Written answers

Tuesday, 14 February 2023

  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Third Level Costs
      59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider amending the SUSI terms and conditions to ensure that students whose parents were working and became ill and accessed illness...
    • Third Level Education
      64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement his Department has had with universities, the Department of Health and the HSE to increase college places in the area of mental...
    • Third Level Fees
      67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason students who previously sat a year on a different course were excluded from the €1,000 discount on third levels fees when they...
    • Departmental Properties
      68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered keeping the Aungier Street campus of TU Dublin in public ownership due to the lack of public facilities in the area; and if...
    • Student Accommodation
      69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to significantly expand and incentivise the construction of student accommodation in Waterford, given the designation of Waterford as a...
    • Third Level Education
      70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to deliver an increased provision of healthcare education, given the recent recognition by the Minister for Health that we...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his engagement with all third level institutions in view of the recent cyber breach at Munster Technological University, MTU; and if he will make...
    • Third Level Education
      74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered gathering demographic data on where students in universities and colleges went to secondary school and publishing same. [6883/23]
    • Third Level Admissions
      75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied with the current review and appeal process by third level institutions participating with the higher education access route;...
    • Third Level Fees
      76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will give consideration to extending the €1,000 fee reduction to students who moved courses and were required to pay higher fees,...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new apprenticeship registrations in 2022; the number of people waiting over six months to access off-the-job training; if the...
    • Third Level Costs
      78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the action taken by his Department to address shortfalls in residency requirements for SUSI applications for applicants whose residency...
    • Further and Higher Education
      79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to create additional places in further and higher education facilities in the 2023-24 academic year to ensure the provision of graduates...
    • Education and Training Boards
      80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on his engagement with stakeholders, including unions and education providers, to resolve the pay and conditions...
    • Research and Development
      81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he intends to take to improve the interface between the wider research community and the Government; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Reviews
      82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the ongoing PhD review; if a more formal consultation process will take place later in the review process that will...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made in publishing an updated Apprenticeship Action Plan to look at new ways of structuring, funding and promoting...
    • Departmental Reviews
      85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the progress of the national review into PhD conditions; if he will provide a full work plan for the review as laid out by the...
    • Third Level Education
      86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who graduated from faculties (details supplied) by university in each of the past ten years, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • International Bodies
      87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of Ireland's application to join CERN; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2037/23]
    • Mental Health Policy
      88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has engaged with the Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education docment produced by the Oireachtas Joint Committee...
    • Further and Higher Education
      89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to create additional places in further and higher education facilities in the 2023-24 academic year to ensure the provision of an...
    • Third Level Costs
      90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the publication of the review of the student grant scheme that identified a significant unmet demand for part-time learning among students; the...
    • Departmental Data
      91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who have accepted CAO offers in each of the past ten years; the number of persons who have dropped out of college in each of...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will reach its target of 10,000 apprentices in 2023. [6884/23]
    • Third Level Education
      93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the terms of reference with regard to the consideration of a location for a new veterinary school; and if he is confident that any newly...
    • Technological Universities
      94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the work being done to help progress technological university status for Dundalk Institute of Technology; and if...
    • Education and Training Provision
      95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his engagement with the Minister for Education concerning the provision of higher education training courses for special needs...
    • Further and Higher Education
      96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the present intake into courses catering to the key areas of health needs; and if he will indicate whether there are plans for new initiatives to...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for details of any engagement he has had with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage with regard to increasing the uptake of...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      101. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Ukrainian persons issued PPS numbers in 2022, analysed by gender and those aged under 18 and above 18 years of age, respectively; and the number of those...
    • Departmental Schemes
      102. To ask the Taoiseach the number and details of compensation or redress schemes put in place by his Department since 1998, in tabular form; the number of claims made; and the total cost of...
    • Official Engagements
      104. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he met with the CEO of a company (details supplied) during his recent visit to the west coast of the United States. [6673/23]
    • Export Controls
      105. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will licence the export of car parts from this jurisdiction (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Trade Missions
      106. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if Enterprise Ireland plans to have a trade mission to the west coast of United States of America in the next three months. [6976/23]
    • State Bodies
      107. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of WTE vacancies by job title at the Corporate Enforcement Authority as of 30 January 2023; and when each of these...
    • Employment Rights
      108. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if it is incumbent upon an employer to provide all employees with three days sick leave on full pay in 2023 without requiring proof...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      109. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the views of his Department have been provided to the Department of Social Protection regarding the recognition of long Covid as...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Tax Yield
      110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the proceeds that have been collected from taxable profits by the temporary solidarity contributions from 2018 to 2021...
    • Departmental Schemes
      111. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number and details of compensation or redress schemes put in place by his Department since 1998, in tabular form;...
    • Energy Conservation
      112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 181 of 31 January 2023 (details supplied), if he will provide a breakdown for...
    • Inland Fisheries
      113. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason Inland Fisheries Ireland, which operates under his Department’s aegis, has never completed an...
    • Departmental Schemes
      114. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the procedure to allow residents (details supplied) to avail of the electricity costs emergency benefit...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will expedite the provision of high-speed broadband to a home (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      116. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the further progress being made in signing-off on pension increases due to retired An Post workers for 2023; and if he...
    • Waste Management
      117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress that he has made with the relevant agencies and stakeholders to deliver the annual support of €75...
    • Energy Policy
      118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the independent report by a person (details supplied) which the Government commissioned into energy supply, security...
    • Electricity Generation
      119. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address a matter (details supplied) relating to solar panels; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Pension Provisions
      120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 174 of 31 January 2023, if pensioners will receive an increase (details...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      121. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if Ireland is on course to stay within the legally binding carbon budget 2021-25; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tax Code
      122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update of the new windfall profit tax announced in November 2022 which is to be applied to the...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      124. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the network infrastructure map in relation to the published contract with broadband provider National Broadband...
    • Energy Policy
      125. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if current or proposed protections from disconnections to heating and lighting supplies are applied in relation to...
    • Fishing Industry
      126. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider a compensation package for the next of kin of draft fishing licenceholders if the licenceholder has...
    • Recycling Policy
      132. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason he is giving preference to the lower standard of UNEP meta study rather than a more robust life cycle...
    • Litter Pollution
      133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment in relation to the circular economy Act the reason, in considering levies, his Department only cites Irish business...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      134. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the roll-out of fibre broadband to a business (details supplied). [7232/23]
    • Energy Conservation
      135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline available funding for retail food businesses to install energy saving measures and energy saving...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems
      137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 98 of 8 September 2022, if he will provide an update on the enactment process in...
    • Litter Pollution
      138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to address litter and illegal dumping. [7429/23]
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Rail Network
      139. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the programme for Government commitment to enhance suburban and commuter rail networks; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Schemes
      140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number and details of compensation or redress schemes put in place by his Department since 1998, in tabular form; the number of...
    • National Car Test
      141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average wait times for an NCT in each centre in County Mayo, in tabular form; the average across the State; and if he will make a...
    • Driver Test
      142. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of learner drivers per year in each of the years 2019 to 2022 that failed to turn up for their scheduled driving test...
    • Rail Network
      143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends on issuing an instruction to the CIÉ group and Iarnród Éireann to preserve the railway alignment from...
    • National Car Test
      144. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has given consideration to the range of consequences experienced by customers of the National Car Testing service who...
    • Road Safety
      145. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will seek an update from TII and ensure the expeditious processing of its investigation into issues raised in relation to...
    • Bus Services
      147. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will increase the frequency at peak times on the route 220 MTU to Cork city (details supplied). [6712/23]
    • Ferry Services
      149. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has had any contact with an organisation (details supplied) regarding the possibility of the closure of its Rosslare-to-Pembroke...
    • Road Network
      150. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the tonnage of salt available for use on the regional and local roads network; the total amount used over this winter to date; the total...
