Written answers
Wednesday, 18 January 2023
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Legislative Measures
1. To ask the Taoiseach if all sections of all Acts passed in the past ten years have been commenced; the number of sections that are outstanding; the number of Acts that have review periods; if...
- Research and Development
2. To ask the Taoiseach if, for the purposes of calculating general expenditure on research and development, the private sector research must be conducted in Ireland to be included and-or if it...
- Appointments to State Boards
3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will list all State boards, commissions or other such bodies to which a person (details supplied) has been appointed by his Department from 1 January 2011 to date....
- Ministerial Responsibilities
4. To ask the Taoiseach the specific delegated functions that have been transferred to Ministers of State appointed in December 2022, in tabular form; and the date of transfer. [1478/23]
- Departmental Data
5. To ask the Taoiseach the name of the company, organisation or persons contracted to provide media training to him from 1 January 2021 to date; and the costs incurred. [1515/23]
- Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
6. To ask the Taoiseach when he will publish his diary for quarter 4 of 2022 on the website of his Department. [1631/23]
- Departmental Priorities
7. To ask the Taoiseach the priorities of his Department during his term in office. [1659/23]
- Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of all persons and groups invited to the 11 January housing summit; if he will list all of those who attended; and if he will publish the minutes...
- Cabinet Committees
9. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Cabinet committees that are in place; and if he will provide a list of the persons who attend each committee. [2122/23]
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Redundancy Payments
10. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has any indication whether a matter (details supplied) will be reneged on. [63166/22]
- Departmental Consultations
11. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the outcome of the public consultation process on retired workers' access to industrial relations mechanisms for pension-related...
- Corporate Governance
12. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department will compile a report on its action in relation to a matter (details supplied); if the case has been transferred to...
- Trade Agreements
13. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department supports current aspects of the EU-Morocco trade agreement as they relate to the natural resources of Western...
- Work Permits
14. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current status of a work permit application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63349/22]
- Legislative Measures
15. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if all sections of all Acts passed in the past ten years have been commenced; the number of sections outstanding; the number of Acts...
- Employment Rights
16. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on his plans to implement the recommendations of the Duffy Cahill report, especially in view of the...
- Construction Industry
17. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is concerned at reports of difficulties with construction subcontractors being paid by main contractors; if he will provide...
- Departmental Reviews
18. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has commenced the comprehensive independent evaluation recommended by the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council into...
- Regional Development
19. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if an airport (details supplied) will be eligible to secure funding under the European regional development fund to support...
- EU Directives
20. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the means by which Ireland will implement the public country-by-country reporting directive by the legal deadline of June 2023; and if...
- Equal Opportunities Employment
21. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding any initiatives being implemented or under consideration by his Department to reduce barriers to employment for...
- Work Permits
23. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if it is possible for an employer who has been approved for a number of work permits for persons from non-EU states to transfer these...
- Business Regulation
24. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if it is permitted for companies to charge employees an administration fee to process payroll. [63551/22]
- Work Permits
25. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if an employment permit application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [63587/22]
- Pension Provisions
26. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will take action to strengthen the rights of retired workers in relation to their occupational pension schemes and issues...
- White Papers
27. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide additional details of the structured monitoring process for the targets outlined in the White Paper on enterprise;...
- InterTradeIreland
28. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the funding provided to InterTradeIreland in each year for which data are available, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
- Work Permits
29. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63622/22]
- Social Media
30. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department is currently preparing any legislation to deal with synthetic technology or "deepfake content" on social media; if...
- Work Permits
31. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department will provide the necessary details of the process of the atypical work permit scheme for non-EEA fishers and the...
- International Bodies
33. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans, if any, for Ireland to become more involved in the Digital Nations international forum of leading digital governments; and...
- Departmental Schemes
34. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 33 of 8 September 2022, the progress that has been made on the review of the eligibility for the...
- Ministerial Responsibilities
35. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the specific delegated functions that have been transferred to Ministers of State appointed in December 2022, in tabular form; and the...
- Departmental Expenditure
36. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the name of the company, organisation or persons contracted to provide media training to him from 1 January 2021 to date; the costs...
- Legislative Programme
37. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021, which was last...
- International Agreements
38. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when Ireland will ratify International Labour Organization Convention No. 190. [1576/23]
- Employment Rights
39. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the case of an employer (details supplied) who has not paid employees since the October 2022...
- Enterprise Support Services
40. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the breakdown of Enterprise Ireland-supported jobs over the past five years, per county, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
- Employment Rights
41. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action he will take to ensure the employment regulation order negotiated between an organisation (details supplied) and the...
- Business Supports
42. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of funding allocated to local authority supports schemes by his Department, including the restart grant, the restart grant...
- Departmental Data
45. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of firms in the manufacturing sector in Ireland in each of the years 2017 to 2022, in tabular form; the percentage of...
- Job Creation
46. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs created in the manufacturing sector in each of the years 2018 to 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Funding
47. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are plans to establish a property technology investment fund to support organisations that aim to find technology-based...
- Industrial Development
48. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA visits with potential employers to each county in the years 2021 and 2022. [1792/23]
- Trade Missions
49. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if Enterprise Ireland plans to have a trade mission to Germany before the end of quarter 1 of 2023. [1807/23]
- Employment Rights
50. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if an employee and worker who is paid on a commission basis is entitled under Irish employment legislation to holiday pay based on the...
- Departmental Data
51. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a copy of the briefing documents prepared for the incoming Minister and presented to him by his officials on his...
- Trade Data
52. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the value of imports of all goods and services to Ireland from Israel in the past year; the value of all goods and services from...
- Employment Rights
53. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the employment regulation order for the security industry. [2189/23]
- Work Permits
54. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will add fishers to the critical skills occupations list to enable them to be eligible for employment under the critical skills...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Energy Policy
55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the new scheme for the installation of photovoltaic panels for households that have a high reliance on...
- Data Centres
56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the sector to which the emissions from the backup generation of data centres will be allocated for the purposes of...
- Energy Prices
58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline the evaluation process leading to the decision on the solidarity fund announced by the Government...
- Energy Policy
60. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the Government's review of energy security; if he will outline any plans and processes in place for the...
- Energy Conservation
62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes retrofitted under each scheme in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Electricity Generation
64. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a universal rate will be decided on for microgeneration customers who have signed up to sell power from solar panels...
- Energy Prices
67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 173 of 29 November 2022, when a response will issue in relation to the protections...
- Wind Energy Generation
69. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if Ireland has a policy on tulip flower wind turbines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63335/22]
- Business Supports
70. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to offer supports to SMEs to help deal with the energy crisis and rising costs of commercial tariffs; and if...
- EU Directives
71. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if by-law No. 840 of 2008 is compliant with the EU habitats directive and legally admissible for Lough Corrib SAC; and...
- Legislative Measures
72. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if all sections of all Acts passed in the past ten years have been commenced; the number of sections that are...
- Energy Prices
73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason the daily standing charge on electricity bills from Electric Ireland has increased to 0.9563 cent per day,...
- Official Engagements
74. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the Ministers who attended an event (details supplied); the number and the officials who attended; the capacity in which...
- Recycling Policy
75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to polling by an organisation (details supplied) showing that 63% of the public would...
- Company Closures
76. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department maintains figures in relation to the number of café and restaurant closures in 2022 in County...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
77. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent that have been used to date out of the 295 Metric CO2 equivalent...
- National Broadband Plan
79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when high-speed broadband will be available in the Mountrice area of County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on...
- Energy Prices
82. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions being taken to reduce the profits of Bord Gáis and pass on reductions to customers and consumers; and...
- EU Funding
84. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if Cloughjordan, County Tipperary is part of the region covered by EU just transition tourism funding of €68...
- Energy Prices
85. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the €10 million fund to further support persons in, or at risk of, energy poverty this winter and into 2023...
- Public Sector Pensions
87. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he plans to sign off on a pension increase (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63898/22]
- Mining Industry
88. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding details of an incident when applying for a prospecting licence;...
- Energy Policy
90. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the publication date for the Energy Poverty Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63941/22]
- Public Sector Pensions
91. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a person (details supplied) has any entitlement to a public sector pension; the way they can proceed to check any...
- Departmental Expenditure
93. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a breakdown of the €287 million capital underspend in his Department in 2022, in tabular form,...
- Electricity Generation
95. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the situation with respect to the clean export guarantee tariff for the commercial sector; if and when such businesses...
- Energy Prices
96. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether churches should be able to avail of relief for their electricity bills given the current energy...
- Energy Conservation
97. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the action his Department is taking to accommodate homeowners in the conversion of existing domestic heating systems,...
- National Broadband Plan
98. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he expects to see fibre broadband rolled out in Brownstown, Cloughjordan, County Tipperary; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Schemes
99. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there will be any scheme to accommodate homes that are rated as D1 or below on the BER scale, making them ineligible...
- Waste Management
100. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if organic waste that is used to cover landfills will continue to be exempt from the organic fines levy; and if he will...
- Banking Sector
104. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration will be given to the establishment of a new local community banking system in conjunction with An...
- Electricity Generation
108. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way a domestic electricity user with solar panels will receive compensation for the excess electricity generated...
- Fuel Sales
110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the enforcement of the prohibition of the sale of turf; if he has engaged with local authorities...
- Ministerial Responsibilities
111. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the specific delegated functions that have been transferred to Ministers of State appointed in December 2022, in...
- Departmental Data
112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the name of the company, organisation or persons contracted to provide media training to him from 1 January 2021 to...
- Data Centres
113. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagement he has had with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage regarding the decision to issue...
- Renewable Energy Generation
114. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the plans his Department has to support community or co-operative anaerobic digester plants. [1647/23]
- Energy Conservation
115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that the SEAI has removed marine vessels' energy costs from the qualifying criteria for the support scheme...
- Electric Vehicles
119. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a response will issue to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to concerns with the ESB...
- Energy Policy
120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way he will ensure his ongoing energy security review integrates and respects sectoral emissions ceiling and carbon...
- Energy Conservation
124. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a person who is in receipt of an invalidity pension, but is not in receipt of a fuel allowance, can also qualify for...
- Communications Masts
125. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the role that his Department plays in the regulation of masts in the State. [1769/23]
- Departmental Correspondence
126. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of letters received from energy investors between 1995 and 2021, including international arbitration that...
- Departmental Data
127. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will publish his diary and expenses for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1890/23]
- Hedge Cutting
128. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that he has not signed the derogation with regard to the burning of bushes and branches (details supplied);...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
129. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the changes to benefit-in-kind introduced recently in relation to company cars have been assessed in terms of their...
- Telecommunications Infrastructure
130. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he intends rolling out a programme similar to the national broadband scheme to ensure effective 100% good-quality...
- Energy Conservation
132. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the low-interest loans to enable homes to retrofit will be available; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Post Office Network
133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on designating the post office network as the "offline gateway" of choice for persons availing of State...
- National Broadband Plan
136. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will ensure the provision of broadband to Brookdale, Riverstick, County Cork. [2423/23]
- Waste Management
137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to encourage all local authorities to provide compost facilities at amenity sites to avoid this...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Electric Vehicles
138. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of electric State vehicles as a percentage of the overall number of State-owned vehicles, for the years 2020, 2021 and 2022;...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
139. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any restrictions on the purchase of internal combustion engine vehicles by Government bodies in light of Ireland’s...
- Rail Network
140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframes for the review of the National Transport Authority’s transport strategy for the greater Dublin Area; if, as part of...
- Departmental Data
143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the need to collate data on the number of assaults perpetrated against transport workers, such as taxi drivers, bus drivers,...
- Bus Services
144. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to extend the use of the TFI Go App or Leap card to a named bus route (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Public Transport
145. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will investigate an accessibility issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63193/22]
- Road Projects
146. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the construction of a road (details supplied) in County Mayo; if the project is progressing on schedule and within budget;...
- Rail Network
148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the budget and timeline for each phase of the upgrading of the Foynes-Limerick rail line; if this line will have to be raised for flood...
- Departmental Funding
149. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the active travel funding drawn down by individual local authorities, universities, hospitals and any other bodies in 2022; and if he...
- Departmental Data
150. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total number of diesel, petrol and electric vehicles registered by the end of 2022; the number of new EVs registered in 2022; and if...
- Departmental Funding
151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that the number of schools awarded funding under the safe routes to school programme fell from 170 in round 1 to 108 in round...
- Air Services
152. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that no student or family rates are available on flights from Donegal Airport Carrickfinn to Dublin (details supplied); and if...
- Road Safety
153. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has plans to grant-aid the cutting of trees on roadsides that are infected with ash dieback for road safety reasons; and if he will...
- Legislative Process
154. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the stakeholder consultation process has been completed in relation to the horse-drawn carriages Bill; and when this Bill will be...
- Departmental Reviews
155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the publication of the all-island rail review is delayed indefinitely until an executive is formed in Northern Ireland; if he will...
- Coast Guard Service
156. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will establish an independent inquiry to independently look at senior management performance in the Irish Coast Guard; and if he...
- Airport Policy
157. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when work will commence at Dublin Airport on a new tunnel under the runways; and the purpose of such a tunnel. [63310/22]
- Transport Infrastructure Ireland
158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will identify the beneficial owners of two properties (details supplied) in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Driver Licences
159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person has to surrender their driving licence in order to have an error rectified in cases in which the National Driving Licence...
- Maritime Safety
160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 198 of 13 December 2022, if he will outline the established survey application procedures that are...
- Legislative Measures
162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if all sections of all Acts passed in the past ten years have been commenced; the number of sections that are outstanding; the number of...
- National Car Test
163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applicants for NCT tests from 2020 to date who did not produce a driver's licence or public service card when presenting...
- Bus Services
164. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify the situation regarding the future of Bus Éireann routes (details supplied). [63442/22]
- Aviation Industry
165. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that he is taking to promote the use of sustainable aviation fuel here; if his Department has calculated the emission reduction...
- Rail Network
166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagement that he has had with Irish Rail in relation to the ongoing overcrowding issue on trains from Mullingar to Dublin on the...
- Driver Test
168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of learner drivers awaiting a test date in County Carlow; if there are plans to address the backlogs; and if he will make a...
- Road Projects
169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the proposed N4 realignment regarding the potential routes, timelines and community engagement. [63522/22]
- Road Safety
170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to an application by a school (details supplied) under the safe routes to school programme; if further...
- Driver Test
171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that are being taken to address the backlog of driving test appointments at test centres in Limerick where applicants are being...
- Rail Network
173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Irish Rail has any plans to undertake remedial works on the railway bridge at Carraig Hill, Meelick, County Clare, to make the parapet...
- Electric Vehicles
174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that taxi drivers transferring from older taxis to newer electric vehicle taxis are facing...
- Driver Test
175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to reduce the waiting times for driving tests in centres (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Bus Services
176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the duplication of services on Bus Éireann PSO routes 470, 483 and 493, which are also served by local link services;...
- Parking Provision
177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to extending the disabled persons' parking permit scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- National Car Test
178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that persons booking an NCT now have to pay up front; if he will provide an option to pay in cash, possibly through the post...
- Bus Services
179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that all bus stops in Shannon town, County Clare have current and accurate timetables for the 343 bus service on...
- Rail Network
180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is intended to provide a passing loop on the rail line between Ennis and Limerick to enable a more frequent service to be provided...
- Airport Policy
184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if separating the building of Dublin Airport’s north runway from the construction of a planned underpass tunnel was the most...
- Driver Test
187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to downgrade or close the NDLS centres in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63809/22]
- Public Transport
188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a response will issue to concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in relation to taxpayer-funded services; and if he will make a...
- Driver Licences
189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a first-time learner permit application by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be processed; and the reason for the...
- Driver Test
190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons who are currently awaiting a date to sit their driving test, broken down by test centre, in tabular form; and if he...
- Road Safety
191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an application under the safer routes to school scheme by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
- Taxi Regulations
192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will instruct the NTA to act in relation to requests from taxi drivers regarding the regulations to temporarily extend the maximum...
- Departmental Schemes
193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide sufficient funding for the local improvement scheme to ensure that the backlog can be cleared within a five-year...
- Road Projects
196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the design and project management team for the N24 improvement scheme between Cahir and Pallasgreen has made public the option...
- Haulage Industry
199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if additional financial supports will be forthcoming to assist the haulage business in dealing with the substantial increase in the cost...
- Bus Services
201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to reports that there are no direct bus connections from Kiltimagh to Castlebar, Galway, or Ireland West...
- Driver Test
203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person (details supplied) can reschedule their driving test, given they missed their test date through no fault of their own; and if...
- Regional Airports
211. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63994/22]
- Road Projects
212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has received an application for a specific road grant in 2023 from Galway County Council for a road (details supplied);...
- Public Transport
214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the age rules will be amended to allow 16-, 17- and 18-year-old students in third level education to apply for the student Leap...
- National Car Test
215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider locating another National Car Testing Service centre in Tipperary due to the high demand for tests in the area...
- Bus Services
217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the provision of additional bus service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1026/23]
- Road Projects
219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of operation on a construction project (details supplied); and the amount spent to date, segmented into each area of spending,...
- Bus Services
220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of bus users on each individual bus route in Cork city and county in each of the years 2019 to 2022, in tabular form. [1082/23]
- Rail Network
221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify, as part of the new plans for the metropolitan rail network proposed for Cork, the timetable frequency changes that...
- Transport Policy
222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is any funding available to someone in receipt of social protection payments such as invalidity pension who wishes to buy an...
- Bus Services
223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to return the route 306 bus service to Ballynanty Beg in Limerick to a 15-minute or 30-minute service; and if he will make...
- Departmental Reviews
227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update to include costings, plans and progress made on the All-Island Strategic Rail Review; and if he will make a...
- State Bodies
228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of revenue that CIÉ generated through advertisement boards within train and bus stations in 2021 and 2022, in tabular...
- Official Engagements
229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he last met the CEO of Bus Éireann; and the topics that were discussed with the CEO. [1203/23]
- Road Projects
230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has received the strategic assessment report on the need to put in place a relief road bypass around Castlemartyr and or Killeagh...
- Driver Licences
232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of measures being taken to address delays in the processing of foreign driving licence exchanges; the current average waiting...
- Driver Test
233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans that he has to increase supports for those with special educational needs sitting the driver theory test; and if he will make a...
- Driver Licences
238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he intends taking to ensure that where holding a foreign driving licence automatically entitles a person who moves to Ireland...
- Road Projects
240. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the up-to-date position regarding the proposed significant road improvements for the N24 from Cahir to near Pallasgreen; and if he will...
- Driver Test
241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider an exemption for drivers who already have a driving licence from the need to be tested to tow a trailer with a...
- Rail Network
242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the freight hub at Athenry train station, County Galway, will be developed under Irish Rail plans to increase rail freight services;...
- Taxi Regulations
243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase the fixed-payment notice for taxi drivers who refuse to carry guide dogs; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Road Safety
244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to address the issue of cyclists and persons on e-scooters using their bikes or e-scooters on the footpath in view of the risks...
