Written answers
Thursday, 9 February 2023
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Offices
10. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the review of the part-time substitute service in Castlepollard will be finished and available for the public to read;...
- Social Welfare Schemes
14. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on the provision for wigs for those who have lost their hair due to medical reasons that are not...
- Departmental Reviews
15. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on her Department’s review of the extension of the free travel scheme to persons with...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
16. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the process by which her Department contacts the British work and pensions department seeking contribution...
- Child Poverty
17. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures that are being taken to reduce child poverty; the impact of these measures; and if she will make a statement on...
- Social Welfare Rates
18. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is actively seeking to give a double payment of social welfare payments to assist with meeting costs, given that...
- Social Welfare Inspections
19. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the legal basis on which welfare inspectors are entitled to enter a person’s home. [6173/23]
- Social Welfare Eligibility
20. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider amending the eligibility criteria for illness benefit to cover workers under 25 years of age who do not...
- Social Welfare Payments
21. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of requests for additional needs payments in the month of January; the number granted; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Rates
22. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give consideration to reviewing age-related rates of jobseeker's allowance with respect to those under 25 years;...
- Social Welfare Schemes
23. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give consideration to providing a free travel scheme to all persons with epilepsy; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Benefits
24. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which it continues to be possible to address particularly sensitive issues in respect of family income and the...
- Social Welfare Payments
25. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps being taken to process the applications for the exceptional needs payment and supplementary welfare allowance and...
- Social Welfare Benefits
26. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures being taken to deal with the delays in processing of applications for fuel allowance for the over-70s under the...
- Agriculture Schemes
27. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made in identifying additional agricultural schemes under the new CAP which will be disregarded with regard to...
- Live Register
28. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will indicate the trends in the numbers seeking jobseeker payments; the number who are being facilitated into pathways...
- Social Welfare Benefits
29. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has read the recent NESC report on the self-employed. [2046/23]
- Social Welfare Schemes
30. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the period of time that participants can remain on the Tús scheme; and if she will make a statement...
- Pension Provisions
32. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the intended timeframe to introduce legislation underpinning the provision of pensions to carers. [5848/23]
- Social Welfare Rates
33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will immediately review social welfare rates in light of the rising cost of groceries; and if she will make a statement...
- School Meals Programme
34. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is undertaking research into providing an enlarged school meals programme for national and post-primary...
- Registration of Births
38. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on reforming the stillbirth registration process. [6114/23]
- Social Welfare Payments
39. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of exceptional needs payments applied for through the community welfare service in Dundalk, County Louth, in 2022;...
- Social Welfare Code
44. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her proposals to review the means test for the carer’s allowance. [5994/23]
- Social Welfare Payments
45. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide the statistics of exceptional needs payments from the two Intreo offices in the Dublin 8 and Dublin 12...
- Departmental Reviews
48. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise on her Department's review of means testing for carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement...
- Departmental Reports
49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will publish the report on the impact of employee PRSI contributions on minimum wage employees. [5996/23]
- Social Welfare Offices
50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reopen a full-time social welfare office in Castlepollard, County Westmeath. [5800/23]
- Flexible Work Practices
51. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff in her Department who are working remotely on a permanent basis; the number working from home; the number...
- Social Welfare Rates
52. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to increase the carer's allowance or carer's benefit rates and the income disregard; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Schemes
54. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the target processing time for schemes under her Department; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Community Welfare Services
55. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to the passing of the Social Welfare Act 2022, when her report on the provision and cost of community welfare officers...
- Social Welfare Schemes
56. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the promised strawman proposal for the restructuring of long-term disability payments; the timeline for the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
57. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person receiving the benefit payment for 65-year-olds is precluded from receiving the carer’s benefit; if receipt...
- Disability Services
58. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the consultation process as part of her Department’s work on addressing the cost of...
- State Pensions
59. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps that will be taken to address an anomaly whereby recipients of a non-contributory pension will not be able to rent...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Adoption Services
71. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking in response the delays experienced by individuals seeking personal information under the...
- Anti-Racism Measures
72. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the long overdue national action plan against racism will be published; and if he will make a statement on...
- International Protection
73. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons seeking international protection currently in emergency accommodation and-or direct...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
74. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider allocating additional resources in Cork; if he will address a growing shortfall of childcare...
- Emergency Accommodation
75. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the protocols in respect of modular housing; if he will provide an outline of the Departments and agencies of the...
- Sports Facilities
76. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagement there has been with sports stadiums with regard to accessibility for those with a disability,...