    • Taxi Regulations
      152. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is considering reviewing the issue of access to hackney licences in urban areas outside of the current pilot programme relating to...
    • Vehicle Clamping
      153. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of cars clamped at each Irish Rail station for the years 2018 to 2022 and to date in 2023; the amount collected by such...
    • Rail Network
      154. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 247 of 28 September 2021, if Ministerial approval has been given to the project to proceed to a...
    • Road Projects
      158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will provide funding for a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6956/23]
    • Taxi Regulations
      159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of full-time taxi enforcement officials working for the National Transport Authority in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023,...
    • Bus Services
      160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Dublin Bus will run a 27x bus from UCD Belfield to Clarehall at 18:10 on Mondays to Fridays during term periods only. [6972/23]
    • Parking Provision
      161. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding has been provided to refurbish and remark car parks at a location (details supplied) during 2023; if not, the last time both...
    • Official Engagements
      162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has spoken formally to the CEO of Dublin Port Company since his appointment. [6974/23]
    • Bus Services
      163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passengers who travelled on Dublin Bus route 4 in 2022 and to date in 2023, in both directions, in tabular form. [6975/23]
    • Departmental Reviews
      164. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Duleek is being considered as part of the all-island strategic rail review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7048/23]
    • Public Transport
      165. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will intervene with the National Transport Authority to ensure that it engages in finding a solution to the problem of anti-social...
    • Departmental Reviews
      167. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will publish the independent review of the organisational structures of the Maritime Casualty Investigation Board (details...
    • Driver Test
      168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request the Road Safety Authority to expedite a driving test date for a person. (details supplied). [7156/23]
    • National Car Test
      169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the length of time that an NCT certificate is considered legally valid after its expiration date given the number of cars which are on...
    • Driver Licences
      170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether it is acceptable for his Department and the Road Safety Authority, RSA, to fail to respond to repeated...
    • Bus Éireann
      171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the booking fee that is charged to customers who pre-book a seat with Bus Éireann, regardless of...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of permits that the Dublin Airport Authority issued to hotel courtesy buses and other transport companies to pick up customers...
    • Bus Éireann
      173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of Bus Éireann buses that left from Dublin Airport to different parts of the country for each specific route in the month...
    • Bus Services
      174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons who used each of the Dublin Bus night links by route in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [7301/23]
    • National Car Test
      175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons waiting on NCT appointments in County Wexford; and the waiting times for same, in tabular form. [7339/23]
    • Road Safety
      176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will detail all Safe Routes to School projects in Dublin Fingal since the launch of the programme; and if he will make a statement...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans that are being advanced by Dublin Airport Authority for the use of the old Cork Airport terminal and the cost to the DAA to...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Reliefs
      178. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify, in the context of voluntary school contributions that are of €250 or more, whether it is the patron or school board of management...
    • Tax Code
      179. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the Programme for Government to bring in a targeted taxation regime to specifically discourage vaping and e-cigarettes; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      180. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and details of compensation or redress schemes put in place by his Department since 1998, in tabular form; the number of claims made; the total...
    • Tax Code
      182. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason cohabiting couples are classed as single people when it comes to their taxes, but are classed as cohabiting and get a reduced rate of social...
    • Departmental Schemes
      183. To ask the Minister for Finance the updated position regarding the review of the Disabled Drivers’ and Disabled Passengers' Scheme, and in particular, the criteria for the primary...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      184. To ask the Minister for Finance if funding will be provided this year to purchase two additional mobile X-ray scanners for the Revenue Commissioners; and if he will seek EU funding to cover...
    • Insurance Coverage
      185. To ask the Minister for Finance if her officials will assist a community group (details supplied) that is struggling to get insurance. [6785/23]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      186. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an itemised breakdown of his Department's voted capital and current expenditure for 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 and to itemise the actual...
    • Tax Code
      187. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is a requirement for aircraft to also be registered for tax purposes in Ireland, given that, according to the Irish Aviation Authority, "an aircraft may...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      190. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of a review into the primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6999/23]
    • Financial Services
      191. To ask the Minister for Finance if any measures are in place to require payment service providers to reimburse victims of authorised push payment fraud or scams; if any code is in place...
    • Tax Rebates
      192. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason commercial bus operators here cannot claim VAT back on fuel and spare parts when their counterparts in other jurisdictions can; if he plans to...
    • Tax Code
      193. To ask the Minister for Finance if a write-off is available to businesses struggling to repay VAT debt built up through debt warehousing during the Covid-19 pandemic. [7098/23]
    • Vacant Properties
      194. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update under Housing for All to collection of data on vacancy levels with a view to introducing a new vacant property tax to ensure...
    • Tax Credits
      195. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update in relation to the claim by a person (details supplied) for the rent tax credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Code
      196. To ask the Minister for Finance his response to concerns over benefit-in-kind change (details supplied). [7207/23]
    • Tax Exemptions
      197. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners would issue a letter of VAT exemption to a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim as per their request. [7225/23]
    • Customs and Excise
      198. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of customs officials of inspection at Dublin Airport, Dublin Port and Dún Laoghaire Port in 2022 and to date in 2023; and the value of items,...
    • State Pensions
      199. To ask the Minister for Finance the rate at which the State pension (contributory) is taxable alongside other sources of income; the method used for calculating that tax rate; and if he will...
    • Tax Clearance Certificates
      200. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of tax compliance certificates that were withdrawn in 2022, per month; the number of these that were withdrawn from small businesses; and if he...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Education and Training Boards
      201. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for his position on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7491/23]
    • Departmental Schemes
      202. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number and details of compensation or redress schemes put in place by his Department since 1998, in tabular form; the number of...
    • Care of the Elderly
      203. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will establish an ombudsman to advocate for older people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6563/23]
    • Flood Risk Management
      204. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the Minister of State with responsibility for the OPW will meet with the elected members of the Inishowen municipal district,...
    • International Protection
      205. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department or the Office of Public Works has been asked to consider housing asylum seekers or Ukrainian refugees in Áras an...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      206. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there was a tender process for a specific project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6770/23]
    • Office of Public Works
      208. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the capital budget allocation to the OPW in 2021, 2022 and 2023; and the amount of that capital funding that was spent in 2021 and 2022,...
    • Parking Provision
      213. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if funding will be approved for the remarking and resurfacing of the car park at the National Botanic Gardens. [7306/23]
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Tourist Accommodation
      215. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update under Housing for All for a new short-term lettings regulation through a Fáilte Ireland...
    • Defibrillators Provision
      216. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there is any current funding or grants for an AED or defibrillator for emergency first responders in Ireland to date; and if...
    • Departmental Schemes
      217. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number and details of compensation or redress schemes put in place by her Department since 1998, in tabular form; the number...
    • Sports Facilities
      218. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when funding will be provided by Government for the upgrading and refurbishment of the RDS arena that is used widely for different...
    • Sports Funding
      219. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she expects the next round of the sports capital and equipment programme to open for new applications; and if she will make a...
    • Scéimeanna Rannach
      220. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé mhéid iarratas atá faighte ó theaghlaigh nua atá ag iarraidh scoláirí a choinneáil faoi...
    • Sports Funding
      221. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if it would be possible to get a breakdown of the grants paid to sports clubs in the years 2021 and 2022, particularly grants...
    • Departmental Funding
      222. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the financial supports available for companies that provide coach-hire services; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Employment Rights
      223. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the statement of quality employment associated with the recently established digital games tax....
    • Sports Funding
      224. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extra funding being allocated to increase participation in swimming, tennis and so on over the next two to three years. [7314/23]
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Departmental Funding
      226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funds are available for local authorities from his Department to refurbish social housing units, specifically to install...
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline all the funding mechanisms available to individuals or groups concerning the conservation of SACs. [7430/23]
    • Departmental Schemes
      228. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number and details of compensation or redress schemes put in place by his Department since 1998, in tabular form; the...