- Driver Test
245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driving testers who were let go by the RSA in 2022; the reason that a number of driving testers were let go given the long...
- Road Projects
246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the up-to-date position on the N24 Cahir to Limerick Junction given that TII has advised councillors only the section near Tipperary town...
- Ministerial Responsibilities
247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the specific delegated functions that have been transferred to Ministers of State appointed in December 2022, in tabular form; and the...
- National Car Test
248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures that are being taken to reduce the delays in NCT appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1481/23]
- Driver Test
249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person (details supplied) will be given an urgent date to undergo their driving test given that they require the use of a car for...
- Departmental Data
251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the name of the company, organisation or persons contracted to provide media training to him from 1 January 2021 to date; the costs...
- Bus Services
252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any plans to provide a bus route between Cashel and Clonmel, County Tipperary; and if so, the timeline for the introduction...
- Driver Licences
253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the driver CPC handbook for professional passenger and HGV drivers will be updated. [1566/23]
- Driver Test
255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any special arrangements are made in respect of a driver theory test for persons suffering from particular medical conditions as in...
- National Car Test
256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average waiting times for NCT tests at time of booking for each NCT centre in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Electric Vehicles
257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of EV charging points owned by the ESB in each quarter of 2020, 2021 and 2022. [1646/23]
- Road Projects
259. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the route selection process for the N4 upgrade from Mullingar, County Westmeath, to Rooskey, County...
- School Transport
260. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will work with the National Transport Authority, Dublin Bus and other relevant parties to develop a plan for free public transport...
- Electric Vehicles
261. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm whether there are any supports or grants for someone who wishes to install a charging point for an electric car and is...
- Transport Policy
265. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress which has been made since both Drogheda and Dundalk were included in the 35 exemplar transport projects announced as part of...
- National Car Test
267. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current average wait time for NCT tests in each test centre nationwide in tabular form. [1727/23]
- Departmental Schemes
271. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will include a rural location (details supplied) in County Sligo for the new pilot subsidised hackney service scheme for rural...
- Rail Network
272. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of making the train fleet and train stations wheelchair accessible. [1808/23]
- Road Network
273. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the policy of Transport Infrastructure Ireland in relation to planting of roadway verges, in particular, motorway; and...
- Equality Issues
275. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a charge of €170 imposed by an organisation (details supplied) for an assessment for a person...
- Departmental Funding
277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount that each local authority, university, hospital or other entity received in active travel funding in 2022, in tabular...
- Departmental Data
278. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will publish his diary and expenses for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1889/23]
- Road Projects
279. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the Government’s commitment to the funding of the project to upgrade the A5 road; the amount of money that has...
- National Car Test
282. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons waiting for NCT tests in the Kerry area, by centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1974/23]
- Driver Test
283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons who are currently waiting to be called for driving tests in County Kerry, by test centre; the wait time for a...
- Parking Provision
284. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the medical and mobility eligibility criteria for a disabled person's parking card; the number of persons holding a disabled person's...
- Driver Test
285. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the waiting time for a person (details supplied) to be called for a driving test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2010/23]
- Electric Vehicles
286. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if grants will be available in 2023 for electric cars to be used as taxis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2074/23]
- Bus Services
287. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will seek action to ensure the preservation of this vital service (details supplied) for the community; if he will give assurances...
- Departmental Schemes
288. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details supplied). [2202/23]
- Road Projects
289. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the discussions that have taken place with Galway County Council and TII concerning getting an agreement in relation to method statements...
- Bus Services
290. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to ensure the provision of a bus service to enable young persons in Beara, County Cork, to access day services in...
- Greenways Provision
292. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Boyne Greenway project; the progress that will be made in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2390/23]
- Public Transport
293. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a 2022 end-of-year report on the Connecting Ireland plan for County Meath; the funding that was allocated and spent;...
- Haulage Industry
294. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures that he is taking to support hauliers in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2392/23]
- Public Transport
295. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will further reduce fares on public transport to help drive down road emissions; if he will extend the 20% fare reduction to...
- Driver Test
296. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the wait times for each driving test centre; the actions that he is taking to reduce the long waiting times being experienced to access...
- Public Transport
297. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the plans to expand public transport provision in County Meath; the status of the Navan Rail Line plan; and if he will...
- Road Tolls
298. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is concerned about the financial liability to the State due to the traffic guarantee clauses in the M3 and Limerick tunnel toll...
- Bus Services
299. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of driver recruitment at Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann and a company (details supplied); if these companies will be equipped to...
- Driver Test
300. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of staff, including full-time or part-time equivalents, employed in each driving test centre; the extent of staff shortages...
- Bus Services
301. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that he is taking to improve the 226X service in County Cork. [2448/23]
- Department of Finance
- Customs and Excise
303. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the processes and mechanisms used by Ireland’s customs and excise authorities to identify goods from illegal Israeli...
- Tax Reliefs
304. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address the issues facing disabled people (details supplied) in terms of financial barriers to accessing adapted vehicles; and if he will make a...
- Business Supports
305. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications that have been made to the trade and business energy support scheme, TBESS, to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Public Services Provision
306. To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to direct all State agencies and public-facing offices, such as tax offices, that take payments from the public as part of the services they...
- Tax Code
307. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered extending the 9% tourism VAT rate beyond 28 February 2023 as raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied); and if he will make...
- Revenue Commissioners
308. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 347 of 8 September 2022, if he will provide an update on in-person Revenue Commissioners services in Limerick, Cork and...
- Legislative Measures
309. To ask the Minister for Finance if all sections of all Acts passed in the past ten years have been commenced; the number of sections that are outstanding; the number of Acts that have review...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
310. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that workers who received the EWSS and TWSS are now being taxed for this payment (details supplied); his views on whether it is fair to place a tax...
- Tax Reliefs
311. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will examine an issue regarding the benefit-in-kind tax (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63458/22]
- Tax Code
313. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax implications for a Canadian citizen resident in Ireland who receives a financial gift from their sibling resident in Bahrain; and if he will provide...
- Mortgage Interest Rates
314. To ask the Minister for Finance if performing mortgages sold by a bank (details supplied) after the economic crash should retain their original terms and conditions, including interest...
- Tax Appeals Commission
315. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of determinations arrived each year at by the Tax Appeals Commission for the years 2020 to 2022; the detail of the findings arrived at for...
- Banking Sector
316. To ask the Minister for Finance when a mortgage customer (details supplied) will be given further information on what will happen in 2023 regarding their mortgages; and if he will make a...
- Consumer Rights
317. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that company cars are generally leased on long-term leases meaning that persons with such cars are tied into...
- Tax Reliefs
318. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is entitled to a refund in respect of medical expenses incurred. [63882/22]
- Tax Code
320. To ask the Minister for Finance if limitations placed on housebuilding by Irish Water in towns nationwide will be taken into consideration in the context of the imposition of a tax,...
- Business Supports
321. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that bulk liquefied petroleum gas, LPG, supplied to businesses is not included under the business energy support scheme when metered gas is...
- Tax Code
322. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will exempt antigen tests from VAT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64000/22]
- Financial Irregularities
323. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures that are in place to assist persons who feel that their pension was devalued by mismanagement through a company wind-up but who cannot be...
- Business Supports
324. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will amend the temporary business energy support scheme to include costs for bulk LPG in areas where natural gas is not an option for businesses; and if...
- Tax Code
325. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will investigate the taxation of HVO in home heating boilers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1064/23]
- Tax and Social Welfare Codes
329. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that cohabiting partners cannot be jointly assessed as cohabitants for tax purposes in the same way that a married couple would be in view of the...
- Business Supports
330. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is intended to release further funding to the Strategic Bank Corporation of Ireland to further aid the development of suitable projects; if so, when a...
- Tax Yield
331. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year yield if the licence for amusement machines for up to three months increased from €38 to €60 based on 2022 figures; and...
- Revenue Commissioners
332. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of appointments that were made to the grade of assistant principal officer from 2017 to 2022 by Revenue Commissioners within Dublin; and the manner...
- Primary Medical Certificates
336. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the Primary Medical Certificate Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1293/23]
- Tax Reliefs
337. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans on extending the tax relief for renters to RAS tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1306/23]
- Revenue Commissioners
338. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address the delay that solicitors are having acquiring capital acquisitions certificates from the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, Capital...
- Tax Reliefs
340. To ask the Minister for Finance the changes that occurred on 1 January 2023 in the way that benefit-in-kind for company cars is assessed for income tax purposes; the reasons for these...
- Tax Code
342. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of extending the 9% rate of VAT applicable to electricity and gas from 28 February to end-March and end-June 2023, respectively. [1399/23]
- Appointments to State Boards
347. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will list all State boards, commissions or other such bodies to which a person (details supplied) has been appointed by his Department from 1 January...
- Tax Credits
348. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost in 2023 of the rent tax credit; and if the cost includes rent tax credit payments with respect to both 2022 and 2023. [1455/23]
- Ministerial Responsibilities
349. To ask the Minister for Finance the specific delegated functions that have been transferred to Ministers of State appointed in December 2022, in tabular form; and the date of transfer. [1469/23]
- Departmental Contracts
350. To ask the Minister for Finance the name of the company, organisation or persons contracted to provide media training to him from 1 January 2021 to date; the costs incurred; and if he will...
- Tax Credits
351. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether an individual renting a property from their parent should be able to receive the renter tax credit if they pay market rent rates; and if...
- Tax Reliefs
353. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in respect of the changes to benefit-in-kind for 2023 which will negatively impact the...
- Tax Credits
354. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on matters (details supplied) in relation to the rent tax credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1642/23]
- Vehicle Registration Tax
358. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the vehicle registration tax enforcement statistics for October, November and December 2022, in tabular form. [1809/23]
- Tobacco Control Measures
359. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of funding that has been provided to the Revenue Commissioners in the years 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023 to combat tobacco smuggling; and if the...
- GDP-GNP Levels
360. To ask the Minister for Finance the general Government balance in nominal terms and as a percentage of GDP and GNI* in each of the years 2014 to 2022. [1875/23]
- Budget Targets
361. To ask the Minister for Finance the structural balance in each of the years 2014 to 2022; and the difference in nominal terms between the structural balance and a structural balance of -0.5%...
- Tax Exemptions
362. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that dentists and dental surgeries have not been able to avail of a VAT exemption on PPE which was purchased during the pandemic period (details...
- Business Supports
363. To ask the Minister for Finance if commercial companies that purchase gas at commercial rates in order to then supply district heating schemes will be able to avail of the temporary business...
- Tax Credits
364. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners will allow renters to claim the rent tax credit in circumstances in which a landlord refuses to supply a RTB registration number...
- Financial Services
366. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a dramatic increase in the charges that have been incurred by traders who receive payments by debit card (details...
- Cross-Border Co-operation
367. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the work that is being done in his Department to fix the anomaly whereby many workers who live in Northern Ireland and who...
- Departmental Communications
369. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a copy of the briefing documents prepared for the incoming Minister and presented to him by his officials on his appointment in December...
- Tax Exemptions
371. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 193 of 17 February 2022, if the tax exemption limit for persons aged 65 years and over will be reviewed, given the...
- Insurance Levy
375. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to the Central Bank of the National Claims Information Database; the expected date of the introduction of the levy as a required...
- Tax Credits
378. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) in respect of the recently introduced rent relief; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Tax Reliefs
379. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the budget 2023 decision regarding benefit-in-kind for company cars should be addressed for staff for whom the company car is a necessary...
- Credit Unions
380. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline his engagement with the credit union movement to fulfil the commitment in the programme for Government for credit unions to become a key...
- Tax Yield
383. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue to be raised in 2023 from legislated increases in the carbon tax in May 2023 and October 2023 respectively. [2345/23]
- Mortgage Resolution Processes
386. To ask the Minister for Finance the average retail mortgage interest rate that is applied to non-performing mortgage loans and mortgage loans for which a tracker rate applies for the latest...
- Insurance Coverage
389. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps that he is taking to ensure insurance providers offer reasonable flood insurance to households and businesses within flood relief scheme areas. [2426/23]
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Flood Risk Management
390. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans that his Department has for the introduction of a grant system for the provision of flood gates for doors on properties in the...
- Parking Provision
391. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost to date associated with the development of a new parking strategy for the Phoenix Park, as recommended in the Phoenix Park...
- Flood Risk Management
392. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the timeline to remove 'pinch points' from the River Shannon to alleviate flooding in the Callows region; the funding that...
- Parking Provision
395. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline any previous undertakings that a global engineering and transport infrastructure company (details supplied), engaged...
- Flood Risk Management
396. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if clarity will be provided for a person (details supplied) in relation to when drainage works on a river will recommence; and if he...
- Legislative Measures
397. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if all sections of all Acts passed in the past ten years have been commenced; the number of sections that are outstanding; the number of...
- National Monuments
398. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department or the Office of Public Works has had any involvement in surveying or preserving the ruins of Tyone Abbey, Tyone,...
- Oireachtas Members' Remuneration
399. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update in respect of his plans to reform and-or amend the various allowances payable to Members of the Houses of...
- Budget Targets
400. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way that SDG budgeting has been incorporated into Ireland’s performance budgeting framework; the way that he intends to build...
- Heritage Projects
401. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of repair works at a site (details supplied); and when it will reopen to the public. [1107/23]
- Heritage Sites
402. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of visitors at a site since it opened to the public after the pandemic (details supplied). [1108/23]
- Public Sector Staff
404. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of requests that his Department received from the Comptroller and Auditor General seeking approval for the recruitment of...
- Public Appointments Service
405. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Public Appointments Service can adequately evaluate non-nationals applying for jobs in the public service who may have higher...
- Flood Risk Management
408. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will clarify an issue regarding the cleaning of a river (details supplied in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Heritage Sites
409. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the efforts that have been made to improve the recognition of Kilcooley Abbey, Gortnahoe, County Tipperary, as a tourism and heritage...
- Flood Risk Management
410. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works intends keeping the Corrib flood gates at Galway fully open for the foreseeable future to reduce the risk...
- Appointments to State Boards
411. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will list all State boards, commissions or other such bodies to which a person (details supplied) has been appointed by his...
- Ministerial Responsibilities
412. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the specific delegated functions that have been transferred to Ministers of State appointed in December 2022, in tabular form; and the...
- Departmental Data
413. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the name of the company, organisation or persons contracted to provide media training to him from 1 January 2021 to date; the costs...
- Freedom of Information
414. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the review into the workings of the Freedom of Information Act 2014. [1571/23]
- Flood Risk Management
415. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the Shannon Flood Risk State Agency co-ordination working group held its last meeting; if he will call an emergency meeting of the...
- Public Sector Pensions
418. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a person (details supplied) has received the correct restorations to their public sector pension since their commencement of the...
- Heritage Sites
419. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the indoor and outdoor visitor numbers to the visitor centre in the Phoenix Park in each month from May to October 2017 to 2022, in...
- Commemorative Plaques
420. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department will arrange for the unveiling of a memorial in Kilmainham Gaol to persons (details supplied). [1902/23]
- Office of Public Works
421. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 249 of 4 October 2022, if he will provide an update (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Departmental Communications
422. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a copy of the briefing documents prepared for the incoming Minister and presented to him by his officials on his...
- Ethics in Public Office
423. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will publish the report into the findings of the ethics legislation review; the timeline that he is working towards in bringing...
- National Lottery
424. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which the highest possible prizes have been won by players of the national lottery in the past twelve months; the way that...
- Public Sector Pensions
425. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when pensioners of Eircom will be entitled to the 3% increase in pension that was announced in July 2022; and if he will make a...
- Flood Risk Management
426. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if sluice gates will be fitted at a location (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2319/23]
- Public Sector Pensions
427. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when a pension payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2398/23]
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Commemorative Events
428. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will issue an apology to the families of persons (details supplied). [63221/22]
- Seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge
429. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén fáth a bhfuil Naíolann Ráth Chairn i nGaeltacht na Mí dúnta do leanaí nua. [63359/22]
- Sports Funding
432. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a grant is available to sports clubs for the purposes of purchasing for the club and training members with AED defibrillator...
- Legislative Measures
433. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if all sections of all Acts passed in the past ten years have been commenced; the number of sections that are outstanding; the...
- Seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge
434. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an féidir leis an Aire a mhíniú cén fáth go bhfuil Naíolann Ráth Chairn i nGaeltacht na Mí...
- Sports Funding
437. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a sports club can apply for sports capital grants for the replacement of light bulbs in flood lights, when LED bulbs will be...
- Tourism Industry
439. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the additional recourse that has been provided to Fáilte Ireland to carry out its new role in regulating short-term lets; the...
- Sports Funding
440. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the other grants or schemes that are available for an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla
441. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an féidir léi an sceideal a luaigh sí sa fhreagra do Cheist Pharlaiminteach Uimh. 17 an 17 Samhain 2022 a...
- Ministerial Responsibilities
443. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide some additional information on the physical education role within the Minister of State's new Ministry; and if...
- Sports Facilities
444. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the efforts that are being made to increase the number of playing pitches available in each local authority nationwide; and if she...
- Údarás na Gaeltachta
446. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update regarding the appointment of new board members to Údarás na Gaeltachta; if she will...
- Ministerial Responsibilities
447. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the specific delegated functions that have been transferred to Ministers of State appointed in December 2022, in tabular form; and...
- Departmental Data
448. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the name of the company, organisation or persons contracted to provide media training to her from 1 January 2021 to date; the...
- Tourism Industry
449. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of tourist beds available in Ireland across the full offering (details supplied), in tabular form; the availability...
- Tourism Funding
452. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if compensation schemes are being worked out to support tourism auxiliary businesses and leisure activity and amenity providers in...
- Sports Funding
455. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding avenues that are available through her Department which could assist a sporting organisation with the purchase of...
- Culture Policy
456. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the UNESCO action plan for the development of hurling and camogie; if her Department will support...
- Arts Policy
457. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has met with representatives of artists affected by proposed development plans for Merrion Square which will...
- Artists' Remuneration
458. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current uptake of the universal basic income pilot scheme for those working in the arts industry; if the scheme will be...
- Arts Policy
459. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there are plans to roll out additional arts funding in 2023 to support those working in the sector to rebuild post-pandemic;...
- Tourism Funding
460. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the development of new infrastructure at Garrylucas Beach, Ballinspittle, County Cork, which was...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Rental Sector
461. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details for the introduction of minimum BERs in the private rental sector; and if he will make a statement...
- Housing Schemes
462. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to reports that Cork City Council is requiring applicants for social housing to provide proof...
- Water Supply
463. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will examine the way that an application by a person (details supplied) for a private well grant can be refused, citing...
- Housing Schemes
464. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify whether a person who suffers from an illness such as COPD can be considered for a housing adaption grant...
- Fishing Industry
465. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Inland Fisheries Ireland statutory body has a legal exemption or derogation from ARC 02 when stocking Atlantic salmon...