- Ministerial Responsibilities
77. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has taken responsibility for disability services. [5973/23]
- Domestic Violence
79. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expects paid domestic violence leave to come into effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- International Protection
80. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures he is taking to improve living conditions for international protection applicants at his...
- Direct Provision System
81. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can clarify the position with regard to the programme for Government commitment to end the direct provision...
- International Protection
82. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of international protection applicants who have not been provided with accommodation and have been...
- Rights of People with Disabilities
83. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a full update on the status of the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Right...
- Disability Services
84. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way he is supporting young adults with disabilities to access training and employment post-second level...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
86. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline future plans for the delivery of a sustainable model for early and pre-school education to...
- Departmental Schemes
87. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the little book bag initiative; the number of books that have been distributed;...
- Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children
88. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of unaccompanied minors currently seeking asylum in Ireland; and the number who are resident in direct...
- Child Protection
89. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans for the implementation of the recommendations of the recently published 2021-22 annual report by the...
- Departmental Strategies
90. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagement that he has had with the Department of Education, with a view to progressing integration of...
- Rights of the Child
91. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he remains satisfied that the interests of children remain to the fore to the greatest extent...
- Departmental Schemes
92. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagements he has had in respect of the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme. [5849/23]
- Ukraine War
93. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the many Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s war and currently housed in hotels will be accommodated during the...
- Flexible Work Practices
94. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he intends to expand the provisions of flexible working and remote working contained in the Work Life Balance...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
95. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to support workers in the childcare and preschool sector. [6116/23]
- Childcare Services
96. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide data on the new national childcare scheme to demonstrate participation and average subsidy...
- Assisted Decision-Making
97. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to provide information to individuals and families impacted by the commencement of the...
- International Protection
98. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is satisfied that in cases in which proposals are presented by individuals, organisations or commercial...
- Departmental Reports
99. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on the new report on rapid-build housing published by his Department. [57890/22]
- International Protection
100. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can clarify his Department's recent communication on accommodation and support for refugees; the reason...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Health Services Staff
111. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the new rules that allow doctors who have been working in the State for more than two years to immediately be able...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Departmental Schemes
112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if progress has been made to provide a mechanism that will allow full-time residents of mobile homes to access some...
- Broadband Infrastructure
113. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason homes in Mulcaire Manor, Newport, County Tipperary are unable to obtain fibre to the home, FTTH, broadband...
- Departmental Schemes
114. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if those living in the same complex but in different homes which have separate addresses and Eircodes and are connected...
- Energy Prices
115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if any allowance for utility bills can be made for those who are hosting refugees in their homes given the rising costs...
- Official Engagements
116. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 74 of 18 January 2023 the final costs associated with an event (details...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Bus Services
117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the reason for the poor quality service and lack of service provided by a company (details supplied) on its 75...
- National Car Test
118. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider introducing proposed measures (details supplied) to alleviate the waiting lists for an NCT, in view of long delays...
- Bus Services
119. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if more frequent bus transport between Tralee and Listowel will be provided (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Coast Guard Service
120. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on Castlefreke Coast Guard station project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6381/23]
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
122. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will maintain the current reduced VAT rate on hairdressing and barbering; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6243/23]
- Business Supports
123. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a centre (details supplied) does not qualify for the TBESS; if other supports are available to a premises like this to assist with rising energy...
- Tax Code
124. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in the case of a car being imported into Northern Ireland from England and then being converted into a hearse in Northern Ireland before import into...
- Electric Vehicles
125. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the fuel grant element of the disabled drivers and passengers scheme recipients if a disabled driver purchases an electric car; and if...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Oireachtas Members' Expenses
126. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the fund for extra security measures for politicians will be paid out every year or once per Oireachtas term for Members of the...
- Departmental Schemes
128. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 38 and 39 of 1 February 2023, when he will sanction the changes to the amended Ukraine...
- Coast Guard Service
129. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on an application (details supplied); if the property evaluation has been completed; if he will provide an...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Sport and Recreational Development
130. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the programmes and activities that were implemented by Sports Ireland in 2022 to encourage, support and empower primary and...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Constitutional Amendments
131. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Government has set a date for a referendum on establishing full public ownership of Irish Water; and if he will make a...
- Housing Policy
132. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a rule preventing house swaps amongst social housing tenants where one tenant is a resident of a local authority...
- Housing Provision
133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons housed by way of homes built on that person's own site by each county council in each of the past five...
- Local Authorities
134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if additional funding will be provided to county councillors to provide increased personal security measures; and if he will...
- Emergency Accommodation
136. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm that an exempted development regulation for the change of use of a wide repository of buildings was signed...
- Emergency Services
137. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an arrangement between the fire services and the HSE and the National Ambulance Service to provide a first response service...
