Written answers

Tuesday, 21 February 2023

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Cabinet Committees
      34. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Economy and Investment will next meet. [6733/23]
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Sports Events
      70. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will report on her engagements in relation to the stated intention of the International Olympic Committee to explore the...
    • Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla
      73. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir le cur i bhfeidhm Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú), 2021 ó...
    • Arts Policy
      76. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the basic income for the arts pilot scheme. [8608/23]
    • Tourism Policy
      77. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if Fáilte Ireland will open a call for applications under the platforms for growth or large grant scheme in 2023; and if she...
    • Teagmháil na nÓg
      81. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an féidir léi plean a chur chun cinn chun foirgneamh saintógtha don óige a thógáil den chineál...
    • Departmental Data
      82. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of artists in County Carlow who are in receipt of the basic income for the arts pilot scheme. [8409/23]
    • Tourism Promotion
      83. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she is taking to support the hospitality sector, specifically with regard to tourism, in rural areas. [8583/23]
    • Olympic Games
      85. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will consider a boycott of the 2024 Paris Olympics in the event that Russian and Belarussian athletes are allowed...
    • Caiteachas Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta
      87. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil i gceist aici Ciste Caipitil agus Bonneagair a bheidh dírithe go sonrach ar na Gaeltachtaí a chur ar fáil;...
    • Tourism Policy
      88. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the extension of the 9% VAT rate for the hospitality sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8569/23]
    • Tourism Promotion
      89. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps her Department is taking to promote eco-tourism, particularly in coastal areas. [8433/23]
    • Scéimeanna Teanga
      90. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén líon teaghlach, agus cén líon daoine, i bhfoirm tábla, i ngach contae, atá ag glacadh páirt...
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      92. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will report on the work of the National Swimming Strategy Working Group; the number of times that the group has met since...
    • Cúrsaí Gaeilge
      93. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil aon ról aici maidir le hobair an ghrúpa trasRialtais maidir le lipéadú earraí bia in Éirinn...
    • Arts Policy
      95. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will outline the criteria for funding arts festivals. [8607/23]
    • Culture Policy
      96. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 8 of 26 January 2023, the status of the legacy framework arising from Galway 2020; when the...
    • Olympic Games
      97. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department supports the exclusion of Russian and Belarussian athletes from the 2024 Paris Olympics; and if she will make a...
    • Culture Policy
      99. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has developed initiatives to support more opportunities for older people to develop cultural activities; and if...
    • Seirbhísí agus Tacaíochtaí Gaeilge
      100. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an gcuirfidh sí tacaíocht bhreise ar fáil do hallaí pobail na Gaeltachta; agus an ndéanfaidh sí...
    • Tourism Policy
      121. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will outline the work her Department has carried out to increase cross Border tourism in 2022; if work is underway to...
    • Sports Organisations
      122. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of sports organisations in County Carlow that are in receipt of the sports energy support scheme. [8408/23]
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Semi-State Bodies
      123. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under his aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the...
    • Departmental Properties
      124. To ask the Taoiseach if he has received a request from the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for properties under the control of his Department or under the...
    • Citizens' Assembly
      125. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a timeline for the establishment of the Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs and the timeline for the provision of its terms of reference to the Houses...
    • Irish Sign Language
      126. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by his Department and by agencies which operate under the remit of his Department. [8248/23]
    • Departmental Advertising
      127. To ask the Taoiseach the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department and all agencies under the remit of his Department in 2022 and in January 2023. [8694/23]
    • Departmental Staff
      128. To ask the Taoiseach the number of communications staff currently employed in his Department; the cost of these staff for 2022; and the expected cost for 2023. [8712/23]
    • Office of the Attorney General
      130. To ask the Taoiseach if he has any plans for reform of the Office of the Attorney General. [8779/23]
    • Ukraine War
      131. To ask the Taoiseach the details of the supports that his Department has provided for Ukraine and for Ukrainian people since February 2022, whether in Ukraine or within the State; the...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      132. To ask the Taoiseach the number of discrimination cases taken and won against his Department over the past ten years, under each of the grounds applicable, in tabular form. [8888/23]
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Health and Safety
      133. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if consideration will be given to working with construction firms to have AED equipment installed at large scale construction sites;...
    • Business Supports
      134. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses that have applied for assistance under stream 1 of the Ukraine enterprise crisis scheme to date, by county;...
    • Online Safety
      137. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which the EU Digital Services Act requires online platforms and apps to compensate victims of financial fraud or...
    • Irish Sign Language
      138. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by his Department and by agencies which operate under the...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      139. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of senior principal scientific officers and senior executive in global procurement working for Enterprise Ireland in 2021,...
    • Ticket Booking Fees
      140. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on whether the Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Act 2021 should apply to tickets...
    • Departmental Advertising
      141. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department and all agencies under the remit of his Department in 2022 and in...
    • Departmental Staff
      142. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of communications staff currently employed in his Department; the cost of these staff for 2022; the expected cost for...
    • Company Closures
      143. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Enterprise Ireland client companies that have been dissolved, entered receivership or been liquidated in the past five...
    • Employment Rights
      144. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on any engagements or correspondence his Department has had with the owners or management of a hotel (details...
    • Ukraine War
      146. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of the supports that his Department has provided for Ukraine and for Ukrainian people since February 2022, whether in...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      147. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of discrimination cases taken and won against his Department over the past ten years, under each of the grounds as...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      148. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a response will issue to the concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in respect of continually changing...
    • Inland Fisheries
      149. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason the inland fisheries division within his Department contracted a private sector company (details supplied)...
    • Irish Sign Language
      152. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by his Department and by agencies which...
    • Road Projects
      153. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8283/23]
    • Radon Gas Levels
      154. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions his Department is taking to address the risk of lung cancer from radon gas which is estimated to be...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      157. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when seven new gas-fired generators will be available to supply power to Irish users ensuring further energy security...
    • Energy Policy
      159. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way he plans to collect the windfall tax from those supplying the gas by LNG importation into the EU; if his...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      160. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will engage with the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities to provide details on the closing of electricity...
    • Energy Prices
      161. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 93, 100, 107, and 108 of 15 December 2022 in relation to the regulation of...
    • Climate Change Policy
      164. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason his Department previously advised that commercial semi-State bodies are not obligated to report on...
    • Energy Conservation
      165. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on his Department’s progress in delivering a low-cost loan guarantee scheme to encourage...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      167. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will lay out the current situation with respect to the proposed Shannon liquified natural gas terminal; and if he...
    • Departmental Funding
      168. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a schedule of NGOs that he and bodies under the aegis of his Department suspended funding and or...
