental Services
      377. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry is eligible for dental treatment under the treatment benefit scheme; and if...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      378. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a decision has not been reached to date on an exceptional needs payment for a person (details supplied) in...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      379. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average processing times for working family payment applications in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and...
    • State Pensions
      380. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has to repay a pension payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56326/22]
    • Social Welfare Code
      381. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current income a single parent can earn before having the fuel allowance cut; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      382. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide the number of persons in receipt of the fuel allowance at the end of 2021 and the figure as of November...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      383. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the family income supplement in each county at the end of 2021; and the corresponding...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      385. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for domiciliary care allowance; and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      386. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of oral appeals held by the social welfare appeals office in 2021 and to date in 2022, which were held remotely,...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      387. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      388. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide the most recent figure on the number of carers in receipt of carer's allowance, including half-rate...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      391. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when retired community employment scheme supervisors can expect to receive the gratuity payments they were notified of in...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      392. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is on illness benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56506/22]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      393. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) who had their back to education allowance withdrawn and have the...
    • State Pensions
      394. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the case of a person who worked in the Civil Service for 16 years, only ceased working when they got married,...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      396. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applicants on short-term work schemes who are claiming jobseeker’s benefit, by county, in 2021 and to...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      397. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review will be carried out of community employment schemes with a focus on persons with a disability, given that it is...
    • Community Welfare Services
      399. 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. [56565/22]
    • Citizens Information Services
      400. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current position regarding Finglas Citizens Information Centre, including current opening hours; if there have recently...
    • Employment Support Services
      401. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if any directives have been given to Intreo staff on the way to deal with those aged 65 years respectfully in their...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      402. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an invalidity pension payment will be reinstated for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Code
      403. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the profit gained from the agricultural use of land (details supplied) and or the capital value of the piece of land will...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      404. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting so long for their working family payment to be reviewed; and if she...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      405. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a PPS number will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Code
      406. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the criteria necessary for an application to be successful under the farm spouses scheme in order for the spouse of a farmer...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      407. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue on a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      408. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a permanent solution will be in place for the replacement of the social welfare office in Castlepollard; and if she will...
    • Employment Support Services
      409. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether smaller schemes are at a disadvantage to bigger urban schemes when it comes to pathways to work (details...
    • State Pensions
      410. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for a State pension (contributory) by a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Social Welfare Code
      411. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to recognise long-Covid as an occupational disease or illness following this Government's support of the...
    • State Pensions
      412. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a State pension (contributory) arrears payment due to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will issue; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      413. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families in each county that received the double child benefit payment in November 2022; and the number of...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • International Protection
      420. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the exact process by which a centre (details supplied) was brought to his attention as a potential site for...
    • Care Services
      426. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of residential care centres provided by each private for-profit provider; the location of each...
    • Detention Centres
      429. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total bed placement capacity in the Oberstown centre; the average occupancy level in the centre in the years...
    • Departmental Funding
      430. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will consider providing sponsorship for the Christmas lights in Saggart, County Dublin, under...
    • State Pensions
      431. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has plans to ensure that families who provide the wonderful service of a foster family to children in need...
    • Rights of People with Disabilities
      432. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a report on the establishment of a UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      433. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to the United Nations statement issued on 23 September 2022 which concluded that children of African...
    • International Protection
      434. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide clarification on a matter (details supplied). [56469/22]
    • Magdalen Laundries
      435. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 283 of 20 October 2022, when a full reply will be issued. [56495/22]
    • Voluntary Sector
      436. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the basis for the removal of entitlements from section 56 workers who were re-designated from section 38, such...
    • Adoption Services
      437. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a person (details supplied) will receive information regarding their birth having applied for same...
    • Direct Provision System
      438. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of adults and children remaining in direct provision in each centre in County Wexford who have been...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      440. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the criteria or actuarial tables that were used when calculating the cost of redress under the proposed mother...
    • Family Resource Centres
      441. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will advise a local organisation (details supplied) on the types of possible additional funding that might...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      442. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some children are not able to avail fully of the ECCE scheme...
    • Childcare Services
      443. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the build blocks funding programme that his Department administers can provide for extensions to existing...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      445. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of ECCE providers that have provided him with notice that they will cease with service provision...
    • Children in Care
      446. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount spent on private foster care companies in 2021 and to date in 2022; the companies receiving this...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Third Level Costs
      447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if one-off payments in budget 2023 will be counted as income in the means test when applying for the SUSI grant; and if he will make a statement...
    • Third Level Admissions
      448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied). [56145/22]
    • Education and Training Provision
      449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine an issue regarding a gratuity allowance for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56160/22]
    • Grant Payments
      450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a student grant appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56196/22]
    • Third Level Costs
      451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56233/22]
    • Third Level Fees
      452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an EU student resident in Ireland for the past three years is eligible for the free fees Initiative if their parents are resident in Romania;...