- Renewable Energy Generation
138. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the status of offshore wind farm applications being processed or processed by his Department...
- Housing Provision
139. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a list of the number of social houses that have been built on islands around the Irish coast in the past 20 years, in...
- Gaeltacht Policy
140. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his long-term plan to protect the islands and their Gaeltacht communities by building social houses; if he will instruct the...
- Planning Issues
142. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify the body that is responsible as a designated entity in the Planning and Development Act 2000 that can make...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Travel Documents
143. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline any additional information which grandparents must provide in order to bring their grandchildren abroad on holidays. [6297/23]
- Foreign Birth Registration
144. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a foreign birth registration application will be processed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces
146. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when the Independent Review Group report into the Women of Honour allegations will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Protected Disclosures
148. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 333, 334, 335, 336 and 337 of 13 December 2022, the status of each protected disclosure (details...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Adult Education Provision
150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding public service contracts for adult education tutors as recommended by the Labour Court; and if she will make a statement...
- School Transport
151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of re-instating payments to bus drivers (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6240/23]
- School Staff
152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on work that is under way to improve pay and terms and conditions for school caretakers similar to that achieved...
- School Admissions
153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will set out the actions she is taking to accommodate the 26 students in Limerick not offered a place in a post-primary school this week;...
- Schools Building Projects
154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update with regard to the progress of the building of a new ASD unit at a school (details supplied); and if she will make...
- Disadvantaged Status
155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the designation of a school (details supplied) with respect to being designated as a DEIS school due to the fact that it has a...
- Teacher Training
156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current situation with regard to the availability of suitably trained persons to teach home economics in second level schools; if her...
- School Accommodation
157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of successive years of increasing enrolment at a school (details supplied) and additional classroom requirement which for the school year...
- School Uniforms
158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider a physical-activity-friendly school uniforms policy at primary and secondary levels; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Special Educational Needs
159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional ASD unit places that her Department expects to be in place for the academic year beginning September 2023; and if she...
- Teacher Training
161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the changes to the criteria for teachers partaking in online summer courses in view of the fact that it will negatively impact...
- Schools Building Projects
162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a new school for an area (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6241/23]
- Special Educational Needs
163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the SNA hours for a person (details supplied) have been reduced from 5.5 hours to three hours, Monday to Friday; when they will be...
- School Transport
167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can outline the level of school transport services servicing a school (details supplied) in view of the fact that parts of this extended...
- School Enrolments
169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to enrolling children from new communities, including those under international protection, to a school (details...
- Schools Building Projects
170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is the intention to develop a masterplan for the 9.3 acre site that has been identified for a school (details supplied) to cater for a...
- School Accommodation
171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to develop a new secondary school in Newtownmountkennedy, County Wicklow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6306/23]
- Schools Building Projects
173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the construction of new school buildings at a school (details supplied) in County Donegal. [6322/23]
- School Staff
175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address concerns relating to the lack of home economics teachers and the lack of provision for upskilling available to home economics...
- Special Educational Needs
176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) and ensure this child is allocated a place in a school with an ASD unit in...
- School Transport
178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 121 of 1 February 2023, if she will outline in detail the way the extra €10 million allocated to...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Eligibility
179. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is entitled to the free fuel allowance. [6237/23]
- Social Welfare Schemes
182. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of outstanding cases, both active and dormant, which were not otherwise resolved by settlement or withdrawal, in...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
184. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); if she will ask her Department’s officials...
- State Pensions
185. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person could be refused a full pension after returning to live in Ireland from the UK. [6341/23]
- Social Welfare Payments
186. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the return of the funeral or bereavement grant might be envisaged other than by way of exceptional needs payment; and if...
- State Pensions
187. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of pension applications for contributory-related State pension received in each of the past three years to...
- Social Welfare Payments
188. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the waiting time for a decision in respect of applications for various social welfare payments has been...
- State Pensions
189. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons seeking to avail of the State old age pension on the basis of self-employment contributions or...
- Social Welfare Payments
190. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which exceptional needs payments are available in cases where family income is insufficient to meet their...
- Social Welfare Appeals
192. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which various decisions in respect of social welfare payments have been subsequently overturned on appeal by...
- Social Welfare Payments
193. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of recipients of child benefit payments; the extent to which this has fluctuated in the past two years and...
- Social Welfare Benefits
195. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which satisfactory provision has been made for those retiring at 65 years of age; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Schemes
196. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is any further update with respect to making free travel passes available to persons diagnosed with epilepsy who are...