    • Consumer Protection
      169. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider an issue that an electrical consumer (details supplied) is having; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Advertising
      170. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department and all agencies under the remit of his Department...
    • Departmental Staff
      171. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of communications staff currently employed in his Department; the cost of these staff for 2022; the expected...
    • Energy Conservation
      172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will clarify that the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland is grant-aiding the supply of the (details...
    • Waste Management
      173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the prevalence of inappropriate disposal of lithium batteries arising from the use of e-cigarettes and...
    • Energy Policy
      174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to apply a windfall tax on the 2022 profits of electricity companies; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Flood Risk Management
      175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when works will be carried out and completed on the river Thonogue, Ballylooby, Cahir, County Tipperary, following his...
    • Climate Change Policy
      176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide the exact carbon emissions derived per annum from the importation of coal from Colombia to Ireland;...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No.70 of 8 February 2023, if further clarity will be provided; if no cost...
    • Waste Management
      180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures he is taking or planning to take to ensure the re-use of construction and demolition waste; and if he will...
    • Ukraine War
      181. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the supports that his Department has provided for Ukraine and for Ukrainian people since February 2022,...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      182. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of discrimination cases taken and won against his Department over the past ten years, under each of the...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Public Transport
      183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the value of performance-related penalties issued to each public transport provider by the National Transport Authority in 2022. [8063/23]
    • Pension Provisions
      184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will conclude his consideration of a company’s (details supplied) approved pension increase submitted to him in July 2022....
    • Electric Vehicles
      185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action he will take to improve the charging infrastructure available for electric cars; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Driver Test
      186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to review the delays and wait times for driving tests in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8218/23]
    • Bus Éireann
      187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that Bus Éireann route 30-X30 from Donegal town departing at 4 a.m. to Dublin Airport was cancelled on 13 February 2023...
    • Irish Sign Language
      188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by his Department and by agencies which operate under the...
    • Road Safety Authority
      189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated full-year cost if 50 additional WTE driver testers were recruited for the Road Safety Authority; and if he will make a...
    • Parking Provision
      190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the campaign of an organisation (details supplied); if gardaí have any powers of enforcement in...
    • National Transport Authority
      191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Transport Authority was involved in relation to the establishment of setting standards for maintenance and enforcement...
    • Driver Test
      192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the delays professional public service drivers are experiencing in terms of getting out on the road due to the time lag between applying...
    • National Transport Authority
      194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Transport Authority will provide for the installation of a bus shelter at Dublin Bus Stop Nos. 495 and 4132. [8342/23]
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount that was retained in overpaid tolls by Transport Infrastructure Ireland in respect of the M50 in 2022; and if Transport...
    • Electric Vehicles
      196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding grant support for taxi drivers to purchase electric vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8384/23]
    • National Car Test
      197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the contract with the service provider of the national car test service contains any performance-related or penalty clauses for...
    • Departmental Advertising
      199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department and all agencies under the remit of his Department in 2022 and in...
    • Departmental Staff
      200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of communications staff currently employed in his Department; the cost of these staff for 2022; the expected cost for 2023;...
    • Road Safety
      201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current position regarding the national speed limit review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8723/23]
    • Rail Network
      202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm whether his Department has undertaken any exploratory work on a second train track on the Carlow to Waterford line;...
    • Public Transport
      203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passengers that used each LocalLink bus service within County Roscommon in each direction from January 2022 to date in...
    • Rail Network
      204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether there are plans to increase the number of train services from Sallins to Heuston; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Parking Provision
      205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to update the bye-laws on the powers councils have in respect of the parking of camper vans; and if he will make a...
    • Road Network
      206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has any plans to progress of the much-needed bypass at Julianstown village, County Meath; the correspondence he has had...
    • National Car Test
      207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NCT test for new cars will be extended from four to six years every two years, and from 10 to 12 years for older cars, in view of...
    • Driver Test
      208. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driving test will be expedited for a person (details supplied) for employment progression; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Programmes
      209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the supports that his Department has provided for Ukraine and for Ukrainian people since February 2022, whether in Ukraine...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of discrimination cases taken and won against his Department over the past ten years, under each of the grounds applicable,...
  • Department of Finance
    • Insurance Industry
      211. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagement he has had in recent times with an organisation (details supplied) in connection with affordable insurance for the sector to facilitate its...
    • Business Supports
      213. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will apply and maintain the reduced 9% VAT rate to hairdressing services on a permanent basis; if his Department has received and reviewed a report...
    • Fuel Sales
      215. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of prosecutions taken by Revenue Commissioners against individuals and companies engaged in selling coal door to door or through the internet that...
    • Business Supports
      216. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the change to the temporary business energy support scheme (details supplied); the businesses that will be eligible; and if he will...
    • Banking Sector
      217. To ask the Minister for Finance if the full amount of Exchequer funding allocated to bail out the banks arising from the financial crash will be recouped by the State; if he will confirm the...
    • Driver Licences
      218. To ask the Minister for Finance when the suspended disabled drivers’ medical board of appeal will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8184/23]
    • Tax Collection
      219. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the total taxation income derived from the carbon tax in each of the years 2019 to 2022, together with the anticipated...
    • Business Supports
      221. To ask the Minister for Finance if support under the cost to business energy scheme will be approved for a person (details supplied). [8217/23]
    • Irish Sign Language
      222. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by his Department and by agencies which operate under the remit of his Department....
    • Insurance Industry
      223. To ask the Minister for Finance the legislative steps planned to tackle the ongoing high cost of insurance, especially motor insurance, as it relates to the motorsports industry; and if he...
    • State Bodies
      226. To ask the Minister for Finance the full-time vacancies, by job title, in the office of the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman as of 14 February 2023; the estimated full-year cost of...
    • Tax Strategy Group
      227. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has plans to review the 41% exit tax charged on exchange-traded funds, as reported in the media; if he will ask the Tax Strategy Group to undertake such...
    • Tax Collection
      228. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue generated through customs and excise duties on petrol and diesel imported for retail use for each month from January 2019 to date; and if he will...
    • Departmental Advertising
      230. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department and all agencies under the remit of his Department in 2022 and in January 2023; and if he...
    • Departmental Staff
      231. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of communications staff currently employed in his Department; the cost of these staff for 2022; the expected cost for 2023; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Credits
      232. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of applications for the rent tax credit for 2022 and to date in 2023; if he will provide a breakdown of the claims, by county; the average...
    • Tax Collection
      233. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to concerns and proposals raised by a person (details supplied) in respect of the current tax demands in what is an extremely difficult...
