Written answers

Tuesday, 24 January 2023

  • Department of Finance
    • Business Supports
      69. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of Kildare businesses that have applied for assistance under the temporary business energy support scheme to date; the number of Meath businesses...
    • Tax Exemptions
      73. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will devise a scheme similar to the scheme for uilleann pipe makers for hurley makers, given the UNESCO intangible heritage status for the game of...
    • Insurance Coverage
      80. To ask the Minister for Finance what steps he is taking to reform the provisions of flood insurance. [3064/23]
    • Debt Collection
      81. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has undertaken an assessment of the impact the phasing out of tax warehousing will have on the rate of business failure; and if he is satisfied existing...
    • Credit Unions
      82. To ask the Minister for Finance the way he is supporting credit unions to grow and develop; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2858/23]
    • Tax Code
      84. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to retain the 9% tourism VAT rate beyond 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3035/23]
    • Economic Growth
      85. To ask the Minister for Finance if he remains satisfied that the economy remains on a solid footing, with particular reference to the need to compete with other European countries in terms of...
    • Economic Policy
      86. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans regarding the European Financial Forum 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2871/23]
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      87. To ask the Minister for Finance if any action can be taken regarding non-bank lenders not offering an option of fixed mortgage rates to mortgage borrowers; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tax Code
      91. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide details of any role or involvement he has in the proposed Coillte-Gresham House deal in relation to the future of Irish forestry; if he will outline...
    • Banking Sector
      92. To ask the Minister for Finance the way he will be protecting banking services in rural areas, especially in relation to the right-to-cash services; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Insurance Coverage
      93. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagement he has had with the motor insurance industry in relation to motor insurance policies and their validity, given the delays in securing NCT...
    • Budget 2023
      94. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm and outline all budget 2023 measures that have taken effect since the start of 2023; when further measures from budget 2023 will take...
    • Tax Reliefs
      95. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to concerns raised by the many thousands of benefit-in-kind recipients who are facing much higher payments following the introduction of new...
    • Economic Policy
      96. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the growth in the number of millionaires in the State, identified in a recent report that showed the two richest people in the State have more...
    • Departmental Strategies
      99. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the work of the fintech steering group established in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2872/23]
    • Tax Code
      100. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in light of a report (details supplied) detailing that Ireland’s richest 1% control a quarter of the country’s wealth, he will review the...
    • Inflation Rate
      101. To ask the Minister for Finance if he expects the rate of inflation to ease during 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2986/23]
    • Tax Reliefs
      103. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify that a special needs assistant is not a qualifying or eligible profession for flat-rate expense allowances; the reason this is the case;...
    • Tax Yield
      104. To ask the Minister for Finance the industries that are the main contributors to income tax and corporation tax; the percentage of the 2022 tax receipts these industries accounted for; and...
    • Tax Code
      105. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to reducing the excise duty on hydrotreated vegetable oil, in recognition of its use as a very low-emission fuel; and if he...
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      106. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagements he has had with the Central Bank regarding residential mortgage holders who were overcharged as a result of the tracker mortgage scandal and...
    • Business Supports
      108. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of Tipperary businesses that have applied for assistance under the temporary business energy support scheme to date; the number of Waterford...
    • Banking Sector
      111. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans with regards to banking remuneration policy; his position with respect to the recommendation of the finance committee in its report on banking that...
    • Tax Credits
      112. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the rental tax credit; the number of persons who are currently availing of it; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Inflation Rate
      113. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a prediction by the Governor of the Central Bank that inflation rates will continue to rise; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Code
      114. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to reports that leading global tax researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Copenhagen...
    • Tax Reliefs
      116. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who received assistance under the help-to-buy scheme in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3056/23]
    • Tax Yield
      119. To ask the Minister for Finance his expectations for corporation tax revenues in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2991/23]
    • Economic Data
      120. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the reduction in the growth of activity and new business within the Irish economy in November, which is the lowest in 21...
    • Tax Reliefs
      121. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 126 of 10 November 2022, his plans for the phasing out of the help-to-buy-scheme; the timeline for same; and if he will...
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      123. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has engaged or will engage with the Central Bank regarding residential mortgage holders who were victims of the tracker mortgage scandal, have had their...
    • World Economic Forum
      125. To ask the Minister for Finance the companies that had representatives attend the dinner he hosted in Davos last week; the matters that were discussed with these company representatives; and...
    • Fiscal Policy
      131. To ask the Minister for Finance the action he is taking to ensure that the public finances do not become too reliant on corporate tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3072/23]
    • Tax Code
      132. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to review the current tax allowances for young farmers investing in farm facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2823/23]
    • Banking Sector
      133. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is possible to set credit allocation quotas for Irish banks (with a majority State ownership) requiring a certain percentage of their lending to go to...
    • Tax Credits
      134. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the unfair treatment when it comes to the rent tax credit not being made available to parents of students where the tenancy is of a type...
    • Banking Sector
      135. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the retail banking review; the action he will be taking on foot of it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3068/23]
    • Tax Code
      138. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider revisiting the decision to end the zero VAT rating on antigen testing kits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3086/23]
    • Insurance Industry
      141. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on ‘pinch point’ areas in insurance. [3104/23]
    • Business Supports
      142. To ask the Minister for Finance why the temporary business energy support scheme does not cover the use of liquid gas, such as LPG and BioLPG (details supplied). [62210/22]
    • Tax Code
      144. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reduce the rate of VAT on residential construction to incentivise the building of new homes; if he will consider further measures to reduce the tax...
    • Business Supports
      147. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to increasing the rebate available under the temporary business energy support scheme up to €10,000 per month or 80% of...
    • Inflation Rate
      148. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which efforts continue to be made to address inflation; the extent of the results to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3049/23]
    • European Investment Bank
      149. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress of the European Investment Bank-supported low-cost loan guarantee scheme for the national retrofit programme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Insurance Industry
      152. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to reduce the cost of insurance for the hospitality sector. [3063/23]
    • Tax Code
      153. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to bring forward legislation to address tax avoidance where it may not be possible to address arrangements within the existing code; and if he will...
    • Business Supports
      159. To ask the Minister for Finance if the temporary business energy support scheme will be reviewed; the amount of the €1.25 billion allocated that has been claimed to date; if his...
    • Tax Reliefs
      160. To ask the Minister for Finance his estimation of the value to farmers of current tax reliefs specifically in place for them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3048/23]
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      162. To ask the Minister for Finance if the potential for establishing Ireland as an international financing centre for renewable energy projects, akin to that in the aviation sector, has been...
