Written answers
Wednesday, 16 November 2022
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Cabinet Committees
33. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Europe last met. [52973/22]
- Programme for Government
53. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide the commitments in the Programme for Government under his remit; if each commitment has been met or is in the process of being met; and the estimated...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- EU Data
54. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total financial amount on both a daily and yearly basis, of EU fines being paid by his Department in 2022; if he will provide the...
- Job Losses
55. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has been contacted or engaged by a company (details supplied) in respect of job losses at the company; if so, the nature of...
- Departmental Meetings
57. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of times that he has visited County Clare since the Government took office; and the locations that he visited in tabular...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Departmental Schemes
58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way that the energy credit will be paid to consumers who have more than one pre-paid metre under the same MPRN; if...
- EU Data
59. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total financial amount on both a daily and yearly basis, of EU fines being paid by his Department in 2022; if he...
- Electricity Grid
60. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there is "no additional charge" to the consumer for the smart meter programme; if ESB Networks has absorbed this...
- Energy Policy
61. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 152 and 154 of 1 March 2022, when the SEAI will provide the information...
- Environmental Policy
63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider introducing legislation to require solar panels built in car parks over a certain size, as has been...
- Energy Policy
64. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he can provide assistance to former customers of a company (details supplied) which has left the Irish energy market...
- Semi-State Bodies
65. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagement his officials have had regarding the current financial status of An Post, either directly with An Post...
- Fuel Sales
66. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will clarify that an individual will be permitted to sell turf, bought from another individual with turbary...
- Departmental Meetings
67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of times that he has visited County Clare since the Government took office; and the locations that he visited...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Road Tolls
68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that Civil Defence vehicles and State vehicles have to pay tolls on some toll roads; if these vehicles can be added to the list...
- EU Data
69. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total financial amount on both a daily and yearly basis, of EU fines being paid by his Department in 2022; if he will provide the...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
71. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that biofuels are subject to a carbon tax. [56818/22]
- Business Supports
72. To ask the Minister for Finance if any consideration has been given to allowing new businesses to access the temporary business energy support scheme given that they would be unable to...
- Banking Sector
73. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter (details supplied) in relation to a refusal to accept a direct debit from a bank. [56796/22]
- Insurance Industry
74. To ask the Minister for Finance in the context of insurance reform if he will outline the steps that he has taken to ensure that persons that make a claim in respect of their stolen motor...
- Semi-State Bodies
75. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagement his officials have had regarding the current financial status of An Post, either directly with An Post representatives or with persons or...
- Official Travel
77. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of times that he has visited County Clare since the Government took office; and the locations that he visited in tabular form; and if he will make a...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- EU Data
78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total financial amount on both a daily and yearly basis, of EU fines being paid by his Department in 2022; if he will provide the...
- Departmental Meetings
79. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of times that he has visited County Clare since the Government took office; and the locations that he visited in tabular form;...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- EU Data
80. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total financial amount on both a daily and yearly basis, of EU fines being paid by her Department in 2022; if she will provide...
- Broadcasting Sector
81. 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...
- Seirbhísí agus Tacaíochtaí Gaeilge
83. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil i gceist aici gasra oibre a bhunú le scrúdú a dhéanamh ar na féidearthachtaí atá ann...
- Ceisteanna Craolacháin
84. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cad iad na pleananna atá aici le TG4 a neartú agus lena chinntiú go mbeidh comhréir chothrom idir an...
- Sports Funding
85. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she plans to open the next round of sports capital funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56917/22]
- Pleanáil Teanga
86. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Chun a fhiafraí den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán, maidir le...
- Departmental Meetings
87. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of times that she has visited County Clare since the Government took office; and the locations that she visited in...
- Sports Funding
88. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of applications from County Clare that have been made and that have been successful under the Sports Capital Programme...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Turf Cutting
89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a person (details supplied) will receive their compensation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57009/22]
- National Parks and Wildlife Service
90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the details of the lands that are currently owned by the National Parks and Wildlife Service surrounding the...
- Foreshore Issues
91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of all foreshore licence applications covering the Shannon Estuary basin in tabular form; and if he will make a...
- Official Travel
92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times that he has visited County Clare since the Government took office; and the locations that he visited in...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Northern Ireland
93. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps that a person should take who as a young teenager was subjected to mistreatment by British soldiers while living in the North of...
- Human Rights
94. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps that Ireland has taken to address human rights violations in Bahrain at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva; the actions that he...
- Passport Services
96. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that the passport application for a child (details supplied) will be processed urgently by his Department; and if he will...
- Departmental Meetings
97. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of times that he has visited County Clare since the Government took office; and the locations that he visited in tabular form; and...
- Department of Defence
- EU Data
98. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total financial amount on both a daily and yearly basis, of EU fines being paid by his Department in 2022; if he will provide the...