    • Education and Training Provision
      453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will consider developing, with the ETBs and other statutory education bodies, networks of remote study hubs in regional towns...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Domestic Violence
      473. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide figures relating to domestic abuse incidents across all divisions of An Garda Síochána in the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      474. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda vehicles in the Galway division, by station and type of vehicle, currently and in each of the past ten...
    • Citizenship Applications
      476. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason that a person (details supplied) is waiting so long for Irish citizenship; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      477. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if persons in her Department or in An Garda Síochána sought additional financial supports from the State to cover the...
    • Immigration Status
      478. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an application for repatriation by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Probate Applications
      479. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for delays in granting probate or processing applications of probate at the Probate Office and if steps can be taken...
    • Departmental Investigations
      480. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a further update on a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56548/22]
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      481. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of road traffic accidents involving e-scooters in 2021 and to date in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      482. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda stations by county which were shut in each of the years 2011 and 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [56601/22]
    • Departmental Policies
      484. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the next naturalisation ceremonies will be held; the locations in which they will be held; when participants in the...
    • Bench Warrants
      486. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of bench warrants currently outstanding in the Clare Garda division; the number that were outstanding for more than...
    • Immigration Policy
      487. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 601 of 11 October 2022, if she has received the necessary information from the Garda...
    • Prison Service
      488. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 602 of 11 October 2022, if she has received the necessary information from the Irish...
    • Legislative Measures
      489. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current status of the Criminal Justice (Passenger Name Record) Bill 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Health
    • Health Services Staff
      491. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has ever considered the need to look at public procurement in view to retention of staff in the HSE (details supplied). [56783/22]
    • General Practitioner Services
      492. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a situation regarding GP services in a rural area in County Wicklow (details supplied); if these services can be reinstated;...
    • Health Services
      493. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied). [56115/22]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      494. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied). [56116/22]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      495. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be taken on Tallaght University Hospital's submission for a new 72-inpatient bed block. [56117/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      496. To ask the Minister for Health the assistance available to persons diagnosed as deaf to replace their hearing aids should they become damaged; if there is a time limit on such replacement or...
    • Substance Misuse
      497. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have utilised keltoi in each of the months September and October and to date in November. [56129/22]
    • Mental Health Services
      499. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years who are on a waiting list for mental health services, by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      500. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant posts in CHO 2 by section and length of time the post has been vacant, that is, under 12 months, between 12 months and five years and over...
    • Vaccination Programme
      501. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which recommendations from the NIAC on immunisations are interpreted by his Department; the role the Immunisation Policy Team have in both...
    • Disease Management
      502. To ask the Minister for Health the definition of "rare disease" utilised by his Department and the HSE; and the number and names of the rare diseases entailed under these respective...
    • Health Strategies
      505. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the present National Sexual Health Strategy runs to 2020; if he intends to update the strategy; if he will be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      506. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department will issue further guidance to those who are not directly employed by the HSE with regards to the Covid recognition payment; and if he will...
    • Eating Disorders
      508. To ask the Minister for Health the measure that he is taking to assist the families of children with avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID); the further measures that he is taking...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      509. To ask the Minister for Health if some persons who were employed at a privately run nursing home during Covid that has closed are eligible for the Covid bonus payment (details supplied)....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      510. To ask the Minister for Health if a surgery appointment which was cancelled will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56194/22]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      511. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the 60-bed extension at Heather House community nursing unit is yet to be operational; and when the extension will be operational. [56198/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      512. To ask the Minister for Health when section 38 organisations, whose workers are entitled to the backdated pay increases awarded under building momentum and detailed under HR circular...
    • Health Services
      513. To ask the Minister for Health if plans have been put in place to reinstate the HSE counselling services which were withdrawn from the Creeslough community; and if he will make a statement...
    • Disability Services
      514. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of staff in the Nenagh children's disability network teams run by Enable Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56218/22]
    • Dental Services
      515. To ask the Minister for Health if a patient (details supplied) will be scheduled for orthodontic treatment through the HSE scheme for school aged children. [56224/22]
    • Home Help Service
      516. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been granted home help hours in County Mayo but who are waiting on staff to provide the service; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Funding
      518. To ask the Minister for Health the awards made to a firm (details supplied) by his Department and each of its aegis bodies in each of the years 2016 to 2021, inclusive, and to date in 2022,...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      520. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56241/22]
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      521. To ask the Minister for Health the number of overseas application files that were assessed by each educational assessor for each month from January 2021 to September 2022 in the Nursing and...