    • Tax Credits
      163. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps that will be taken to ensure greater awareness of eligibility for the recently introduced rent tax credit; if he is satisfied the application...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      164. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to Northern Ireland. [2121/23]
    • Departmental Data
      165. To ask the Taoiseach the percentage of persons in the State who are 65 years of age or over. [3204/23]
    • Business Supports
      166. To ask the Taoiseach the total monetary amount of non-repayable moneys provided by his Department through grants, funding supports, tax breaks or other means to businesses in each of the...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Work Permits
      167. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of non-EEA home care support workers who have been employed since these workers have become eligible for employment...
    • EU Regulations
      168. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the Government's position on the proposed amendment to Annex XXX No 1907/2006 by the European Commission which will ban the use of...
    • State Bodies
      169. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of WTE staff vacancies by job title at Enterprise Ireland as of 16 January 2023; the estimated full-year cost of filling...
    • Employment Rights
      171. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will take quick action to ensure the implementation of the security employment regulation order into law, given security...
    • Redundancy Payments
      172. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the fact that 38 former employees of an organisation (details supplied), who lost their jobs early in 2021, are still...
    • InterTradeIreland
      173. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the allocation under budget 2023 for InterTradeIreland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3218/23]
    • Work Permits
      174. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of employment permits that have been granted to home carers, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
    • Employment Rights
      175. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what steps his Department is taking to ensure the employment regulation order for the security sector is adhered to; and if he will...
    • Business Supports
      176. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total monetary amount of non-repayable moneys provided by his Department through grants, funding supports, tax breaks or other...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Environmental Policy
      177. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the regulatory limitations on the sulphide content of diesel, petrol and aircraft noise, respectively. [2716/23]
    • Air Quality
      178. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has access to any research conducted on the presence of ultrafine particulate pollution from aircraft...
    • Fishing Industry
      179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline his intentions regarding the demand by fishermen for an urgent need for a review of the regulations...
    • Litter Pollution
      180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of fines given to persons who did not remove dog fouling, by county, in tabular form; the amount raised by...
    • State Bodies
      181. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the level of funding allocated to Inland Fisheries Ireland in each of the years 2020 to 2023; the expenditure incurred...
    • Building Energy Rating
      182. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes at each pre-works BER ratings that achieved B2 cost optimum standards in each of the years 2020 to...
    • Energy Prices
      183. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update in respect of the engagements by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities with energy...
    • Electricity Generation
      185. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the status of the winter 2022 emergency generation; the current expected date for...
    • National Broadband Plan
      188. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will respond to queries raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in respect of the frustration...
    • Grant Payments
      189. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will advise on how a tenant who is on an electricity sub meter with pre-pay power, where the landlord has a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      190. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an application for the warmer homes scheme can be expedited for a vulnerable elderly person (details supplied) in...
    • State Bodies
      191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is satisfied that his Department and the board of Inland Fisheries Ireland have carried out their functions in...
    • Waste Management
      192. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how his Department will support persons with long-term incontinence with respect to the disposal of medical...
    • Electricity Supply Board
      193. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if homeowners should contact the ESB Networks emergency number to report cases in which there is significant ingress of...
    • Departmental Schemes
      194. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a company (details supplied) in County Tipperary will receive SEAI certification and be listed as an...
    • Energy Prices
      195. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions being taken by his Department to ensure the reduction in the wholesale price of gas is reflected in the...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      196. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the Telecom Éireann pension fund; and if former Telecom Éireann workers will see an increase due...
    • Energy Prices
      197. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will confirm that single-family homes pay residential gas rates and apartments that utilise district heating pay...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      198. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of onshore and offshore wind turbines constructed in each of the years from 2000 to 2022, in tabular form....
    • Business Supports
      199. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total monetary amount of non-repayable moneys provided by his Department through grants, funding supports, tax...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Electric Vehicles
      200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to ensure the electric vehicle charging network in rural counties such as Mayo is comprehensive and user friendly;...
    • National Car Test
      201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an NCT for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2739/23]
    • Parking Provision
      202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if local authorities can be instructed not to charge a parking fee for owners of electric vehicles who are charging their cars; and if he...
    • Road Projects
      203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when it is expected that a new contractor will be appointed to complete works along the N5 Ballaghadereen to Scramogue bypass project;...
    • Bus Services
      204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of revenue Bus Éireann generated from the €2 seat reservation fee for holders of a free travel pass; and the way...
    • Rail Network
      205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Iarnród Éireann will have fully resumed catering services onboard all Intercity rail journeys before the busy tourism season...
    • Air Services
      206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons who have used the private VIP terminal, known as Dublin Platinum Services, at Dublin Airport in 2022 and to date in...
    • National Car Test
      207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to extend the validity of current NCT certificates, given the delays in accessing tests in a timely manner. [2827/23]
    • Driver Test
      208. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware the waiting times for driving tests in County Wexford have increased from ten to 21 weeks since September 2022; and, if...
    • Departmental Funding
      210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider a proposal (details supplied) to provide supplementary funding to Clare County Council for essential road works. [2891/23]
    • Rail Network
      211. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he could request an update from Iarnród Éireann on the four DART+ projects (West, South West, Coastal North and Coastal...
    • Driver Test
      213. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport To ask the Minister for Transport, in view of the shortage of drivers for public service vehicles and the knock-on impact on commuters,...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Road Safety Authority will publish the report Road Deaths and Alcohol 2017-2021, which focuses on road user fatalities on...
    • Driver Test
      216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the Road Safety Authority is encountering difficulties with allocating the required number of slots for tests, theory tests,...
    • Driver Licences
      217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of plans to reduce opening hours and staffing levels in the NDLS office in Wexford; and, if so, the reason therefor; and...
    • Taxi Licences
      219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of new taxi and hackney licences granted in County Donegal for each of the years 2019 to 2022, and to date in 2023; the total...
    • Transport Policy
      221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a definition of the term 'community transport'; if he will provide further clarification (details supplied); and if he...
    • Rail Network
      222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the all-island Strategic Rail Review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3289/23]
    • Business Supports
      223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total monetary amount of non-repayable moneys provided by his Department through grants, funding supports, tax breaks or other means...
  • Department of Finance
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      224. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering banning price differentiation between new and existing mortgage customers; if so, the timeline he is working towards for introduction of...
    • Consumer Rights
      225. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will honour the Government's commitment to introduce legislation to protect consumers' and businesses' access to cash; the steps he has taken to advance...
    • Tax Reliefs
      226. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify if special needs assistants are entitled to the flat-rate expenses allowances for tax purposes allowed by the Revenue Commissioners to...