- Water Services
466. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide funding for a municipal wastewater treatment plant for Corofin, County Galway to allow for the development...
- Housing Provision
467. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority homes in County Mayo; the number that are currently occupied and vacant, respectively; and if he...
- Fire Service
468. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of the Retained Fire Service; if he has received the final report; if so, if he will publish the...
- Vacant Properties
469. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person who has previously built a principal private residence but subsequently experienced marital breakdown is eligible...
- Departmental Schemes
471. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grants currently available through his Department, excluding the housing adaptation grants, for the replacement of windows...
- Legislative Process
472. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all sections of all Acts passed in the past ten years have been commenced; the number of sections that are outstanding; the...
- Planning Issues
473. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the proposed modular homes that are to be built on State land will be exempt from planning permission (details supplied);...
- Rental Sector
474. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has any plans to take action against landlords issuing eviction notices in violation of the eviction ban. [63484/22]
- Local Authorities
476. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will allow local authorities to use incremental credits to recruit more-experienced staff; and if he will make a...
- National Monuments
477. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied). [63504/22]
- Housing Provision
479. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement he has had with Tuath and Longford County Council in relation to the properties at Colmcille Terrace, Granard,...
- Homeless Accommodation
480. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the dates of the last meetings of each of the Homeless Regional Fora, by forum, in tabular form. [63530/22]
- Defective Building Materials
481. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the State will reimburse 90% of the engineering costs to the family of an applicant who has passed away before the...
- Vacant Properties
482. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of full-time vacant homes officers in County Westmeath, in tabular form. [63552/22]
- Seaweed Harvesting
492. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on kelp harvesting in Bantry Bay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63629/22]
- Housing Schemes
493. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications from County Louth under the first home scheme that have been approved and drawn down since the...
- Legislative Process
494. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will consider the amendments made to the Wildlife Bill 2016 in Seanad Éireann; when he will complete his...
- Housing Schemes
495. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will respond to concerns raised by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63693/22]
- Water Services
497. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure housing estates in non-rural areas that are not connected to the sewerage network are considered for...
- Housing Provision
498. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend the availability of an online choice-based lettings system to counties Laois and Offaly; and if he will...
- Wildlife Regulations
499. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which the population of pine martens is controlled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63727/22]
- Housing Provision
500. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable homes built in the Kildare County Council area in each of the past five years; the number planned for...
- Local Authorities
501. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of any pilot funding schemes offered by his Department to local authorities; the local authorities that each pilot...
- Defective Building Materials
502. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the stage at which a homeowner who has been awarded a grant under the existing and the enhanced defective block remediation...
- Housing Provision
503. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of new-build social homes delivered to date in 2022, broken down by delivery stream (details supplied). [63742/22]
- Legislative Process
505. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the marine protected areas legislation, including a date when he expects to publish the Bill....
- Planning Issues
507. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he intends to release the Mulcahy report into allegations of planning malpractice in County Donegal; and if he will make...
- Housing Provision
508. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes that have been delivered through the single-stage approval process, broken down by year and local...
- Housing Schemes
509. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes that were delivered through the mortgage-to-rent, buy-and-renew and repair-and-lease schemes in...
- Housing Provision
510. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of social and affordable homes delivered by the LDA in 2022, by location and average price. [63749/22]
- Vacant Properties
511. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of Croí Cónaithe grants issued in 2022, by county. [63750/22]
- Housing Provision
513. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of new housing first tenancies created in 2022, by local authority area. [63752/22]
- Traveller Accommodation
514. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends expanding the scheme immediately to cover all Traveller families living in caravans of eight years old or more,...
- Public Private Partnerships
515. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of the public sector benchmarking exercise used in the first bundle of the social housing public...
- Housing Provision
517. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of one-, two-, three-, and four-bedroom social houses and one-, two-, and three-bedroom social apartments...
- Housing Schemes
518. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a council tenant in an AHB in Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council and a council tenant in a council home in...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
519. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that retained firefighters in Balbriggan and Skerries have been excluded from the...
- Housing Provision
520. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has conducted any research into the proportion of the cost of new apartments or houses that is attributable...
- Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
521. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views following the conclusion of an investigation by the Charities Regulator which detailed failings in financial...
- Construction Industry
522. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the criteria that were applied to select members of the Interdepartmental and Agency Group tasked with preparing the Options...
- Housing Schemes
523. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify the way accommodation standards in tenancies that are supported by HAP/RAS payments are enforced; the...
- Local Authorities
524. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans that are in place to assist Clare County Council in recruiting marine planners to deal with planning applications...
- Housing Provision
525. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of affordable homes delivered through the Affordable Housing Fund in 2022 that went sale closed in 2022....
- Departmental Reports
527. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that wording (details supplied) was removed from the final Donegal quarry inspection report from the National...
- Housing Policy
528. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to contract restrictions on apartment owners selling their apartments to local authorities or...
- Local Government Reform
531. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the local government education and mentoring programme currently under way in Fingal County Council will be taken up by all...
- Property Registration
532. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to severe customer service delays in the Property Registration Authority; his views on whether...
- Departmental Policies
533. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the new rural planning guidelines. [1072/23]
- Regeneration Projects
534. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the application from Dublin City Council regarding the regeneration of a building (details supplied). [1090/23]
- Departmental Reviews
535. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on his planned comprehensive review of the local property tax baselines; and if he will make a...
- Local Authorities
536. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the playing pitches available to book through the local authority for use by the public by...
- Departmental Projects
537. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an updated version of the Rebuilding Ireland housing land map (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Regeneration Projects
538. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has received a request from Cork County Council for funding support to enable the upgrade of the public realm and, in...
- Wastewater Treatment
539. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on wastewater treatment plants servicing private housing estates on a temporary basis; the number of such wastewater...
- Housing Schemes
540. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a scheme to utilise lands owned by our local authorities (details supplied) could be reinstated; and if he will make a...
- Heritage Projects
543. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 657 of 8 September 2022, the update that his Department received from Tipperary County...
- Election Management System
544. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the requirements on presiding officers or polling clerks to check and validate photo identification of all...
- Archaeological Sites
545. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department can help a group (details supplied) with assistance towards the cost of an archaeological survey; and if he...
- Rental Sector
546. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Residential Tenancies Board will resolve an ongoing issue for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in view of...
- Appointments to State Boards
547. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will list all State boards, commissions or other such bodies to which a person (details supplied) has been appointed by...
- Planning Issues
548. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of strategic housing development applications that were received by An Bord Pleanála for County Cavan where a...
- Ministerial Responsibilities
549. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the specific delegated functions that have been transferred to Ministers of State appointed in December 2022, in tabular form;...
- Departmental Data
550. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the name of the company, organisation or persons contracted to provide media training to him from 1 January 2021 to date; the...
- Housing Policy
551. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the policy relating to assessment of full and half-rate carer's allowance payments in relation to the local authority home...
- State Bodies
553. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff working in An Bord Pleanála in 2016; the number of staff working in 2023; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Funding
554. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding allocated in the budget to An Bord Pleanála in each year from 2016 to 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he...
- Planning Issues
555. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeframe within which An Bord Pleanála has to make a decision on a planning appeal; if this timeframe must be...
- Housing Policy
556. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has any plans to raise the €250,000 threshold for local authority home loans in counties Carlow and Kilkenny,...
- Emergency Accommodation
557. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is no available emergency accommodation for families in County...
- Data Centres
559. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement his Department has had with elected representatives on South Dublin County Council regarding the ministerial...
- Housing Schemes
560. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the commitment in Housing for All on the reform of a scheme (details supplied); and if he...
- Defective Building Materials
561. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline in detail the way a property owner in Dublin who has certified mica and-or pyrite in the defective blocks...
- Housing Policy
562. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Inflation Co-Operation Framework, which sees the State bearing up to 70% of the additional inflationary costs on public...
- Vacant Properties
563. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will permit local authorities to use their discretion when deciding on applications for the vacant property...
- Water Supply
564. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to the Topical Issue debate of 15 December 2022, the actions, if any, that he has taken on the proposals made by this...
- Housing Policy
565. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a valid public services card is sufficient and acceptable as proof of photo ID for the purpose of a social housing...
- Wildlife Conservation
566. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on progress of the working group that was established to examine the short-, medium- and...
- Departmental Data
568. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when his Department’s key outputs and public service activities 2022 outturn will be available; the number of the 2022...
- Vacant Properties
569. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Croí Cónaithe town grant takes the form of a Government equity stake in the property; the nature and detail...
- Construction Industry
570. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 208 of 5 July 2022, if he will provide a dated record from each local authority...
- State Bodies
572. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cases that have been with An Bord Pleanála for more than five years; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Regulatory Bodies
573. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the specific piece of legislation that makes provision for the roles and functions of the Office of the Planning Regulator;...
- Defective Building Materials
574. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when homeowners will be able to apply for redress in respect of defective concrete blocks; and if he will make a statement on...
- Water Supply
575. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of residences and businesses that are dependent on private water supplies; if he considers the provision of a mains...
- Wildlife Conservation
576. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action that his Department will take to address the stark decline of curlew and pygmy shrew populations; if he will...
- Traveller Accommodation
577. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the allocated funding provided to Tipperary County Council for Traveller-specific accommodation purchases in each of the years...
- Housing Schemes
584. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the counties that currently have the homelessness rate of HAP available to people in need in their...
- Housing Provision
585. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a full list of lands in the ownership of each local authority that are zoned for housing. [2258/23]
- Local Authorities
587. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant homes officers who are employed by local authorities nationally; if those employed as vacant homes...
- Housing Schemes
588. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the limits on the first home scheme will next be reviewed. [2305/23]
- Site Acquisitions
590. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on working with Cork County Council to secure a site currently for sale (details supplied) to build social and...
- Housing Policy
591. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an entitlement to the current rate of RAS payment of a person will be affected in cases in which they receive an...
- Planning Issues
592. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of the backlog of 2,300 cases at An Bord Pleanála that consist of residential units, broken down in terms of...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Public Sector Pay
593. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if any further increments or increases are due in the case of a person (details supplied) and their pension from his Department; and if he...
- Diplomatic Representation
594. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the number of consular staff employed at foreign embassies in Dublin and notified to his Department under Article 10 of the Vienna...
- Foreign Policy
597. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent of his contacts to date with representatives of the dictatorship in Iran in relation to his proposal to reopen an Irish embassy...
- Legislative Measures
600. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if all sections of all Acts passed in the past ten years have been commenced; the number of sections that are outstanding; the number of...
- Human Rights
601. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps Ireland has taken to address the violation of the health rights of political prisoners in Bahrain at the UN Human Rights Council...
- International Agreements
602. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department will respond to concerns relating to an agreement between Morocco and an Israeli energy company (details supplied) for...
- Northern Ireland
604. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the outcome of the most recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in relation to the implementation of the UK...
- Diplomatic Representation
605. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will propose a similar agreement to the proposal by the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister to the US Government to agree a maximum number...
- Passport Services
606. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to devise a way in which individual passport holders can be advised that their passport requires renewal, close to its expiry...
- United Nations
607. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the relationship between Ireland and the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization C-24; the input that Ireland...
- Economic Sanctions
608. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions that have been taken by his Department to enforce European Union sanctions against Russia; and if he will make a statement on...
- Foreign Birth Registration
612. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a foreign birth registration application by a person (details supplied) will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Ministerial Responsibilities
614. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the specific delegated functions that have been transferred to Ministers of State appointed in December 2022, in tabular form; and the date...
- Departmental Data
615. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the name of the company, organisation or persons contracted to provide media training to him from 1 January 2021 to date; the costs...
- Middle East
617. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps that Ireland intends to take in response to the imminent expulsion and forced transfer of over 1,000 Palestinians due to commence...
- International Relations
618. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the role of the Irish Embassy in Colombia in the ongoing land dispute between a company (details supplied) and the Misak people in the Cauca...
- Passport Services
621. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1970/23]
- Middle East
624. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action he intends to take at European Union and United Nations level in response to the stated intention of the new Israeli Government...
- Legislative Measures
628. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position on the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories Bill 2018); if he will seek to pass it; if he will seek updated legal...
- Foreign Birth Registration
629. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a foreign birth registration application by a person (details supplied) can be progressed by using some of the original documentation...
- Department of Defence
- Legislative Measures
631. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if all sections of all Acts passed in the past ten years have been commenced; the number of sections that are outstanding; the number of Acts...
- Defence Forces
632. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the last time that the age limit for entry into each of the sectors of the Defence Forces was reviewed; if it was undertaken with comparison to...
- Air Corps
635. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the current total strength of Air Corps personnel; and if he will provide a breakdown of the number of qualified military pilots, cadet pilots...
- Naval Service
636. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Naval Service operations and patrols that were cancelled in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63567/22]
- Defence Forces
637. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the current number of women in the Defence Forces, by rank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63568/22]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
645. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will clarify the total number of Defence Forces personnel who will receive the Covid pandemic recognition payment in view of the fact that...
- Defence Forces
646. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will explain the appeal process for an applicant who applied to enlist with the Army cadetship service and was refused on mental health...
- Ministerial Responsibilities
649. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the specific delegated functions that have been transferred to Ministers of State appointed in December 2022, in tabular form; and the date of...
- Departmental Data
650. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the name of the company, organisation or persons contracted to provide media training to him from 1 January 2021 to date; the costs incurred;...
- Defence Forces
651. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will outline the investment plans for Custume Barracks, Athlone, following the recently announced capital budget for the Defence Forces....
- Naval Service
652. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of applications and the number that were commissioned under the Naval Service direct entry scheme in each of the years 2019 to 2022,...
- Commemorative Plaques
653. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 325 of 25 May 2021, if he will provide an update on the matter. [1904/23]
- Naval Service
654. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the medical standards for recruits to the Naval Service in relation to epilepsy; if those standards allow for those who have had partial...
- Departmental Properties
655. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 321 of 29 November 2022, if he will provide further information on a facility (details supplied) in County...
- Department of Education and Skills
- School Accommodation
656. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools require planning permission for the installation of temporary accommodation; the assessments, if any, that are carried out in advance...
- School Staff
658. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason home tutors who provided tuition under the July provision summer programme have not been paid; if she will clarify when payments will...
- Public Sector Pensions
659. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a retired pensioner from the LCETB can expect to receive their pension increase (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Staff
660. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will introduce new measures to facilitate easier post-primary teacher transfers and redeployment; if she will consider establishing a...
- State Examinations
662. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the eligibility criteria for deferred leaving certificate examinations to ensure students who have an unexpected medical...
- School Staff
663. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider a proposal by an organisation (details supplied); if she will engage with the organisation on this motion; and if she will...
- School Transport
665. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for the special education school grant by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Meals Programme
666. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she agrees with ETBI that the current rates for the school meal allowance scheme are unrealistic and causing the scheme to be unworkable; if...
- School Transport
668. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a student (details supplied) will be allocated a school bus ticket. [63292/22]
- School Staff
669. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that her Department is proposing to deal with applications for leave from secondary and primary school teachers given that in cases in...
- School Transport
670. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the absence of school bus supports available to pupils living in Newcastle, County Dublin, and attending the...
- School Staff
671. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being taken to respond to the teacher retention crisis in primary and secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on...
- Special Educational Needs
672. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to her response to Parliamentary Question No. 56 of 7 December 2022, her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- School Transport
673. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of school transport for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63346/22]
- School Staff
674. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider changing the current regulations in order that teachers can transfer job location in an easier fashion (details supplied);...
- School Transport
675. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an individual transport service will commence for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63352/22]
- Special Educational Needs
676. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places currently available in a school (details supplied); if there are children on the waiting list to attend the school; the...
- School Staff
677. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63372/22]
- Legislative Measures
678. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all sections of all Acts passed in the past ten years have been commenced; the number of sections that are outstanding; the number of Acts...
- School Staff
679. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered introducing a national voluntary redeployment panel for secondary teachers who wish to relocate and keep their permanent...
- Teacher Training
680. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether the removal of route 4 to primary teaching will further exacerbate the supply crisis in teaching; her further views on...
- Special Educational Needs
682. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63406/22]
- Departmental Schemes
683. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 16 of 5 July 2022, if she will provide an update on the revised ex gratia scheme that she referenced. [63407/22]
- School Accommodation
684. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a modular unit that is required to facilitate increased enrolment will be sanctioned for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Schools Building Projects
686. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the stage application for the detailed design stage for a school (details supplied) will be given approval to proceed; and if she will make...
- School Staff
688. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that the income of a person (details supplied) is corrected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63432/22]
- School Accommodation
690. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63480/22]
- School Staff
691. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) is entitled to any assistance from community employment schemes with regard to caretaking or small jobs within the...
- School Funding
692. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any consideration has been given to increase the funding allocated to primary and secondary schools to allow them to provide adequate heating...
- National Educational Psychological Service
693. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of NEPS assessments available to primary schools in counties Longford and Westmeath in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022; the...
- School Transport
694. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school transport services will be provided for Rathcoffey to Maynooth, given that a number of families did not receive a bus ticket in...
- Special Educational Needs
695. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if assistive technology will be provided to a child (details supplied). [63586/22]
- School Staff
696. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider a proposal on teacher redeployment by an organisation (details supplied). [63588/22]
- School Curriculum
699. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to reports that a school (details supplied) hosted a women’s safety week from 5-9 December 2022; if she...
- Climate Change Policy
700. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the outputs from her Department’s actions in the Climate Action Plan Annexe of Actions; and if she will...
- Special Educational Needs
702. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay by the NCSE in responding to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63625/22]
- School Transport
703. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a student (details supplied) will be allocated a school bus ticket, given the Bus Éireann school transport section has failed to...
- Schools Administration
705. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in the education system that operate a shorter day for infants' classes than the rest of the classes. [63645/22]
- School Staff
706. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the introduction of a national voluntary redeployment panel for post-primary teachers; and if she will make a...
- Special Educational Needs
708. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding will be provided for a facility (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63678/22]
- School Transport
711. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school transport issue in relation to a student (details supplied) will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63700/22]
- Teacher Training
712. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Australian teaching qualifications held by Irish emigrant citizens are recognised by the State; and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Staff
713. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 153 of 14 December 2022, the details of any engagement she or her Department have had with a union (details...
- Departmental Meetings
714. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 153 of 14 December 2022, her plans to meet with a group (details supplied) in early 2023; the details of...
- School Admissions
715. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action she will take to ensure a person (details supplied) will have a school place next September; and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Staff
717. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will establish a national voluntary redeployment panel so that those teachers who wish to relocate would keep their permanent-CID status;...
- School Accommodation
720. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will allow the board of management at a school (details supplied) to remove two prefabricated classrooms from the school yard given that...
- State Examinations
721. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently intervene to ensure that a student (details supplied) receives their rechecked leaving certificate examination results; and...
- Departmental Schemes
722. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications received to date to the ex gratia scheme for survivors of childhood sexual abuse in schools; the number approved; the...
