Written answers
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Cabinet Committees
15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Government Co-ordination will next meet. [5852/23]
- Labour Market
33. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons employed in 2022, by industry and county, in tabular form. [7746/23]
- Constitutional Amendments
34. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his plans for constitutional amendments. [6930/23]
- Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
35. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagements with the social partners. [6931/23]
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Trade Relations
36. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has considered the implications for Ireland and the EU regarding the US Inflation Reduction Act 2022; and if he will make a...
- Work Permits
37. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider reviewing the decision to refuse applications that failed pre-check where the remuneration figures were incorrect...
- Enterprise Support Services
39. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if any data centres applied for assistance under the Ukraine enterprise crisis scheme; and if any data centres were granted assistance...
- National Standards Authority of Ireland
40. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the members of the National Standards Authority of Ireland panel who drafted IS-398:2013; and the members of the National Standards...
- Low Pay
41. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No.50 of 08 February 2023, if his attention has been drawn to a Low Pay Commission report (details...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Environmental Policy
42. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he considers that the independence and focus of the EPA is comprised and diluted by the fact that its functions and...
- Wind Energy Generation
43. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide the timeframe for the publication of the revised wind energy development guidelines and the reason...
- Departmental Bodies
44. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the body or outside agency associated with his Department that has the ultimate authority on the guidance to local...
- Environmental Schemes
45. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if grant funding to aid the implementation of environmentally friendly and energy efficient changes is available for a...
- Inland Fisheries
47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of funding provided to Inland Ireland in the past three years to date; if he will clarify the status of work...
- Post Office Network
48. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline the current situation with respect to the €30 million funding package announced in June 2022 to...
- Broadband Infrastructure
49. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeframe for the rollout of at least 30mb broadband speeds to a location (details supplied) in County Donegal as...
- Energy Conservation
51. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps his Department is taking to encourage a reduction in energy usage in public sector buildings (details...
- Energy Prices
52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide details of any engagement that he has had with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities in relation...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Departmental Schemes
53. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to cases whereby some sports clubs cannot apply for the sports club EV charging scheme due to not having...
- Transport Policy
54. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current legal situation with respect to e-scooters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7743/23]
- Public Transport
55. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide interim funding for the provision of transport to enable young people in Beara, County Cork, to access disability services in...
- Taxi Regulations
56. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the two-year grace period afforded to taxi drivers during Covid-19 for car replacement can be extended to all taxi drivers due to the...
- Bus Services
57. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the penalties that are in place for public transport bus operators when buses do not operate on schedule; the operators that received...
- Transport Policy
59. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the introduction of micro-mobility scooters; when legislation will be advanced to allow companies to...
- Rail Network
60. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport with consideration to the Port Access Northern Cross Route Phase 1 in Drogheda advancing to construction at present, if any discussions...
- Maritime Safety
62. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 198 of 13 December 2022 and 160 of 18 January 2023m to detail if any State body is responsible to...
- Road Network
63. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to ensure that a survey of the integrity of roadside banks on the N71 between Innishannon and Bandon is carried out, especially concerning...
- Bus Services
64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an additional bus stop on the western side of Bandon to facilitate elderly residents. [7759/23]
- Department of Finance
- Business Supports
67. To ask the Minister for Finance if any data centres applied for assistance under the business energy support scheme; and if any data centres were granted assistance under the scheme. [7615/23]
- Tax Code
68. To ask the Minister for Finance if those suffering from dementia and Alzheimer’s disease who are late paying their local property tax will be required to pay the 8% per day interest...
- Business Supports
70. To ask the Minister for Finance if the thresholds for the temporary business energy support scheme, namely the need to experience a 50% or more increase in electricity and or natural gas...
- Departmental Policies
71. To ask the Minister for Finance if a demand for repayment of a State support will be reviewed (details supplied) given the evidence provided to show compliance with the spirit of the scheme...
- Insurance Industry
72. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 246 of 22 November 2022, if he will explain his statement that the Central Bank cannot dictate the pricing or provision...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- EU Funding
73. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in discussions with the EU Commission, the Government has raised the extending of the Peace IV Programme in order that projects that...