    • Tax Credits
      228. To ask the Minister for Finance if tenants in the private rented sector and those renting under a rent-a-room scheme can claim the rent tax credit where their landlord is not registered with...
    • Business Supports
      229. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the provision of loan guarantee schemes for SMEs, as outlined in budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2763/23]
    • Tax Code
      231. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering extending the 9% VAT rate for the hospitality industry, given the challenging conditions the industry continues to face; and if he will...
    • Pension Levy
      232. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review the pension levy imposed on retired Aer Rianta workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2866/23]
    • Business Supports
      234. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details on the way new businesses can apply for and access the much-needed temporary business energy support scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Code
      235. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is giving consideration to the difficulties facing co-habiting couples who jointly own a property and then must pay inheritance tax on their family home...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      236. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of people awaiting an appeal with the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal on the decision to refuse them a primary medical certificate; and if...
    • Business Supports
      238. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is willing to extend the eligibility of the temporary business energy support scheme to include farmers and rural publicans; and if he will make a...
    • National Asset Management Agency
      239. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagement he has had with NAMA and or the Minister for Housing regarding NAMA's commercial interest in the land at the Poolbeg SDZ, and whether this...
    • Tax Reliefs
      245. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the help to buy scheme is only open to first-time buyers when they are purchasing a newly built home; his views on whether it is fair that this...
    • Tax Code
      246. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of extending the existing reduced rates applicable to petrol and diesel until the end of June 2023; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Business Supports
      248. To ask the Minister for Finance if the temporary business energy support scheme will be expanded to cover businesses that use oil. [62043/22]
    • Tax Code
      249. To ask the Minister for Finance if charitable donations from outside the State are taxed on arrival in the State; if not, if any other State charge is placed on a charitable donation when it...
    • Banking Sector
      250. To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions his Department has had with the banking sector in relation the treatment of homeowners affected by mica by the banks and the way they will be...
    • Business Supports
      251. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications made to the temporary business energy support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3240/23]
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      252. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review matters in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3241/23]
    • Banking Sector
      253. To ask the Minister for Finance what efforts he and his predecessor, Minister Donohoe, have made recently to ensure that banks and financial institutions provide reasonable support and...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      254. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of each publicly funded Government contract awarded to a company (details supplied); the exact value and location of each contract, including the...
    • Economic Policy
      255. To ask the Minister for Finance the degree to which he remains satisfied that Ireland’s economy remains adequately competitive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3317/23]
    • Financial Services
      257. To ask the Minister for Finance if investment funds operating or intending to operate here will be brought under the aegis of the Central Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Inflation Rate
      259. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he remains satisfied that inflation here will continue to reduce further; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3321/23]
    • Economic Growth
      261. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he remains satisfied that this economy continues to perform well when considered in the overall European context; and if he will make a...
    • Financial Services
      264. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which financial services here continue to compete internationally and effectively with all others relative to access, size and location; the...
    • Tax Yield
      265. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of tax received on all fuel and energy in the past five years. [3362/23]
    • Financial Services
      266. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with the practices of the financial vulture fund companies in terms of the crisis affecting mortgage holders. [3363/23]
    • Business Supports
      267. To ask the Minister for Finance the total monetary amount of non-repayable moneys provided by his Department through grants, funding supports, tax breaks or other means to businesses in each...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Office of Public Works
      268. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will set out a timeline for the Chesterfield Avenue project, including details on the design, planning and construction phases and...
    • Ethics in Public Office
      269. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the review of ethics legislation consultation; when the review of the ethics legislation report from...
    • State Bodies
      270. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of secretariat staff provided to the Standards in Public Office Commission by the Office of the Ombudsman in each of the past...
    • An Garda Síochána
      272. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW has fitted each Garda station custody suite with cell panic strip; and, if not, the estimated cost if the remaining Garda...
    • Heritage Projects
      273. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works has allocated money towards the repair and upkeep of Bunratty Castle, County Clare; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      274. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reinstate funding in order for a database (details supplied) to resume its work. [2849/23]
    • Flood Risk Management
      275. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when works will be carried out and completed on the River Thonogue, Ballylooby, Cahir, County Tipperary, following planning approval in...
    • An Garda Síochána
      276. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current position on the national Garda station building plan; and the new Garda stations that are currently under construction...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      277. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he plans any changes to the additional superannuation contribution for public servants; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      278. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of each publicly funded Government contract awarded to a company (details supplied); the exact value and location of each...
    • Public Sector Pay
      279. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform what delay pertains to sanctioning the offer devised by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science...
    • Business Supports
      280. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total monetary amount of non-repayable moneys provided by his Department through grants, funding supports, tax breaks or other means...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Údarás na Gaeltachta
      281. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of persons who are employees of all the Údarás na Gaeltachta-supported businesses in the Cloghane and...
    • Departmental Funding
      282. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of Exchequer funding provided to an organisation (details supplied) in 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form; and if she...
    • Film Industry
      283. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of persons employed in the Irish film industry; if the conditions of employment of workers and performers in the Irish...
    • Departmental Schemes
      284. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total number of applications received in respect of the live performance support scheme strands I and II, by county, over the...
    • Tourism Policy
      285. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the introduction of a bedroom tax for visitors to hotels in Dublin. [2955/23]
    • Gaeltacht Scholarships
      286. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on DEIS Gaeltacht scholarships for 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3338/23]
    • Business Supports
      287. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total monetary amount of non-repayable moneys provided by her Department through grants, funding supports, tax breaks or other...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Housing Schemes
      288. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of households in receipt of HAP in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3267/23]
    • Housing Policy
      289. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the need for more compact development of homes to meet population growth in a sustainable manner calls for a change in the...
    • Planning Issues
      291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration is being given in the overhaul of An Bord Pleanála of allowing observations on and-or objections to...
    • International Protection
      292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department possesses projections as to the number of hotels that are not expected to renew State contracts to host...
    • Housing Schemes
      293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider raising the income thresholds for joint applicants for the local authority home loan (details supplied);...
    • Housing Policy
      295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will set up a housing assistance payment fraud unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2844/23]
    • Housing Schemes
      296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a full review of the HAP case of a person (details supplied). [2862/23]
    • Vacant Properties
      297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of full-time vacant home officers currently in place in each respective local authority and who work exclusively on...
    • Housing Provision
      298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a matter regarding local authority-owned properties (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Vacant Properties
      299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of successful and total applications for the vacant property refurbishment grant through the Croí...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm that the Public Appointments Service was used in the appointment of members to the interim Land Development...