- School Transport
725. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 377 of 22 November 2022, if her office has liaised with the family in question regarding the remote area...
- School Staff
726. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider proposals from unions to establish a new system of redeployment in order to benefit teachers and to help solve teacher...
- Schools Building Projects
727. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an updated timeline for the delivery of a new post-primary school in Prosperous, County Kildare; and the projected capacity...
- Site Acquisitions
730. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans to address the long-term accommodation needs for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Schools Building Projects
731. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the tender process for the new build at a school (details supplied) has been delayed as a result...
- School Staff
732. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of post-primary teacher transfers and redeployment, including the establishment of an online portal for inter-teacher transfer...
- School Curriculum
733. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reassess the primary and secondary education system modules to incorporate a way to include education on cultural and institutional...
- Special Educational Needs
734. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of ASD units that are available in County Wexford; the number of places in each unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Contracts
735. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amounts paid from her Department or other bodies funded by her Department to a company (details supplied) for services in the past two years;...
- Special Educational Needs
736. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the ASD unit will be opened in a school (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63950/22]
- School Transport
737. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the pick-up for school transport for a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63959/22]
- Child Abuse
738. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 of 6 December 2022, if she is satisfied with the situation whereby the State’s capacity to...
- School Facilities
739. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that is available to improve parking and turning movements on primary school grounds in rural areas in which the 80 km speed limit...
- School Staff
740. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider favourably granting a contract of indefinite duration to a special education teacher, teaching in an offshore island school...
- Schools Building Projects
741. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on a comprehensive building project for a school (details supplied) to include the replacement of a substandard 1959...
- Education Policy
742. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the research that has been carried out by her Department into the benefits of ending the provision of homework for primary school pupils; and if...
- Site Acquisitions
743. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on providing permanent accommodation for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Schools Building Projects
744. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 106 of 26 October 2022, if she will provide an update on a matter; and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Transport
745. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 458 of 18 October 2022, if she will provide an update on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make...
- Schools Building Projects
747. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of works at a school (details supplied). [1196/23]
- School Staff
748. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current number of teachers on the substitute supply panel in Kildare; and the number in 2020. [1207/23]
- Teacher Training
749. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there are many Irish students who have completed teacher training in the UK, but are prevented...
- School Transport
750. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 323 of 6 December 2022, the position regarding a person (details supplied) being eligible for school...
- Teacher Training
751. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered, given the shortage of teachers at present, allowing Irish students who trained in the UK to complete their induction...
- School Accommodation
752. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if records are kept of the number of boys who leave the Killester, Raheny and Clontarf catchment for school; if she will provide an update on the...
- School Patronage
753. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of parents who must seek a change in patronage of a school in order for it to be facilitated; and if she will make a statement on...
- Irish Language
754. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure the number of students attending Irish-medium education is increased from 6.7% to 20% in the next 20 years in line with the...
- School Staff
756. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her proposals to ensure there will be an adequate supply of teachers for Gaelscoileanna and Gaelcholáistí over the next five years and...
- Disadvantaged Status
757. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a secondary school (details supplied) has not been granted DEIS status; if the matter will be revised; and if she will make a...
- School Patronage
759. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any plans for national schools in Palmerstown and Lucan to become part of the trial to move from Catholic patronage to...
- School Transport
760. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 48 of 7 December 2022, the basis of the decision to deem two pupils (details supplied) as ineligible for...
- Special Educational Needs
761. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an ASD unit for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1350/23]
- School Enrolments
763. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify the extent of the Castletroy area and its environs within the school planning area; if it specifically includes the Old...
- Site Acquisitions
764. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the permanent site for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1448/23]
- Ministerial Responsibilities
765. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific delegated functions that have been transferred to Ministers of State appointed in December 2022, in tabular form; and the date of...
- School Enrolments
766. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children currently on waiting lists for primary school places in Portlaoise; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1492/23]
- Departmental Data
767. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the name of the company, organisation or persons contracted to provide media training to her from 1 January 2021 to date; the costs incurred; and...
- School Transport
768. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school bus service will be provided for Ukrainian children (details supplied) who are living in temporary hotel accommodation in County...
- Education Policy
769. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options that are available to students who have been refused an Irish exemption; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1529/23]
- Special Educational Needs
770. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available to a child (details supplied). [1583/23]
- Departmental Properties
772. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the disposal of land by her Department to the Department of Health to provide a primary healthcare centre in Collinstown, Dublin...
- Disadvantaged Status
773. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be included in the DEIS scheme due to the school demographic; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
774. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average class size in primary and secondary schools, per county, in each of the past five academic years, including 2022-2023, in tabular...
- State Examinations
775. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider waiving secondary level examination fees for junior and leaving certificate examinations to alleviate the financial burden...
- Teaching Qualifications
776. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1660/23]
- School Accommodation
777. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has any plans for additional secondary schools in the Sandyford-Stepaside-Dublin 18 area, given the rising population and the lack of...
- Schools Building Projects
778. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on an application by a school (details supplied) for a permanent building to replace the existing prefabs; and if...
- Departmental Properties
779. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school (details supplied); if her Department has plans to utilise this building within the lifetime of the Government;...
- School Admissions
780. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the catchment area that Glenmore Woods, Mullingar, County Westmeath is in, in relation to the primary schools in Mullingar town and surrounding...
- School Transport
781. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline when the long-awaited review of the school transport scheme is due to be completed and the recommendations published; and if...
- School Funding
782. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on an application for funding by a school (details supplied) for the completion of modular accommodation. [1793/23]
- Departmental Correspondence
783. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when consent, as requested by a person (details supplied), will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1877/23]
- Public Sector Pay
784. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that part-time tutors working with the ETB were not included under the recent national pay agreement for public sector pay increases;...
- School Transport
785. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she expects the school transport review to be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1899/23]
- State Examinations
787. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to review State examination accommodations for students with dyspraxia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1922/23]
- Schools Building Projects
788. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for a permanent school building; the reason for the delay in progressing the project...
- Educational Disadvantage
789. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department assesses the number of medical card holders within a school as an accurate measurement of gathering vital information on...
- Education and Training Boards
790. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the hourly rates of pay for full-time and part-time tutors in the ETB for those who commenced tutoring prior to 2011 and since 2011; and if she...
- School Accommodation
791. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on an application by a school (details supplied) under the additional accommodation scheme; and if she will make a...
- Educational Disadvantage
792. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department’s plans, if any, to extend DEIS status to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1977/23]
- School Admissions
793. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that there are a sufficient number of post-primary school places available in the west of Galway city to meet demand; the...
- School Transport
794. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an issue in relation to school transport (details supplied) will be examined and addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- School Uniforms
796. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has plans to instate a uniform policy for schools in order to ensure cost-effective options are available to students and...
- School Admissions
797. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a secondary school place will be provided for a student (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Staff
798. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a special needs assistant will be put in place for a child (details supplied). [2071/23]
- School Equipment
799. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the decision by her Department to refuse an equipment grant for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
- School Transport
800. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the school transport division will provide school transport and tickets for students (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
803. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a process through which class sizes in post-primary schools are set; if schools are requested to hold places back for any reason; and...
- Schools Building Projects
804. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will intervene in a matter (details supplied). [2174/23]
- School Transport
805. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on the appeals made by a person (details supplied) in County Meath against the decision not to be provided with...
- Educational Disadvantage
806. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a school (details supplied) was not included as a DEIS school in the review in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Admissions
807. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a place can be found for a child (details supplied) at a local primary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2193/23]
- School Accommodation
808. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she is satisfied that adequate steps have been taken to ensure the availability of sufficient new school or add-on...
- Schools Building Projects
816. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she is satisfied that adequate steps have been taken to ensure the provision of a new primary school in Newtown, Enfield,...
- National Educational Psychological Service
820. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills on the number of National Educational Psychological Service, NEPS, transition consultations for children who are transitioning out of primary...
- Teaching Qualifications
822. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that she is taking to ensure that a higher education course (details supplied) for special needs assistants is accredited as a level 7...
- Special Educational Needs
823. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who are waiting on a placement in autism spectrum disorder, ASD, units in County Cork; her plans to open further units...
- Schools Building Projects
824. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schedule for the commencement and completion of construction of the long-delayed permanent school (details supplied) in Enfield, County...
- School Admissions
826. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to reports that second level schools in Lucan, County Dublin, have significant waiting lists for first year...
- State Examinations
828. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who availed of the alternative leaving certificate examination in 2019, when first introduced; if students who have...
- Oideachas trí Ghaeilge
829. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil i gceist aici aon chuid den 3.5 uair a chloig atá leagtha síos faoi láthair do mhúineadh na Gaeilge sa tseachtain...
- Schools Building Projects
830. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the new school building for a school (details supplied); the efforts that her Department is making to ensure that students...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Pension Provisions
831. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an outline of the options available to a person (details supplied). [63159/22]
- Social Welfare Eligibility
832. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is entitled to homemaker's credits in respect of the period of time spent...
- Pension Provisions
833. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will provide support for a person (details supplied) whose pension has been reduced; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Policies
834. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the recommendation from the review group on child maintenance to establish a child maintenance agency was...
- Social Welfare Payments
835. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she agrees the decision not to extend the one-off payment of €500 to those in receipt of the State pension is...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
836. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) qualifies for fuel allowance given the recent changes in the income limits; and if she will...
- Social Welfare Appeals
837. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); when...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
838. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if advice will be provided in relation to the case of a person (details supplied); if the matter will be examined; and if she...
- State Properties
839. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if use of a building (details supplied) is to be transferred to An Garda Síochána; if not, if it has instead been...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
840. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a working family payment claim for a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made; and if she will...
- Community Welfare Services
841. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide specific figures on the average processing times for applications for additional needs payments by month...
- Social Welfare Rates
843. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will index link all social protection payments to meet the cost of living going forward; and if she will make a...
- School Meals Programme
844. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she agrees with ETBI that the current rates for the school meal allowance scheme are unrealistic and causing the scheme to...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
846. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision on a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied) will be decided; and if she will make a...
- Community Employment Schemes
847. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the pay claim by CE supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63318/22]
- Social Welfare Eligibility
849. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a carer's allowance review will be processed for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Legislative Measures
850. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all sections of all Acts passed in the past ten years have been commenced; the number of sections that are outstanding;...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
851. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will urgently address an issue with regard to recent cost-of-living payments, whereby recipients of partial capacity...
- Social Welfare Payments
853. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when arrears will be paid out to a person (details supplied) following a review of their disability allowance; and if she...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
854. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the living alone allowance is taken into account as means when assessing eligibility for the fuel allowance; and if she...
- Social Welfare Benefits
855. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the establishment of a voucher scheme, included in section 9 of the Irish Sign Language Act...
- Oireachtas Committees
857. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she will inform the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the...
- Social Welfare Appeals
858. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of a farm assist payment for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Welfare Eligibility
859. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) can revert to their previous disability allowance payment to secure entitlement to the living...
- Social Welfare Code
860. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that the flexibility for casual work which is available to jobseekers applying for jobseeker’s benefit is...
- Social Welfare Benefits
861. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when section 9 of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 will be established on a permanent basis (details supplied); and if she...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
862. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to review the guidelines on eligibility for the back-to-work enterprise allowance (details supplied); and...
- Departmental Data
863. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting time for applications for carer’s allowance; the number of persons awaiting a decision; and if she...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
864. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for the rule that means a person on deserted wife's benefit is not entitled to the fuel allowance or the living...
- School Meals Programme
866. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason hot lunches in DEIS schools and underprivileged schools have been terminated (details supplied). [63848/22]
- State Pensions
871. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined and addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Welfare Eligibility
872. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer’s allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- State Pensions
873. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied) regarding a contributory pension; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
874. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the pathway for a PhD researcher (details supplied) to access maternity benefit; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Payments
875. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) who, following allocation to council housing, applied for the...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
876. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is entitled to the fuel allowance. [63938/22]
- Social Welfare Appeals
877. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied). [63999/22]
- Community Employment Schemes
879. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider amending the eligibility criteria for participants in community employment schemes (details supplied);...
- Social Welfare Payments
880. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown of exceptional needs payments under the supplementary welfare allowance paid in each month in...
- Social Welfare Benefits
882. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way that hearing aid suppliers are chosen for the treatment benefit scheme; if there are requirements around hearing aid...
- Social Welfare Payments
885. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on applications by a person (details supplied) for the fuel allowance and the living alone...
- Social Welfare Rates
886. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the free electricity allowance in view of energy price increases; and if she will make a statement on...
- Energy Prices
887. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether churches should be able to avail of relief for their electricity bills given the current energy crisis;...
- Social Welfare Appeals
888. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware of the case of a person (details supplied); if she will provide an update on the appeal he lodged with...
- Community Employment Schemes
889. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the policy of her Department in relation to the provision of community employment scheme workers' contracts ending and no...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
890. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way that her Department assesses the means of a person on disability allowance; if it is assumed a civil partner will...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
891. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 15 December 2022, if she will provide updated figures on the claimants in each...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
893. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will qualify for the benefit payment if they retire at the age of 65 years; and if she will...
- Social Welfare Offices
894. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason Enniscorthy Intreo office has failed to respond to a complaint submitted (details supplied) in June 2022; and if...
- Social Welfare Appeals
895. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for the household benefit package now under appeal in the name of a person (details supplied) will be...
- Social Welfare Payments
896. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average amount paid to recipients of social welfare schemes administered by her Department in 2022; and if she will make...
- Community Welfare Services
901. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of hours a week the CWO is available for meetings with individuals in the Dún Laoghaire office; and if she...
- Departmental Policies
903. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on the implementation of the recommendations of the child maintenance review group. [1462/23]
- Ministerial Responsibilities
904. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the specific delegated functions that have been transferred to Ministers of State appointed in December 2022, in tabular...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
905. 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...
- Departmental Data
906. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the name of the company, organisation or persons contracted to provide media training to her from 1 January 2021 to date; the...
- Social Welfare Offices
907. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the future of the social welfare sub-office in Castlepollard, County Westmeath. [1523/23]
- Social Welfare Appeals
908. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who has been refused a carer's support grant; and if she will make a...
- State Pensions
909. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Personal Public Service Numbers
910. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a PPSN; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
911. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 358 of 14 September 2022, if she will now make a similar decision in line with a number...
- State Pensions
912. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) can qualify for a State pension (contributory) in light of the years of service that they have...
- Social Welfare Offices
913. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the effect that the merger of the Kilbarrack and Coolock social protection offices has had; if a review of the merger has...
- School Meals Programme
914. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the school meals programme by 7.5% and 15%, respectively. [1802/23]
- Social Welfare Benefits
915. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Welfare Eligibility
916. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her Department’s plans, if any, to extend the living alone allowance to those under the age of 66 years who are in...
- Social Welfare Payments
919. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if claims for illness benefit can be submitted online to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1992/23]
- Social Welfare Appeals
921. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal has been registered for a person (details supplied) as requested on 11 October 2022 by this Deputy; and if she...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
922. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive a decision on their carer's allowance application. [2105/23]
- Social Welfare Payments
923. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of applications for disability allowance; the total number of successful first-time applications; the total...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
924. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide clarification under the criteria for disability allowance of the term "substantially" restricted due to...
- Social Welfare Appeals
926. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a domiciliary care allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;...
- Social Welfare Rates
928. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a list of updated payment rates for core social protection payments from January 2023; and if she will...
- Social Welfare Appeals
929. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); when...
- Social Welfare Benefits
930. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the proposals that have been raised by an organisation (details supplied) with respect to...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
932. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an invalidity pension application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she...
- School Meals Programme
937. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps that she is taking to provide the school meals scheme in all DEIS and qualifying schools. [2421/23]
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Maternity Leave
938. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 577 of 18 October 2022, if provisions for maternity leave for Members of...
- Victim Support Services
939. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the management of a redress scheme for victims of abuse of an institution...
- Departmental Contracts
940. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of the contract his Department signed with a consulting company (details supplied)...
- International Protection
941. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if it is the policy of his Department to support the introduction of so-called 'community champions' to engage...
- Departmental Staff
942. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of additional staff who were allocated to his Department to deal with the intake of Ukrainian...
- Adoption Services
944. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that he did not provide the Adoption Authority of Ireland with adequate resources in order to respond...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
945. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide the data used to support the allocation of core funding to a sessional model of preschool; if...
- Refugee Resettlement Programme
946. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that his Department is yet to respond to an offer of accommodation for Ukrainian refugees from a...
- Seirbhísí Cúram Leanaí
947. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth an aontaíonn an tAire go bhfuil géarghá le plean cuimsitheach chun tabhairt faoi na heasnaimh sa...
- Legislative Measures
948. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if all sections of all Acts passed in the past ten years have been commenced; the number of sections that are...
- Child and Family Agency
950. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for the number of social workers employed by Tusla in counties Louth and Meath in the years 2019 to 2022,...
- Irish Sign Language
951. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the report by the National Disability Authority into the operation and implementation of the Irish Sign...
- Childcare Services
953. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the regionalisation of community childcare offices. [63499/22]
- Rights of People with Disabilities
959. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the rationale for Ireland including a specific reservation to the provisions of the UNCRPD (details supplied)....
- International Protection
962. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if International Protection Accommodation Services is in the process of procuring factory premises in Shannon...
- Direct Provision System
963. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department is in the process of procuring factory premises in Shannon for the provision of additional...
- Childcare Services
965. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the new childcare policy has made the model less flexible for those not availing of full-time childcare...
- International Protection
966. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will urgently review a matter (details supplied) reported over the weekend that families have been given...
- Commissions of Inquiry
967. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to establish a State inquiry into the practice of illegal adoptions; and if he will make a statement...
- Departmental Policies
968. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to ensure that all persons whose illegal birth registration is established in the future are entitled...
- Capital Expenditure Programme
969. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of a buildings block grant for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Mother and Baby Homes
970. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide information on the way that a person (details supplied) can access information on their...
- International Protection
971. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to avoid housing international protection applicants in inappropriate or dangerous accommodation; and...
- Childcare Services
973. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has plans to help support parents, especially single-parent households, with the significant...
- Legislative Reviews
974. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider a review of the Equal Status Acts 2000 to 2015 to ensure that trans persons and all members...
- Legislative Process
976. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline for the progression of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022 through the Houses...
- Direct Provision System
977. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated average cost of keeping an applicant for asylum in direct provision per year; and the total cost...
- Departmental Schemes
978. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 186 of 14 December 2022, if he will provide this Deputy with copies of the...
- Childcare Services
979. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when childminders will be added to the national childcare scheme; if an interim measure will be introduced in...
- International Protection
980. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a list of all schools that have been used for temporary accommodation for Ukraine or IP...
- Legislative Measures
981. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has any plans to include education as a future ground for discrimination in the Employment Equality and...
- Irish Language
982. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Little Baby Bundle which will be distributed to 500 new parents in February 2023 will contain literature...