- Housing Provision
74. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated number of modular houses that will be built in 2023 and 2024. [5974/23]
- State Pensions
76. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Ifhe will provide an update and the timeframe for commencement of a pension increase (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Heritage Sites
77. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the contract for the management of a heritage site (details supplied) in County Limerick; if a contract...
- Flood Risk Management
78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the Skibbereen flood defence scheme will be complete, given current delays are holding up necessary road works on the N71. [7757/23]
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Departmental Funding
79. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding and the heading under which it was granted to organisations (details supplied) in 2021, 2022 and to date in...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Wildlife Protection
83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 416 of 8 November 2022, if a timeframe is set out for member states to comply with the...
- Wildlife Conservation
84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 293 of 29 November 2022, if it is the case that there are no conservation measures...
- Departmental Records
85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when documents (details supplied) will be forwarded to Mayo County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7462/23]
- Homeless Persons Supports
94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the measures in place to prevent homelessness outside of the current moratorium on certain notices to quit; and if...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Birth Certificates
98. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a foreign births registration application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7472/23]
- Ukraine War
99. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he and his EU colleagues at the appropriate level continue to bring pressure on Russia to withdraw from Ukraine and...
- Freedom of Information
100. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when his Department will satisfy its obligation to publish its freedom of information logs for 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces
101. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the temporary pause on post 1994 corporals and privates who have reached or are approaching mandatory retirement age for discharge remains in...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Adult Education Provision
102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will act on a Labour Court recommendation that it formulates an offer of better working terms and conditions for adult...
- Special Educational Needs
103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of schools in the Dublin area where the Minister has served a notice for additional provision for children with...
- School Staff
104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a second mainstream teacher will be appointed to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7474/23]
- Schools Building Projects
105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school build for a school (details supplied); the timeline for the completion of same; and if she will make a statement on...
- Special Educational Needs
106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) it is expected that will open an ASD classroom; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7485/23]
- Period Poverty
107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can clarify the policy of her Department in relation to the provision of free period products in secondary schools; and if she will make a...
- Schools Building Projects
108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the updated schedule from the building department within her Department to be issued to (details supplied) in order that work...
- School Staff
109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clearly outline the reason time spent teaching in private secondary schools (details supplied) is not reckonable as experience for...
- Teacher Training
110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any plans to update circulars (details supplied) given the current shortage of secondary school teachers which may encourage more...
- Schools Building Projects
112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the tender document that was due to go out by the end of 2022 for the next bundle of schools has been issued for a school (details supplied);...
- School Accommodation
113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on an application for additional accommodation for a school (details supplied). [7571/23]
- School Staff
114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given the issues faced by many second level schools in filling reaching posts if she will consider collating information on the number of...
- Special Educational Needs
115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts being made by her Department and the NCSE to ensure a person (details supplied) obtains a school place suitable to their specified...
- Education Policy
117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has a policy, or if any guidance has been provided to schools in relation to homework; and if so, if she will outline same....
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- State Pensions
118. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review will be carried out on a pension payment to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Social Insurance
119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a list of organisations that can be given direct access to a person’s PRSI records, without that...
- Employment Schemes
120. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the weekly rate of payment for participants on the job initiative scheme; if the scheme is treated the same as community...
- Personal Public Service Numbers
121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department collects data on the allocation of PPS numbers to international protection applicants (IPAs); if so, to...
- Social Welfare Payments
123. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when payment for carer’s allowance will be reinstated and arrears due issue in the case of a person (details supplied)...
- State Pensions
124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for a State pension (non-contributory) by a person (details supplied) in County...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Departmental Funding
126. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of funding and the heading under which it was granted to organisations (details supplied) in 2021,...
- Disability Services
127. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to introduce the EU disability card in the State; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Asylum Seekers
128. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Government intends to house refugees or asylum seekers in a venue (details supplied); and if he will make...
- Childcare Services
130. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will mandate his Department to examine the introduction of public provision of childcare, as recommended...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Cybersecurity Policy
132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the attack on IT systems at Munster Technological University; if he has received a briefing on the matter; and...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Prison Service
134. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the independent living skills units currently available across the prison estate; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Funding
141. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of funding and the heading under which it was granted to organisations (details supplied) in 2021, 2022 and to date...