    • Tax Code
      234. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has reviewed the possible introduction of an accommodation tax for tourists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8791/23]
    • Tax Credits
      236. To ask the Minister for Finance if parents who are paying private rent for their adult children who are in third level education can qualify for the €500 tax credit for renters to...
    • Tax Yield
      237. To ask the Minister for Finance the total receipts from the 2% betting tax in each of the years 2019 to 2022; if he will provide a breakdown between retail, online and phone betting amounts,...
    • Ukraine War
      238. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the supports his Department has provided for Ukraine and for Ukrainian people since February 2022, whether in Ukraine or within the State; the...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      239. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of discrimination cases taken and won against his Department over the past ten years, under each of the grounds applicable, in tabular form; and...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Freedom of Information
      240. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will include private nursing homes in the schedule of bodies covered by the Freedom of Information Act 2014. [8081/23]
    • Irish Sign Language
      241. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by his Department and by agencies which operate under the...
    • Court Accommodation
      242. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress of the Office of Public Works refurbishment of Carlow courthouse railings; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • National Monuments
      243. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of properties in counties Carlow and Kilkenny that are under the ownership of the Office of Public Works; the...
    • Coast Guard Service
      244. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the status of the proposed new station at Kilmore Quay; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Office of Public Works
      245. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the refurbishment works on the new Garda office in O’Connell Street, Dublin, have been completed; if so, when the OPW will...
    • National Lottery
      251. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the recommendations from the independent review of the distribution and utilisation of lottery funding carried out by an organisation...
    • Departmental Advertising
      253. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department and all agencies under the remit of his Department in 2022 and in...
    • Departmental Staff
      254. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of communications staff currently employed in his Department; the cost of these staff for 2022; the expected cost for 2023;...
    • State Bodies
      255. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the need to replace or reconstitute an organisation (details supplied); his views on which Department such an organisation...
    • Heritage Sites
      256. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the recent vandalism of the Lia Fáil at Tara; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Ukraine War
      258. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of the supports that his Department has provided for Ukraine and for Ukrainian people since February 2022, whether in...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      259. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of discrimination cases taken and won against his Department over the past ten years, under each of the grounds as...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Sports Funding
      260. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the next round of the sports capital funding will be announced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8178/23]
    • Irish Sign Language
      261. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by her Department and by agencies which operate under...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      262. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will intervene to ensure that museum staff pensioners get paid their FEMPI pension payment restoration with immediate...
    • Arts Policy
      263. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports available for artists particularly in relation to sourcing locations for studio spaces which is a huge problem for...
    • National Cultural Institutions
      264. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has met directly with the director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art to date in 2023. [8359/23]
    • Tourism Funding
      265. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has plans to provide supplementary funding to those projects that may need it as a consequence of rampant building...
    • Sports Funding
      266. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the date on which the next Local Authority Swimming Pool Grant Programme application process will commence; the amount granted to...
    • An Coimisinéir Teanga
      269. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht maidir le Ceist Phairliminte 3699/23, soiléiriú a thabhairt ar stádas an fheachtais earcaíochta maidir le...
    • Tourism Policy
      270. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on tourism proposals for Cork city and the key areas to be prioritised in this plan. [8600/23]
    • Heritage Projects
      271. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the alcohol-free night time events that will be included as part of the St. Patrick’s Day programmes in Dublin, Cork,...
    • Grant Payments
      272. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a schedule of NGOs that he and bodies under the aegis of her Department suspended funding and or grant aid to...
    • Sports Funding
      273. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she intends to open the sports capital programme for new applications; if she will clarify the situation where potential...
    • Departmental Advertising
      274. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount expended on advertising and promotion in her Department and all agencies under the remit of her Department in 2022 and...
    • Departmental Staff
      275. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of communications staff currently employed in her Department; the cost of these staff for 2022; the expected cost for...
    • Sports Funding
      276. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if targeted supports are provided to an organisation (details supplied) to enable affiliated clubs throughout the country to...
    • Ukraine War
      277. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the supports that her Department has provided for Ukraine and for Ukrainian people since February 2022, whether in...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      278. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of discrimination cases taken and won against her Department over the past ten years, under each of the grounds as...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Septic Tanks
      279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a septic tank grant will be granted to a person (details supplied) who was unaware of the need to register the septic tank...
    • Housing Policy
      282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to mandate and fund local authorities to publish periodical housing compliance inspection reports for local...
    • Housing Schemes
      284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the HAP limits and clarify if the band for a parent/parents with two children should have a further uplift...
    • Planning Issues
      285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the building control section of his Department was consulted on the exempted development planning regulations related to...
    • Regeneration Projects
      286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent on the Glen Regeneration Project in Cork; and the number of properties that were included in the project; and...
    • Rental Sector
      290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of disputes lodged with the Residential Tenancies Board regarding alleged failures to pass on the electricity...
    • Irish Sign Language
      292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by his Department and by agencies which operate...
    • Vacant Properties
      293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applicants for Carlow County Council's croí cónaithe scheme; the number of approved applicants; if...
    • Fire Service
      294. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress in addressing the difficulties in retaining part-time firefighters and improving their terms and conditions. [8272/23]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an itemised breakdown of his Department’s voted capital and current expenditure for 2020, 2021, 2022...
    • Departmental Data
      296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total capital expenditure on the following housing programmes for 2022: all Departmental capital funding for programmes...
    • Rental Sector
      297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has reviewed the relationship between HAP rent limits and rents being quoted in postal districts across Dublin; and if...
    • Housing Provision
      298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the claim by an organisation (details supplied) that the 2022 CSO new home completion data is incorrect and that...
    • Housing Schemes
      299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people awaiting a HAP review in Q1 of 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will make a...
    • Defective Building Materials
      300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the continued pursuit of homeowners affected by apartment defects for payment of levies by management companies...
    • Community Development Projects
      302. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will detail national policy on promoting and supporting community gardens and allotments; and if he will make a...
    • Local Authorities
      304. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline whether there is a funding stream available to local authorities to enable them to fund additional staff...
    • Community Development Projects
      305. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will expand the way in which the urban regeneration and development fund can be utilised for use on public realm and...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 547 of 18 January 2023, to outline on the basis which the person concerned was appointed...
    • Housing Schemes
      307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding or schemes available for first-time builders who qualified for a mortgage but, due to the increased costs of...
    • Local Authorities
      308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 233 of 14 February 2023, if he has drafted new regulations on this matter to take...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a person (details supplied) who wrote to his Department on 11 January 2023 can expect a substantive report; and if he...
    • Planning Issues
      311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the practice of developers not commencing construction after they have received planning permission; and his...