- International Protection
983. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when service providers of refugee accommodation (details supplied) will be paid. [1331/23]
- Ukraine War
984. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be paid the significant moneys owed to them in respect of...
- Rights of People with Disabilities
986. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the optional protocol will be enacted to give credibility to the adoption of the UNCRPD; and if he will...
- International Protection
987. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will list all locations at which more than ten Ukrainian refugees are being accommodated in counties...
- Ukraine War
990. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Ukrainian refugees who were accommodated in Ireland from February 2022 onwards but who have...
- Ministerial Responsibilities
991. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the specific delegated functions that have been transferred to Ministers of State appointed in December 2022, in...
- Departmental Data
992. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the name of the company, organisation or persons contracted to provide media training to him from 1 January 2021...
- Childcare Services
993. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the review of the county childcare committees will be completed; and when the regional hubs will be...
- Child Protection
994. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of recruitment for the role of special rapporteur on child protection; when the role will be filled;...
- International Protection
997. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for the provision of accommodation for Ukrainians;...
- Childcare Services
998. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will confirm the current portion of childcare fees that are paid by families, given the changes made to...
- International Protection
1000. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the goods and services that accommodation providers are contractually obliged to provide to beneficiaries of...
- Childcare Services
1002. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will intervene on the issue of core funding for a childcare service (details supplied) with both Tusla...
- International Protection
1003. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a further payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in respect of accommodation being provided;...
- Disability Services
1004. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will investigate the reason an organisation is refusing to accommodate a person (details supplied) who is...
- Childcare Services
1005. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if provision will be made to ensure the ongoing viability of small, rural preschools, which offer a vital...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
1006. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many small, independent early learning and childcare...
- Legislative Process
1008. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a timeline for the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022 to pass all...
- Family Support Services
1009. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the lack of support that is available to parents who have tragically lost a...
- Child Poverty
1013. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will immediately establish a new National Child Poverty Plan with a dedicated unit that encompasses an...
- Birth Certificates
1014. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps that he is taking in response to individuals being informed that they will not be provided with their...
- Disability Services
1016. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline for the working group to publish proposals in relation to Government-funded transport and mobility...
- Parental Leave
1017. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a person can avail of parental leave immediately after maternity leave eligibility expires; and if he will...
- Rights of People with Disabilities
1018. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on removing the State’s reservations to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
1020. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that the core funding for childcare-preschool services recognises the experience of persons...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Third Level Education
1022. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the review of the conditions of PhD work in Ireland; if his attention has been drawn to the demands from an organisation...
- Legislative Programme
1023. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide further details in relation to the National Research Bill 2023. [63300/22]
- Legislative Measures
1025. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all sections of all Acts passed in the past ten years have been commenced; the number of sections that are outstanding; the number of Acts...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
1026. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the situation which many apprentices find themselves in, whereby due to Covid-19 restrictions, off-the-job...
- Third Level Admissions
1028. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline and strategy for delivering the substantial increase in healthcare training (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
- Departmental Funding
1029. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the income and expenditure from the national training fund for 2021 and 2022 and the allocation for 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
- Third Level Fees
1030. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will change guidelines in order that returning emigrants who have spent at least three of the previous five years in Ireland can change...
- Education and Training Provision
1031. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of management development training courses by Skillnet in each year for which data are available; and if he will make a statement on...
- Health and Safety
1032. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of processing a safepass renewal. [63764/22]
- Third Level Fees
1033. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that students who have changed courses in 2022 are eligible for the €1,000 Government contribution to student fees...
- Further and Higher Education
1034. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63823/22]
- Third Level Staff
1035. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to review the pay, terms and conditions of personal assistants who work with students with additional needs who are...
- Third Level Education
1036. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans, if any, to increase the number of third level courses for urban and rural planners; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Apprenticeship Programmes
1038. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he proposes to introduce new rules pertaining to the level of pay that apprentices should receive, in light of the fact that many are in...
- Third Level Education
1040. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that he has taken to ensure that students from Northern Ireland are given access to the EU Erasmus study abroad programme despite...
- Language Schools
1041. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify in relation to the draft code of practice proposed for the ELE sector; if his Department or QQI will meet with private...
- Third Level Costs
1042. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to the granting of interest-free loans to students entering a graduate programme in medicine; and if he will make...
- Third Level Admissions
1044. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to increasing the number of places in third level institutions for medicine; and if he will make a statement on...
- Research and Development
1045. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the application process to join CERN; and the timeline for when it will be completed (details supplied). [1363/23]
- Ministerial Responsibilities
1046. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific delegated functions that have been transferred to Ministers of State appointed in December 2022, in tabular form; and the date of...
- Departmental Data
1047. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the name of the company, organisation or persons contracted to provide media training to him from 1 January 2021 to date; the costs incurred;...
- Disability Diagnoses
1048. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options that are available to students applying to NUI colleges who have a dyslexia and dyscalculia diagnosis and an Irish exemption...
- Third Level Costs
1049. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications that were made for the SUSI grant in the past four academic years, per county, in tabular form; the number of those...
- Third Level Fees
1050. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding refugee status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1606/23]
- Health and Safety
1051. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of approved safepass organisations providing safepass training for each of the years 2018 to 2022; and if he will make a statement on...
- Early School Leavers
1055. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the plans to standardise the access and eligibility criteria across ETB YouthReach and Community Training centre...
- Community Training Centres
1056. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the operational guidelines working group reported on the review of the operational guidelines applying to CTCs, specialist training provision...
- Third Level Education
1057. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being taken to ensure that all students of the BSc in paramedics studies in the University of Limerick can undertake their...
- Grant Payments
1058. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a letter detailing further required information in respect of a submitted appeal has now issued to a person (details supplied); and if he...
- Further and Higher Education
1059. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the terms of reference with regard to the consideration of a location for a new veterinary school; if he is confident that any newly-established...
- Adult Education Provision
1060. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there has been a change since September 2022 in relation to the provision of adult education classes being provided by ETB towards only...
- Third Level Education
1061. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his engagement with the Minister for Health to increase the number of graduates from clinical therapies, including but not limited to...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Legal Aid
1062. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he met with the Legal Aid Board in 2022; if he has received any request from the board for additional staff resources in...
- Crime Prevention
1063. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the need to collate data on the number of assaults perpetrated against transport workers, such as taxi drivers,...
- Residency Permits
1064. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the requisite visas and residency permits can issue in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Visa Agreements
1065. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if any consideration is being given to extending visa-free travel to tourists from Colombia as was done in Britain on 9...
- Visa Applications
1066. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the rationale for outsourcing visa application in Colombia to a company (details supplied); the duration and annual cost of...
- State Bodies
1067. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he and or his officials undertook any due diligence in the context of security and duty of care to service users in respect...
- Naturalisation Applications
1068. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if applications for naturalisation have been submitted in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Control of Firearms
1069. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of semi-automatic centre fire rifles that have been licensed by An Garda Síochána in each of the years...
- Visa Applications
1070. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a visa application will be considered in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Asylum Applications
1071. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of asylum applications by month from January 2020 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63440/22]
- Visa Applications
1072. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the processing of visas for persons coming to Ireland from Vietnam, following the approval of a work permit, is slower than...
- Departmental Funding
1073. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a full list of the successful applicants of the community safety innovation fund, by electoral area, and...
- Family Reunification
1074. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current list of countries for which family reunification programmes exist; and the other countries that are being...
- Departmental Schemes
1075. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that has been made to date in the determination of an application as part of the undocumented scheme in the case...
- Court Judgments
1076. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have been imprisoned for contempt of court for each of the past ten years; the length of the average...
- Departmental Communications
1077. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the communication activities and the form in which his Department engaged in 2022 that specifically targeted Albanian and...
- Asylum Applications
1078. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the protocols that apply to Albanian and Georgian citizens who register for refugee protection in Ireland understanding that...
- Naturalisation Applications
1080. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process for naturalisation of a child born in Ireland where their parents are non-EU citizens and legally resident in...
- Victim Support Services
1081. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the support that is provided to victims of crime for an inquest dealing with the death of a family member. [63618/22]
- Deportation Orders
1082. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63679/22]
- An Garda Síochána
1083. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to security details at Limerick Courthouse at Mulgrave Street, Limerick. [63689/22]
- Probate Applications
1084. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to delays in the probate system; the plans to reduce wait times for families and persons...
- Citizenship Applications
1085. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a Filipino citizen who is married to an Irish citizen but is residing in the Philippines can apply for Irish citizenship;...
- Visa Applications
1086. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on an application for a visa (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Bench Warrants
1088. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of bench warrants currently outstanding in Kildare; the number that were outstanding for more than six and 12...
- Domestic Violence
1089. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that that the final report of the Study on Familicide and Domestic Homicide...
- Protected Disclosures
1090. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current status of the protected disclosure made by a person (details supplied). [63802/22]
- International Agreements
1091. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when Ireland intends to ratify the Optional Protocol to the CRC on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child...
- Immigration Status
1092. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay in processing an application as part of the undocumented scheme in the case of a person (details...
- Prison Service
1093. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has any plans to establish a statutory compensation scheme for prison officers similar to the compensation...
- Legal Services Regulation
1094. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline, if any, that the Government has to introduce Court and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022, to allow...
- Immigration Status
1095. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for regularisation under the undocumented scheme for a person (details supplied); and if he will...
- Citizenship Applications
1096. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he agrees that there needs to be more resources provided to make the citizenship application process more efficient...
- Prison Service
1097. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm his role in the staff recognition programme for the Irish Prison Service; if he will outline the guidelines...
- An Garda Síochána
1098. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will set out the establishment number and the current number in the Garda Reserve force; if the Garda Commissioner plans...
- Citizenship Applications
1099. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current timeframe for the processing of citizenship applications; the number of applications processed in each of the...
- Asylum Applications
1102. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average application for asylum processing time in Ireland; the longest application processing time; and the number of...
- Asylum Seekers
1103. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have applied for asylum who have been repatriated in each of the past ten years; and the number who...
- International Protection
1104. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown of the staffing levels in his Department and associated agencies dedicated to processing international...
- An Garda Síochána
1106. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of marked motorcycles attached to Garda roads policing units in 2021 and 2022; and the number of motorcycles...
- Legislative Programme
1111. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is an update as to when the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person (Stalking) Bill 2021 will be passed; and if he will...
- An Garda Síochána
1112. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the review of the security of Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas, which An Taoiseach requested the Garda...
- Ukraine War
1116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of Ukrainian refugees who have been welcomed to Ireland to date; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Immigration Policy
1119. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the anomaly which arises for Stamp 3 visa holders, particularly as it applies to the...
- Ministerial Responsibilities
1120. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the specific delegated functions that have been transferred to Ministers of State appointed in December 2022, in tabular form;...
- Immigration Policy
1121. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will clarify whether it is required for those applying for performance short stay C visas to provide original passport...
- An Garda Síochána
1122. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to reports that convictions under the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences...
- Road Traffic Offences
1123. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown of the fines issued as a result of the vans; the related speed zones within which these fines relate to for...
- Departmental Data
1124. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the name of the company, organisation or persons contracted to provide media training to him from 1 January 2021 to date; the...
- Immigration Status
1125. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in processing an application in the case of a person (details supplied); if documentation sent to his...
- An Garda Síochána
1126. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of 1250cc and 1500cc motorcycles that are in the Garda fleet as of 9 January 2023; and if he will make a statement...
- Youth Services
1127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a list of justice youth diversion programmes in County Roscommon, including the location, funding amount...
- Citizenship Applications
1128. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that has been made to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person...
- Naturalisation Applications
1129. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that has been made to date in respect of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details...
- Prison Service
1130. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will meet with a person (details supplied) who has suffered significantly while working for the State due to a number of...
- Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
1132. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown of the distribution of the additional €7 million to be provided to organisations funded...
- Visa Applications
1133. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review the case of a child (details supplied); if any updated information in relation to this case will be made...
- Ukraine War
1134. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the European Union is centrally co-ordinating destination selection for those seeking safe haven in the context of the...
- An Garda Síochána
1137. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times members of An Garda Síochána seized knives in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [1729/23]
- Citizenship Applications
1138. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if...
- Family Reunification
1139. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current and-or expected position in respect of an application for family reunification in the case of a person (details...
- An Garda Síochána
1140. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated full-year cost in each of the next three years if 1,200 new gardaí were recruited per year, in tabular...
- Citizenship Applications
1141. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his officials have considered an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied) who was born in the United...
- Family Reunification
1142. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on an appeal submitted by a person (details supplied) against the refusal of a family reunion...
- An Garda Síochána
1144. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will discuss with the Garda Commissioner the challenges being faced by gardaí in Tallaght, Dublin 24 in respect of...
- Citizenship Applications
1145. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current processing times for citizenship applications to include the categories for EU nationals, international applicants...
- Courts Staff
1146. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when it is expected that the new County Registrar for County Louth, based in Dundalk Courthouse, will be appointed. [2109/23]
- Domestic Violence
1147. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of safe homes only operational in December 2021 and December 2022, in tabular form. [2146/23]
- Residency Permits
1148. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an application for an EU3 permanent residence card by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed and expedited; and if he...
- Family Reunification
1149. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the options that are available to a person (details supplied) to have their spouse and child join them in this jurisdiction,...
- Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
1150. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of refugee spaces for victims and survivors of domestic violence and gender-based violence currently being funded...
- State Bodies
1151. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the recruitment campaign for the additional Data Protection Commissioner posts will be advertised abroad; if not, if they...
- Department of Health
- Health Services
1152. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mothers and babies who were discharged from maternity hospitals directly into homeless services in 2022, broken down by month and by region; and...
- Hospital Services
1153. To ask the Minister for Health further to his response to questions on promised legislation on 30 November 2022 regarding the long-Covid clinic at the Mater Hospital, the current status of...
- Health Services Staff
1154. To ask the Minister for Health when the community neurorehabilitation team for CHO 6 (details supplied) will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63143/22]
- Medicinal Products
1155. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the issue of the drug cariban used in pregnancy to treat hyperemesis gravidarium (details supplied). [63144/22]
- Health Services
1156. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports that some patients with cancer coming to Ireland from Ukraine, who were undergoing chemotherapy treatments in the...
- Mental Health Services
1158. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding that has been allocated to the early intervention psychosis national clinical programme in the HSE for developing three new early...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1159. To ask the Minister for Health when the staff at a facility (details supplied) will be awarded the pandemic recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63155/22]
- Health Services
1161. To ask the Minister for Health the entitlements that are available for children under seven years of age in terms of early intervention healthcare such as dental checks, hearing tests, eye...
- Ambulance Service
1162. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether it is appropriate that ambulances are coming from as far away as Rathkeale in response to emergency calls from patients in Limerick city;...
- Disease Management
1163. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the services and specialists available in Ireland for persons diagnosed with EDS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63163/22]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
1164. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of funding provided to long-Covid clinics, per clinic, including details of funding spent on the long-Covid clinic itself and...
- General Practitioner Services
1166. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time GPs operating in each county for the years 2012 to 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63172/22]
- Medicinal Products
1167. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make the drug ozempic available on the drugs payment scheme (details supplied). [63185/22]
- Health Services
1168. To ask the Minister for Health if he will define the term 'blue-light' distance when used in the context of maternity service, in particular the provision of home birth supports; if this is...
- Dental Services
1172. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide approval for a patient (details supplied) to be fitted with chrome cobalt palate free dentures. [63212/22]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1173. To ask the Minister for Health the date by which workers employed by organisations (details supplied) will be paid the pandemic recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Appointments Status
1174. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63243/22]
- Ambulance Service
1175. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details in relation to the recruitment drive by the National Ambulance Service for qualified paramedics (details supplied); and if he will...
- Departmental Inquiries
1176. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update regarding the establishment of the promised inquiry on the historical licensing and prescribing of sodium valproate; when he...
- Health Services
1177. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are currently available to those diagnosed with foetal valproate spectrum disorder; the way that families can access these services within...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
1178. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63265/22]
- Ambulance Service
1180. To ask the Minister for Health the number of external Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council-registered qualified paramedics who applied for positions with the National Ambulance Service; the...
- Irish Sign Language
1181. To ask the Minister for Health if there are adequate numbers of Irish sign language interpreters to provide services for persons with hearing difficulties in hospital; the process involved...
- Health Services
1182. To ask the Minister for Health when the routine eye examinations and glasses for persons with medical cards under the community ophthalmic services scheme fee increase will come into...
- Departmental Funding
1188. To ask the Minister for Health if money raised from the sale of Dundrum Hospital is earmarked for services; if so, the services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63313/22]
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
1189. To ask the Minister for Health the State investment that was given toward the construction of a facility (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Disability Services
1190. To ask the Minister for Health the State investment that was given toward the renovation of a specialist intellectual disability service at a facility (details supplied); and if he will...
- Primary Medical Certificates
1191. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a primary medical certificate for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63316/22]
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
1192. To ask the Minister for Health if the proposed 96-bed medical ward block at Wexford General Hospital is at a detailed design stage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63323/22]
- Hospital Appointments Status
1195. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a child (details supplied) who has been referred to see a neurologist at Temple Street Children's Hospital and has yet to receive an...
- General Practitioner Services
1196. To ask the Minister for Health if access to a local GP will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63332/22]
- Residential Institutions
1197. To ask the Minister for Health when consistent access and visitation will be facilitated between persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63338/22]
- Departmental Schemes
1198. To ask the Minister for Health if the decision will be reviewed to not award all or the majority of the costs to be reimbursed to a person (details supplied). [63343/22]
- Medical Cards
1199. To ask the Minister for Health if an emergency medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63344/22]
- Hospital Appointments Status
1200. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who, following a referral one year ago to the orthopaedic unit at University Hospital Limerick, has yet...
- Disability Services
1201. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE region in the country that has the lowest ratio of whole-time equivalent clinicians as per 100 children of any children’s disability network...
- Legislative Measures
1203. To ask the Minister for Health if all sections of all Acts passed in the past ten years have been commenced; the number of sections that are outstanding; the number of Acts that have review...
- Medical Research and Training
1204. To ask the Minister for Health if the Saolta group accepts the serious consequences to a hospital (details supplied) if the withdrawal of college trainees occurs on 1 July 2023 due to a...
- Hospital Staff
1205. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on HSE national funding through the national clinical programme and acute hospitals for four new consultant anaesthesiology posts...
- Mental Health Services
1206. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the staffing complement at the CAMHS facility in Drogheda, County Louth covering south Louth and east Meath as of 1 December...
- General Practitioner Services
1209. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a process through which a person can be allocated a GP in order for the person to avail of combined care in circumstances (details supplied)....
- Departmental Reports
1210. To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to publish the report into the secondment of the former Chief Medical Officer to a position in Trinity College Dublin; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Appointments Status
1211. 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. [63422/22]
- Health Services
1214. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are currently available to those diagnosed with foetal valproate spectrum disorder; the way that families can access services within their...
- Care Services
1215. To ask the Minister for Health if advice will be provided in relation to matters raised by a person (details supplied) regarding the provision of respite care; and if he will make a...