- Social Welfare Appeals
197. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures in place to help with reducing delay for appeals cases that are ongoing for more than three months. [6401/23]
- Community Welfare Services
198. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reintroduce the practice of community welfare officers visiting towns and communities in counties Cavan and...
- Social Welfare Code
199. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will realign the qualification thresholds for the household benefits package with the newly increased fuel allowance...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- International Protection
202. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the claims by an organisation (details supplied) in respect of international protection breaches in...
- Registration of Births
203. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth pursuant to recommendation 17 of the report by the Special Rapporteur on Child Protection (details supplied) the...
- Child Abuse
204. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of a report by a person (details supplied) into historical abuse by St. John Ambulance; details of...
- Assisted Decision-Making
205. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expects the Decision Support Service (DSS) to be fully operational; and if he will make a statement on...
- International Protection
206. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number and the profiles of Ukrainian and IPP arrivals to County Roscommon, in tabular form, for the years...
- Departmental Policies
208. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the progress of a successor policy to Better Outcomes Brighter Futures; and if he will make a...
- International Protection
209. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details on the costs incurred in transporting asylum applicants and beneficiaries of temporary...
- Childcare Services
210. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has engaged with childminders regarding their concerns about increased regulations; and if he will make a...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
211. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of service providers that dropped out of the ECCE scheme for the 2022-23 year; the number that did...
- International Protection
214. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a building (details supplied) is being considered for accommodation for Ukrainian beneficiaries of temporary...
- Children in Care
216. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of children currently in foster care; the extent to which the level of care is satisfactory and...
- Rights of the Child
217. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which children’s rights continue to be maintained in accordance with the children’s...
- Children in Care
218. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children now in the various forms of institutional or custodial care; the extent to which the...
- Child Abuse
219. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which the number of children under the possible threat of mental, physical, sexual or other abuse...
- Departmental Funding
220. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which the funds available to his Department remain adequate to meet whatever challenges may arise,...
- Rights of the Child
222. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he is satisfied that equality prevails in all situations affecting children whose rights and...
- Child and Family Agency
223. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he is satisfied that Tusla is free to carry out its statutory requirements in all situations...
- Departmental Strategies
224. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which efforts continue in relation to integration, with particular reference to the need to ensure...
- Youth Services
225. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he continues to interact with youth organisations throughout the country with a view to...
- Childcare Services
226. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 168 of 1 February 2023, where he stated that “there may be...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
227. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if people working within the core funding scheme can be allocated a teaching number to avoid returning the same...
- Ukraine War
228. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the preparations that have been made to deal with the anticipated further influx of Ukrainian refugees...
- Emergency Accommodation
229. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of offers of accommodation for refugees that remain unanswered by his Department and relevant...
- Healthcare Policy
230. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current status and proposed timeframe for the First 5 action to develop a dedicated child health workforce,...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
231. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he intends to expand the ECCE services to include children with additional needs in preschool-age classes;...
- Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children
234. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions his Department has taken to promote the safety and wellbeing of unaccompanied children and young...
- Registration of Births
235. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on applications being processed through the information and tracing legislation....
- Childcare Services
236. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the impact that increases in the national childcare scheme is having; if his Department plans to increase the...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Further and Higher Education
237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is financial support available to employees who return to college part-time (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- International Protection
238. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons facilitated in relocating to Ireland under the Afghan admission programme; the number of people who have...
- Asylum Seekers
239. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason that asylum seekers are allowed into Ireland without travel documents given that they clearly had to produce these...
- Visa Applications
240. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide assistance on a stamp 4 renewal application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Immigration Policy
241. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the reason for delay in regularisation of the long-term undocumented migrants scheme; when the remaining...
- Immigration Status
242. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the options open to a person who has been granted refugee status and has now been granted under the family reunification unit...
- An Garda Síochána
243. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an assessment will be carried out on the need for a new Garda station in Citywest, Dublin 24; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Administrative Arrangements
245. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a refund of a registration fee will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a...
- Citizenship Applications
246. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); if he will review the matter; and if he will make a...
- Legislative Programme
247. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022 will be enacted and commenced. [6386/23]
- Department of Health
- Disability Services
248. To ask the Minister for Health the strategies being examined to fill the vacancies to support the workload of the staff of an organisation (details supplied) and speed up waiting lists. [6399/23]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
249. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of private and voluntary homes to which the HSE offered crisis support during the Covid outbreak crisis; the number that received and the...
- Nursing Homes
250. To ask the Minister for Health the number of concerns or complaints HIQA has received in the last year regarding restricted visiting in care homes. [6194/23]
- Health Services
252. To ask the Minister for Health the number of concerns or complaints received by the office of the confidential recipient since March 2020, with a full breakdown by concern type, that is,...