    • Local Authorities
      312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a homeowner (details supplied), whose property is rented to a local authority with a HAP tenant and who now wishes...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on plans for a facility (details supplied) under A8, wastewater collection and treatment needs...
    • Departmental Funding
      314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a schedule of NGOs that he and bodies under the aegis of his Department suspended funding and or grant aid...
    • National Planning Framework
      315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends on reviewing the National Planning Framework in view of the unforeseen and extraordinary growth in population...
    • Departmental Advertising
      316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department and all agencies under the remit of his Department in 2022...
    • Departmental Staff
      317. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of communications staff currently employed in his Department; the cost of these staff for 2022; the expected cost...
    • Housing Schemes
      318. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on his Department’s engagement with the Department of Health regarding the rolling out of...
    • Rental Sector
      319. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 282 of 14 February 2023, if a landlord may request a tenant to leave the property where...
    • Housing Schemes
      320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable cost rental homes delivered by AHBs and the LDA in 2022; the breakdown by local authority area; the...
    • Rental Sector
      323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the long delay in hearings and mediation at the Residential Tenancies Board. [8769/23]
    • Housing Policy
      324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the additional funding that will be provided to local authorities to enable them to take in charge housing estates which were...
    • Planning Issues
      325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will put in place a regulation which will require local authorities to take action within three years from the date that...
    • Ukraine War
      327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the supports that his Department has provided for Ukraine and for Ukrainian people since February 2022, whether...
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether Ireland has proposed any new SACs or SPAs in 2022 and 2023; and if he will list these. [8878/23]
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of discrimination cases taken and won against his Department over the past ten years, under each of the grounds as...
    • Housing Provision
      330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position with respect to relationship breakdown for couples on the local authority housing list; if he will outline the...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Patent Applications
      331. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application (details supplied) can be re-considered given the individual’s Irish citizenship; and if he will make a...
    • Repatriation Costs
      332. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts being made by his Department to assist in the repatriation of the remains of a person (details supplied) to Ireland. [8139/23]
    • Passport Services
      333. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a schedule of the time backlog on all accepted first-time passport applications; how these timelines compare with those...
    • Emigrant Support Services
      335. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a breakdown of all applications made under the emigrant support programme from the US and Canada in 2022; and if he will...
    • Irish Sign Language
      337. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by his Department and by agencies which operate under the remit...
    • Irish Prisoners Abroad
      338. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the position of an Irish citizen (details supplied) detained in Iran; and the efforts being undertaken to secure their...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      340. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Irish ambassador to Australia has visited any military barracks in Australia on official business in the years of 2022 and to date in...
    • Official Travel
      341. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he plans to visit the United Arab Emirates within the first half of 2023. [8353/23]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      342. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a foreign births register application by a person (details supplied) will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Irish Prisoners Abroad
      343. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the recent imprisonment of a person (details supplied) who has been sentenced to 26 years in prison by the dictatorial...
    • Disaster Response
      345. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8498/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      346. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a schedule of NGOs that he and bodies under the aegis of his Department suspended funding and-or grant aid to due to...
    • Departmental Advertising
      347. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department and all agencies under the remit of his Department in 2022 and in January...
    • Departmental Staff
      348. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of communications staff currently employed in his Department; the cost of these staff for 2022; the expected cost for 2023; and...
    • Ukraine War
      349. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of the supports that his Department has provided for Ukraine and for Ukrainian people since February 2022, whether in Ukraine or...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      350. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of discrimination cases taken and won against his Department over the past ten years, under each of the grounds as applicable, in...
  • Department of Defence
    • Irish Sign Language
      351. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by his Department and by agencies which operate under the remit of...
    • Naval Service
      352. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a new cadetship recruitment campaign for the Naval Service will be launched before the end of Q1, 2023; and if he will make a statement on...
    • State Claims Agency
      353. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount the State Claims Agency has paid out in compensation in mass action, relating to contamination and-or poisoning, life-changing injury...
    • Departmental Communications
      356. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his counterparts he has spoken to since his appointment as Minister for Defence, in tabular form. [8357/23]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      357. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total spent on equipment manufactured by a company (details supplied) for use in the Leinster House campus and other State-owned property,...
    • Departmental Advertising
      358. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department and all agencies under the remit of his Department in 2022 and in January...
    • Departmental Staff
      359. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of communications staff currently employed in his Department; the cost of these staff for 2022; the expected cost for 2023; and if he...
    • Defence Forces
      360. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the allowance paid to serving members of the Defence Forces on duty in the Border counties is considered as pensionable income for retiring...
    • Ukraine War
      364. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of the supports that his Department has provided for Ukraine and for Ukrainian people since February 2022, whether in Ukraine or...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      365. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of discrimination cases taken and won against his Department over the past ten years, under each of the grounds as applicable, in...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Disability Services
      366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a pilot project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8651/23]
    • Adult Education Provision
      367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a response will issue on concerns raised by an adult tutor (details supplied) in respect of the ongoing delays to implementation of Labour...
    • School Admissions
      368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school place in Kilcock, County Kildare, will be available for the forthcoming year in the case of the daughter of a person (details...
    • Departmental Data
      369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children currently within the primary school system who have been identified with a first percentile word reading score and a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that all children who are currently within the primary school system and who have been identified with a first percentile...
    • Departmental Funding
      371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding is available from her Department to parents who have been advised their child is in need of an educational assessment but are not a...
    • School Admissions
      372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school place in Kilcock will be accommodated for the forthcoming year in the case of the children of a person (details supplied); and if she...
    • Special Educational Needs
      373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children on waiting lists for each reading school; and her plans to ensure that every child who requires education from a reading...
    • School Accommodation
      374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for additional accommodation submitted by a school (details supplied) will be expedited; and the timeline for a decision and...
    • School Staff
      375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will approve a NEPS psychologist for a school (details supplied) as a matter of urgency. [8099/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children currently in special schools and special classes in mainstream schools; and if she will provide a breakdown by county and...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total capital allocation to her Department for new schools in 2020, 2021 and 2022; the total spend from this budget in each of those years...
    • Departmental Funding
      378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of funding allocated to the Middletown centre for autism, Northern Ireland, each year since the commencement of the programme; the...
    • Teacher Training
      379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason post-primary teachers who are upskilling to teach maths, physics and Spanish are offered financial support, while those who are...
    • School Staff
      380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vacant home economics teaching posts that exist at second level in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8167/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to open any further special school placements for children in the north Dublin area. [8174/23]
    • Energy Conservation
      382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria for the schools' energy retrofit pathfinder programme; the way a school can put forward its interest in being considered for the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8180/23]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the individual total capital expenditure on new primary and post-primary school accommodation projects in County Clare from 2011 to 2023, in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide additional places in a special reading school (details supplied) and in special reading schools generally throughout the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an updated timeframe for building works to commence at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Teacher Training
      387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to awarding the same financial supports to registered post-primary teachers to upskill, in order to teach home...