- Nursing Homes
1216. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 450 of 27 September 2022, if the necessary administrative and operational changes have been made to the fair deal scheme...
- Gender Recognition
1218. To ask the Minister for Health if he will conduct an independent review of the national gender service and of related healthcare capacity in the State to unwind the reliance on outsourcing...
- Mental Health Services
1219. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently waiting for an appointment in CAMHS; the number waiting circa July 2020; the average waiting times per CHO, in tabular form;...
- Work Permits
1223. To ask the Minister for Health the avenues that are available to qualified non-EEA citizens to apply for roles in the HSE in order to apply for a critical skills work permit; if non-EEA...
- Health Services
1224. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a child (details supplied) has waited for 24 months for their developmental check; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63474/22]
- Vaccination Programme
1225. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the current situation regarding the HPV vaccination programme and in particular catch-up clinics that specifically target males under 25...
- Medical Cards
1226. To ask the Minister for Health the method used to decide the discretionary medical card applications that are assessed before others; if applications for patients with conditions that...
- Hospital Transfers
1227. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be transferred from Letterkenny University Hospital to the Mater public hospital; and if he will make...
- Health Services Staff
1228. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that are in place to recruit more neurologists given the unacceptable and potentially dangerous length of time that patients are forced to spend on...
- Health Services Waiting Lists
1229. To ask the Minister for Health if the attention of his Department has been drawn to reports that neurologists in private practice have closed their lists to new patients such is the extent...
- Nursing Homes
1231. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons aged under 65 years who are inappropriately living in nursing homes that have been successfully moved out of nursing homes and onto a...
- Health Services Staff
1233. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment for speech and language therapy in the medical centre, Ballyminion, Longford will issue to a person (details supplied). [63496/22]
- Health Services Waiting Lists
1234. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting time for speech and language therapy appointments in County Longford. [63497/22]
- Health Services Staff
1235. To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech therapists assigned to County Longford; if that number is sufficient to meet demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63498/22]
- Health Services
1236. To ask the Minister for Health if advice will be provided on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) relating to dermatology services; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Vaccination Programme
1237. To ask the Minister for Health if financial and other supports will be made available to those who have who have been adversely affected by the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a...
- Health Services Staff
1239. To ask the Minister for Health when a full complement of therapists will be provided for a school (details supplied). [63525/22]
- Nursing Homes
1240. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the external audit of temporary assistance payments scheme to nursing homes was received by the NTPF; the cost of this audit to date; the...
- Health Services
1242. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 640 of 13 December 2022, if there is a timeline for a resolution from the engagement between his Department, the HSE and...
- Dental Services
1243. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions that his Department is taking to secure dental services for medical card holders in counties Roscommon and Galway; the services that are...
- Primary Care Services
1252. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a child (details supplied) was moved from Meath primary care unit to Louth primary care unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Disability Services
1253. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a child (details supplied) has not received any appointments in the past three years for their autism; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Mental Health Services
1254. To ask the Minister for Health when families affected as part of the south Kerry CAMHS review and identified as being a family that will receive redress, will receive payment from the...
- Disabilities Assessments
1256. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who received a preliminary team assessment in place of a full assessment of needs; of those who received a PTA which was found to not...
- Disability Services
1257. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will reconsider the request to transfer the care of a person (details supplied) to an alternative team in an area in order for the person to access...
- Healthcare Policy
1262. To ask the Minister for Health if women who have hyperemesis gravidarum and are prescribed Cariban by their general practitioner which will be funded from 1 January 2023, will receive...
- General Practitioner Services
1263. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the former health centre in Delgany, County Wicklow; if it is proposed to sell the building; if any meetings have been held with...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1264. To ask the Minister for Health when Section 38 health workers who are due their pandemic bonus payment can expect to receive same. [63611/22]
- Medical Qualifications
1265. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that his Department will take to address the fact that applications to CORU for registration by key healthcare workers are taking three years to...
- Medical Cards
1266. To ask the Minister for Health if terminal cancer patients are automatically entitled to a medical card and free medical treatment for their cancer care. [63613/22]
- Health Services Staff
1267. To ask the Minister for Health when the promised community neuro-rehabilitation teams for each CHO area, currently only two out of nine initiated, which will allow persons living with...
- Health Strategies
1268. To ask the Minister for Health the progress he has made in the establishment of a national hearing plan, as recommended by the World Health Organization. [63626/22]
- Disability Services
1269. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a timeframe for the addition of adult ADHD services in HSE area CHO 4; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63631/22]
- Medicinal Products
1270. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details in respect of the approval process for Oxycontin and drugs containing oxycodone by the HPRA; if the guidance has changed since it...
- Vaccination Programme
1274. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe to move the HPV programme from a two-dose programme to a single dose programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63639/22]
- Hospital Appointments Status
1279. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment in Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63649/22]
- Dental Services
1281. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dental practices in County Wexford which have ceased providing medical card services to persons with disabilities in the past 36 months; the...
- Care Services
1293. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 194 of 23 November 2022, if the next-of-kin of the residents of the centre (details supplied) have, with consent from...
- Health Services
1294. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE universal guidelines on bras, prostheses and wigs will be published; the funding to be allocated for the implementation of the guidelines; and if...
- Departmental Data
1312. To ask the Minister for Health the figures for recorded community-acquired pressure sores and hospital-acquired pressure sores in Tallaght University Hospital for the years 2015 to 2020....
- Health Services
1313. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a speech therapy appointment for a person (details supplied). [63701/22]
- Health Services Staff
1314. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reinstate staff to speech therapy services in County Longford (details supplied). [63703/22]
- Dental Services
1315. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of dentists and dental technicians in County Kildare who accept medical card patients in tabular form; and if he will make a...
- Medical Cards
1317. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting time for applications for a medical card; the number of persons awaiting a decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63714/22]
- Care Services
1318. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the shortage of home care provision by the HSE in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63723/22]
- Dental Services
1319. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of dentists and dental technicians in County Laois who accept medical card patients in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
- Care Services
1320. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the application for home care supports for a person (details supplied) who has had a leg amputated and is in need of assistance in their...
- Health Promotion
1321. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether there should be an awareness campaign to deter vaping in public spaces, such as in bars and nightclubs; the steps that he is taking to...
- Health Services
1322. To ask the Minister for Health if a response will issue to a query raised by a person (details supplied) in relation to supports for visually impaired people; and if he will make a...
- Substance Misuse
1323. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he remains focused on enabling rehabilitation and methadone treatments for those who have been adversely affected by drugs; and if he will...
- Vaccination Programme
1324. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to roll out Covid vaccines to children under five years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63827/22]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1325. To ask the Minister for Health when the Covid bonus will be paid to healthcare staff (details supplied) who have been waiting for almost a year; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Appointments Status
1326. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63838/22]
- Disability Services
1327. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be considered for disability services in Bantry, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63841/22]
- General Practitioner Services
1328. To ask the Minister for Health the average wait time for North-East Doctor On Call, NEDOC, in Meath to attend to a patient in view of the fact that parents in south County Meath seeking a...
- Medicinal Products
1331. To ask the Minister for Health if steps are being taken to secure a supply of the drugs rivotrol and zarontin for the treatment of epilepsy-related seizures, given the current international...
- Mental Health Services
1332. To ask the Minister for Health if the appropriate official within the mental health services can contact a person (details supplied) with respect to their views on the provision of mental...
- Primary Care Services
1334. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that no physiotherapy services have been established in the Cahir primary care centre in County Tipperary; if he will list all of the public...
- Health Services
1335. To ask the Minister for Health the way that those who qualify for free nappies for their children can access the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63860/22]
- Hospital Appointments Status
1336. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63861/22]
- Mental Health Services
1337. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 5 of 8 December 2022, if he will outline the 35 recommendations from the Maskey Report to improve service delivery; the...
- Health Services Staff
1339. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the 237 whole-time equivalent public health nurse vacancies by CHO; the number of these that were filled by CHO; and if he...
- Health Services
1341. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a monthly limit on the number of nappies that can be supplied for children and or adults with disabilities by a public health nurse. [63876/22]
- Hospital Appointments Status
1343. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for surgery. [63880/22]
- Care Services
1344. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 612 of 6 December 2022, when the person (details supplied) will be moved to a suitable facility; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Appointments Status
1345. To ask the Minister for Health when a child will be seen for therapies (details supplied); and the dates for same. [63884/22]
- Health Services Staff
1346. To ask the Minister for Health if any consideration has been given to fast-tracking the medical registration of Ukrainian health care professionals in order to ensure that any available...
- Dental Services
1347. To ask the Minister for Health the options that are available for a medical card holder to get a new dentist when their previous dentist has stopped taking medical card holders as patients;...
- General Practitioner Services
1348. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the rules in relation to children who require after-hours Caredoc or Shannon Doc services but have been told that they cannot be treated or...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1349. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the large cohort of front-line staff in healthcare settings under section 39 who provide a service on behalf of the HSE who...
- Departmental Expenditure
1350. To ask the Minister for Health the amounts paid from his Department or other bodies funded by his Department to a company (details supplied) for services in the past two years; if these...
- Hospital Services
1351. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline in detail the hospitals that will benefit from a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63904/22]
- Medical Aids and Appliances
1352. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a wheelchair for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63905/22]
- Disability Services
1353. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the delays in CDNT appointments in County Tipperary due to staffing issues; if his Department has plans in place to resolve...
- Home Care Packages
1354. To ask the Minister for Health when a full home care package as required in the case of a person (details supplied) will be reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63907/22]
- Vaccination Programme
1355. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has plans in place for those who are under 12 years of age who wish to receive a Covid-19 booster; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1356. To ask the Minister for Health when the pandemic recognition payment of €1,000 will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
1357. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 306 of 15 December 2022, if he will confirm that the registration of residential services with HIQA is done on a...
- Hospital Services
1361. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to ensure that the opening hours of the minor injuries unit at Monaghan Hospital are extended to include weekends in 2023; and if he will make a...
- Medical Cards
1362. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card application will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63933/22]
- Health Services
1365. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are currently available to those diagnosed with foetal valproate spectrum disorder; the way that families can access these services within...
- Dental Services
1366. To ask the Minister for Health the provision that is being made in 2023 to fund waiting list initiatives for child orthodontic work; and if new categories will gain access to the option of...
- Hospital Appointments Status
1367. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be allocated an appointment. [63956/22]
- Medical Aids and Appliances
1368. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the issues in supply of ConvaTec Combihesive Natura REF (GB) S7247 57MM (Flanges used for Stomas) are resolved without delay (details...
- Health Service Executive
1369. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the strategy adopted by the HSE in terms of correspondence with individuals whose personal information was hacked from HSE databases;...
- Disability Services
1370. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any supports available for businesses that provide sensory experience for persons with disabilities and mental health issues. [63965/22]
- Dental Services
1371. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that contracts have not been awarded by the HSE to two dentists (details supplied) in order for them to offer services to medical card holders in...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
1372. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the freestyle libre sensor is not covered on the medical card; if consideration will be given to this for a person (details supplied); the...
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
1373. To ask the Minister for Health the projected completion date for the Killarney Community Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63980/22]
- Health Services
1375. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63993/22]
- Personal Injury Claims
1377. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases and the total amount paid out in compensation for screening errors, perceived and actual, relative to the CervicalCheck screening...
- Hospital Appointments Status
1378. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will issue for surgery for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1000/23]
- Hospital Services
1379. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to integrate any planned virtual home hospital services with community care services and GP services to facilitate supported early hospital...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1381. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set out a clear timeframe for the payment of the pandemic bonus to all eligible front-line healthcare workers, both in the public and private...
- Medicinal Products
1382. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the health technology assessment dossier covering kaftrio in combination with ivacaftor for the cohort of 35 children aged 6 to 11...
- Hospital Appointments Status
1383. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be given a date for an operation in Beaumont Hospital given that they have been waiting for five years for this operation...
- Health Service Executive
1384. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken by the HSE to ensure that there is no loss of accreditation of a facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Health Services Staff
1385. To ask the Minister for Health when approval of posts at a location (details supplied) will be forthcoming; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1032/23]
- Hospital Services
1387. To ask the Minister for Health the steps which are being taken to decant services from the St. Brigid's Hospital Campus in Ballinasloe; if he will outline the remaining services on the...
- Covid-19 Tests
1388. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered implementing mandatory Covid-19 tests for inward visitors from China to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1076/23]
- Departmental Reviews
1389. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the review of the framework for smaller hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1084/23]
- Ambulance Service
1390. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the pilot project involving Mallow General Hospital whereby some ambulance patients are treated in Mallow General Hospital instead of at...
- Primary Care Centres
1391. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the progress in delivering the primary care centre in Lucan; the services that may be provided there; and if he will make a statement on...
- Hospital Overcrowding
1394. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the documentation that he has received from the HSE relating to overcrowding in all Irish hospitals from 1 November 2022 to 4 January 2023....
- Hospital Admissions
1395. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospitalisations for children and older adults afflicted with respiratory syncytial virus infection, recorded by hospital and month from...
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
1396. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a timeline of when works are due to commence on the development of a helipad at the Cork University Hospital site; and if he will make a...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
1397. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to expand the reimbursement for the freestyle libre continuous glucose monitoring sensor to over-21s under the HSE's community funded...
- Medicinal Products
1399. To ask the Minister for Health the action that his Department is taking to provide reimbursement of required medicines for women with gestational diabetes to help protect both the mother...
- Healthcare Policy
1400. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the introduction of a national diabetes patient register considering the lack thereof has made it difficult for policy...
- Mental Health Services
1402. To ask the Minister for Health if a timeline can be provided for the delivery of a dialectical behavioural therapy team for the mid-west region (details supplied). [1127/23]
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
1403. To ask the Minister for Health if he will sanction the development of an elective-only hospital for the mid-west region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1128/23]
- Medical Cards
1405. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to increase the income threshold for medical cards for people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1137/23]
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
1406. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 559 of 15 November 2022, if he will provide a breakdown of the payments agreed by the HSE to each of the companies and...
- Mental Health Services
1407. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the HSE's use of Glenwood House as a mental health facility, two years after its purchase (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Medicinal Products
1412. To ask the Minister for Health his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to the hyperemesis gravidarum drug, cariban, for pregnant women in Ireland; and...
- Dental Services
1413. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount of moneys provided by the HSE to dentists under the dental treatment services scheme contracts for services provided to medical card holders...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1414. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive the pandemic recognition payment. [1157/23]
- Dental Services
1415. To ask the Minister for Health the current position in relation to private dental practices which no longer offer services to medical card holders; if there has been any further update on...
- Health Services
1416. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive their reimbursement under the cross-Border directive scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1165/23]
- Disability Services
1417. To ask the Minister for Health the counties in CHO 8 which have an ‘access officer’ assigned to oversee and ensure that those with a disability have easy access to all...
- Primary Care Centres
1418. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the disposal of land by the Department of Education to his Department to provide a primary health care centre in Collinstown, Dublin 22; and if...
- Hospital Facilities
1419. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the strategic assessment report for the new emergency department at Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1174/23]
- Nursing Homes
1420. To ask the Minister for Health if the indexation-up of outstanding amounts under the fair deal scheme is being reviewed in view of the fact that the rate of inflation is now far in excess...
- Disability Services
1422. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide this Deputy with the Children's Disability Network Team Staff Census and Workforce Review 2022; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Services Staff
1423. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to extend the enhanced travel and subsistence scheme for student nurses and midwives to student doctors also known as medical students, who face...
- Hospital Staff
1426. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent vacant nursing posts at Naas General Hospital as of 4 January 2023; and when these vacancies will be filled in tabular...
- Health Services
1427. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to fund four additional contingence clinics to tackle the wait list for surgery through specialised small units and enable...
- Disability Services
1428. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to address the urgent need to recruit additional staff for children's disability network teams in order to address lengthy waiting lists...
- Emergency Departments
1429. To ask the Minister for Health the role that Nenagh Hospital can play in meeting the demand for emergency department treatment given the record number of presentations to UHL recently. [1237/23]
- General Practitioner Services
1430. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that he is taking and intends to take to enable Shannondoc to meet the demand for its services as witnessed over the Christmas period; the...
- Hospital Appointments Status
1431. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and when the person can expect an appointment. [1243/23]
- Medicinal Products (1 comment)
1432. To ask the Minister for Health if the supplementary medications and treatment required for chronic Lyme disease will be covered by the general medical scheme and the drug treatment scheme;...
- General Practitioner Services
1433. To ask the Minister for Health if he is in a position to indicate a start date from which free GP care will be extended to those under eight years of age. [1250/23]
- Hospital Appointments Status
1434. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for an outpatient appointment at the orthopaedic clinic in Cavan and Monaghan hospital given the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1435. To ask the Minister for Health when the Covid bonus will be paid to those persons who were in employment with an employer (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Health Services Staff
1437. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects HSE staff to be assigned to the important and necessary role of access officer in HSE facilities across County Offaly, falling within the...
- Home Care Packages
1438. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive their full provision of care hours following their allocation of a full home care package; and if he will make a...
- Dental Services
1439. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dental practices in counties Louth and Meath respectively who are or were in the dental treatment services scheme in each of the years 2019 to...
- Primary Care Services
1440. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a status update on the provision of podiatry services at the HSE Boyne primary care centre and at the Community Services Building, Dublin...
- Vaccination Programme
1441. To ask the Minister for Health when the next round of booster Covid vaccinations will be available for the over-70s who have received their second booster in recent months; and if he will...
- Health Services
1442. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the new regional health areas which determine the introduction of community neurorehabilitation in CHO 9; when these regional health...
- Disability Services
1443. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite care facilities and the numbers of places within each, for children with disabilities in each county in tabular form; his proposals to...
- Emergency Departments
1445. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision has been agreed upon to provide the appropriate resources to the accident and emergency department in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda,...
- Home Care Packages
1446. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new persons approved for HSE home care support hours who are currently awaiting delivery of support hours in County Wexford; the number of...
- Hospital Services
1449. To ask the Minister for Health when fibronectin tests will be available to expectant mothers at UHK; when approval was given for this; if and when a supplier (details supplied) has provided...
- Departmental Expenditure
1450. To ask the Minister for Health the amount his Department pays to sponsor a television programme (details supplied); the length of time the contract is for; the amount paid to date; and if...
- Hospital Admissions
1451. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who presented to emergency departments with self-harm and-or intentional poisoning by CHO area in each of the years 2019 to 2022 and to...
- Suicide Incidence
1453. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who died by suicide in each of the years 2017 to 2022, by CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1303/23]
- Health Services
1454. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be given for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1304/23]
- Eating Disorders
1455. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults who have presented to the HSE looking for treatment for eating disorders who received specialist inpatient treatment in a dedicated...
- Departmental Staff
1456. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons, if any, working in his Department who have a qualification in the area of genomics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1323/23]
- Hospital Charges
1457. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the publication of reimbursement levels, costs of procedures and hospital charges to enable patients to make informed...