    • Health Services Staff
      523. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long for their registration number; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56250/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      524. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons prescribed antidepressant drugs in the State in each of the past ten years, by age, in tabular form. [56253/22]
    • Substance Misuse
      526. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons being treated for addiction to anti-anxiety drugs in the State in each of the past ten years, by age, in tabular form. [56255/22]
    • Vaccination Programme
      528. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department's attention has been drawn to any evidence of the ability of the Covid vaccination to prevent Covid transmission. [56257/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      529. To ask the Minister for Health the human rights, physical health and mental health impact assessments that were conducted on the domestic Covid passport system for entry to public...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      530. To ask the Minister for Health the reason carers in private nursing homes were never paid the promised €1,000 bonus, considering that it was to be paid by July 2022; and if he will...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      531. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has been refused a piece of equipment, given their medical condition, the need for same, and that...
    • Health Services Staff
      532. To ask the Minister for Health when a speech and language therapist will be appointed to an area in County Mayo (details supplied). [56290/22]
    • Home Care Packages
      533. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for home care support in County Wexford; the average length of time persons have been waiting; the single longest period of time...
    • Disability Services
      534. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will recognise that autism assistance dogs should have the same recognition as dogs for the blind; if his Department will consider providing...
    • Health Strategies
      536. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a new cardiovascular disease strategy; if a strategy will be published by his Department in the near future; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      538. To ask the Minister for Health when a rescheduled date for ENT procedures at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin will be given for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal; the...
    • Health Services Staff
      539. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff hired in each CDNT in 2022, in tabular form. [56344/22]
    • Disability Services
      541. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children aged 0 to 18 years of age who are waiting for first-time intervention in all areas of early intervention in each CHO, by individual area...
    • Hospital Facilities
      542. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital beds, broken down by acute, non-acute and ICU beds, which are currently in place in HSE-run hospitals; the corresponding figures for 8...
    • Health Services
      543. To ask the Minister for Health when the new chronic disease management hub will become fully operational in County Clare; the location, functions and staffing details of the hub; and if he...
    • Pharmacy Services
      546. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to an issue with the number of pharmacies that do not employ any full-time pharmacists, and are thus solely reliant on locums,...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      548. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for a consultation with a surgeon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56361/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      549. To ask the Minister for Health when a speech and language therapy position (details supplied) that has been vacant since August 2021 will be filled in view of the detrimental effect it is...
    • Departmental Data
      550. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who are clinically discharged but who are in hospital; the number of patients who are clinically discharged in hospital for six months...
    • Disability Services
      551. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will provide services to a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56402/22]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      552. To ask the Minister for Health the plans he is putting in place to ensure the availability of the FreeStyle Libre 2 device in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56406/22]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      555. To ask the Minister for Health if contract workers, such as contract cleaning staff, contract catering staff and contract security workers as opposed to agency workers who worked in the...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      557. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update following on from the appointment of a person (details supplied) for a primary medical certificate recently; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      558. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be provided to purchase a necessary piece of equipment for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo, given the severity of their diagnosis...
    • Health Service Executive
      559. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the tendering process involved in the commissioning of works by the HSE to Glenwood House, Carrigaline following its purchase in...
    • Mental Health Services
      561. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE's plans with regard to its use of Millfield House, County Cork; the way in which the HSE will ensure that former residents who move back there from...
    • Health Services Staff
      562. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 679 of 25 October 2022, the specific reason that a person (details supplied) who contracted long-Covid during their work...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      563. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an assessment for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56512/22]
    • Medicinal Products
      564. To ask the Minister for Health if a medication (details supplied) is covered under the drug payment scheme; if so, the current dosage allowable under the scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      565. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions that are in place to provide joint parental rights for children conceived by same-sex couples in a non-clinical setting; the legislative reforms...
    • Hospital Services
      568. To ask the Minister for Health the status of operations to transfer ophthalmology services from Cork University Hospital to South Infirmary-Victoria University Hospital; the costs borne to...
    • Hospital Staff
      570. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff, the grade and length of service of each staff member currently assigned to ophthalmology services across Cork hospitals; and the number of...
    • Departmental Data
      571. To ask the Minister for Health the number of private residents, that is, non-healthcare workers, who have completed a course of training certified by PHECC under SI 449 2015, in order that...
    • Departmental Meetings
      572. To ask the Minister for Health if he has spoken formally with his UK counterpart since their appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56556/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      573. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing the number of nurses who are advanced nurse practitioners by 2.5%; the increased number of nurses becoming an advanced nurse...
    • Care of the Elderly
      574. To ask the Minister for Health his plans, if any, to establish a day care centre for older persons in Youghal, County Cork; the timelines for same; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      575. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 142 of 20 October 2022, if he will confirm if the health and social care professional role that he intends to establish...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      576. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 561 of 14 September 2022 and 169 of 22 June 2022, the reason for the delay in the payment of the pandemic recognition...