- Defence Forces
99. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the action that his Department is taking to prevent Defence Forces uniforms, insignia and intellectual property being used to promote hate speech...
- Department of Education and Skills
- EU Data
100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total financial amount on both a daily and yearly basis, of EU fines being paid by her Department in 2022; if she will provide the...
- School Transport
101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans that she has to increase spaces on buses available for school transport in County Louth arising from the additional funding allocated...
- Schools Building Projects
102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that an application from Cavan Monaghan ETB in respect of urgently needed additional accommodation for a college (details...
- State Examinations
103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to take into consideration the timing of Leaving Certificate exam result rechecks to happen prior to college course offers....
- School Transport
104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when individual transport to and from a school (details supplied) will be arranged for a child with special needs in County Tipperary who is...
- State Examinations
105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any consideration has been given with respect to students with a diagnosis of dyscalculia being considered for mitigating allowances when they...
- Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the strategies that her Department is implementing to tackle the issue of the prevalence of sexual violence against women and girls; and if she...
- Special Educational Needs
110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 80 of 9 November 2022, if she will provide a breakdown by county of the 370 special classes set to open in...
- School Transport
111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school transport appeal case will be determined for a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56889/22]
- Schools Building Projects
112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in County Tipperary that have been allocated funding for construction projects but are still awaiting permission for...
- School Equipment
113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure a student (details supplied) who requires a laptop as assistive technology is provided with this essential equipment. [57012/22]
- Departmental Meetings
114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of times that she has visited County Clare since the Government took office; and the locations that she visited in tabular form; and...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Benefits
115. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide the details of the weekly allowance that is being paid to Ukrainian refugees in Ireland; and if she will...
- EU Data
116. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total financial amount on both a daily and yearly basis, of EU fines being paid by her Department in 2022; if she will...
- Community Employment Schemes
117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she expects the gratuity payment to former community employment scheme supervisors to be paid in full, given that her...
- Social Welfare Appeals
118. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if school caretakers who worked during the pandemic are included in the Covid bonus payment; and if she will make a statement...
- Social Welfare Benefits
120. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the HB1 application for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Code
121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider incorporating outgoings and household expenses into the means test for payments from her Department; and...
- State Pensions
122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who works past their 66th birthday in accordance with the new pension laws which are to be introduced, will be...
- Social Welfare Benefits
123. 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;...
- Community Employment Schemes
124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will respond to concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in respect of the community employment scheme...
- Social Welfare Payments
125. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when recipients of disability benefit will receive their bonus week payment as part of the recently announced cost-of-living...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
126. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to providing community employment, Tús, and rural social scheme supervisors with a bonus...
- Personal Public Service Numbers
127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the applications by persons (details supplied) for PPS numbers can be processed without delay, given that they are...
- Social Welfare Payments
128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a matter in relation to a payment for a person (details supplied) will be examined and rectified; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Benefits
129. 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 applied for disability allowance; and if she...
- Social Welfare Payments
130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons who have applied for the fuel allowance from 7 November 2022 are entitled to the €400 one-off payment; and...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a person (details supplied) who is attending a course in the National Learning Network cannot qualify for the...
- State Pensions
136. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if State Pension (Contributory) and (Non-Contributory) applications were made by a person (details supplied); if so, the...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- International Protection
140. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a payment for accommodation will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make...
- Departmental Meetings
145. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will meet with an organisation (details supplied) to discuss its concerns regarding disadvantage funding...
- Mother and Baby Homes
146. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 123 of 12 October 2022, when the report of the Collaborative Forum of...
- Departmental Meetings
147. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times that he has visited County Clare since the Government took office; and the locations that he...
- Department of Education and Skills
- EU Data
148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total financial amount on both a daily and yearly basis, of EU fines being paid by his Department in 2022; if he will provide the...
- Third Level Education
149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the case of a student (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56770/22]
- Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the strategies that his Department is implementing to tackle the issue of the prevalence of sexual violence against women and girls; and if he...
- Departmental Meetings
152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of times that he has visited County Clare since the Government took office; and the locations that he visited in tabular form; and if...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
153. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the UK government awareness campaign on the issue of the prevalence of sexual violence...
- EU Data
154. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total financial amount on both a daily and yearly basis, of EU fines being paid by her Department in 2022; if she will...
- Immigration Status
155. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of "permission to remain in the State as the spouse of an Irish national" applications currently queued for...
- Citizenship Applications
160. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied) will be finalised. [56803/22]
- Visa Applications
161. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider simplifying the visa process for non-EU workers. [56807/22]
- Departmental Programmes
162. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of funding that has been invested into sporting organisations as a result of the Immigrant Investor Programme for...