- EU Directives
1458. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the right to reimbursement under the EU Cross-Border Directive on Healthcare is based solely on the care and treatment received,...
- Medicinal Products
1461. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a breast cancer treatment (details supplied) which is already licensed by the European Medicines Agency; if he expects this product to be...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1462. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of the former employees of a nursing home (details supplied) who are eligible to receive the pandemic bonus payment,...
- Vaccination Programme
1465. To ask the Minister for Health if special schools are included in the HSE's schools vaccination programme; if so, if all three vaccines under the schools vaccination programme are...
- Health Strategies
1467. To ask the Minister for Health the national breastfeeding guidance that is in place in non-maternity adult acute hospitals; the steps that he will take to ensure support to breastfeeding...
- Hospital Facilities
1468. To ask the Minister for Health the date for the opening of the 12 step-down beds in Abbeyleix Hospital, County Laois, for the use of patients who have been discharged from acute hospitals....
- Ambulance Service
1469. To ask the Minister for Health if he will direct the National Ambulance Service to put a second ambulance in place in Tuam, County Galway, on a full 24/7 basis to deal with the demand in...
- Health Services Staff
1470. To ask the Minister for Health the status of paramedics in the HSE who are categorised as support staff rather than having the same employment status and rights as health staff; and if he...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1471. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on when staff in private and voluntary nursing homes will receive the pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
1472. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make equipment and medications for sleep apnoea available on the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1392/23]
- Hospital Appointments Status
1473. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an orthopaedic appointment in Letterkenny University Hospital; if they are on the urgent or...
- Care Services
1474. To ask the Minister for Health if an assurance will be given that the day care centre at Abbeyleix Hospital will remain on the site where it is operating successfully. [1394/23]
- Medical Aids and Appliances
1475. To ask the Minister for Health if he has examined a submission from Children's Health Ireland to provide a chest-bracing service for children under the public healthcare system as of...
- Hospital Facilities
1476. To ask the Minister for Health the status on the progress on a new accident and emergency department at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, as of January 2023; and if he will make a statement on...
- Hospital Services
1477. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons attending the adult diabetes service in the University of Limerick Hospitals Group; and the number who attended more than once in each...
- Hospital Facilities
1479. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the new accident and emergency department for Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1406/23]
- Health Services
1480. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1407/23]
- General Practitioner Services
1481. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has conducted any analysis with respect to the impact of the roll-out of universal access to GPs for under-sixes and over on the ability of...
- Dental Services
1482. To ask the Minister for Health if he has engaged with representatives of an association (details supplied) in an effort to address the crisis in access to dental and orthodontic care that...
- Abortion Services
1483. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the three-year review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 should be completed and published; the engagements that...
- Patient Transport
1484. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the patient transportation that is available for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1437/23]
- Medical Aids and Appliances
1485. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with diabetes who were funded for the Dexcom G6 continuous glucose monitoring CGM sensors by the HSE; and the number who were over 21...
- Hospital Closures
1489. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently move to reopen St. Brigid's Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir to reduce pressures from the acute services; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Appointments Status
1490. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) is waiting on a procedure at Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1449/23]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1491. To ask the Minister for Health the number of appeals that have been received in his Department for the HSE pandemic bonus payment; the timeline for a decision on these; and the reason that...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
1492. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Freestyle Libre 2 application for HSE reimbursement through the national framework application process; when it will be added to the CGM...
- Hospital Services
1493. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times that the adult diabetes clinic takes place in University of Limerick Hospitals Groups; the speciality diabetes clinics, such as a young...
- Health Strategies
1494. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the plan to create a population-based community neurorehabilitation team in CHO 2 or the associated new regional health area; and if he will...
- Hospital Services
1495. To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the spending that a hospital made to a company (details supplied) for each month in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
- Departmental Reviews
1496. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department is accepting the recommendations of the Expert Review Body on Nursing and Midwifery; if he will provide a timeline for the implementation of...
- Health Services
1498. To ask the Minister for Health if a community neurorehabilitation team will be provided to HSE area CHO 6; his views on the need for the establishment of community neurorehabilitation teams...
- Ministerial Responsibilities
1499. To ask the Minister for Health the specific delegated functions that have been transferred to Ministers of State appointed in December 2022, in tabular form; and the date of transfer. [1472/23]
- Medicinal Products
1500. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the way that the Government is actively addressing the serious shortage of penicillin-based antibiotics along with a significant number of...
- Departmental Funding
1502. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated to Cork City Council under a funding stream (details supplied); and the way that organisations can apply for same. [1490/23]
- Mental Health Services
1503. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a child (details supplied) who is awaiting a CAMHS assessment in Limerick for over one year and has been advised...
- Departmental Data
1505. To ask the Minister for Health the name of the company, organisation or persons contracted to provide media training to him from 1 January 2021 to date; the costs incurred; and if he will...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1506. To ask the Minister for Health the number of eligible front-line workers who have yet to receive the pandemic bonus payment; and the number who have received the payment, in tabular form....
- Care Services
1507. To ask the Minister for Health if a residential care place will be approved for a person (details supplied). [1519/23]
- Hospital Staff
1508. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultant plastic surgeons working in Roscommon University Hospital in each of the years 2020 to 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular...
- Hospital Services
1509. To ask the Minister for Health the funding and staffing resources that would be required to increase the opening hours of the complex menopause clinic at Galway University Hospital from one...
- Dental Services
1511. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the dental clinic in Navan is being closed down; the reason that the four dental clinic surgeries in Navan are being replaced with only two...
- Health Services Waiting Lists
1512. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical appointment for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1573/23]
- Substance Misuse
1513. To ask the Minister for Health if his officials have submitted their report regarding the north inner city drug and alcohol task force to him; and when he intends to publish it. [1574/23]
- Dental Services
1514. To ask the Minister for Health if a full paediatric dental service has been restored at Roscommon University Hospital [1575/23]
- Medical Qualifications
1515. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 673 of 29 November 2022, if his attention has been drawn to delays in processing applications by Ukrainian dentists to...
- Patient Transport
1516. To ask the Minister for Health if the recent decision to transport patients via ambulance directly to the medical assessment unit in Ennis General Hospital instead of University Hospital...
- Patient Safety
1517. To ask the Minister for Health if additional measures will be taken in 2023 to address patient safety concerns in University Hospital Limerick (UHL), as outlined in a HIQA report; the steps...
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
1518. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to provide a model 3 hospital in the UL Hospitals Group region; if so, if he will provide details of same; and if he will make a statement...
- Health Services Staff
1519. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made on recruiting a permanent consultant ophthalmologist post for County Galway who will provide a service at the Tuam primary...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1520. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an updated timeline for when the remaining healthcare workers can expect to receive their Covid recognition payment; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Reviews
1521. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 13 of 8 December 2022, if a timeline will be provided for the review of the community ophthalmic services medical...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1522. To ask the Minister for Health the number of pandemic recognition payments made to HSE employees in each of the months April to December 2022 and to-date in January 2023; the number of...
- Hospital Admissions
1526. To ask the Minister for Health the number of private insurance patient forms that were completed on admission to University Hospital Limerick in each of the years 2019 to 2022; the number...
- General Practitioner Services
1527. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the Government’s plan to attract much needed GPs into the country notwithstanding the existing plan to train 350 GPs per year by...
- Assisted Human Reproduction
1528. To ask the Minister for Health the assistance that is available to persons who are in receipt of social protection payments and who are paying for IVF treatment; and if he will make a...
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
1530. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown for each of the nine HSE regional capital and estates offices (details supplied) to carry out the delivery of the HSE Capital...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1531. To ask the Minister for Health when the healthcare workers outside of HSE staff will be paid the €1,000 pandemic recognition payment; if there is a schedule of payments and list of...
- Health Services
1534. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are currently available to those diagnosed with foetal valproate spectrum disorder; the way families can access these services within their...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1535. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 303 of 15 December 2022, the number of appeals received with regard to the pandemic recognition payment; the number of...
- Health and Safety
1536. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) and instruct the HSE’s environmental health section to take urgent attention to...
- Health Services
1537. To ask the Minister for Health if a cancer support centre (details supplied) in County Tipperary will be approved for section 39 funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1669/23]
- Healthcare Policy
1538. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to adding Kennedy’s disease to the list of medical conditions covered by the long-term illness scheme; and if he will...
- Hospital Appointments Status
1539. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for their surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1671/23]
- Medical Cards
1540. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports that the increase in the pension in budget 2023 is pushing some pensioners slightly over the threshold for a...
- Primary Care Centres
1542. To ask the Minister for Health the status of each operational primary care centre per county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1685/23]
- Health Services Staff
1543. To ask the Minister for Health if he will incentivise overtime work within the public health service; if he will consider making overtime pay for nurses tax free; and if he will make a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1544. To ask the Minister for Health when front-line workers in private nursing homes in County Carlow will receive their €1,000 pandemic payment. [1690/23]
- Dental Services
1545. To ask the Minister for Health the supports that his Department will put in place to help parents and patients of a dental practice (details supplied) that has closed or have been left...
- Health Services Staff
1546. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 591 of 6 December 2022, the number of trainee peer support workers per CHO each year since 2017; the plans for trainee...
- Hospital Appointments Status
1547. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect to receive an appointment in Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Reports
1548. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 725 of 4 October 2022, if he will publish the report into the abandoned secondment of a person (details supplied); the...
- Departmental Staff
1549. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that his Department has made in the recruitment and or appointment of a dedicated official in his Department with responsibility for coordinating...
- Healthcare Policy
1550. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an updated national rare disease plan as committed to in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1712/23]
- Vaccination Programme
1551. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 195 of 23 November 2022, when senior mental health management in Cork CHO 4 were offered their first dose of the...
- Mental Health Services
1553. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 638 of 5 October 2021 and 691 of 29 November 2022, the reason that the HSE is not yet clear if a property that it is...
- Emergency Departments
1554. To ask the Minister for Health the current average wait time for the emergency department at Mayo University Hospital and University Hospital Galway. [1723/23]
- Hospital Facilities
1555. To ask the Minister for Health the current bed capacity at Mayo University Hospital and University Hospital Galway. [1724/23]
- Health Services Staff
1558. To ask the Minister for Health if each CHO has started conducting exit interviews for staff leaving the service; when these were started in each CHO; the early indicators of the reasons...
- Ambulance Service
1559. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that he will instruct the Commission for Public Service Appointments to conduct an immediate audit on the recruitment of qualified...
- Hospital Admissions
1568. To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of persons aged 75 years or more in each of the six hospital groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1750/23]
- Hospital Services
1569. To ask the Minister for Health the annual expenditure from all sources for each of the six acute hospital groups, broken down by individual hospital group per 1,000 of population; and if he...
- Hospital Facilities
1570. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of acute hospital beds in each of the six hospital groups; the proportion of these that are dedicated to specialised national services, such...
- Hospital Staff
1571. To ask the Minister for Health the total staffing level in each of the six acute hospital groups (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1753/23]
- Hospital Services
1572. To ask the Minister for Health the change in the budgetary allocation and expenditure of each of the six hospital groups in the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Facilities
1573. To ask the Minister for Health the change in the total bed numbers and single-room bed numbers in each acute hospital group over the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Staff
1574. To ask the Minister for Health the change in the total staff in each acute hospital group over the past two years (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1756/23]
- Hospital Services
1575. To ask the Minister for Health the total annual number of acute hospital, medical and surgical, emergency and elective, and day-case, discharges overall and per hospital consultant in each...
- Hospital Facilities
1576. To ask the Minister for Health the national policy or strategy on single-room accommodation in acute hospitals in regard to preventing the spread of hospital-acquired infection and...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
1577. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for bone density scans for patients at each hospital in the Saolta group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1771/23]
- Hospital Appointments Status
1578. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect to receive an appointment for cognitive behavioural therapy in Letterkenny University Hospital;...
- Medicinal Products
1579. To ask the Minister for Health the level of spending on new medicines and extension indications by the HSE in 2022; if the €30 million allocation was spent in full; if any unspent...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1580. To ask the Minister for Health when nursing home facilities can make additional applications to the HSE pandemic bonus scheme on behalf of former employees who are no longer employed at a...
- Health Services
1581. To ask the Minister for Health the facilities and specialists that a GP can refer a person to by each CHO, in cases in which the person believes they have ADHD and wish to be diagnosed and...
- Hospital Admissions
1582. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of persons who attended the emergency department at Portlaoise Hospital in 2022; and the monthly breakdown of same. [1788/23]
- Hospital Staff
1584. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE speech and language therapists working in Cashel Hospital in the years 2020 to 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if this number...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
1585. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in County Tipperary awaiting an appointment for cardiology services, by wait times, in tabular form. [1805/23]
- Disability Services
1587. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on waiting lists who are awaiting first contact with their children’s disability network team nationwide; and if he will make a...
- Mental Health Services
1590. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE psychiatrists currently in CAHMS in County Wicklow; the number of vacancies available; the timeline for filling them; and if he will make a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1592. To ask the Minister for Health when a nursing home worker (details supplied) can expect their Covid recognition payment. [1823/23]
- Ambulance Service
1593. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a recruitment campaign (details supplied) for qualified paramedics who are registered with the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council includes...
- Hospital Services
1597. To ask the Minister for Health the treatments that are available at the accident and emergency department or the minor injuries unit at Roscommon Hospital; and if he will make a statement...
- Primary Care Centres
1625. To ask the Minister for Health when construction of the Tullow primacy care centre, serving Tullow, Rathvilly and Hacketstown, will commence; the current status of the project; and if he...
- Mortality Rates
1626. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide statistics on excess mortality rates in Ireland for each of the years 2019 to 2022; if there is a clear and significant increase in excess...
- Nursing Homes
1627. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for the fair deal scheme can be reassessed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1891/23]
- Medicinal Products
1628. To ask the Minister for Health if the eligibility criteria under the drugs payment scheme will be widened for the drug known as saxenda in order that patients who meet two of four criteria...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1629. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that staff in dental practices have not yet been eligible for the HSE Covid bonus payment; and if he has plans to rectify this matter. [1900/23]
- Hospital Appointments Status
1630. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) has been waiting so long for surgery in St. James’s Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Legislative Reviews
1631. To ask the Minister for Health if he is in receipt of the independent review of the legislation on Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018. [1907/23]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1632. To ask the Minister for Health when an application for the special recognition pandemic payment award will be processed for staff at a nursing home (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Medicinal Products
1633. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration is being given to extending access to paxlovid to groups at the highest risk of serious illness or death from Covid-19, without the need for...
- Hospital Charges
1634. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements, if any, that will be in place to offer significantly reduced or free car parking in the National Children’s Hospital for families...
- Hospital Services
1635. To ask the Minister for Health the number of annual inpatient cases attending the Mater hospital for cancer services in the years 2019 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
- Dental Services
1636. To ask the Minister for Health if dentists who are struck off in the UK are permitted to practise in Ireland; the vetting procedures followed by the Dental Council of Ireland prior to...
- Hospital Appointments Status
1637. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for an MRI scan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1936/23]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
1638. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who are waiting for pain management at University Hospital Galway; the length of time that they have been waiting; his plans to address...
- Disabilities Assessments
1639. To ask the Minister for Health when a young child (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a date for an assessment of need; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Appointments Status
1640. To ask the Minister for Health if and when cataract surgery will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1943/23]
- Mental Health Services
1641. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in accessing the CAMHS service in Galway city and county; the urgent action that is being taken to provide a quality service to young...
- Hospital Staff
1642. To ask the Minister for Health when the senior dietitians that were promised on 24 June 2022 for the diabetic clinic at Portlaoise Hospital will be appointed; if he will further confirm...
- Home Help Service
1643. To ask the Minister for Health when the allocated home support hours will be delivered in full on a weekly basis to a person (details supplied); if additional hours can be allocated...
- Capital Expenditure Programme
1644. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency capital works projects completed and the costs associated in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1953/23]
- Health Service Executive
1645. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the HSE's engagement with an operator (details supplied); the services that the operator provides; and the duration of any contract with the...
- Health Services
1646. To ask the Minister for Health the status of speech therapy for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1964/23]
- Disability Services
1648. To ask the Minister for Health the action that he will take in 2023 to address the long waiting lists and ensure that children with autism spectrum disorder receive the necessary supports...
- Dental Services
1649. To ask the Minister for Health if dentists in County Kerry are taking on patients with medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1983/23]
- Hospital Charges
1650. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that there are charges of up to €179 per week charged to patients who have been more than 30 days in hospital and are discharged to...
- Departmental Correspondence
1651. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received a letter from Clare County Council regarding a notice motion and resolution passed at the January meeting of Clare County Council (details...
- Defibrillators Provision
1652. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated or actual number of automated external defibrillators in Ireland; the corresponding figure for the numbers that are publicly accessible; and if...
- Ambulance Service
1653. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of automated external defibrillators registered with the National Ambulance Service; the number of cardiac first responder groups in Ireland;...
- Health Services
1655. To ask the Minister for Health the strategy and supports that are being implemented or proposed, to enable communities to respond and improve the survival rate of cardiac arrest victims;...
- Health Service Executive
1657. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the HSE service plan for 2023 was approved; the funding provided in the 2023 service plan to address acute hospital bed capacity; and if he...
- Hospital Staff
1658. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent vacant nursing posts in Kerry University Hospital as of 11 January 2023; when these vacancies will be filled, in tabular...
- Health Services Waiting Lists
1660. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for audiology appointments in primary care in community healthcare organisation or CHO 4, by age category and time...
- Medical Register
1661. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the backlog in re-registering Irish doctors who seek to return to work in Ireland; and if steps will be taken to urgently...
- Health Services
1662. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2021/23]
- Medicinal Products
1663. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to expand access to paxlovid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2052/23]
- Health Services
1665. To ask the Minister for Health the location of the chronic disease ambulatory care hubs in CHO 2; the location of the hubs servicing County Roscommon; when these hubs will become...
- Health Services Staff
1666. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent podiatrists working in CHO 2 in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Facilities
1667. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of the National Rehabilitation Hospital regional rehabilitation unit at Roscommon University Hospital; the current status of the...
- Health Services Staff
1668. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends increasing or providing new rural allowances or other financial incentives for medical professionals to take up posts in rural areas in view of...
- Medicinal Products
1669. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if he will consider amending the eligibility criteria for this treatment on the...
- Mental Health Services
1670. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that are being taking to rectify the areas of non-compliance identified by the Mental Health Commission's report (details supplied) into the child...
- Eating Disorders
1671. To ask the Minister for Health , further to Parliamentary Question No. 508 of 15 November 2022, if he finds it acceptable that the advice contained within the reply was incorrect (details...
- Mental Health Services
1672. To ask the Minister for Health , further to Parliamentary Question No. 300 of 14 December 2022, when both workstreams will be completed; when the report will be published; and if he will...