    • Housing Schemes
      302. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the tenant purchase scheme will be reviewed as a matter of urgency (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Defective Building Materials
      303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm the specific date of publication of the regulations for the enhanced defective concrete blocks scheme. [3032/23]
    • Departmental Meetings
      306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of meetings he had with Dublin City Council and with organisations (details supplied) in 2022 regarding the...
    • Planning Issues
      307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the publication of the rural planning guidelines; and the reason for the ongoing delay in the...
    • Housing Policy
      308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the publication of the housing density guidelines currently being developed by his Department....
    • Defective Building Materials
      309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm that houses as well as apartments and duplexes will be included in the forthcoming building defects redress...
    • Planning Issues
      310. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has the authority under the Planning and Development Act 2000 to make regulations providing that the installation of...
    • Housing Policy
      311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the development of log cabins should form part of the overall housing stock to assist with the housing...
    • Vacant Properties
      312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the voids programme; the number of properties that have been returned to use in 2022; the estimated number that...
    • Defective Building Materials
      313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the discussions his Department has had with the banking sector in relation the treatment of homeowners affected by mica by the...
    • Building Regulations
      314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a query raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Housing Policy
      315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the implementation plan for the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People will be published. [3236/23]
    • Defective Building Materials
      317. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way the enhanced pyrite remediation scheme will be administered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3260/23]
    • Homeless Accommodation
      318. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has any plans to build modular homes to house homeless individuals or families; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Provision
      319. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has any plans to develop social housing in County Clare in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rental Sector
      320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the complications with the new Residential Tenancies Board tenancy registration system;...
    • Defective Building Materials
      323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if counties Clare and Limerick have been formally accepted into the defective concrete block remediation scheme; and the other...
    • Local Authorities
      325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to report on the maternity in situ scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3347/23]
    • Grant Payments
      326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a local community group (details supplied) can avail of grant assistance for a ground survey of a historical area. [3356/23]
    • Defective Building Materials
      327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person who is in the early stages of selling an apartment will be eligible to apply for a rebate under the apartment...
    • Business Supports
      328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total monetary amount of non-repayable moneys provided by his Department through grants, funding supports, tax breaks or...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Foreign Policy
      329. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised the continuous breaches by Azerbaijani forces of the tripartite peace accord signed in November 2020 to guarantee free...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      330. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a foreign birth registration by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2754/23]
    • Official Engagements
      331. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken formally with the Irish ambassador to Australia since he assumed office. [2811/23]
    • Middle East
      332. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the newly elected Israeli Government and some of the inflammatory language it has used with regard to women, members of the...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      334. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on an FBR application number (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3156/23]
    • Middle East
      336. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views regarding the stated intention of the new Israeli Government to prioritise, advance and develop settlements in the Palestinian...
    • Passport Services
      337. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if DNA evidence to prove parentage will be accepted in support of an application for the purposes of issuing an Irish passport to a minor in...
    • Middle East
      338. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to reports the new Israeli Government has now imposed sanctions on the Palestinian Authority in response to...
    • Business Supports
      339. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total monetary amount of non-repayable moneys provided by his Department through grants, funding supports, tax breaks or other means to...
  • Department of Defence
    • Air Corps
      340. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of qualified military aircraft technicians and qualified military avionics technicians currently in the Air Corps; and if he will...
    • Defence Forces
      341. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will address the issue of substandard accommodation in the married quarters section of Cathal Brugha Barracks (details supplied). [3013/23]
    • Business Supports
      343. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total monetary amount of non-repayable moneys provided by his Department through grants, funding supports, tax breaks or other means to...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Textbooks
      344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills To ask the Minister for Education, further to Parliamentary Question No. 384 of 22 November 2022, if she will provide an estimated timeframe for...
    • Traveller Education
      345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the Traveller Education Strategy committed to in the 2020 programme for Government will be completed. [2740/23]
    • School Facilities
      346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to concerns regarding the lack of accommodation for practical subjects and other facilities in a school (details...
    • Special Educational Needs
      347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department’s policy is to include principals to carry out assessment of needs in special schools or mainstream schools; and when...
    • School Transport
      348. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) still has not obtained school transport despite approval for the...
    • School Staff
      349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2848/23]
    • Schools Amalgamation
      350. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the amalgamation of two primary schools (details supplied); the stage it is at; when she expects work to start on the construction...
    • Schools Building Projects
      351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the school building programme at a school (details supplied) in County Meath; the stage of the process this...
    • Health Strategies
      353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will roll out a pilot scheme for secondary level schools replicating the ‘Worryfree’ period poverty campaign being run by...
    • School Accommodation
      354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the progress and timelines for delivery of a new school accommodation for post-primary schools (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Schools Building Projects
      356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the stage 3 planning process for a school (details supplied) has not been completed; the current timeframe for completion of stage 3...
    • School Transport
      357. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills following the arrival of Ukrainian children to Kiltyclogher, County Leitrim, if she will prioritise school transport for three children to attend...
    • Education and Training Boards
      358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the progress of the LMETB headquarters plans for Drogheda; if plans for the headquarters will be funded; if so,...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new percolation area required for a school (details supplied). [3153/23]
    • School Staff
      360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will assign staff within the payroll division of her Department to examine the anomaly whereby a small cohort of primary school teachers...
    • Schools Building Projects
      361. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will receive its new permanent school building; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3160/23]
    • School Admissions
      363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school place will be allocated to a child (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3209/23]
    • Departmental Schemes
      364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a climate-focused multi-annual summer works scheme will be opened for new applications in 2023; if there will also be a separate summer...
    • School Textbooks
      365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made to date on the roll-out of her Department’s programme for free primary school books; the engagement she has had to date...
    • Site Acquisitions
      366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the identified site for a new school campus (details supplied) in County Wexford; if the school building is progressing at...
    • School Admissions
      370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary school places there should be in Wexford town, County Wexford; the number of school places there are in the current school...
    • School Textbooks
      371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the details of the free books to primary school scheme will be announced; how local bookshops will be consulted on the scheme; and if she...
    • School Transport
      372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a case (details supplied) concerning school transport in County Cork; and if she will intervene in the matter....
    • Teacher Training
      373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider a review of the minimum requirement of a leaving certificate O4 grade in mathematics to enter primary teacher training...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of each publicly funded Government contract awarded to a company (details supplied); the exact value and location of each contract,...
    • School Admissions
      375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why no alternative school place has been offered to a child (details supplied).; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3337/23]
    • Health and Safety
      376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the Covid guidelines for primary schools, including if it is required to keep windows open; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Examinations
      377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date when the 2022 junior certificate appeals will be released. [3358/23]
    • Business Supports
      379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total monetary amount of non-repayable moneys provided by her Department through grants, funding supports, tax breaks or other means to...