    • Substance Misuse
      577. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in whose deaths the drug pregabalin was implicated since 2010, by year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Strategies
      579. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on when a new national sexual health strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56596/22]
    • Disease Management
      580. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on his Department’s progress in making hepatitis C a rare disease by 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      581. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which non-HSE and section 39 workers who worked in healthcare settings during the Covid-19 pandemic, but no longer work in the role, will be able to...
    • Health Services
      582. To ask the Minister for Health the staff turnover for CDNTs in St. Columba's Armagh Road, Dublin 12 and Brú Chaoimhín, Cork Street, Dublin 8, since established. [56625/22]
    • Health Services Staff
      583. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a common policy in relation to staff absence for sick or statutory leave; if cover is provided; and if not, if services and therapies are...
    • Health Services
      585. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter in relation to the provision of support for a vital service for children (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      586. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a child (details supplied). [56637/22]
    • General Practitioner Services
      587. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the low availability of GP provision in the Carrickmacross area; the steps that he is taking to address the issue; and if he...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      588. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive an urgent appointment to meet with an orthopaedic surgeon, given the particular set of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      590. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that agency roles working within the HSE include contract workers such as cleaners and security officers, in respect of the pandemic special...
    • Nursing Homes
      591. To ask the Minister for Health if it is possible for moneys to be refunded following the death of the applicant if it is discovered that social welfare non-contributory pension payments had...
    • Health and Safety
      592. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inspections carried out on retailers that offer tanning and sun beds in 2021 and to date in 2022; the number and percentage of retailers in...
    • Disability Services
      593. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time occupational therapist and speech and language therapists currently employed as part of the children's disability network teams in...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      594. To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals that he has visited since 1 September 2021 in his capacity as Minister, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56721/22]
    • Health Service Executive
      595. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will next commence the tender process in respect to the procurement of both operational and strategic legal services; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Departmental Expenditure
      596. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the expenditure by the forest service of his Department for the month of October 2022 versus October...
    • Forestry Sector
      597. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the length of time that it took his Department to process each of the 11 afforestation licences on week four of October 2022 on the...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      599. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has had any discussions with Coillte Ltd. in relation to the pension situation of former Coillte workers who have not received...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      603. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department intends to remove the dribble bar as a suitable mechanism for low-emissions slurry spreading from the TAMS; and if...
    • Agriculture Industry
      604. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he can provide an assurance that if farmers purchase a dribble bar for low-emissions slurry spreading, that this will continue to...
    • Agriculture Supports
      605. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports he will put in place for sheep farmers in view of the fact they have missed out on the fodder scheme and that the sheep...
    • Animal Welfare
      606. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will increase the animal welfare grant programme in line with the additional pressure being faced by many organisations...
    • Fishing Industry
      607. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 767 of 17 May 2022, the number of non-expiry fish culture licences granted to date by his...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      608. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that his Department has held back a payment for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo, in view of the fact that this...
    • Trade Data
      611. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of beef imports for 2021 and for the first three quarters of 2022; the number of tonnes imported; the countries from...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      613. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that the HRI published figures for race attendees include everyone who attends even those who gain free admission...
    • Trade Agreements
      614. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are plans for a sanitary agreement (details supplied) to be established between Ireland and Algeria; and if he will make a...
    • Land Issues
      615. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made by his Department in rectifying the mapping errors which exist in Leam, Boyle, County Roscommon, in relation to...
    • Animal Welfare
      616. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he can assist a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56544/22]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      617. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56549/22]
    • Fishing Industry
      618. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the discrepancy in funding between the larger whitefish boats and the smaller inshore operators...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      621. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who received GLAS payments in each of the years since 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Horticulture Sector
      624. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the measures that his Department is taking to support alternative sources of peat for the...
    • Greyhound Industry
      625. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the recent departure of an organisation (details supplied) from a greyhound track; if it is related to the track's...
    • Control of Horses
      627. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current status of the review of control of horses legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56693/22]
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Departmental Funding
      628. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the plans that the Government has to support an organisation (details supplied) in County Wexford and across Ireland; and if she will...
    • Rural Schemes
      630. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the plans in place to increase individual payments to Pobal participants on CSP schemes, particularly given the forthcoming increase...
    • Regeneration Projects
      633. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the rural regeneration and development fund category one funding application submitted by Clare County Council to her...
    • Business Supports
      634. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when she expects to open the energy support scheme for the charity sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56353/22]
    • Tidy Towns
      635. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the total operational budget for the national TidyTowns awards in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56386/22]
    • Social Enterprise Sector
      636. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the total operational budget committed to the grow remote social enterprise in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Rural Schemes
      637. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the cumulative budget allocated to the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund from 2017 to 2022; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Schemes
      638. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the cumulative budget allocated to the outdoor recreation infrastructure scheme from 2017 to 2022; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Rural Schemes
      641. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if an EU regulation or rule is in place that would prohibit her from providing for a dedicated sub-region for the offshore islands...

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