- Legislative Reviews
1674. To ask the Minister for Health if he will amend the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 to give full recognition to athletic therapists (details supplied). [2125/23]
- Medicinal Products
1675. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug, phesgo, is available to patients in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2130/23]
- Health Services Staff
1676. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the appointment of a chief pharmaceutical officer; if his Department is engaging with an organisation (details supplied) regarding this...
- Disabilities Assessments
1677. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the efficacy of the new standard operating procedures for assessment of needs since 2020; if this has been reviewed; if new...
- Health Services Staff
1678. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the review process of the role of radiation therapists; when the recommendations will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on...
- Civil Registration Service
1679. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the civil registration office for the register of births, deaths, and marriages in Thurles, County Tipperary is now closed; the reason the...
- Hospital Appointments Status
1680. To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent ophthalmology appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2167/23]
- Health Services Waiting Lists
1681. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for assessment of needs, psychology, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, and dietetics; the...
- Care Services
1682. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to implement all 16 recommendations of the workforce advisory group on home carers and nursing home health care assistants in 2023; if he will...
- Health Services Staff
1683. To ask the Minister for Health the proposed professions which have yet to be regulated by CORU; the timeline for the regulation of each profession; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Appointments Status
1686. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) from County Donegal can expect to receive an appointment date from the Mater Private Hospital, Dublin; and if he will make a...
- Mental Health Services
1688. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 602 of 13 December 2022, the cost of accommodating the telemedicine clinic in CHO 4, including the expenses for travel...
- Medicinal Products
1689. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports that the Health Service Executive is not meeting is obligations as set out in section 18 of the Health (Pricing and...
- Dental Services
1691. To ask the Minister for Health if a rebate or grant is available to parents who avail of private orthodontic treatment for their children in time-sensitive situations; and if he will make a...
- Health Services Staff
1692. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to amend the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 to categorise athletic therapists as a profession regulated by CORU, considering their...
- Ambulance Service
1693. To ask the Minister for Health the amount that was spent in 2022 on private ambulances to transfer patients from Nenagh Hospital to nursing homes, when they were being discharged from the...
- Dental Services
1694. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times in County Kerry for HSE dental appointments for children from 0 to 18-years-of-age, cross tabulated with the available age cohorts...
- Medicinal Products
1695. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the availability of concerta methylphenidate in Ireland. [2245/23]
- Health Services
1696. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the new HSE guidelines on the treatment of ADHD; the role of adult ADHD clinics; when he anticipates the clinics being fully operational; and the...
- Nursing Homes
1697. To ask the Minister for Health when an application for the fair deal scheme will be processed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2248/23]
- Care Services
1698. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to increase the supply of home care workers to meet the level of approval of hours for home care by the HSE; and if he will...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
1699. To ask the Minister for Health the total budget per month and the amount spent per year on paediatric aids and appliances by an organisation (details supplied) in CHO4 in each of the years...
- Health Services
1701. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline his engagement with gynaecological experts and Down syndrome groups to develop specialist gynaecology services for individuals with Down...
- Mental Health Services
1702. To ask the Minister for Health the number of autistic individuals with an intellectual disability who are currently listed as active CAMHS patients in each CHO, in tabular form. [2295/23]
- Home Care Packages
1703. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for home care packages; the number who are experiencing delayed discharge from hospital due to a delay in accessing...
- Mental Health Services
1704. To ask the Minister for Health if he will immediately work with the HSE in CHO 4 to put in place a plan to ensure none of the acute mental health unit beds in Bantry General Hospital are...
- Health Services
1705. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 322 of 10 November 2022 and 574 of 6 December 2022, the service developments that took place between 8 June and 15 June...
- Health Services Staff
1706. To ask the Minister for Health if the Commission for Public Service Appointments was informed by the HSE in advance of the recruitment of psychologists to posts within the Cork Adult Mental...
- Dental Services
1707. To ask the Minister for Health the total funding for HSE dental services in the past five years in CHO 4; the number of children awaiting dental services in CHO4, broken down per LHO; their...
- Medicinal Products
1708. To ask the Minister for Health if he will immediately ensure that all persons who require a medication (details supplied) are reimbursed regardless of whether the prescription comes from a...
- Health Services
1709. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the current availability of adult ADHD services in each LHO in CHO 4. [2303/23]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1711. To ask the Minister for Health when all outstanding Covid recognition payments will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2314/23]
- Medicinal Products
1712. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider reviewing the reimbursement of the anti-nausea drug pyridoxine, doxylamine commonly known by the brand name cariban for those who are...
- Hospital Appointments Status
1713. To ask the Minister for Health if the unfortunate experience and delay of a person (details supplied) in getting their hip operation will be resolved; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Medicinal Products
1714. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that sub-clause 7.2.2 of the 2021 IPHA Framework Agreement which requires off-patent brands to 40% of the...
- Dental Services
1717. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with an association (details supplied) to discuss updating the dental treatment service scheme and upcoming legislation affecting their...
- Departmental Meetings
1718. To ask the Minister for Health when he anticipates he will be able to accommodate the meeting request made to his office by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
1719. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on the dermatology waiting lists in Galway University Hospital; the number who have been on the list for between one and two years, and...
- Vaccination Programme
1720. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has considered the case for making the flu vaccine free to accelerate uptake at this time of acute pressure. [2370/23]
- Pharmacy Services
1721. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the FEMPI changes, which were introduced affecting the income of pharmacists; if there is a process in place for considering the...
- Departmental Reports
1722. To ask the Minister for Health when the report by the Heredity Cancer Model of Care will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2372/23]
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
1723. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the progression of the new community nursing development at St. Mary's Hospital, Dublin Rd, Drogheda; when the project is...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
1724. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the annual funding for the aids and appliances for persons who are blind or vision impaired in each CHO in the years 2020, 2021 and 2022. [2428/23]
- Disabilities Assessments
1726. To ask the Minister for Health if he will immediately cease the practice of preliminary team assessments as a waiting list measure to address the long delays in the assessment of needs...
- Coroners Service
1727. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to ensure that there are clear and compulsory communication channels between the HSE and families concerning postmortems,...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
1730. To ask the Minister for Health the funding or provision of equipment that is available for persons who have been medically assessed as requiring mobility scooters. [2434/23]
- Ambulance Service
1731. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to address the shortages of ambulances in Cork south west. [2435/23]
- Medical Aids and Appliances
1734. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that all individuals with diabetes are provided with medical equipment to monitor their sugar levels free-of-charge. [2444/23]
- Disability Services
1735. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline his engagement with family members representing service users with physical and intellectual disabilities in a facility (details supplied);...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Agriculture Schemes
1737. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to increase TAMS grants on calf feeders, in recognition of the promotion of dairy calf to beef; and if he will make a...
- Trade Data
1739. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of live lambs and the quantity of sheep meat in tonnage that were imported from UK per month during the 2022 calendar...
- Live Exports
1740. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of live sheep that were exported from Ireland per month in the calendar year of 2022; the destinations, in tabular form;...
- Agriculture Industry
1741. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify the way that the export of slurry from farm holdings is facilitated under the new nitrates' derogation...
- Inshore Fisheries
1742. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current situation regarding access to inshore waters by large boats; the initiatives, if any, which he proposes to reinstate...
- Animal Diseases
1743. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the checks that are in place to ensure that pet dogs and other animals that are entering Ireland do not pose a risk of rabies or...
- Forestry Sector
1744. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when legislation will be in place removing the requirement for planning permission on ash plantations below ten hectares in size...
- Greyhound Industry
1747. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost to Greyhound Racing Ireland of sponsoring a competition (details supplied) and a final on a television station on 17 and 24...
- Forestry Sector
1749. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a survey has been done on sites affected by ash dieback to ascertain whether the soil is infected; and if he will make a...
- Hen Harriers
1751. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there has been a survey done on lands containing hen harrier where there are different levels of forestation growth; and if he...
- Forestry Sector
1752. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of funding that exists for the ecosystem's services payments in the new forestry programme under biodiversity grounds; and...
- Coillte Teoranta
1753. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of Coillte lands that are currently in forestry production; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63250/22]
- Forestry Sector
1754. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has plans to grant-aid the cutting of trees on roadsides that are infected with ash dieback for road safety reasons; and if he...
- Agriculture Schemes
1757. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will reopen applications for tranche 1 of the ACRES scheme, given that this is a new scheme and some applicants did not have...
- Agriculture Industry
1758. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers from County Mayo who are affected, through no fault of their own, as the forgotten farmers; and if he will...
- Fishing Industry
1759. 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. [63342/22]
- Grant Payments
1760. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider overhauling the current grants regime in order that farmers can bank the money they receive year by year and not...
- Animal Passports
1761. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the continuing and historic delays in issuing passports to foals born in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Legislative Measures
1764. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all sections of all Acts passed in the past ten years have been commenced; the number of sections that are outstanding; the...
- Animal Welfare
1765. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to a reported breach of the Animal Health and Welfare Regulations 2019 (details supplied); and if he...
- Public Sector Pensions
1766. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 147 of 9 November 2022, the status of the engagement with Coillte with a view to increasing...
- Agriculture Schemes
1768. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that the areas of the Ballyboy, Cregaclare Turlough, Ballyboy, Ardrahan, County Galway, are excluded from the ACRES...
- Pigmeat Sector
1771. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to intensive pig and poultry farms given the detrimental impact that intensive farming can have on...
- Domestic Pets
1772. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of reports of breaches of the sale and supply of pets regulations that his Department has received; and if he will make a...
- Agriculture Schemes
1773. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications received under the ACRES scheme; the number of applications rejected due to late application; if the...
- Departmental Strategies
1774. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on recent progress with the Food Vision strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63718/22]
- Official Engagements
1775. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of times he has visited County Kildare since the Government took office; the locations he visited, in tabular form; and...
- Timber Supply
1776. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63732/22]
- Forestry Sector
1777. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the sustainability of the private forestry sector given the shortage of licences available to the sector since 2018;...
- Departmental Meetings
1780. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of times in 2022 that he or his Department officials met a private sector forestry association (details supplied) that...
- Coillte Teoranta
1782. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Coillte has any harvesting rights to the forests it will be managing for the private investment fund with which it is in...
- Forestry Sector
1796. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the area of afforestation planted by the private sector and by Coillte, respectively, each year since 2000; and if he will make a...
- Agriculture Schemes
1805. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the decision to refuse an appeal under the BEAM scheme in the name of a person (details supplied) given that they...
- Departmental Funding
1806. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his future plans to provide funding to an initiative (details supplied) following a submission from an organisation in recent weeks;...
- Harbours and Piers
1810. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined given that they are being billed by his Department; and if he will make...
- Agriculture Schemes
1811. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 672 of 13 December 2022, when the scheme for forgotten farmers will be finalised; and if he...
- Forestry Sector
1813. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of times he and-or officials from his Department met with Coillte regarding forestry licences in 2022; the dates of those...
- Fishing Industry
1819. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when decisions will be made on applications to the decommissioning scheme for fishing vessels arising from Brexit; and if he will...
- Agriculture Schemes
1820. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1012/23]
- Live Exports
1821. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of calves that have been exported to Northern Ireland from the Republic on an annual basis over the past 20 years. [1069/23]
- Agriculture Industry
1823. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on a query (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1080/23]
- Agriculture Schemes
1825. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the cut-off dates for his proposed scheme for "forgotten farmers"; if he will outline the definition of a forgotten...
- Employment Rights
1828. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an employer (details supplied) still has an obligation to fully compensate crew for all their service on a vessel, in cases in...
- Horse Racing Industry
1829. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of hospitality staff, cleaning and betting staff who work at Leopardstown, Fairyhouse, Punchestown and the Curragh...
- Greyhound Industry
1830. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of hospitality staff, cleaning staff, betting staff and so on who work at Shelbourne Park greyhound stadium at each event...
- Trade Data
1831. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the tonnage of pigmeat per county that was imported into Ireland in 2021 and 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
- Animal Diseases
1832. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the information that his Department has on swine fever hot zones across Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1261/23]
- Trade Data
1833. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the tonnage of pigmeat per county that has been imported into Ireland from identified hot zones since 2021; and if he will make a...
- Pesticide Use
1834. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that are taken by his Department on foot of complaints or allegations around damage caused by herbicide or pesticide...
- Horse Racing Industry
1836. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is concerned at the high number of deaths of horses at Punchestown racetrack (details supplied) and the level of horse deaths...
- Parking Provision
1837. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason island residents in the Aran islands with commercially owned vehicles kept permanently on the mainland were not afforded...
- Harbours and Piers
1838. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made to date with the development of phase three of the marina at Ros a 'Mhíl harbour, for which funding of...
- Aquaculture Industry
1839. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of aquaculture licence appeals that are on hand for over one year by the Aquaculture Licences Appeal Board; the number on...
- Animal Sales
1840. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 221 of 23 November 2022, the number of bovine animals greater than 36 months of age that were...
- Trade Data
1841. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quantity of peat and peat products that have been exported to Japan from 2011 to date; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Ministerial Responsibilities
1843. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the specific delegated functions that have been transferred to Ministers of State appointed in December 2022, in tabular form; and...
- Departmental Data
1844. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the name of the company, organisation or persons contracted to provide media training to him from 1 January 2021 to date; the costs...
- Agriculture Schemes
1845. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the lime scheme will be rolled out; if any of the €40 million that was set aside for this scheme has been allocated; the...
- Public Sector Pensions
1846. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a pension payment will issue to a former Department employee (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Animal Diseases
1847. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if TB compensation will be provided to a farmer (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Agriculture Schemes
1848. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2021 BEAM payment will issue to a farmer (details supplied) in County Kerry following a successful appeal; and if he will...
- Horse Racing Industry
1849. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views in relation to the decline in attendance at horse racing meetings during the recent festive period (details supplied); the...
- Agriculture Industry
1850. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has any strategy or plans to assist with the redevelopment of the sugar beet industry. [1648/23]
- Farmers Charter
1852. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that are being taken to ensure that the Farmers' Charter of Rights is being followed in relation to on-farm inspections;...
- Trade Missions
1853. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a food-related trade mission to Mexico will occur in quarter 1 of 2023. [1797/23]
- Departmental Schemes
1854. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports that are currently available to the equestrian sector to support equestrian activities for persons with physical and...
- Agriculture Schemes
1855. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an ACRES application can be accepted for a person (details supplied). [1933/23]
- Veterinary Services
1856. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagements he has had with other Departments regarding the establishment of a new veterinary college; and if he will make a...
- Control of Dogs
1860. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the stakeholders and composition of the working group established to examine issues under the Control of Dogs Act 1986; and if he...
- Greyhound Industry
1864. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the figure of 4,150 given in a report (details supplied) for industry-supported full-time and part-time jobs consists of jobs in...
- Agriculture Schemes
1877. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that a person (details supplied) in County Cork has had a penalty on their 2022 BEEP payment; if he considers the penalty...
- Animal Welfare
1881. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding that was allocated to each animal welfare organisation in 2022; the criteria on which the funding is granted...
- Inshore Fisheries
1883. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking to support the inshore fishing sector. [2262/23]
- Common Fisheries Policy
1884. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking to ensure that the Common Fisheries Policy supports inshore fishers. [2263/23]
- Inshore Fisheries
1885. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions that he is taking to address the programme for Government commitment to ensure that inshore waters continue to be...
- Agriculture Schemes
1886. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, following a recent meeting that he hosted with farmers involved in the Burren Life and Burren Beo agri-environmental scheme, he...
- Harbours and Piers
1887. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the alternative arrangements that will be made to ensure that there is a suitable slipway in Ros a’Mhíl for the roll-on...
- Fishing Industry
1889. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the call by a fishing representative organisation (details supplied) for fair access to restored and co-managed fishing...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Rural Schemes
1891. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there has been any analysis undertaken of the cluster housing pilot scheme in Kilsheelan, County Tipperary; if there are other...
- Regulatory Bodies
1893. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63207/22]
- Control of Dogs
1894. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the cane corso and malenois dog breeds will be considered as dangerous breeds that should be muzzled; and if she will make a...
- Regeneration Projects
1895. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63350/22]
- Rural Schemes
1896. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she intends to commit to the plans for a long-awaited community centre on the Tullow Road, Carlow; if her attention has been drawn...
- Legislative Measures
1897. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if all sections of all Acts passed in the past ten years have been commenced; the number of sections that are outstanding; the number...
- Animal Welfare
1898. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will direct her Department to bring a person (details supplied) to the courts for failing to display a registered number...
- Rural Schemes
1899. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if Dublin City Council made an application under the town and village renewal scheme; and if so, if the council is eligible for same....
- Business Supports
1900. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if addiction services funded under section 39 can avail of the community and voluntary energy support scheme in order to receive...
- Rural Schemes
1901. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a feedback mechanism to communities and groups who failed to obtain funding under the town and villages renewal...
- Control of Dogs
1903. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will initiate a public consultation process regarding dog control regulations with all stakeholders to include organisations...
- Rural Schemes
1905. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason that an application by a community organisation (details supplied) under the town and village renewal scheme was...
- Library Projects
1906. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the stage 3 approval for the Stillorgan Library development will be given in view of the fact that the timeline for the...
- Rural Schemes
1907. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of approved applications on local improvement scheme waiting lists, by county, separating ordinary-private roads from...
- Capital Expenditure Programme
1910. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of carryover of the 2022 capital allocation agreed between her Department and the Department of Public Expenditure and...
- Departmental Expenditure
1911. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of the original capital allocation to her Department in 2022 that was transferred to current expenditure in 2023 by way of...
- Capital Expenditure Programme
1912. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the underspend of the capital allocation to her Department in 2022, including transfers to current expenditure and deferral of the...
- Departmental Funding
1913. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the grants or funding that were awarded by her Department or through schemes administered by her Department to an association...
- Ministerial Responsibilities
1915. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the specific delegated functions that have been transferred to Ministers of State appointed in December 2022, in tabular form; and...
- Departmental Data
1916. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the name of the company, organisation or persons contracted to provide media training to her from 1 January 2021 to date; the costs...
- Departmental Schemes
1917. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when further information will be released regarding the 2023 community centres investment fund; if a timeline has been finalised for...
- Rural Schemes
1919. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will increase the amount of funding available to local authorities for the streetscapes and shop fronts scheme to meet the...
- Ferry Services
1920. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason that the fast ferry service which is available to Tory Island, County Donegal will not accept the free travel pass which...
- Business Supports
1921. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her attention has been drawn to reports that an anomaly in the community and voluntary sector energy support scheme is excluding...
- Departmental Funding
1922. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding avenues that are available through her Department which could assist a sporting organisation with the purchase of land,...
- Rural Schemes
1923. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she plans to open a new round of the Community Centre Investment Fund in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Rural Recreation Policy
1926. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development regarding the Outdoor Recreational Infrastructure Scheme (ORIS) if she will advise the way the scheme will operate for 2023; and if...
- Control of Dogs
1927. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the person or body with whom responsibility lies to ensure that the attention of owners of restricted breeds of dogs is drawn to...