    • Home Schooling
      380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of people registered for home schooling in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Public Sector Pay
      381. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of the pay claim submitted on behalf of community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors; and if...
    • State Pensions
      382. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports available to those workers who are currently receiving the State pension but are unable to continue working for...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      383. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the fuel allowance to €40 per week for the 2023-2024 period; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      384. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans under way to ensure that adequate support is provided to home-dialysis patients in the context of the...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      386. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for additional needs and exceptional needs payments, by county, in 2022; and the number of...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      387. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for jobseeker's benefit in the case of a person (details supplied);...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      388. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if claimants of partial capacity benefit who are post-1965 civil servants and who are only on pension rate of pay, who become...
    • Pension Provisions
      389. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the need to require of pension providers that they disclose the portion of any pension fund available...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      390. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered extending the cost-of-living €500 lump sum payment included in budget 2023 to those on community...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      391. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to issue a further extension beyond March 2023 to participants of the community employment scheme,...
    • State Pensions
      393. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an overpayment assessment of a State pension in the case of a person (details supplied); the reason for the...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      394. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an oral hearing will be facilitated in the pending appeal of a person (details supplied); if all reckonable contributions...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      395. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown of applications for exceptional needs payments due to financial hardship, by social welfare...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      396. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if assistance can be offered in issuing a decision on the carer's allowance appeal for a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      397. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if community supervisors will be permitted to apply to extend their retirement age to 70 years for those turning 66 years...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      398. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the plans in place to financially assist promptly through social welfare or other means those suffering from long-Covid who...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      399. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the social welfare supports available to assist a person (details supplied) whose partner has recently passed away. [3113/23]
    • State Pensions
      400. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the contributory pension review of a person (details supplied). [3131/23]
    • Family Resource Centres
      401. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the current funding band rates for family resource centres (details supplied). [3134/23]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      402. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way arrears for disability allowance and carer's allowance have been calculated in the case of a person (details...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      403. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; if the rules in relation to the invalidity pension will be...
    • Public Sector Pay
      404. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will immediately arrange a date to meet the WRC in relation to the pay claim that community employment...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      406. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3192/23]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      407. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application by a person (details supplied) for a basic supplementary welfare allowance; and...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      409. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3229/23]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      410. 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...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      412. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of personal public service numbers issued between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022, broken down by the...
    • Employment Support Services
      413. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason no walk-in service is available at an Intreo office (details supplied); when a walk-in service for the public will...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      414. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review a decision to remove a free travel pass from a wheelchair user who requires a personal assistant (details...
    • Business Supports
      417. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total monetary amount of non-repayable moneys provided by her Department through grants, funding supports, tax breaks or...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • International Protection
      418. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has any plans to build modular homes for Ukrainian refugees of war; and if he will make a...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      419. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of equipment issued under AIMS in 2022; the number of applicants for equipment; the type of equipment...
    • Children in Care
      420. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagement he has had with Tusla - the Child and Family Agency in relation to the lack of step-down places,...
    • Equality Issues
      421. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he intends to add socio-economic status as a tenth ground of discrimination to relevant legislation. [2733/23]
    • International Protection
      422. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department possesses projections as to the number of hotels that are not expected to renew State...
    • Family Resource Centres
      425. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on his Department’s engagement with an organisation (details supplied) in...
    • Child and Family Agency
      427. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE social workers in Tusla who are dealing with foster children and foster families as of 31...
    • Youth Services
      428. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount Tusla spent on youth counselling services in 2021 and 2022, in tabular form. [2798/23]
    • International Protection
      429. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is a mechanism through which Ukrainian refugees living in Ireland can apply to be relocated to another...
    • Legislative Reviews
      430. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the review of the Equality Acts currently under way in his Department,...
    • Childcare Services
      431. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider expanding sponsor referrals to the national childcare scheme to include all children with...
    • International Protection
      432. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the locations, by nearest village and town, of all accommodation centres for asylum seekers and-or refugees in...
    • Child Abuse
      434. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can request that the report into historical abuse allegations at an organisation (details supplied),...
    • Departmental Staff
      435. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons currently employed by his Department; the number assigned to the integration brief; the...
    • International Protection
      436. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Ukrainian refugees who have been settled in County Donegal, broken down by townlands, and the...
    • Business Supports
      437. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total monetary amount of non-repayable moneys provided by his Department through grants, funding supports,...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Education and Training Boards
      438. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the case of a person (details supplied) regarding an ETB course; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2710/23]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of a 10% increase in the apprentice travel allowance and accommodation allowance for off-the-job training. [2813/23]
    • Third Level Fees
      440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if young refugee students from Ukraine who are due to sit State examinations in 2023 and 2024 and will soon be making CAO applications and...
    • Third Level Admissions
      441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Irish third level institutions will be able to admit refugee students from Ukraine who are resident in Ireland, engaged in distance learning...
    • Departmental Funding
      442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the total allocation under the Student Assistance Fund provided to each higher education institution for the past three...
    • Third Level Fees
      443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider extending the €1,000 fee reduction to students who have moved courses and were required to pay higher fees as a result...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if plumbing apprentices who fail the colour vision test are unable to continue with the apprenticeship even if they can benefit from corrective...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      445. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to tackle the barriers in place that prevent QQI and FETAC graduates in nursing, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy and so on...
    • Equality Issues
      446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a report (details supplied) concerning students with disabilities on placement. [3124/23]
    • Third Level Education
      447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the assessment procedures to be used in relation to the submissions from colleges to establish the proposed new school of veterinary medicine in...
    • Grant Payments
      450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there have been any updates on the previously discussed topic of the lack of eligibility for student grants by persons who hold stamp 4 visas;...
    • Business Supports
      451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total monetary amount of non-repayable moneys provided by his Department through grants, funding supports, tax breaks or other means to...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Control of Firearms
      452. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm the law in regard to a gun club being allowed to fire shots while the public is in close proximity; and if...
    • Immigration Status
      453. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a case regarding a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be finalised as soon as possible; and if he will make a...
    • Citizenship Applications
      454. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for citizenship; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Travel Documents
      455. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the value of fines issued to airlines or ferry companies for failure to carry out adequate checks on travel documents of...
    • An Garda Síochána
      456. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of community gardaí posts nationally, broken down by division, in each of the years 2015 to 2022; and if...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      458. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of scramblers and quad bikes seized by gardaí in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [2793/23]
    • Departmental Data
      459. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of illegal immigrants who have been detected in transport vehicles such as hauliers' trucks at Irish harbours from...