    • Irish Sign Language
      389. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by her Department and by agencies which operate under the remit of...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be a review of the way DEIS is allocated particularly in cases where two single-sex schools sit adjacent with the same demographic...
    • Special Educational Needs
      391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the supports available for students with a diagnosis of dyscalculia in post primary education, in particular, supports to help...
    • School Admissions
      393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all efforts are being made to ensure a child (details supplied) has a school place for September 2023, given they have fully completed their...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, considering the 2015 Teaching Council study on teacher supply which found a shortage of home economics teachers, and also that a survey...
    • State Examinations
      400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an urgent update on a re-checked Leaving Certificate exam result for a student (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the minor works grant will be reinstated this year to allow schools to apply for much-needed works. [8341/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of recruiting two additional WTE behaviour practitioners for the National Council for Special Education. [8363/23]
    • School Staff
      404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is engaging with stakeholders (details supplied) with regards to the establishment of a nationwide teacher transfer system for...
    • Schools Building Projects
      405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the situation regarding a grant (details supplied); when schools can expect payment; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Accommodation
      406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how a newly built school (details supplied) is already deemed too small before it even opens and cannot absorb students from its community; and...
    • Schools Building Projects
      407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8380/23]
    • School Admissions
      409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the issue of oversubscription in junior infant classes for a school (details supplied); if she has plans to address this...
    • Schools Building Projects
      410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a minor works grant payment will be issued to a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay with this payment; and if she will make...
    • School Accommodation
      414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on an application for additional school accommodation forms of grant-aid by a school (details supplied); and if she...
    • School Curriculum
      415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the NCSE policy advice on inclusive education was received by her; when she plans to publish the advice received; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when applications for the Summer Works Programme 2023 will open, in particular category 5 for science laboratories; and if she will make a...
    • State Examinations
      417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has spoken formally to the CEO of the State Examinations Commission to date in 2023. [8529/23]
    • Pension Provisions
      418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that ETB tutors are given pension entitlements. [8613/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a new special educational needs organiser will be appointed to the Carlow area following the vacancy arising (details supplied); and if she...
    • Schools Building Projects
      420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a project (details supplied) can proceed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8646/23]
    • Education Schemes
      421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the allocation of funding for the National Educational Psychological Service in an area that can be provided (details supplied); the plans to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current position of a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8649/23]
    • School Admissions
      423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school place in a local school in Kilcock will be provided in the case of the daughter of a person (details supplied), who has completed two...
    • School Accommodation
      425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in the completion of a site assessment at a school (details supplied) which was due to be carried out in September 2022 and...
    • School Admissions
      426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school place will be facilitated for a child (details supplied) in his or her preferred local school; if every effort is being made to...
    • Teacher Training
      427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to permitting students who do not hold a H4 grade in Leaving Certificate Irish to undertake the Professional...
    • Departmental Advertising
      428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount expended on advertising and promotion in her Department, and all agencies, under the remit of her Department in 2022 and in January...
    • Departmental Staff
      429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of communications staff currently employed in her Department; the cost of them for 2022; the expected cost for 2023; and if she will...
    • School Transport
      430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school transport will be available for a special needs school student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Admissions
      431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will approve a school placement which is currently under appeal (details supplied). [8726/23]
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child will be seen (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8745/23]
    • School Transport
      434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a matter concerning a school bus service (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8763/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will publish all the data related to the new educational assessment process as part of the assessment of needs; the reason if this data...
    • School Accommodation
      436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the construction of a school (details supplied). [8773/23]
    • Teacher Training
      438. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered amending the student teacher Gaeltacht grant to provide full State funding of mandatory Gaeltacht placement for all student...
    • School Facilities
      439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address serious safety concerns that have been brought to the attention of her Department by a school (details supplied); and if she...
    • Ukraine War
      440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the supports that her Department has provided for Ukraine and for Ukrainian people since February 2022, whether in Ukraine or...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of discrimination cases taken and won against her Department over the past ten years, under each of the grounds as applicable, in...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Birth Certificates
      442. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans for a review of the legal requirements for mothers registering the birth of her child with a new partner,...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      443. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if Covid-19 will be recognised as an occupational disease in Ireland, as per the EU ACSH Agreement in November 2022; if so,...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      444. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an appeal for a carer’s allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Pension Provisions
      446. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of women currently receiving State pension (contributory) but whose years out of the workforce as a homemaker...
    • Transport Costs
      449. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a companion pass will issue to a person (details supplied) who attends regularly and requires a person to accompany him;...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      450. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the eligibility for household benefits in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Fuel Poverty
      451. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the eligibility for the fuel allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      452. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an exceptional needs payment will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      453. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the of appeal in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      454. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a fuel allowance application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      456. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the correct level of rent supplement payable in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      457. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if applications for the carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) can be reviewed; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      458. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in respect of an appeal for the domiciliary care allowance in the case of a person (details supplied);...
    • Community Welfare Services
      459. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if participants on the jobs initiative scheme are included in the 2023 wage increase for community workers; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      460. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a person who is living alone at home but is a qualified adult on their spouses' pension, who resides in a...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      461. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a substantive reply will issue to correspondence from this Deputy (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      462. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way an overpayment of carer's allowance was calculated (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      463. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) will be expedited and approved. [8179/23]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      464. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will be approved for jobseeker's as a matter of urgency, given that they have been seeking...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      465. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review the time for appeals for social welfare disallowances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8219/23]
    • Irish Sign Language
      466. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by her Department and by agencies which operate...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      467. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full -ear cost of increasing the maximum rate of disability allowance to €228.50 per week; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      469. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if two individuals that cohabitate with a combined income below the threshold for a dual application to the fuel allowance...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      470. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an appeal for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      472. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify where an application for an emergency additional needs’ payment to cover a deposit and or rent...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      474. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of domiciliary care allowance applications received by her Department in 2022 and to date in 2023; and the number...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      475. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update in relation to the entitlement of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      477. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on her Department’s consideration and engagement with other relevant Departments,...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      478. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) who was unable to work and was in receipt of illness benefit for over thirty years and...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      482. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of carer’s allowance claims appealed; the number of appeals that were successful in each of the years...
    • Departmental Advertising
      483. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount expended on advertising and promotion in her Department and all agencies under the remit of her Department in 2022...