- Naturalisation Applications
142. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the progression of the naturalisation process for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
- An Garda Síochána
143. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of officers from inspectors to commissioners that are allocated to Templemore, Training College, their job...
- Legislative Measures
144. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the laws and penalties that are in place for persons who is convicted of spiking another person with a drug or substance...
- Proposed Legislation
146. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he intends to amend any aspects of the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 to...
- Prison Service
147. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vacancies on each prison visiting committee in 2022; the number of visits each visiting committee made to their...
- Departmental Data
149. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of discrimination cases taken and won over the past ten years, under each of the nine grounds as applicable, in...
- Immigration Policy
150. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on his recent discussions with EU colleagues in regard to the European immigration crisis with particular...
- Department of Health
- State Claims Agency
151. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set out the rationale for the State Claims Agency to not routinely evaluate the adequacy of measures adopted by a data sharing agreement to counter...
- Medicinal Products
152. To ask the Minister for Health the process in writing by which pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea and vomiting can obtain cariban; the reason the drug not be prescribed by a GP on...
- Hospital Appointments Status
153. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting on an operation in Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7455/23]
- Seirbhísí agus Tacaíochtaí Gaeilge
154. To ask the Minister for Health an dtabharfaidh an grúpa tras-Rialtais atá in mbun oibre ar thodhchaí lipéadú bia in Éirinn aird ar mholadh atá á...
- Dental Services
155. To ask the Minister for Health if he has reviewed the adequacy of dental services for people who hold medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7465/23]
- Disability Services
156. To ask the Minister for Health if he will fund a community neuro-rehabilitation team to be set up in CHO4. [7466/23]
- Health Services
157. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the over 8s referral protocol to community opticians; and whether the €22.51 paid to opticians per consultation reflects the real cost of...
- Health Service Executive
159. To ask the Minister for Health the funding set aside on an annual basis for contingent liability for the past ten years to date by the HSE; the way in which the amount is determined by the...
- Medical Records
162. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a particular protocol followed by the HSE and Medical Council in relation to the retention of patient files when a general practitioner has ceased...
- Period Poverty
165. To ask the Minister for Health if he can clarify Government policy in relation to tackling period poverty; if they are supporting the passing of the legislation currently at Seanad Committee...
- Medicinal Products
166. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the drug cariban cannot beprescribed by a GP on the drug payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7492/23]
- Hospital Appointments Status
168. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long on an appointment in Monaghan Hospital. [7495/23]
- General Practitioner Services
169. To ask the Minister for Health if a review can be undertaken to examine the viability of the out of hours GP north east contract (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Ambulance Service
170. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to tackle the delays experienced by those in need of the National Ambulance Service; the average wait time for an ambulance; what additional staffing...
- Medicinal Products
171. To ask the Minister for Health what is the process in writing by which pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea and vomiting can obtain the drug cariban (details supplied). [7563/23]
- Hospital Services
173. To ask the Minister for Health for a timeline as to when the lymphoedema service will recommence at Sligo University Hospital. [7566/23]
- Hospital Closures
174. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact the 500 persons are waiting on beds as a result of the closure of a facility (details supplied); and if he will...
- Hospital Appointments Status
175. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details suppled) who following a referral by their GP to University Hospital Limerick 18 months ago for an endoscopy has...
- Health Services
176. To ask the Minister for Health when a person's (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an appointment for a hearing test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7589/23]
- Disability Services
177. To ask the Minister for Health the number of education and or training places that are available for young persons with autism who have completed a course (details supplied); and if he will...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
178. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 704 of 29 March 2022, the way a person who was seconded from a public sector employee role to a front facing vaccination...
- Disability Services
180. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support the establishment of the community neuro rehabilitation team in each of the CHO areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7595/23]
- Abortion Services
181. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline a timeline for the further progressing of the review to the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; and if he will make a...