    • Rental Sector
      229. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the current planning requirements with respect to providing short-term self-catering letting accommodation...
    • Departmental Meetings
      230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 313 of 31 January 2023, the date of the establishment of the Cross Sectoral Working...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      231. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which a person can receive housing assistance payment while renting a property from a relative; and if he will...
    • Construction Industry
      232. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the inordinate delays which have become the norm in the processing of completion certificates are having...
    • Local Authorities
      233. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can confirm a matter (details supplied) following the adoption of the Moorhead report recommendations; and if he will...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      234. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will engage with the National Parks and Wildlife Service to address concerns raised by an organisation with respect to a...
    • Proposed Legislation
      235. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has conducted an independent review as to whether the draft planning and development Bill 2022 complies with...
    • Fire Stations
      236. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the progress of an application submitted by Offaly County Council for the provision of a new...
    • Planning Issues
      237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if resources will be provided to An Bord Pleanála to allow it to answer communications from the public and public...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding applications that are currently being considered by his Department for the Traveller AHB Cena; the funding that...
    • Housing Provision
      239. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total capital expenditure on housing programmes (details supplied) for 2022; the total volume of AHB borrowing for the...
    • Planning Issues
      240. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify the status of R2-zoned residential lands; if they will be liable for the residential zoned land tax; and if...
    • Derelict Sites
      241. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an internal inspection of a property is required prior to it being placed on the derelict sites register and, if not,...
    • Arts Centres
      242. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has been notified of a construction start date for the Event Centre in Cork; and the date that was notified...
    • Planning Issues
      243. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will remove the planning requirements from the short-term accommodation register given that it will have a very negative...
    • Fire Stations
      244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on a matter (details supplied) concerning a fire station; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Provision
      245. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update under Housing for All for supporting an unprecedented 4,000 affordable purchase homes on average...
    • Housing Schemes
      247. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update under Housing for All for a new first home shared equity scheme for private developments. [7108/23]
    • Housing Policy
      249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update under Housing for All for an owner-occupier guarantee in housing developments to secure homes...
    • Rental Sector
      252. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update under Housing for All for extended rent pressure zones to 2024 and rents linked to the harmonised...
    • Housing Provision
      255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update under Housing for All to provide over 90,000 social homes by 2030, including an average annual...
    • Housing Policy
      256. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update under Housing for All to end long-term leasing by local authorities and approved housing bodies...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      261. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update under Housing for All to increase Housing First targets to 1,200 tenancies over five years for...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      262. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update under Housing for All to establish a new national homeless action committee. [7124/23]
    • Housing Policy
      264. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update under Housing for All to a new national policy on right-sizing to highlight the potential of...
    • Vacant Sites
      268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update under Housing for All on introducing a new tax to activate vacant land for residential purposes....
    • Housing Schemes
      269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update under Housing for All on a new Croí Cónaithe cities fund to increase owner-occupier...
    • Housing Provision
      270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update under Housing for All on increased funding capacity for the LDA for strategic development of...
    • Departmental Funding
      271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update under Housing for All to targeted funding via the urban regeneration and development fund and...
    • Planning Issues
      272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update under Housing for All to planning exemptions for above shop conversions and guidance relating to...
    • Rental Sector
      273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update under Housing for All for a minimum building energy rating standards for private rental...
    • Vacant Properties
      274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update under Housing for All to a nationwide, local authority-led, compulsory purchase order scheme to...
    • Housing Policy
      275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration is being given to extend the eviction ban beyond 31 March 2023; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Local Authorities
      276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure funding is made available to Dublin City Council in order to renovate the Iveagh building in the Liberties;...
    • Rental Sector
      277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the expansion of data-sharing arrangements between the Residential Tenancies Board and the Revenue Commissioners...
    • Housing Schemes
      280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of CAS funding allocated to Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7335/23]
    • Housing Provision
      281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on projects in Carlow town (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Rental Sector
      282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address concerns that have been raised with this Deputy by local landlords who are of the view that the present...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is binging any proposals to permit the automatic granting of permission for wind energy projects that have been waiting...
    • Local Authorities
      284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of the maximum amount of grant aid funding that can be awarded by local authorities under the...
    • Departmental Funding
      285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total funding, if any, provided by his Department for a number of programmes (details supplied); and if he will provide,...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Departmental Schemes
      286. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number and details of compensation or redress schemes put in place by his Department since 1998, in tabular form; the number of claims...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      287. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current waiting period for the Passport Office to process foreign births register applications; if he can outline how the State intends...
    • Consular Services
      288. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide full details of the past and present role of a person (details supplied) at the Irish Embassy to Colombia, including if...
    • Official Travel
      289. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Irish Ambassador to the United States intends to visit Barbados before the end of quarter 1, 2023. [6965/23]
    • Fisheries Protection
      290. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of negotiations with the British Government to reinstate access for the Irish fishing fleet to the 12-mile limit around Rockall....
    • Passport Services
      291. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the refund due in the following passport application which was cancelled in November 2020 (details...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      292. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the ongoing tensions between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7231/23]
    • Official Engagements
      293. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he spoke with the United States National Security Adviser during his recent visit to the United States. [7307/23]
    • European Council
      294. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the current situation in Haiti will be discussed at the next EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting. [7308/23]
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces
      295. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the programme for Government commitment to ensure all enlisted members of the Defence Forces have the same access to healthcare...
    • Departmental Schemes
      296. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number and details of compensation or redress schemes put in place by his Department since 1998, in tabular form; the number of claims made;...
    • Defence Forces
      297. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention was drawn to a court case (details supplied); the contention made therein that the Defence Forces have been carrying out duties...
    • Air Corps
      298. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when he expects the two new C295 maritime patrol aircraft to come into the Air Corps fleet. [6683/23]
    • Defence Forces
      299. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total number of paramedics and advanced paramedics in the Defence Forces in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; the...
    • Official Travel
      301. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if funding will be provided in 2023 to replace the Learjet 45 aircraft during 2023. [6986/23]
    • Defence Forces
      302. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of complaints of sexual assaults, sexual harassment or rape made against serving members of the Defence Forces per rank, by other...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Funding
      305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6499/23]
    • Physical Education
      306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to delivering a PE build and modernisation programme in order that more schools have indoor facilities for PE and...
    • School Curriculum
      307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to develop a new modern languages in primary school initiative; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6435/23]
    • Departmental Schemes
      308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and details of compensation or redress schemes put in place by her Department since 1998, in tabular form; the number of claims made;...
    • Public Sector Pay
      309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there are irregularities in pay scales (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6489/23]
    • Teacher Training
      311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of any analysis carried out by her Department with a view to addressing the shortage of home economics teachers; the...
    • Official Engagements
      313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of face-to-face and online meetings and engagements he has had with representatives of an organisation (details supplied) in each of...
    • Schools Building Projects
      314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the progress of a new school building project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available to a child (details supplied). [6560/23]
    • Teacher Training
      316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the data and rationale for the newly announced changes to online CPD summer courses for teachers, requiring online courses to have eight hours...
    • School Curriculum
      321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if discussions are expected to introduce more outdoor educational activities at primary school level (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • School Transport
      323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when approval will be given by her Department for transport for Ukrainian students who are at present resident in Oughterard to a school (details...
    • School Admissions
      326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an appropriate school place will be found for a person (details supplied) for the academic year beginning September 2023 [6652/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a contractor will be appointed to a project (details supplied) in view of the very severe lack of adequate facilities currently available;...
    • State Examinations
      328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure an early date for the results for the Leaving Certificate for a family (details supplied). [6659/23]
    • School Transport
      329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if capacity issues in local schools are taken into consideration when refusing access to school transport in north Kildare, with particular...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any capital works projects under the remit of her Department received EU funding in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; if so, the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the development of a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6695/23]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6699/23]
    • School Staff
      334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a primary school (details supplied) can appoint a 15th class teacher given that it had the required number of pupils on 30 January 2023; if...