    • Departmental Staff
      484. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of communications staff currently employed in her Department; the cost of these staff for 2022; the expected cost...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      485. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of exceptional needs payments paid out over the past three years, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      486. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in respect of a review regarding an entitlement to carer's allowance in the case of a person (details...
    • State Pensions
      487. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase the State pension by at least €11 as called for by an organisation (details supplied); if she...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      488. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 385 of 14 February 2023, if she will calculate the rate of payment due to a person...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      491. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a disability allowance rate review in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      493. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 262 of 8 February 2023, if a person (details supplied) on disability allowance can...
    • Ukraine War
      494. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of the supports that her Department has provided for Ukraine and for Ukrainian people since February 2022,...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      495. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of discrimination cases taken and won against her Department over the past ten years, under each of the grounds as...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Departmental Policies
      496. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail any work that is ongoing in his Department in relation to non-disclosure agreement reform; and if he...
    • Ukraine War
      497. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the reported issues previously highlighted in Middletown House, Castletown Geoghegan, County...
    • Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children
      498. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of unaccompanied minors in the State; the number of which are under the care of Tusla; and if a...
    • Disability Services
      501. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 84 of 9 February 2023, the transport supports that are in place to enable...
    • Irish Sign Language
      502. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by his Department and by agencies...
    • Disability Services
      503. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has plans for the State to recognise and adopt the European Union disability card once this has been...
    • Juvenile Offenders
      504. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of young persons that are currently on remand at Oberstown children's detention campus for more than...
    • Departmental Staff
      505. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff seconded to his Department by grade in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023. [8436/23]
    • Asylum Seekers
      507. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will explain the thinking behind his decision in February 2021, to write tweets in 47 different languages...
    • Departmental Reviews
      508. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department intends to initiate a review of the Disability Act 2005, in view of the concluding...
    • Departmental Contracts
      509. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of the tendering for research that has been commissioned on behalf of his Department...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      510. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that five facilities (details supplied) are added to the schedule of the Mother and Baby...
    • Ukraine War
      511. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of the number of Ukrainian refugees currently being accommodated in an area (details...
    • Departmental Funding
      512. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a schedule of NGOs that he and bodies under the aegis of his Department suspended funding and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      513. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department and all agencies under the remit of his...
    • Departmental Staff
      514. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of communications staff currently employed in his Department; the cost of these staff for 2022; the...
    • International Protection
      515. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the use of a property (details supplied) to provide emergency accommodation for...
    • Asylum Seekers
      516. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of any correspondence he has with the Catholic Church regarding the making available...
    • Childcare Services
      517. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to reports detailing serious structural concerns and required upgrades to a...
    • Ukraine War
      518. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to expand the accommodation recognition payment scheme to include properties which are owned by a...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      520. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of discrimination cases taken and won against his Department over the past ten years, under each of...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of craft apprentices registered to date in 2023 under the action plan for apprenticeships; if he will provide a breakdown of new...
    • Undefined
      524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on clearance of Covid-related backlog and associated delays in processing new registrations; and if he will make a...
    • Further and Higher Education
      525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans that exist to introduce a media campaign to attract young people to the construction sector similar to that undertaken for the tourism...
    • Education and Training Boards
      526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine and review the salary and contracts for local training initiative co-ordinators, given that they have not been reviewed since...
    • Education Costs
      527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person is entitled to tuition fees (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8109/23]
    • Further and Higher Education
      528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter regarding outdoor education (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8110/23]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a substantive reply will issue to correspondence from this Deputy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8151/23]
    • Irish Sign Language
      530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by his Department and by agencies which operate under the remit of...
    • Third Level Admissions
      531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is proposed to increase the number of places on first-year veterinary medicine for Irish students in 2023. [8349/23]
    • Further and Higher Education
      532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on funding (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8460/23]
    • Grant Payments
      533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on SUSI grants (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8462/23]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      535. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of receipts collected from the National Training Fund levy for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8644/23]
    • Departmental Advertising
      536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department and all agencies under the remit of his Department in 2022 and in January...
    • Departmental Staff
      537. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of communications staff currently employed in his Department; the cost of these staff for 2022; the expected cost for 2023; and if he...
    • Education and Training Boards
      538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the situation of adult education tutors employed by education and training boards who are still awaiting details on an offer devised...
    • Further and Higher Education
      539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of approved PLC places in County Roscommon in each of the years 2020 to 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [8737/23]
    • Departmental Reviews
      540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for publication of his Department's review of the issue of precarity in academia; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Ukraine War
      541. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the supports that his Department has provided for Ukraine and for Ukrainian people since February 2022, whether in Ukraine or...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of discrimination cases taken and won against his Department over the past ten years, under each of the grounds applicable, in...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Immigration Status
      543. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the correct route for a five-year-old Irish born child (details supplied) of foreign parents, who is applying...
    • Domestic Violence
      544. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reports to An Garda Síochána for breaches of protection orders, safety orders, and barring orders in...
    • Immigration Status
      545. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) who...
    • Citizenship Applications
      546. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when citizenship will be available to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8102/23]
    • Immigration Status
      548. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current and/or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) [8119/23]
    • Work Permits
      549. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a work visa will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8120/23]
    • Naturalisation Applications
      550. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that has been made to date in processing an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details...
    • Visa Applications
      551. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the processing time for de-facto partnership visa applications can be reduced; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Irish Sign Language
      552. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by his Department and by agencies which operate...
    • Legislative Process
      553. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it is envisaged that the Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Custodial Sentences) Bill 2021 will have passed all stages...
    • Travel Documents
      556. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 455 of 24 January 2023, if he has received the necessary information from the Garda...
    • International Protection
      557. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has conducted any recent review into the IPO's treatment of SOGI (sexual orientation or gender identity)...
    • Data Protection
      558. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the recruitment campaign for the additional data protection commissioner posts will be advertised outside of the State or...
    • Legislative Measures
      559. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the plans he has for amendments to conveyancing legislation to make it a requirement that radon testing and, where necessary,...
    • Citizenship Applications
      560. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that has been made to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details...
    • Immigration Status
      561. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8328/23]
    • An Garda Síochána
      562. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí, by rank, attached to each divisional drugs unit as of 14 February 2023, in tabular form. [8344/23]
    • Prison Service
      563. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons currently in prison for the offence of careless driving and due for release in 2025 or 2026, in tabular...
    • Travel Documents
      564. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have been detained when arriving into Ireland and charged with travelling on a fake Canadian passport...
    • An Garda Síochána
      565. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cases that the Garda national drugs and organised crime bureau have dealt with in 2022 and to date in 2023, in...