- Nursing Homes
254. To ask the Minister for Health the reason only ten concerns relating to nursing homes were reported to safeguarding teams from the period from 2020 to the end of November 2022, out of more...
- Health Services
256. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the medical laboratory in Mayo University Hospital is unable to diagnose vitamin D blood tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6209/23]
- General Practitioner Services
257. To ask the Minister for Health the approximate cost of a vitamin D blood test through a GP; if he intends to streamline doctor fees charged to patients nationwide; and if he will make a...
- Official Engagements
258. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list in tabular form of details of meetings between his Department and the National Women's Council of Ireland, which included reference to...
- Legislative Reviews
260. To ask the Minister for Health if he received advice from organisations on the appointment of the chairperson of the abortion review in January 2022; and to name such organisations. [6215/23]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
261. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay for patients (details supplied) awaiting orthodontic maxillofacial surgery for open bite, with current wait times of six to eight...
- Medical Cards
262. To ask the Minister for Health when the income limits for medical card eligibility will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6244/23]
- Medicinal Products
263. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of Hyperemesis Ireland regarding the current reimbursement policy in respect of medication to treat this...
- Health Services
264. To ask the Minister for Health the Governmental or European funding initiatives that are available for digital healthcare companies that provide personalised solutions for the intervention...
- Medicinal Products
265. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision has been taken to remove the lanriotide chemotherapy drug from the drugs refund scheme; if so, the reason for this; and the notice that is being...
- Vaccination Programme
266. To ask the Minister for Health for an update with regard to the payment of the pandemic recognition to staff administering vaccines in SouthDoc; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Pension Provisions
267. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the implementation of the 2006 Labour Court ruling that pensions should be paid to section 39 workers; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
268. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1396 of 14 June 2022, if Cork will be considered as a location for the provision of gallium scans as currently the only...
- Home Help Service
269. To ask the Minister for Health the current timeframe for a person (details supplied) to receive the 7.5 hours per week home support they were approved for in October 2022; and if he will...
- Departmental Legal Cases
270. To ask the Minister for Health the number of outstanding cases, both active and dormant, which were not otherwise resolved by settlement or withdrawal and relate to long-stay charges...
- General Practitioner Services
272. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that older people are being charged significant sums of money by GPs to carry out certification of fitness to drive check-ups; and if he will...
- Mental Health Services
273. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults transferred to inpatient mental health facilities in Britain and Northern Ireland from 2014 to date in 2023, in tabular form;...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
275. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that healthcare assistants currently employed by a company (details supplied) have received the pandemic special recognition payment, while...
- Health Services Staff
276. To ask the Minister for Health the current total number of speech and language therapist posts across all healthcare services in County Wexford, including primary care services, mental...
- Mental Health Services
280. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on north Kerry CAMHS (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6313/23]
- Disability Services
281. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6317/23]
- Medicinal Products
282. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will provide persons with access to a drug (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6319/23]
- Rights of the Child
287. To ask the Minister for Health his views on his recent contributions to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6135/23]
- Legislative Reviews
292. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; when the completed review will be published; and if he will make a...
- Health Services Staff
293. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide up-to-date information on a number of speech and language therapy vacancies in CHO 8 (details supplied). [6366/23]
- Health Services Waiting Lists
297. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can be placed on the May 2022 review list instead of the October 2022 review list. [6370/23]
- Medicinal Products
298. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the drug payment scheme, the analysis that his Department or the HSE has carried out into removing the requirement for the original prescriber...
- Departmental Reports
307. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 745 of 22 November 2022, the status of the final report of the expert group on the reform and management of clinical...
- Disability Services
308. To ask the Minister for Health when the seven-day services will be operational at a premises (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6163/23]
- Legislative Programme
309. To ask the Minister for Health the date he is working towards for Second Stage of the health (termination of pregnancy services (safe access zones)) Bill, the general scheme of which has...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
310. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for pre-application assessment for aids and appliances for those under 18 years of age in CHO 4; the length of time they have been...
- Health Services Staff
311. To ask the Minister for Health the number of lactation consultant positions in each CHO, including a breakdown to LHO level, the number of positions that are currently filled, the number...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Harbours and Piers
313. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide advice with regard to parking at Rossaveel car park (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Agriculture Industry
314. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will convene an urgent meeting of the Sheep Vision Group to discuss the worsening crisis in the sheep sector; and if he will...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Island Communities
315. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will advise of the car parking facilities and supports that are available for island communities; if her Department has had any...
- Departmental Funding
316. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason she announced on gov.ie that each men’s shed would receive a grant of €2,000, but is now stating that each...