    • Schools Building Projects
      335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the discussions that have been undertaken between the school building unit and South Dublin County Council to deliver the necessary access road...
    • Further and Higher Education
      336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the transfer rate from post-primary to further education and training for 2021; when this figure will be available; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special schools in the school catchments of Clontarf, Raheny and Killester; Drumcondra, Marino and Dublin 1; Howth, Baldoyle and...
    • School Enrolments
      338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of efforts to provide additional primary school places in Lusk, County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6776/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be enough ASD class primary school places in September 2023 in Dublin mid-west to meet the demand; and if she will make a statement...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a primary school (details supplied) will be re-included in the DEIS scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6784/23]
    • School Transport
      342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond on an issue raised by a person (details supplied). [6788/23]
    • Departmental Schemes
      343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 384 of 22 November 2022, if she will outline the timetable for the delivery on the new scheme to provide...
    • Special Educational Needs
      344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are sufficient school places available for children with additional needs at both a primary and post-primary level, in north Dublin for...
    • School Transport
      345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all-Irish secondary schools in Gaeltacht areas are treated differently than Gaelcholáistí when it comes to the school transport...
    • Special Educational Needs
      352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a full list of all ASD units at Clare schools, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7005/23]
    • Teacher Training
      354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria examined when deciding to cover fees for teachers upskilling to teach maths, physics and Spanish; and if she will make a statement...
    • School Staff
      355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current vacancy level with respect to the teaching of home economics; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7008/23]
    • School Admissions
      356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school place can be facilitated for the son of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7060/23]
    • Oideachas trí Ghaeilge
      357. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills soiléiriú a thabhairt ar na figiúirí atá luaite sna Táscairí Oideachais a foilsíodh an 6 Feabhra, ina...
    • Departmental Properties
      358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of premises and lands owned by her Department that are not currently in use. [7162/23]
    • School Staff
      359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of unfilled teaching positions at primary and secondary level in Dublin 5, 13 and 17, respectively; and if she will make a statement...
    • Special Educational Needs
      361. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details regarding places for students in the ASD unit in Ballybunion (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Teacher Training
      363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to permitting students who do not hold a H4 in leaving certificate Irish to undertake the professional masters in...
    • School Transport
      364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there has been any decision reached on school transport fees for future school years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7224/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if appropriate education will be provided for children with severe dyslexia; if more reading schools and classes will be established for these...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the roof repair for a school (details supplied). [7290/23]
    • Insurance Coverage
      367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) is covered by State indemnity insurance since 2012 and, as such, has not required separate building insurance from...
    • Schools Administration
      368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the community contribution refund that is due to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7295/23]
    • Education Schemes
      369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a process through which children who require devices to assist with their education, and have had devices in their possession for a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the provision of schoolbooks will be made to those who are being home schooled in the same way books are being provided free of charge for...
    • School Staff
      371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of recruited SNAs, SETs and teachers, respectively, since budget 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7344/23]
    • School Funding
      372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will establish a fund for schools that cannot meet their running costs in order to end the practice of demanding voluntary school...
    • Early School Leavers
      374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the stage of the school completion programme for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7383/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a young child (details supplied) with special education needs cannot get a school escort even though their school transport has been...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a university (details supplied) is the only university that is recognised to qualify to become a special needs teacher without holding...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills which agency has responsibility for the undertaking of a pupil’s assessment for assistive technology in a secondary school setting,...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Disability Services
      381. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports in place for adults in rural communities who receive a diagnosis of epilepsy and automatically lose their...
    • Departmental Reviews
      382. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a timeline for the implementation of all of the child maintenance review recommendations; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      383. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number and details of compensation or redress schemes put in place by her Department since 1998, in tabular form; the...
    • State Pensions
      384. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will arrange to issue a decision on an application by a person (details supplied) for the State pension...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      386. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline in detail the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has been deemed ineligible for fuel...
    • School Meals Programme
      387. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a list of DEIS schools in County Tipperary that participate in the school meals programme in tabular...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      388. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for the disability allowance in the case of a person (details...
    • State Pensions
      389. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for the State pension (contributory) in the case of a person...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      390. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which social welfare in-person appeals are available since their suspension during the Covid-19 pandemic; and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      391. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if people in receipt of carer's benefit are informed in adequate time before the payment ceases to enable them to submit an...
    • State Pensions
      393. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a State pension qualified adult payment application will be reviewed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      394. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for a breakdown in tabular form of additional needs payments made in County Kerry for the years 2018 to 2022. [6696/23]
    • Citizens Information Services
      395. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the budget allocation for the Citizens Information Board in 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Irish Sign Language
      396. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the voucher scheme under the Irish Sign Language Act 2017, particularly section 9, for users of Irish sign language to...
    • State Pensions
      397. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the social insurance date of entry and State pension (contributory) of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      398. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of urgent needs payment applications, by category, in Cork, and the number refused, in each of the years 2021 and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      399. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision will be made on an application by a person (details supplied) for a domiciliary care allowance. [6753/23]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      402. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address the anomaly that exists whereby a person aged 22 years and over can be deemed a dependent for SUSI grant...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      403. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are any plans to introduce short-term illness benefit for the self-employed. [6822/23]
    • Pensions Reform
      405. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the progress being made towards creating a lifetime carer's pension scheme; and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      406. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for details of the average social welfare appeals processing times in weeks for summary decisions and oral hearings, by...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      407. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of exceptional needs payments received in 2022, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Birth Certificates
      411. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason former surnames are requested to be included on birth certificates in respect of birth certificates issued...
    • Pension Provisions
      412. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      413. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a fuel allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Pension Provisions
      417. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision will be made on a pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Asylum Seekers
      418. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to take up existing offers of accommodation for refugees and asylum seekers, to take...
    • Childcare Services
      419. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the programme for Government commitment to establish an agency, Childcare Ireland, to...
    • Departmental Data
      420. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number and details of compensation or redress schemes put in place by his Department since 1998, in tabular...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      421. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the four-month delay in paying invoices submitted by a person (details supplied) in respect of...
    • Departmental Data
      423. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if birth information requested from Tusla since October 2022 will be released and acknowledgments made to...
    • Ukraine War
      424. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on a matter (details supplied) as part of Ireland’s Ukrainian response. [6589/23]
    • Emergency Accommodation
      425. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when an accommodation provider for Ukrainian refugees (details supplied) who is experiencing financial...
    • Family Resource Centres
      426. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he might be in a position to establish new family resource centres in areas with a high need. [6603/23]
    • Asylum Seekers
      427. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Government has considered housing asylum seekers or Ukrainian refugees in Áras an Uachtaráin or...
    • Departmental Strategies
      428. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to develop a national strategy for supporting children affected by parental imprisonment; and if he...
    • Childcare Services
      429. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how he intends to address the shortage of childcare places currently available to parents in rural and urban...
    • Direct Provision System
      432. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will confirm if his Department has had any discussions with any person, business or organisation in Cahir,...
    • Ukraine War
      433. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of a long-standing offer of accommodation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • International Protection
      436. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Ukraine War
      437. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a location (details supplied) has been prepared to facilitate IP applicants or Ukrainians fleeing war. [7028/23]
    • Traveller Community
      438. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the situation regarding the process by which funding can be applied for and be made available...
    • Child and Family Agency
      439. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of historical abuse cases reported to Tusla that remain open; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      440. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the Tusla register for early childhood care and education still has many services that closed over...
    • Childcare Qualifications
      442. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff working in services that are receiving core funding who are unqualified; if this is illegal;...
    • Direct Provision System
      443. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1125 of 19 January 2022, the number of direct provision centres, emergency...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      444. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will be renewing contracts with Clare hotels for accommodating beneficiaries of temporary protection and...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Pension Provisions
      445. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6428/23]
    • Education Policy
      446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the Programme for Government to support access routes and inclusive education initiatives to learners with intellectual...