- Health Services
182. To ask the Minister for Health the funding his Department has allocated to BreastCheck, the national breast cancer screening programme; the percentage of the total budget allocation for his...
- Medicinal Products
184. To ask the Minister for Health when adjuvant abemaciclib will be approved to reduce the risk of breast cancer for patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7600/23]
- Health Services
185. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to review the age parameters for BreastCheck to increase the provision of free examinations to people under the age of 50 years; and if...
- Hospital Appointments Status
188. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a person (details supplied) will receive an urgent appointment for paediatric surgery at CHI; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
189. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the business case in relation to the Mater Hospital long-Covid clinic (details supplied); the reason for the delay in reviewing this submission;...
- Health Services
190. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to further expand the free contraception scheme to people aged over 30 years; the steps he is taking to address the significant costs of...
- Patient Transport
191. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1516 of 18 January 2023, the number of beds allocated to patients transferred via ambulance to Nenagh and St....
- General Practitioner Services
192. To ask the Minister for Health the additional resources that were provided to Shannondoc, the out-of-hours GP service for mid-west region, before Christmas 2022; the way in which these...
- Cancer Services
193. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the BreastCheck annual screening report; the reason a report has not been published since 2020; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
194. To ask the Minister for Health if given the population, Athlone is being considered as a location for the provision of a hospital. [7622/23]
- Care of the Elderly
195. To ask the Minister for Health when capital funding will be made available for the provision of long-term day care services in Carndonagh, County Donegal [7632/23]
- Home Help Service
196. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make provision for the allocation of funds to be made available directly to families to allow them to source the care required given the failure by...
- Hospital Services
197. To ask the Minister for Health if the paediatric care for a child (details supplied) can transfer to another hospital closer to their new home having moved address; the process to apply for...
- Hospital Staff
198. To ask the Minister for Health if Cork University Hospital has engaged a substantial number of management consultants to work with the management team there; if so, the number of management...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
199. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an electric mobility scooter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7644/23]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
200. To ask the Minister for Health the number of healthcare workers known to be currently out of work due to long-Covid symptoms; his plans to devise a scheme that would grant financial security...
- Mental Health Services
201. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1410 of 18 January 2023, the reason resident numbers in a centre (details supplied) continue to reduce following a move...
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
203. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of any contracts granted by the HSE for building and maintenance works on St. Finbarr's Hospital, Cork since January 2019; the...
- Mental Health Services
204. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 638 of 5 October 2021, 691 of 29 November 2022 and 1553 of 18 January 2023, the reason that the HSE is not yet clear if...
- Care of the Elderly
205. To ask the Minister for Health if he will seek an update on future development plans for the St. Marys Hospital site on the Dublin Road, Drogheda following completion of the new 30 bed...
- Departmental Correspondence
206. To ask the Minister for Health the date in Q2 2018 that his Department was informed by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform that the business case for a national electronic health...
- Primary Care Centres
207. To ask the Minister for Health the extent of the network of primary care centres throughout County Kildare in existence, proposed or at planning stage; the extent to which replacement of...
- Hospital Appointments Status
208. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7722/23]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
209. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the pandemic payment for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7730/23]
- General Practitioner Services
210. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that SouthDoc out-of-hours GP service is operating in Castletownbere, County Cork. [7749/23]
- Ambulance Service
212. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details on the number of rapid response vehicles operating in the Cork south-west area each day, including the number of hours each vehicle is...
- Nursing Homes
213. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nursing home residents who availed of the fair deal scheme; the total cost to the Exchequer annually for the years 2018 to 2022, inclusive; the...
- Dental Services
215. To ask the Minister for Health the total funding for HSE dental services in the past five years in all LHOs in CHO4; the number of children waiting for dental services in these LHOs; their...
- Womans Health Services
216. To ask the Minister for Health the opening hours of each specialist menopause clinic by location, in tabular form as of 1 February 2022. [7755/23]
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Agriculture Schemes
217. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers who export slurry are qualified applicants for the low emissions slurry equipment grant scheme under TAMS II; if not, the...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Rural Schemes
220. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of funding and the heading under which it was granted to organisations (details supplied) in 2021, 2022 and to date in...