    • An Garda Síochána
      460. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 519 of 13 December 2022, if he has received the necessary information from the Garda...
    • Defibrillators Provision
      461. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated full-year cost of installing two defibrillators in each Garda station that is opened on a 24-7 basis; and the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      462. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will support the introduction of a transport police service for national, regional and local bus, tram and rail services....
    • Visa Applications
      463. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the grounds upon which visas were refused in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Citizenship Applications
      464. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Family Law Cases
      465. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when work will commence on the proposed family law centre at Hammond Lane, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      466. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Garda National Vetting Bureau presented annual reports to his Department in each of the years 2016 to 2021; if he will...
    • Visa Applications
      467. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of a visa application in the case of a person (details supplied); when a decision is...
    • Substance Misuse
      468. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons caught in possession of 7 g or less of cannabis for the past two years, by county, in tabular form; and...
    • An Garda Síochána
      469. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of additional gardaí in County Clare since 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3263/23]
    • Private Security Authority
      470. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality why certain security companies are being issued private security authority licences when they are failing to honour section...
    • Business Supports
      471. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total monetary amount of non-repayable moneys provided by his Department through grants, funding supports, tax breaks or...
  • Department of Health
    • Disability Services
      472. To ask the Minister for Health when a full complement of therapists will be provided to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [3369/23]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      473. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on community healthcare waiting lists for each care service for December 2022, in tabular form; the breakdown by length of wait and by...
    • Disability Services
      475. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on disability service waiting lists for children’s disability networks teams by CHO-CDNT for December 2022, in tabular form; the...
    • Mental Health Services
      477. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on CAMHS waiting lists, by CHO, and by age and length of wait for December 2022, in tabular form. [2696/23]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      478. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on waiting lists for an assessment of need; the number overdue for completion; and the average length of wait. [2697/23]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      479. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on diagnostic waiting lists at the end of October 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2698/23]
    • Emergency Departments
      480. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who attended the accident and emergency department at Mullingar Regional Hospital in each of the years 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      481. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children aged between 0-8 years of age who were diagnosed with autism in each of the years 2020 to 2022, in tabular form. [2702/23]
    • Nursing Homes
      482. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the ever-rising costs of nursing home care, with relatives reporting significant extra costs in addition to the basic...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      483. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2705/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      484. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists employed in the adult community services in County Laois; the number of vacancies that exist; and his plans to recruit...
    • Health Services
      486. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form for January 2020 to December 2022, the number of people in South Tipperary CHO Area 5 who have a diagnosed neurological...
    • Medical Cards
      489. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the qualifying thresholds for a medical card (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2715/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      490. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an urgent operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2722/23]
    • Substance Misuse
      492. To ask the Minister for Health the engagement he has had with the HSE since the cessation of the Midlands Youth Drug and Alcohol Services Extern service on 31 December 2022; the timeline for...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      493. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and the Health Service Executive will provide an update on the planned new 60-bedroom residential unit on the campus of Saint Patrick's...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      494. To ask the Minister for Health when the staff in organisations (details supplied) will be paid the pandemic payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2732/23]
    • National Children's Hospital
      495. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a decision has not been taken yet on the new National Children's Hospital; and if he has given any serious consideration given to naming it in...
    • Departmental Properties
      496. To ask the Minister for Health the future plans for the hospital complex sites that currently host Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin and Temple Street Children’s...
    • Ambulance Service
      497. To ask the Minister for Health if the results of a pilot scheme launched on 1 October 2022 was a feasibility study of the ambulance service bringing patients to Mallow General Hospital...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      498. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the construction of hospitals devoted exclusively to elective-only procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medicinal Products
      499. To ask the Minister for Health if general practitioners are permitted to prescribe paxlovid for vulnerable people with Covid outside of a hospital setting and, if not, if this can be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      500. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on when the Covid-19 pandemic recognition payment will be issued to TTM healthcare workers; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      501. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients currently awaiting dermatology service in each of the main hospitals; the extent to which modern services continue to be made available...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      502. To ask the Minister for Health when tonsillectomy might be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2771/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      503. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing safeguarding team staffing levels by 20%, including employers' PRSI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2782/23]
    • Hospital Services
      505. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the future development of Kilcreene Hospital Campus, Kilkenny; if services provided at this hospital will be expanded; if new services will be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      506. To ask the Minister for Health when staff in a centre (details supplied) will receive the Covid-19 pandemic recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2785/23]
    • Legislative Process
      507. To ask the Minister for Health when section 19 of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 will come into effect. [2805/23]
    • Primary Care Centres
      508. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE audiologists working in Grangegorman primary care centre in each of the years 2020 to 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [2806/23]
    • Emergency Departments
      509. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the emergency department activity at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown in 2022; the number of presentations and admissions; and...
    • Health Services Staff
      510. To ask the Minister for Health the international recruitment campaigns that took place in 2022 for healthcare workers. [2808/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      511. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to recruit three extra WTE acute oncology services nurses for Beaumont Hospital. [2809/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      513. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a report on his plans to fully resource all existing community neuro-rehabilitation teams; when it is expected that community...
    • Disability Services
      514. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent positions allocated to Clonmel CDNT; the number of the positions that are vacant; the number of children attached to the...
    • Ambulance Service
      515. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances which waited longer than standard procedure would dictate outside of a hospital to decant a patient, in the full year of 2022 by...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      517. 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. [2855/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      518. To ask the Minister for Health if provisions have and will be made by his Department to provide direct funding for nurses in an organisation (details supplied) to support motor neurone...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      520. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a ceiling track hoist for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2870/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      521. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the issuing of a pandemic bonus payment for a healthcare worker (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Cards
      522. To ask the Minister for Health if he has any plans to increase the threshold for medical card holders in line with increases in budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      523. To ask the Minister for Health when nursing home staff (details supplied) will receive the pandemic bonus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2889/23]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      524. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on diagnostic waiting lists at the end of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2892/23]
    • Hospital Admissions
      525. To ask the Minister for Health the average patient experience time to admission via an emergency department for all patients, state-wide and for each location for the full year of 2020 and...
    • Emergency Departments
      527. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who left an emergency department post-registration but pre-admission in the full year of 2020 and for each month, by hospital in tabular...
    • Hospital Admissions
      529. To ask the Minister for Health the number and percentage of patients who waited 0-6, 6-9, 0-9, 9-24 and 24+ hours for admission via an emergency department for each emergency department in...
    • Emergency Departments
      531. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of presentations, registrations and admissions at each emergency department and the state-wide total for the full year of 2020 and for each...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      533. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital-initiated scheduled care cancellations, by appointment type, for the full year of 2021, and for each month, by hospital group and...