    • Departmental Schemes
      447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and details of compensation or redress schemes put in place by his Department since 1998, in tabular form; the number of claims made;...
    • Rental Sector
      448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 84 of 1 February 2023, if he will undertake to provide rental supports for PHD students who are excluded...
    • Education and Training Provision
      449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing the number of undergraduate new entrants in pharmacy by 25%, broken down by the number of additional new...
    • Nursing Education
      450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new entrants into all nursing courses on the Mayo campus of ATU for each of the past three years including 2022-2023, in tabular...
    • International Students
      451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new EU undergraduate entrants into Trinity College on a full-time basis since 2016, in tabular form. [6988/23]
    • Further and Higher Education
      452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional places that are planned to come on stream in further and higher education facilities in the 2023/2024 academic year to...
    • Departmental Data
      454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of third level graduates in speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and psychology in 2021, in tabular form;...
    • Departmental Consultations
      455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question 632 of 18 October 2022, if the workshop between higher education providers and the Department of Health to...
    • Third Level Costs
      456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on matters raised by a person (details attached) in respect of the financial pressures on medical graduates; if there are any financial...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the baker apprenticeship which was one of the 24 apprenticeship proposals that were approved development funding by the...
    • Departmental Strategies
      458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new international education strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7085/23]
    • Further and Higher Education
      459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration is being given to establishing part-time courses in social work that are CORU approved in order to address the current...
    • Health and Safety
      460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address an issue with regard to Safe Pass online courses which may slow the number of applicants successfully obtaining a Safe Pass;...
    • Third Level Costs
      461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding which has been introduced to help students deal with the cost-of-living since 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Third Level Fees
      462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures introduced to support students and parents with the cost of college fees since 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Further and Higher Education
      463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Springboard and Springboard+ programmes managed by the Higher Education Authority on behalf of the Department of Education are funded by the...
    • Education and Training Provision
      464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made under Skillnet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7346/23]
    • Third Level Fees
      465. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the third level fee supports which are currently in place for students who came to the country as asylum seekers and have been granted permission...
    • Third Level Education
      466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he remains satisfied that science graduates in Ireland are on par with or above the skills emanating from third level...
    • Further and Higher Education
      473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role he sees for the further and higher education, research, innovation and science sectors in the current year and future years; and if he...
    • Education and Training Provision
      476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the courses now available at the Further Education and Training Centre in Archerstown, Thurles, County Tipperary;...
    • Student Accommodation
      477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on his Department's activities in assisting third-level institutions in the construction of student accommodation;...
    • International Bodies
      478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date on Ireland becoming a member of CERN; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7419/23]
    • Education and Training Boards
      479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to ensure that ETB tutors are given full-time contracts including holiday pay cover. [7431/23]
    • Third Level Education
      481. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional third level places will be made available for students wishing to study pharmacy in view of the shortage of community pharmacists;...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Good Friday Agreement
      483. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if prison officers who were on duty in Portlaoise Prison during the Troubles and were in receipt of the environmental...
    • Departmental Funding
      484. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the level of funding provided to Frontex, the European Border Guard Agency, in each of the years 2020, 2021 and 2022; and the...
    • Legislative Measures
      486. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will bring forward new legislation in order that, insofar as house sales are concerned, “sale agreed” means...
    • Departmental Reviews
      487. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the review submitted to his Department in 2020 regarding the investor visa programme will be published; and if he will...
    • Departmental Schemes
      488. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and details of compensation or redress schemes put in place by his Department since 1998, in tabular form; the...
    • Prison Service
      489. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the official figures published by the Irish Prison Service which indicate that the combined...
    • Departmental Schemes
      490. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average processing time for atypical working scheme applications during the period 1 July 2022 to 31 January 2023, by...
    • Visa Applications
      492. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision on a visa application by a person (details supplied) will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Data
      493. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons arrested and charged with dangerous driving within the Tipperary Garda division in the years 2021, 2022...
    • An Garda Síochána
      494. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if all members of the Garda armed support units are fully trained in emergency lifesaving first aid. [6671/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      495. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if any capital funding that was allocated to An Garda Síochána but was underspent is automatically transferred to the...
    • Citizenship Applications
      496. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average processing time for citizenship applications in Ireland at present; if they can be reduced; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      497. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will ensure that the remaining pending applications to the long-term undocumented migrant scheme will be processed...
    • Wards of Court
      500. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people, under-18 and over-18 years of age, who were taken into wardship in December 2022 and January 2023; and if...
    • Departmental Reviews
      501. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he plans to publish the prison health needs assessment; if he will provide a timeline for same; and if he will make a...
    • Visa Applications
      502. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the family reunification visas, currently being considered by the Embassy of Ireland in Abu...
    • Prison Service
      503. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to eliminate the practice of slopping out across the Irish prison estate by developing the sanitation facilities in...
    • Departmental Reports
      504. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the recommendations in the final report of the high-level task force to consider the mental health and addiction challenges...
    • Departmental Reviews
      506. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position of the review of the Irish Prison Service’s 2006 ‘Keeping Drugs out of Prison’ policy and...
    • Prison Service
      507. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners who were on waiting lists to access addiction services at the end of 2022; and if he will make a...
    • International Protection
      508. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will engage with the Irish Prison Service to determine the number of international protections applicants that are...
    • An Garda Síochána
      509. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda roads policing vans added to the fleet in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023; and the number of...
    • Immigration Support Services
      513. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to update and improve the immigration service’s online registration process; and if he will make a statement...
    • Courts Service
      514. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in view of Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 29 March 2022, if he will seek an update from the Public Appointments Service as...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      515. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a naturalisation application for a person (details supplied); if he will expedite the processing of the...
    • Visa Applications
      517. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to reports that there is a 15 to 16-week delay in Limerick for the renewal of residency cards...
    • An Garda Síochána
      518. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the new Garda stations at Clonmel and Macroom will be put out to tender; if these projects are being delayed in order to...
    • International Protection
      519. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 690 of 10 March 2021, the costs incurred by the Legal Aid Board in case expenditure...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems
      520. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated amount that An Garda Síochána has spent on sending out poor quality CCTV images to external companies...
    • Defibrillators Provision
      521. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 461 on 24 January 2023, if he has received the necessary information from the Garda...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      522. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 458 on 24 January 2023, if he has received the necessary information from the Garda...
    • An Garda Síochána
      523. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on Garda Operation Limmat; the number of successful convictions obtained to date under this operation and if...
    • Sentencing Policy
      525. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the progress to establish the penal policy consultative council, as committed to in the Review of Policy...
    • Youth Services
      528. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total funding provided by his Department for a number of programmes (details supplied); and if he will provide, in tabular...
    • Parole Boards
      529. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce regulations to allow for persons serving determinate sentences to become eligible for parole review by...
    • Immigration Policy
      530. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 326 of 8 February 2023, if he will name the 19 airlines that his Department has engaged...
  • Department of Health
    • Education and Training Provision
      531. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 632 of 18 October 2022, to detail the number of appropriate placements and placement supports that are currently in place...
    • Nursing Homes
      532. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update under Housing for All to an amended fair deal scheme to remove disincentives for sale and rental of vacant properties. [7132/23]
    • Hospital Admissions
      533. To ask the Minister for Health the justification for a patient with private health insurance being asked to authorise a hospital to charge their private insurance provider for a private...
    • Departmental Schemes
      534. To ask the Minister for Health the number and details of compensation or redress schemes put in place by his Department since 1998, in tabular form; the number of claims made; the total cost...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      535. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 295 and 296 of 30 June 2022, if he will provide an update on the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products)...