    • Official Engagements
      566. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has spoken with the UK Home Secretary to date in 2023. [8348/23]
    • EU Directives
      567. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has been engaging with the European Parliament in relation to the proposed directive on Strategic Lawsuits...
    • Equality Issues
      568. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the implementation of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy 2021/2023; and if he will...
    • An Garda Síochána
      569. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to change Garda recruitment rules in respect of the upper threshold for recruits, in view of the fact that the policy...
    • Citizenship Applications
      571. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has considered an application by a person living in the UK (details supplied) seeking Irish citizenship; and if he will...
    • Travel Documents
      572. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when Garda checks at Dublin Airport for travel documents of those disembarking from aircraft were discontinued. [8443/23]
    • Asylum Applications
      573. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average time taken to process all asylum applications lodged and decided on from 2016 to date. [8444/23]
    • Data Protection
      574. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total budget allotted to the Data Protection Commission for each year from 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Asylum Applications
      575. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 560 of 31 January 2023, to elaborate on the status of the individual who was the subject...
    • Domestic Violence
      576. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are any dedicated refuges for male victims of domestic or gender-based violence in the State; and if he will make a...
    • Visa Applications
      577. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown of the awards of working visas by country of origin of the awardees in the past year, in tabular...
    • An Garda Síochána
      578. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda cars that are currently allocated per station in the L and K districts; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Funding
      579. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a schedule of NGOs that he and bodies under the aegis of his Department suspended funding and or grant aid...
    • Departmental Advertising
      580. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department and all agencies under the remit of his Department in 2022...
    • Departmental Staff
      581. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of communications staff currently employed in his Department; the cost of these staff for 2022; the expected cost...
    • Departmental Reports
      582. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Judicial Planning Working Court report will be published. [8732/23]
    • Departmental Programmes
      584. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 407 of 4 May 2022, when the external review of the Immigration Investor Programme will be...
    • Asylum Applications
      585. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay in processing an application as part of the undocumented scheme in the case of a person (details...
    • Ukraine War
      587. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the supports that his Department has provided for Ukraine and for Ukrainian people since February 2022, whether...
    • An Garda Síochána
      588. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the level of consultation within his Department with An Garda Síochána staff members on the proposed changes to the...
  • Department of Health
    • Health Strategies
      589. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to initiate an approach to the challenge of drugs in parts of Dublin south west, such as the Jobstown, Killinarden and parts of Tallaght, and...
    • Disability Services
      590. To ask the Minister for Health if the Government plans to open the mobility allowance grant for people with disabilities to new applicants in the near future; if he will provide an update on...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      591. To ask the Minister for Health if he has made representations to the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in respect of the health outcomes of persons living in housing with...
    • Health Services
      592. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend financial cover for stem cell therapy to patients with multiple sclerosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8061/23]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      593. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for an outpatient appointment for gynaecology services and treatment. [8064/23]
    • Nursing Homes
      594. To ask the Minister for Health the support offered by the HSE to a nursing home (details supplied); the dates on which the support was first and subsequently offered by the HSE; and if he...
    • Health Services
      595. To ask the Minister for Health when the tendering process will next open for the transport of patients for dialysis and other treatments to hospitals in the HSE mid-west region, particularly...
    • Nursing Homes
      596. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that private nursing homes continue to refuse next-of-kin access to deceased persons records; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      597. 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. [8086/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      598. To ask the Minister for Health if a nursing home (details supplied) was refused additional staff or any other type of support from the Health Service Executive during the period of the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      600. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the extension of free GP cards for children beyond the existing age parameters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8107/23]
    • Hospital Procedures
      601. To ask the Minister for Health if a procedure will be arranged at St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny, for a person (details supplied). [8136/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      602. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (detail supplied) has been told they are not entitled to the pandemic bonus when their co-workers have been granted same; and if he will...
    • Hospital Facilities
      603. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the respiratory assessment unit at Midlands Regional Hospital, Portlaoise; the current update on the project; and if a contract has been...
    • Vaccination Programme
      607. To ask the Minister for Health the vaccination centres that are currently available in the Dublin north central area for the MMR vaccine programme; if additional and alternative test centres...
    • Nursing Homes
      608. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the regulations for the fair deal in respect to extra costs incurred by families, which nursing homes are invoicing for, outside of the flat...
    • Health Services
      609. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who attended pigmented skin lesion clinics on a quarterly basis between 2013 and 2022, and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      612. To ask the Minister for Health the projected annual cost to provide free nicotine replacement therapy to all those enrolled in HSE smoking cessation programmes; and if he will make a...
    • Vaccination Programme
      615. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated amount to the State to extend the HPV vaccination catch-up programme to males up to the age of 25 years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Irish Sign Language
      616. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by his Department and by agencies which operate under the remit of his Department....
    • Abortion Services
      617. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish the review of the operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      618. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for a gallium scan; the hospitals in which these scans are performed, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Facilities
      619. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds in each acute medical unit, acute medical assessment unit, medical short-stay unit and acute surgical assessment unit, broken down by unit...
    • Dental Services
      620. To ask the Minister for Health the funding for HSE dental services in the past three years in counties Kilkenny and Carlow; the number of children waiting for dental services in Kilkenny and...
    • Health Promotion
      621. To ask the Minister for Health the level of funding provided for tobacco cessation services from 2017 to 2022, in tabular form; the budget allocated in 2023 for same; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      622. To ask the Minister for Health the individual CDNT teams in each CHO area that has a dietitian on its team; and the case load per dietitian, per CDNT team, in tabular form. [8278/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      623. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) is on the waiting list at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital for a cataract procedure. [8287/23]
    • Disability Services
      624. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be made available through the national service plan to develop a second respite house for adults with intellectual disabilities in south Kerry...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      625. To ask the Minister for Health when a surgery procedure for a person (details supplied) will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8327/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      626. To ask the Minister for Health when front-line workers employed by a company (details supplied) will be paid the Covid bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8329/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      627. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults who have been transferred to inpatient mental health facilities in Britain and the North of Ireland from 2014 to date in...
    • Health Services
      629. To ask the Minister for Health if public adult ADHD services will be available in the CHO 4 area in Cork; if he will report on waiting lists for public ADHD assessments in CHO 4 and...
    • Hospital Staff
      630. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant cardiothoracic surgeons working in the Mater Hospital in the years of 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [8354/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      632. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist with a special interest in psychiatry of learning disability based in County Kildare in 2022 and...
    • Medicinal Products
      633. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the process for eligibility for the reimbursement of cariban under the drugs payment scheme is different from that for all other medications covered...