    • Hospital Procedures
      537. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges by location in each month of 2021, in tabular form. [2905/23]
    • Hospital Services
      539. To ask the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost by location in each month of 2021, in tabular form. [2907/23]
    • Ambulance Service
      541. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO and clinical status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient-carrying vehicle in 18 minutes and 59 seconds or less...
    • Health Services Staff
      543. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against medical, nursing, midwifery and other health and social care professionals across HSE hospitals and community...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      545. To ask the Minister for Health if he will endeavour to ensure that a person (details supplied) receives an urgent outpatient appointment at the orthopaedic clinic in Cavan and Monaghan...
    • State Bodies
      546. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims before the CervicalCheck Tribunal; the number of claims resolved by the tribunal; the timeframe for completion of the tribunal’s...
    • Dental Services
      547. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists on the dental treatment services scheme at the end of each of the years 2017 to 2022, by LHO, in tabular form; the number of dentists...
    • Hospital Services
      548. To ask the Minister for Health the difference between a model 2 and model 2s hospital; the measures required to upgrade a standard model 2 to model 2s; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Staff
      551. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time emergency department staff, by grade and profession, employed at hospitals (details supplied) in each of the years 2017 to 2022 at year...
    • Health Services Staff
      552. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE carries out exit interviews for staff leaving its employment; if the HSE will consider investing in exit interviews as a way of identifying...
    • Hospital Procedures
      553. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cancer-related appointments and procedures cancelled in each month of 2022, by hospital, including both HSE and voluntary hospitals, in tabular...
    • Dental Services
      554. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults and children on HSE dental and orthodontic waiting lists at the end of 2022, broken down by standard waiting times, by area, in tabular...
    • Hospital Admissions
      560. To ask the Minister for Health the maximum patient experience time to admission registered at each emergency department for each week in December 2022 and to date in January 2023, in tabular...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      561. To ask the Minister for Health the mean, median, and maximum waiting time across National Treatment Purchase Fund-reported waiting lists, by speciality and hospital, for December 2022, in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      569. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the outstanding Covid pandemic recognition payments for persons working with private healthcare providers who have submitted self-assessment...
    • Nursing Homes
      570. To ask the Minister for Health the reason discussions have taken place with a nursing home (details supplied) in Roscrea regarding possible integration into the public nursing home network;...
    • Employment Rights
      571. To ask the Minister for Health when the process of bringing in an employment regulation order will commence for home care workers, given the recent confirmation by the Taoiseach. [2954/23]
    • Hospital Admissions
      572. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 417 of 24 February 2022, the bed occupancy rates of each public and public voluntary hospital, by hospital group, for...
    • Home Care Packages
      575. To ask the Minister for Health if a home care package for a person (details supplied) can be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2964/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      576. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an endocrinology appointment in Letterkenny University Hospital; if they are on the routine or...
    • Departmental Reports
      577. To ask the Minister for Health the financial amount that was allocated by his Department for the purposes of carrying out an ESRI report into the costs of extending GP care to the whole...
    • Departmental Reviews
      578. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish the national review of cardiac services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2987/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      579. To ask the Minister for Health if he will fully resource existing community neuro-rehabilitation teams, such as the one in Limerick; if he will set up a community neuro-rehabilitation team...
    • Hospital Staff
      580. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant orthopaedic surgeons based at Mayo University Hospital in each of the years 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form. [3004/23]
    • Dental Services
      582. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the number of orthodontists employed by the HSE for primary care orthodontic services in County Mayo by year from 2018 to date in 2023, in...
    • Health Services
      583. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to open a walk-in warfarin clinic in County Mayo. [3007/23]
    • Primary Care Centres
      584. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update in relation to a project (details supplied); if progress has been made by the legal team in pursuing a resolution; and if he will...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      585. To ask the Minister for Health when it is expected work will commence on the new development at St. Vincent’s Community Hospital, Mountmellick, County Laois; and if he will make a...
    • Family Support Services
      586. To ask the Minister for Health the current supports available to parents and families bereaved by sudden unexplained death in childhood. [3020/23]
    • Health Strategies
      587. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that the Government is undertaking to research, raise awareness and collate information regarding sudden unexplained death in...
    • General Practitioner Services
      588. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of moneys that have been paid to GP practices for the services rendered under the general medical services scheme agreement of 2019 - payments in...
    • Vaccination Programme
      589. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the timeline of the HIQA assessment report on the proposal to add the chickenpox vaccine to the national vaccination schedule...
    • Medicinal Products
      590. To ask the Minister for Health if Sunosi, which is produced in Ireland and has a successful record treating persons with narcolepsy, is or will be made available on the medical card; and, if...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      591. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied), a terminal cancer patient who is suffering from dysphagia, who was referred to...
    • Home Care Packages
      592. To ask the Minister for Health if an increased home care package can be provided as soon as possible in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      593. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify that the contract for the national standardised list of community-funded aids and appliances and prescribing criteria is in place; and if he...
    • Medicinal Products
      594. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with an organisation (details supplied) to address the ongoing risk of medicine shortages. [3127/23]
    • Patient Deaths
      595. To ask the Minister for Health if a group has been established by his office or any other institution of his Department or HSE for the purpose of carrying out investigations into maternal...
    • Mental Health Services
      596. To ask the Minister for Health if he will immediately provide the necessary capital funding to retain 18 beds in the acute mental health unit in Bantry Hospital. [3129/23]
    • Abortion Services
      597. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide data compiled by the HSE of recorded protests against abortion including the date, time, number present and any other recorded information...
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      598. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 521 of 15 November 2022, the length of time 'it takes an assessor to complete an overseas completed application from...
    • Legislative Reviews
      599. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a timeline for when the review into the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 will be concluded; if the research that was...
    • Medicinal Products
      600. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide clarification on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3176/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      601. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to fill the vacant consultant neurologist post at University Hospital Waterford; and when the selected candidate is expected to be in...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      602. To ask the Minister for Health the current repair times in place for wheelchair users when repairs are required to their wheelchairs in the Waterford city area; the recommended and average...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      603. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will issue to a person (details supplied). [3187/23]
    • Primary Care Centres
      604. To ask the Minister for Health if he can provide the construction costs and running costs for the respective primary care centres located in Grangegorman, Summerhill and the Navan Road; the...
    • Hospital Staff
      605. To ask the Minister for Health to outline plans to appoint consultant paediatric rheumatologists to Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3201/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      606. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3206/23]
    • Care Services
      607. To ask the Minister for Health if a residential place can be provided for a child (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3215/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      608. To ask the Minister for Health the way persons who need continuous supplies of insulin are expected to maintain their health while the supply is difficult to access other than by very...