    • Medicinal Products
      537. To ask the Minister for Health the process by which pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea and vomiting can obtain medication cariban; the reason GP’s are not able to prescribe...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      538. To ask the Minister for Health the reason hospital contract staff who interacted with patients are being excluded from payment of the pandemic bonus; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medicinal Products
      540. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the cost of cariban; the reason only consultant prescriptions for cariban are reimbursable; if reimbursement can also be given if prescribed...
    • Departmental Funding
      542. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the Drogheda area will be provided with the resources as committed to by his Department to undertake the drug-related intimidation and...
    • Health Services
      544. To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange to have a mammogram provided for a person (details supplied) who was first called for a mammogram in November 2019, and due to Covid delays,...
    • Departmental Investigations
      545. To ask the Minister for Health if the Farrelly Commission has submitted its final report; and if so, when the report will be published. [6495/23]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      546. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of people on outpatient waiting lists at Midland Regional Hospital Mullingar in 2022. [6496/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      548. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to concerns raised from a person (details supplied) in respect of access to cariban; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6501/23]
    • Ambulance Service
      549. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of purchasing an ambulance and staffing it with an appropriate team of paramedics in order to provide transport services from Nenagh General...
    • Medicinal Products
      550. To ask the Minister for Health the process in writing by which pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea and vomiting during pregnancy can obtain the drug cariban on the drugs payment...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      551. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the pandemic payment to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6511/23]
    • Dental Services
      552. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can get an appointment to see a dentist as soon as possible in University Hospital Waterford. [6512/23]
    • Ambulance Service
      554. To ask the Minister for Health the number of University of Limerick paramedic graduates that are recruited by the National Ambulance Service each year; the percentage of the NAS recruitment...
    • Medicinal Products
      556. To ask the Minister for Health the process by which pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea and vomiting can obtain a drug (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      563. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff who have left his Department in each of the years 2018 to 2022, by grade, and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [6535/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      566. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prescriptions for cariban that have been processed through the drug payment scheme in 2021 and in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Healthcare Policy
      567. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure patients who suffer with amyloidosis can be approved on the long-term illness scheme. [6539/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      568. To ask the Minister for Health when a public inquiry will be held into deaths that occurred in nursing homes during the Covid-19 pandemic; whether it will follow the PANEL principles for a...
    • Home Care Packages
      569. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who have been assessed for homecare and are waiting on that provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6549/23]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      572. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make triple antigen tests that allow people to check if their illness is Covid-19, flu, or RSV available at reduced or zero cost; and if he will...
    • Medicinal Products
      575. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the drug cariban cannot be prescribed by a GP through the drug payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6555/23]
    • Hospital Services
      579. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in providing colposcopy and cervical check results to patients attending UHW; and if all those affected by the unacceptable delay will...
    • Care of the Elderly
      580. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available to enable older people to age in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6561/23]
    • Hospital Services
      583. To ask the Minister for Health when in-person obesity clinics will resume in Loughinstown Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6567/23]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      584. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for adult ADHD clinics in CHO 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6568/23]
    • Health Services
      585. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6570/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      586. To ask the Minister for Health if a drug (details supplied) can be prescribed by a GP, or only by a consultant; and if so, if this has resulted in very low usage of a medication of...
    • Home Help Service
      589. To ask the Minister for Health the number HSE home help carers in County Limerick, in tabular form. [6584/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      593. To ask the Minister for Health when a post (details supplied) will be filled; how long the post is vacant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6590/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      594. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cariban prescriptions that have been processed through the drugs payment scheme to date, in tabular form. [6591/23]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      597. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider amending the criteria for people availing of the NPTF in order that anyone waiting in excess of six months can self-refer to a private...
    • Foireann Seirbhíse Sláinte
      598. To ask the Minister for Health cén uair a íocfar an “Íocaíocht Aitheantais Paindéime Covid” le curamóirí baile atá ag obair le...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      599. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for endocrinology appointments in Letterkenny University Hospital per month for each of the years 2019 to 2022, and to date in 2023, in...
    • Health Services
      601. To ask the Minister for Health when adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder services and supports will be in place in CHO4 in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      602. To ask the Minister for Health if he will issue clarity on how the publicly funded IVF model will be rolled out (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6623/23]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      603. To ask the Minister for Health the expected opening date of the new elective hospital in Cork. [6626/23]
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      604. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who were on trolleys in CUH in the month of January in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [6627/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      605. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff in Éist Linn, by role, in 2019 and 2023, in tabular form. [6628/23]
    • General Practitioner Services
      608. To ask the Minister for Health when the replacement general practitioner services for Blarney, County Cork (details supplied), will be in place; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medicinal Products
      613. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 302 of 7 July 2022, if he will provide an update on the results of the deliberation of the HSE of the medicines...
    • Ambulance Service
      615. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of ambulance drivers currently employed by the HSE; the total number of ambulances currently operational within the HSE; if he will list the...
    • Health Services
      616. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the need for a community neuro-rehabilitation team in CHO8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6653/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      617. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long for her appeal of a special pandemic recognition award that was due in January 2023 and is still not...
    • Health Services
      618. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an urgent query raised with the HSE is not being responded to (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6661/23]
    • Nursing Homes
      619. To ask the Minister for Health if a response will issue to queries raised by an organisation (details supplied) in respect of nursing home charges; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Procedures
      621. To ask the Minister for Health the number of kidney transplant procedures carried out in each of the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and the hospitals in which these procedures are...
    • Community Care
      622. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be any specialist posts created in community healthcare under the field of maternity care, antenatal clinics, post-natal care and so on. [6678/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      623. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric dermatologists attached to University Hospital Limerick in each of the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      624. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Irish patients awaiting initial assessment for a sleep disorder screening appointment in either a respiratory clinic or specific disorder clinic....
    • Health Services Staff
      625. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time lactation consultants that were appointed in 2022 in CHOs 3 and 5 in 2022; and if any appointments of these consultants in either of...
    • Medicinal Products
      635. To ask the Minister for Health the medicines available under the drug payment scheme to treat hyperemesis gravidarum; the medicines available on the medical card to treat same; and if he...
    • Health Services Staff
      636. To ask the Minister for Health the ratio of clinicians working in prosthetics and orthotics to their clerical and administrative staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6704/23]
    • Health Services
      637. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline any plans to introduce regional rehabilitation services for amputees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6705/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      638. To ask the Minister for Health the number of CAMHS intellectual disability teams in CHO2; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6706/23]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      639. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long for an appointment with Enable Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6720/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      641. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that pregnant people affected by hyperemesis gravidarum are currently forced to present at emergency departments in order to obtain consultant...
    • Health Strategies
      648. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support the inclusion of the future of the medically vulnerable to Covid-19 on the agenda of the next Cabinet committee on health on 13 February...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      649. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6732/23]
    • Medical Consent
      650. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the age of consent to medical treatment, as well as the policy basis for the current law on the matter; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      651. To ask the Minister for Health when staff in a section 39 organisation (details supplied) will receive the Covid-19 pandemic recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Dental Services
      652. To ask the Minister for Health the options a person (details supplied) has to get dental works carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6754/23]
    • Health Strategies
      656. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to introduce a national lung cancer screening service; if he has received any proposals for such a service; the projected annual cost for such...
    • Medicinal Products
      657. To ask the Minister for Health the level of expenditure on new medicines in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6780/23]
    • Primary Care Centres
      658. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the use of the private sector to deliver the new Galway city west primary care centre at Seamus Quirke Road; his views on whether this will offer...
    • Medicinal Products
      660. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to the removal of the prescription requirement for naloxone. [6792/23]
    • Departmental Reviews
      662. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has reviewed the 2015 pilot naloxone scheme; and if he will report on same. [6794/23]
    • Nursing Homes
      663. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter regarding a facility (details supplied), given the circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6801/23]
    • Dental Services
      664. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application to the Dental Council (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6802/23]
    • Nursing Homes
      673. To ask the Minister for Health the number of meetings which have taken place between Ministers of his Department and the Attorney General relating to long-stay charges litigation since 1...