- Coroners Service
163. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff currently working at the Coroner's Office in Whitehall, Dublin 9. [56840/22]
- Legal Aid
164. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the threshold for free legal aid was last reviewed; if there are any plans to review it in the future; and if she will...
- Citizenship Applications
165. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Domestic Violence
166. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are currently any plans to fund a new domestic violence refuge in the area of County Louth and east County Meath to...
- Departmental Meetings
167. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times that she has visited County Clare since the Government took office; and the locations that she visited in...
- Department of Health
- EU Data
168. To ask the Minister for Health the total financial amount on both a daily and yearly basis, of EU fines being paid by his Department in 2022; if he will provide the corresponding figures for...
- Hospital Services
169. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide clarity on a matter (details supplied) in relation to minor injury unit opening times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56764/22]
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
170. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1556 of 14 June 2022, if he will ensure that a facility (details supplied) receives funding to extend its property in the...
- Health Services Staff
171. To ask the Minister for Health the systems that are in place for financial protection and assistance for frontline healthcare workers who, having contracted Covid-19 in the course of their...
- Healthcare Policy
172. To ask the Minister for Health the basis for a recent decision in regard to home births (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56798/22]
- Disability Services
173. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with disabilities in south Tipperary who are receiving shared residential services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56799/22]
- Health Services
177. To ask the Minister for Health if public health nurses will no longer be carrying out developmental routine baby and child checks unless the child is recommended by a medical practitioner as...
- Legislative Programme
179. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a date for the pending human tissue Bill (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56825/22]
- Health Services Staff
180. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) in relation to health service workers in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56838/22]
- Medical Cards
182. To ask the Minister for Health if exceptions can be made to medical card rules for a person who needs treatment (details supplied); if exemptions are available in emergency situations which...
- Medicinal Products
183. To ask the Minister for Health the dates that the manufacturer of evusheld initially offered availability of the treatment in Ireland and applied for reimbursement; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Appointments Status
184. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive a date for ENT surgery at Sligo University Hospital; if they are on the routine or emergency waiting list; and if...
- Departmental Expenditure
185. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 366 of 26 May 2022, if he will outline all payments made to all contractors and recruitment firms detailed in the other...
- Health Services Staff
187. To ask the Minister for Health the current vacancies in public health nursing by LHO and CHO; the number of public health nurses employed directly by the HSE; the number employed by agency...
- Hospital Appointments Status
188. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56913/22]
- Hospital Staff
189. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the reason that a reconstructive skin removal surgeon has not yet been appointed as part of obesity care; if his attention has been drawn to...
- Healthcare Policy
190. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the progress that has been made on his work to introduce a public health obesity act, including examining restrictions on promotion and...
- Mental Health Services
191. To ask the Minister for Health the number of residents in the Owenacurra Centre, Midleton on 1 January 2021; the facilities that each of those residents from that date onwards have moved to...
- Public Sector Pensions
192. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive their pension increases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57007/22]
- Health Services
193. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to provide specialist gynaecology services for individuals with down syndrome. [57014/22]
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
194. To ask the Minister for Health the number of private consultants who have run clinics in public hospitals paid through the National Treatment Purchase Fund over the past five years in...
- Departmental Meetings
195. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times that he has visited County Clare since the Government took office; and the locations that he visited in tabular form; and if he will make a...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- EU Data
196. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total financial amount on both a daily and yearly basis, of EU fines being paid by his Department in 2022; if he will provide the...
- Departmental Meetings
197. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1269 of 8 November 2022, the number of times that his Department met with a person (details...
- Horse Racing Industry
198. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown of all horse deaths on Irish racetracks per track from 2008 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular...
- Departmental Data
199. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of fertiliser quality checks carried-out by his Department; the procedures followed for same; the results of the tests...
- Animal Feedstuffs
200. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the tolerance levels used in ingredients declarations on animal concentrate feed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Farm Inspections
201. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a report arising from an investigation into a complaint made by a person (details supplied) relative to an on-farm inspection in...
- Animal Culls
202. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of badgers that were culled or vaccinated in each of the years 2019 to 2021. [56870/22]
- Forestry Sector
203. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that representatives of an organisation (details supplied) are included in the industry led working group in regard...
- Departmental Schemes
205. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56995/22]
- Fishing Industry
206. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will provide details of the funding allocated to all producer organisations in the fishing sector annually since 1...
- Forestry Sector
207. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the annual afforestation target in the Forest Strategy implementation plan draft for public consultation; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Meetings
209. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of times that he has visited County Clare since the Government took office; and the locations that he visited in tabular...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- EU Data
210. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the total financial amount on both a daily and yearly basis, of EU fines being paid by her Department in 2022; if she will provide the...
- Departmental Schemes
211. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will include churches in any scheme to assist with lighting and heating costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Meetings
212. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of times that she has visited County Clare since the Government took office; and the locations that she visited in tabular...