    • Disability Services
      609. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive support from the Donegal north children’s disability network team; and if he will make a...
    • Medicinal Products
      610. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn the unavailability of certain prescription drugs (details supplied) and the effects this is having on patient care; and if he...
    • Disability Services
      611. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set out the full authorised staffing numbers and positions for County Wexford’s children’s disability network team; the staff...
    • Medicinal Products
      612. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the availability of sunosi, which is used to treat narcolepsy and obstructive sleep apnoea in Ireland; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      613. To ask the Minister for Health the number of young adults on the waiting list for respite services in County Longford. [3247/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      614. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE orthopaedic staff nurses working at both CHI Crumlin and Temple Street in the years 2020 to 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      615. To ask the Minister for Health the total capital funding provided to each level 4 hospital in 2021 and 2022, in tabular form. [3249/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      616. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE genetics nurses working in the cancer genetics department of St. James's Hospital in 2021 and 2022, in tabular form. [3250/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      617. To ask the Minister for Health when the Covid-19 pandemic recognition payment will be issued to workers of an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Staff
      618. To ask the Minister for Health the way he intends to address the shortfall requiring an additional seven emergency consultant positions at University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      620. To ask the Minister for Health the number of private beds allocated to public patient overflow at University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3255/23]
    • General Practitioner Services
      623. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a full list of the GPs operating under the aegis of Shannondoc; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3259/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      624. To ask the Minister for Health what his Department is doing to address medicine shortages across Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3261/23]
    • General Practitioner Services
      626. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a timeline for the conclusion of GP contract negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3268/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      627. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE carers working in community healthcare organisation CHO 3, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3270/23]
    • Health Services
      628. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE winter plan will be produced at an earlier stage for winter 2023-24; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3271/23]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      629. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the construction of the 96-bed ward block in Wexford General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3281/23]
    • Departmental Reports
      630. To ask the Minister for Health if the evaluation report of the pilot on the statutory home support scheme is completed; the timeframe for when the report will be made public; and if he will...
    • Care Services
      631. To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the current unmet need with regard to home care provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3301/23]
    • Disability Services
      633. To ask the Minister for Health the name and contact details of the liaison officer attached to each children's disability network team, CDNT; the name and contact details of the assessment...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      636. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of persons in counties Roscommon and Galway, in tabular form, who await home care [3310/23]
    • Care Services
      637. To ask the Minister for Health the respite options that are made available to patients being discharged from a hospital (details supplied); and the respite services available in the area....
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      639. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in CHO 2 awaiting all therapies in counties Roscommon and Galway, in tabular form. [3313/23]
    • Care Services
      640. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were referred to a facility (details supplied); and the number of these persons who were seen in 2022. [3314/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      641. To ask the Minister for Health when eligible employees of a healthcare provider (details supplied) will be paid the pandemic recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Cards
      642. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card application by a person (details supplied) was closed; if it will be reopened in view of the fact the documents requested were...
    • Pharmacy Services
      643. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to introduce greater prescription powers to pharmacists to reduce the burden on GPs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3349/23]
    • Disability Services
      644. To ask the Minister for Health the positions in HSE intellectual disability services whereby applicants with a driving conviction are disqualified from and fail to meet the criteria; and if...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      646. To ask the Minister for Health when a consultant refuses to prescribe medical cannabis for a patient when they are not familiar with the Medical Cannabis Access Programme, what recourse a...
    • Vaccination Programme
      647. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been brought to the memo from the HSE sent to early learning, childhood service providers and schools to be distributed to parents and...
    • Medical Qualifications
      648. To ask the Minister for Health if there is any support or contact available to occupational therapists returning to the profession, in order to facilitate them completing the 420 hours of...
    • Business Supports
      649. To ask the Minister for Health the total monetary amount of non-repayable moneys provided by his Department through grants, funding supports, tax breaks or other means to businesses in each...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Control of Dogs
      650. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in relation to the Control of Dogs Act review group, the persons or bodies that are the members of the group; the terms of reference...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      651. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if outstanding payments due to a person (details supplied) for the years 2019 and 2021, under GLAS will be paid immediately. [2766/23]
    • Coillte Teoranta
      652. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if further information will be provided in relation to the plans by Coillte (details supplied) to use public private partnerships to...
    • Teagasc Activities
      653. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he can advise on the role of Teagasc advisors in relation to notification of schemes and deadlines for applications to farmers and...
    • Assisted Animal Reproduction
      654. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware if pregnant mare serum gonadotrophin is being used or produced in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      655. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will reinstate BPS payments to a person (details supplied) on the basis of an appeal which has been submitted to his...
    • Forestry Sector
      656. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the number of reconstitution and underplanting scheme (ash dieback) applications received for the year 2022; the...
    • Animal Breeding
      657. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of a dog breeder (details supplied) in Cork who was shut down due to the horrific conditions the animals were...
    • Brexit Supports
      659. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of European Union Brexit funding that has been made available to the fishing sector, including a breakdown of all the...
    • Forestry Sector
      660. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding provided for afforestation annually for each of the years 2018 to 2022 inclusive, in tabular form, including a...
    • Fishing Industry
      661. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the call by a fishing representative organisation (details supplied) to provide for specific small-scale fisher...
    • Electricity Generation
      662. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with reference to his Department’s photovoltaic panel installers registration form, the number of installations which have...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      664. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has estimated the number of applications that will be made for grant support under TAMS 3; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Coillte Teoranta
      665. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will instruct Coillte to provide information in relation to the Coillte-approved and licensed shoots that occurred in a...
    • Forestry Sector
      666. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has received communication from an association (details supplied); when this will be reviewed and a response...
    • Electricity Generation
      667. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has engaged with electricity companies in respect of limits the companies have set regarding the amount of energy...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      668. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an IT glitch occurred on his Department’s side when an application for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo was...
    • Business Supports
      670. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total monetary amount of non-repayable moneys provided by his Department through grants, funding supports, tax breaks or other...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Departmental Schemes
      671. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason that voluntary organisations and community groups are only eligible for funding under category 1 of the Community Centres...
    • Departmental Reports
      673. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a research and consultancy project (details supplied) that has been contracted by her Department can be made available; and if she...
    • Departmental Schemes
      674. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on works (details supplied) under the small-scale capital works programme; the timeline for these works;...
    • Business Supports
      675. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the total monetary amount of non-repayable moneys provided by her Department through grants, funding supports, tax breaks or other...

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