    • EU Directives
      675. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans at European Union level to review and update the various EU nursing directives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6836/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      676. To ask the Minister for Health if he, in conjunction with the HSE, will examine the current pay and travel expense arrangements for healthcare assistants, given the difficulties they are...
    • Disability Services
      677. To ask the Minister for Health the caseload and headcount of staff and children awaiting intervention in each separate children's disability network team in the State, in tabular form. [6850/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      687. To ask the Minister for Health when section 39 staff can expect to receive the €1,000 Covid bonus payment; and if his Department has issued guidance to section 39 employers on the...
    • Disability Services
      688. To ask the Minister for Health the caseload and headcount of staff and children awaiting intervention in the south Cork city children's disability network team, in tabular form. [6893/23]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      689. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with spina bifida who are waiting for an urology procedure; and the number of these children waiting for more than four months. [6978/23]
    • Ambulance Service
      690. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of providing two extra HSE air ambulance helicopters available on a 24-7 basis. [6979/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      691. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent kidney transplant surgeons attached to CHI Temple Street in the years 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [6980/23]
    • General Practitioner Services
      693. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a full list of general practitioners operating under the aegis of North East Doctor On Call, in tabular form. [6982/23]
    • Disability Services
      694. To ask the Minister for Health the disability day services centres that received funding in the past two years to provide, upgrade or improve their transport provision to and from their...
    • Hospital Staff
      695. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE nurses working in Our Lady's Hospital, Navan in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023 in tabular form; and if this number will be further...
    • Hospital Services
      697. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 620 of 24 January 2023, the number of available slots at a private hospital (details supplied) used by the HSE during the...
    • Hospital Staff
      698. To ask the Minister for Health further to parliamentary question No. 619 of 24 January 2023, the reason the number of emergency medicine consultants at University Hospital Limerick is...
    • Health Services Staff
      699. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 627 of 24 January 2023, the reason that the number of HSE healthcare support assistants in County Clare is significantly...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      700. To ask the Minister for Health the expected cost of a surgical hub in Limerick City; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7000/23]
    • Hospital Facilities
      702. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of upgrading services at Ennis Hospital to model 3; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7004/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      703. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of the staff complement for the radiography departments in Ennis, Nenagh and UHL hospitals in tabular form.; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Care of the Elderly
      704. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can be transferred to a suitable care unit on the request of their social worker. [7017/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      706. To ask the Minister for Health the spend by Beaumont Hospital on agency staffing and private recruitment firms in each of the years 2018 to 2022, by firm, in tabular form. [7031/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      707. To ask the Minister for Health the spend by Children’s Health Ireland, at each location, on agency staffing and private recruitment firms in each of the years 2018 to 2022, by firm,...
    • Hospital Staff
      708. To ask the Minister for Health the spend by the Mater Misericordiae Hospital on agency staffing and private recruitment firms in each of the years 2018 to 2022, by firm, in tabular form....
    • Mental Health Services
      714. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the proposed pilot programme for dual diagnosis of mental health and substance addiction, in CHO3; if recruitment is complete;...
    • Hospital Staff
      716. To ask the Minister for Health the spend by Coombe Hospital on agency staffing and private recruitment firms for each year 2018 to 2022, by firm, in tabular form. [7041/23]
    • Health Services
      719. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by the HSE on access to private diagnostics, whether for acute, hospital services, community services, or GPs, for each of the year 2018 to...
    • Health Services Staff
      721. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 623 of 5 July 2022, the spend by the HSE on agency staffing and private recruitment firms in each of the years 2018 to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      722. To ask the Minister for Health if information will be provided in relation to the payment of the pandemic bonus to staff in a disability service provider (details supplied) that have yet to...
    • Health Services
      724. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ascertain from the HSE the services being provided to a person (details supplied); the budget allocated for their care; when services will resume;...
    • Health Service Executive
      727. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by HSE hospitals on private medical and other healthcare services for public patients for each year 2013 to 2022, by provider or consultant...
    • Health Services
      728. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by Children’s Health Ireland, at each location, on private medical and other healthcare services for public patients for each year 2013...
    • Medicinal Products
      739. To ask the Minister for Health the reason cariban is not being prescribed by a GP on the DPS (details supplied); and if he will provide the steps for women to take to help with the extreme...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      741. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated amount spent on private healthcare for public patients via the national treatment purchase fund for each year 2013 to 2022, inclusive, by firm,...
    • Health Services
      742. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated amount spent on contracting private hospital and community beds for each year 2013 to 2022, by bed type and by provider in tabular form. [7081/23]
    • Hospital Admissions
      743. To ask the Minister for Health the volume and throughput of private patients in each public hospital for each year 2013 to 2022, inclusive, in tabular form; the number of patients seen; and...
    • Health Services
      744. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by Beaumont Hospital on private medical and other healthcare services for public patients for each year 2013 to 2022, by provider or...
    • Hospital Charges
      745. To ask the Minister for Health the revenue generated by car parking charges for each HSE hospital (details supplied) in each of the years 2013 to 2022, inclusive, in tabular form. [7087/23]
    • Disability Services
      746. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a child (details supplied) in County Mayo has not received speech and language therapy for over 14 months; when this child will be scheduled for a...
    • Health Services
      747. To ask the Minister for Health the reason children under the age of five years are not treated at minor injury units; the plans he has, if any, to extend such services to children under five...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      755. To ask the Minister for Health the name of at least one consultant operating in the public system with up-to-date long covid knowledge, and the ability to diagnose children who meet the...
    • Health Services
      757. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in Ireland who suffered fatal and serious anaphylactic reactions due to exposure to food items in the past five years; and if he will make...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      758. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update regarding the payment of the pandemic bonus to non-HSE staff; and when this payment is expected to be made to all staff who are...
    • Emergency Departments
      759. To ask the Minister for Health the average patient experience time to admission via an emergency department for all patients, statewide and for each location for January 2023, in tabular...
    • Hospital Services
      771. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital-initiated scheduled care cancellations, by appointment type, in January 2023, by hospital group and hospital in tabular form; and if he...
    • Abortion Services
      776. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that his Department and or the HSE has taken to ensure all abortions carried out legally in the State are properly notified to the Minister for...
    • Hospital Services
      779. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges in January 2023 by location, in tabular form.. [7187/23]
    • Primary Care Centres
      785. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a comprehensive update on the provision of the primary health care facility in Maynooth; the expected timelines for the commencement of...
    • Hospital Services
      786. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital-initiated scheduled care cancellations, by appointment type, in January 2023, by hospital group and hospital, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Disease Management
      794. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that were offered an opportunistic case finding assessment under the chronic disease management programme in 2022; the number of...
    • Health Promotion
      799. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to recent reports from the United Kingdom that the popular disposable e-cigarette brand (details supplied), contained levels of...
    • Disability Services
      804. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the EU disability card to be available to those with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7226/23]
    • Ambulance Service
      805. 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...
    • Patient Safety
      807. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against patients at HSE facilities in January 2023, in tabular form. [7243/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      808. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against staff at HSE facilities in January 2023, in tabular form. [7244/23]
    • Patient Safety
      809. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against patients at HSE facilities in January 2019, in tabular form. [7245/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      810. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against staff at HSE facilities in January 2019, in tabular form. [7246/23]
    • Hospital Charges
      811. To ask the Minister for Health the revenue generated by car parking charges for each HSE Hospital for each year 2013 to 2022, inclusive, in tabular form. [7247/23]
    • Abortion Services
      823. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount spent by the State across all possible categories, in tabular form, on abortion provision in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Admissions
      825. To ask the Minister for Health the bed occupancy rates of each public and public voluntary hospital, by hospital group, for each day in January 2023, in tabular form; the national average;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      827. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the comments made by the Minister for Social Protection at the Oireachtas Select Committee on Social Protection on 1 February 2023 (details...
    • Health Services Staff
      828. To ask the Minister for Health when homecare providers such as home help will get their promised pay increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7264/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      829. To ask the Minister for Health if former patients of the now-closed Mater long-Covid Clinic (details supplied) will be accepted at alternative long-Covid clinics, irrespective of whether...
    • Home Help Service
      830. To ask the Minister for Health if the mileage allowance will be reviewed for homecare providers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7275/23]
    • Abortion Services
      831. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish the report on the review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Services
      832. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 73 of 8 December 2022, the status of the development of the new elective hospital in Merlin Park; the timeline for the...
    • Primary Care Centres
      833. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 7 December 2022, the status of the development of a primary care centre on Inisbofin; the status of the land...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      835. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the details of any engagement he or his Department has had with representatives of an organisation (details supplied) with regard to the...
    • Home Care Packages
      836. To ask the Minister for Health if extra hours of home care will be provided at weekends for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny as a matter of urgency. [7289/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      837. To ask the Minister for Health the number of health workers entitled to the €1,000 pandemic bonus who remain unpaid; the position of staff in private nursing homes; the number of...
    • Nursing Homes
      838. To ask the Minister for Health the way a person (details supplied) was assessed for the nursing home support scheme; the way each was contribution calculated; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Services
      839. To ask the Minister for Health the capital works that were carried out at Cappagh Orthopaedic Hospital in 2022; the nature of these works; if each capital works project is still ongoing or...
    • Care of the Elderly
      840. To ask the Minister for Health the number of day care centres that are funded by the HSE for older persons that are currently open in CHO7 and CHO9 in tabular form. [7303/23]
    • Hospital Services
      841. To ask the Minister for Health the current funding and staffing resources that would be required if the opening hours at the urgent care centre at Children's Health Ireland at Connolly...
    • Disability Services
      842. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE psychologists in each children's disability network teams within Dublin, in tabular form. [7305/23]
    • Hospital Services
      843. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by Children’s Health Ireland, at each location on access to private diagnostics in each of the years 2018 to 2022, inclusive, by firm,...
    • Disability Services
      853. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department intends to undertake a review of children’s disability services following the introduction of the new CDNT system, given the reported...
    • Health Services
      854. To ask the Minister for Health the way persons can access post-exposure prophylaxis on weekends; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7345/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      856. To ask the Minister for Health the number of care assistants that have exited the profession in each hospital in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023 including the expected amount to leave in the...
    • Health Services
      857. To ask the Minister for Health when cardiopathy will be listed and covered under the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7358/23]
    • Healthcare Policy
      859. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to extend the three-year deadline under section 26(5) of the Child and Family Relationships Act 2015, for use of anonymous gametes in existence...
    • Health Services Staff
      860. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists WTEs currently based at each relevant centre in County Monaghan; the corresponding numbers for February 2022, February...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      861. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting appointments with occupational therapy in County Monaghan; and the numbers waiting over 1 month, over 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      864. To ask the Minister for Health when a person in County Cork will receive a neurosurgery appointment (details supplied). [7370/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      865. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people working at University Hospital Limerick on 8 February 2020; the corresponding figure for 8 February 2023; if he will provide details of...
    • Hospital Services
      866. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an Irish citizen living in Great Britain cannot access dialysis treatment in Castlebar University Hospital or Galway University Hosital when they...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      867. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE is planning to base a minor injuries clinic at Carndonagh Community Hospital or elsewhere in the Inishowen peninsula, County Donegal. [7381/23]
    • Health Services
      868. To ask the Minister for Health the HSEs plans for improving the delivery of primary care diagnostic services across County Donegal in the time ahead.; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      869. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the delivery of the primary care centre scheduled for Bangor Erris, County Mayo; the timeline for the delivery of same; and if...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      871. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times for urgent referrals to the breast clinic in UCHG, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7387/23]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      872. To ask the Minister for Health the total funding provided by his Department for a number of programmes (details supplied); and if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the funding...
    • Medicinal Products
      873. To ask the Minister for Health the process by which pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea and vomiting can obtain the drug cariban; the reason the drug cannot be prescribed by a GP on...
    • Health Services Staff
      875. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether basic information about particular public appointments to HSE posts, namely, the date of the appointment, the relevant service location...
    • Mental Health Services
      876. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 842 of 5 April 2022, 308 of 18 May 2022, 233 of 22 June 2022, 1117 of 12 July 2022 and 324 of 10 November 2022, the...
    • Disability Services
      877. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists and speech and language therapists who are employed in Mayo by an organisation (details supplied) and the HSE, in tabular...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Forestry Sector
      878. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide support to farmers in communities ahead of investment companies and vulture funds (details supplied); and if he...
    • Departmental Schemes
      879. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and details of compensation or redress schemes put in place by his Department since 1998, in tabular form; the number of...
    • Animal Welfare
      880. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the Programme for Government commitment to review the sentencing regime underpinning the Animal...
    • Aquaculture Industry
      881. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason his Department on 7 December 2017 issued an aquaculture licence (details supplied) when it has been established under FOI...
    • Forestry Sector
      883. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of staff working in the Forestry Service as of 31 December 2022; and if he will provide a breakdown of the areas...
    • Departmental Policies
      886. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is currently considering funding supports for landowners to cut down dangerous roadside trees and to replant an...
    • Grant Payments
      887. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if grants are available to farmers to make roadway access to a derelict property and a hayshed on their lands; and if he will make a...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      888. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the total area of lands that consist of a mixture of scrub land, limestone pavement and grazing land on the Aran Islands and are...
    • Forestry Sector
      889. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the expected timeframe for the commencement of the new forestry programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6609/23]
    • Animal Diseases
      891. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of herds that are currently restricted with TB, per county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      894. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1846 of 18 January 2023, the reason a pension has still not been paid to a former employee...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      895. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the allocations made by Horse Racing Ireland to its prize fund; the allocation to the prize fund from the horse and greyhound racing...
    • Departmental Staff
      896. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of WTE staff by job title working in his Department’s laboratory at Backweston as of 7 February 2023; the number of...
    • Departmental Bodies
      897. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date on which the Prosecutorial Committee will become a working section of his Department; if he will clarify whether the...
    • Animal Welfare
      898. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons his Department has successfully and unsuccessfully prosecuted for the possession and administration of...
    • Climate Action Plan
      899. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine having ruled out a beef reduction scheme for farmers looking to exit the sector and discounting the resultant emissions reduction,...
    • Departmental Funding
      900. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of funding provided to Teagasc each year since 2010, in tabular form; the structure and oversight his Department has to...
    • Teagasc Activities
      901. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the commercial interests that are represented on the Teagasc authority; if this appropriately reflects the central scientific...
    • Animal Diseases
      902. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of salmonella outbreaks in each relevant county detected in 2023 to date; his Department’s response to these...
    • Forestry Sector
      905. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will publish in full the shareholder letter of expectation issued to Coillte on 2 June 2022; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Food Industry
      907. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 278, 280 and 281 of 11 May 2022, if the Government has sought a further derogation this year...
    • Forestry Sector
      908. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the State’s State aid application with regard to forestry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Control of Dogs
      909. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to undertake an awareness campaign on dog ownership nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7376/23]
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Departmental Programmes
      911. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the total number of applications received for funding under the Community Services Programme for County Louth, by organisation name...
    • Departmental Schemes
      912. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on a proposed indemnity scheme for farmers with land that is accessible to the public; and if she will...
    • Parking Provision
      913. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the Community Centres Investment Fund provided funding for improvements to car parking facilities around community centres and...
    • Greenways Provision
      914. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the proposed works for the Mell Greenway, Drogheda, following the further engagement from her...
    • Departmental Funding
      915. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding provided under the social inclusion and community activation programme in each of the years from 2018 to 2022, by county,...

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