    • Ambulance Service
      634. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date with the provision of a proposed ambulance base (details supplied); the reason for the delay in progressing this important and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      635. To ask the Minister for Health if he is familiar with a recent Cochrane study (details supplied) a meta-analysis of seventy-eight studies including over a million people, which has concluded...
    • Civil Marriages
      636. To ask the Minister for Health if an issue (details supplied) in relation to appointment to register a marriage will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8453/23]
    • Hospital Procedures
      637. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the reasons that all surgeries at Ennis Hospital in January 2023 were cancelled; if so, if he will provide those reasons; and if he will make...
    • Emergency Departments
      638. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 339 and 340 of 19 January 2023, the average length of time a patient waited before leaving an emergency department, in...
    • Health Service Executive
      639. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to use a facility (details supplied) as suitable accommodation for families or individuals; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Mental Health Services
      640. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently awaiting a care plan in each month since January 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8471/23]
    • Disability Services
      641. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the adequacy of transitionary care for adults with intellectual disabilities upon attaining the age of 18 years; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Reports
      642. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 307 of 9 February 2023, if he will provide additional details in relation to his update on recommendation 9(ii) regarding...
    • Disability Services
      643. To ask the Minister for Health the expected timeline for his Department to complete and publish the Roadmap for Progressing Disability Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disabilities Assessments
      644. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of assessment of needs applications overdue, broken down by CHO or other relevant geographical designation, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      646. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time occupational therapists and speech and language therapists working in Sligo University Hospital in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in...
    • Care Services
      647. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated current funding that would be required and the number of WTE, staff by job title that would need to be recruited before a facility (details...
    • Dental Services
      648. To ask the Minister for Health the number of sessions that are currently operating at Sligo University Hospital for dental services under anaesthesia per week. [8527/23]
    • Primary Care Services
      649. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE dietician vacancies currently within the primary care services in Sligo; and when these vacancies will be filled, in tabular form. [8528/23]
    • Vaccination Programme
      650. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that children in schools in Dublin north central are being asked to travel to Swords to receive their MMR vaccines; the rationale for this; the...
    • Mortality Rates
      651. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline his information in relation the extent and causes of the current excess mortality rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8563/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      652. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time it takes KOSI to process and issue payment on employer claims for the pandemic special recognition payment; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      653. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with diabetes who are awaiting their first appointment to the adult outpatients diabetes clinic in any of the UL Hospital Group...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      654. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for surgery in St. James’s Hospital. [8605/23]
    • Legislative Reviews
      655. To ask the Minister for Health if he will immediately publish the review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018. [8614/23]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      656. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to regulate private providers of assessment of need for children and young people. [8615/23]
    • Hospital Facilities
      657. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the number of beds available at Ennis medical assessment unit; the number of those that have been ringfenced for 999 transfers; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      658. To ask the Minister for Health given that the paid leave for the Public Health Service employees unfit for work post Covid infection is due to finish in the coming months, if Covid-19 will...
    • Health Service Executive
      659. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 918 of 8 November 2022 and 299 of 19 January 2023, if he will provide the information already sought and not provided...
    • Departmental Funding
      660. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule of NGOs to which he and the HSE suspended funding and-or grant aid due to their failure to file accounts and-or concerns arose in...
    • General Practitioner Services
      661. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for the vacant GP position in Blarney; if a successful candidate has been chosen; and when the surgery will reopen. [8667/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      662. To ask the Minister for Health if reconsideration will be given to PSRP eligibility to include day service section 39 staff, including an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      664. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the increase in the HSE pension (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8676/23]
    • Health Services
      665. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a funding request received from HSE south for community ophthalmology services at a location (details supplied); if funding will be provided for...
    • Departmental Advertising
      666. To ask the Minister for Health the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department and all agencies under the remit of his Department in 2022 and in January 2023; and if he...
    • Departmental Staff
      667. To ask the Minister for Health the number of communications staff currently employed in his Department; the cost of these staff for 2022; the expected cost for 2023; and if he will make a...
    • Public Sector Pay
      668. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports that some lifeline paramedics are only earning the minimum wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8731/23]
    • Ambulance Service
      669. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on the average response times of ambulances in County Roscommon; and the number of ambulances ordinarily based at each location, in tabular...
    • Pharmacy Services
      670. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the level of staffing of clinical pharmacists in the HSE; the optimum target staffing in this area; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Healthcare Policy
      671. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that proper assessments, procedures and treatments were afforded to in excess of 200 young children referred from Ireland to a clinic...
    • Air Quality
      672. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make a statement on his representations to the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications in respect of poor air quality. [8741/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      673. To ask the Minister for Health the reason day service staff in section 39 organisations have not been included in the issuance of the pandemic special recognition payment, given they faced...
    • Emergency Departments
      674. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the extension project to the emergency department at Mayo University Hospital; the timeline for the commencement of...
    • Hospital Equipment
      675. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide on update on the replacement of the CT scanner at Mayo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8748/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      676. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of vacancies of medical professionals in Mayo University Hospital; the amount of time the position has been vacant, in tabular form;...
    • Data Protection
      677. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE requires photographic ID to access information concerning breached data; and where the data processing plan for these IDs can be found. [8751/23]
    • Medical Cards
      679. To ask the Minister for Health if a medication can be made available to a person (details supplied) under the medical card. [8760/23]
    • Disability Services
      681. To ask the Minister for Health the maximum capacity of residential beds for people with intellectual disabilities in Dublin; and the number of those bed currently occupied broken down by...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      683. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) has been referred to the public waiting list for a cataract procedure. [8776/23]
    • Dental Services
      684. To ask the Minister for Health if a general anaesthetic could be provided to a person (details supplied) who needs dental work carried out in a hospital setting; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      686. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) in relation to the fact that two adults must go into residential care due to the lack of services; and if he will make...
    • Health Services Staff
      690. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in implementing agreed pay rises for current and retired healthcare workers; the number of healthcare workers this affects; when he...
    • Vaccination Programme
      691. To ask the Minister for Health the latest HPV vaccine uptake rates for the 2021-2022 school year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8808/23]
    • Cancer Services
      692. To ask the Minister for Health the number of young persons aged 0-24 years of age who have travelled outside of the Republic of Ireland for specialised cancer treatment not available in...
    • Bereavement Counselling
      694. To ask the Minister for Health the funding that is dedicated to providing bereavement support to families who have lost a child to an illness; if services are provided in an equitable manner...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      695. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently on a waiting list for a mastectomy in each of the years 2018 to 2022, by each waiting time period, in each hospital, in tabular...
    • Home Help Service
      701. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider reviewing the contracts for private homecare companies currently contracted by the HSE for home help hours (details supplied); and if he...
    • Hospital Staff
      702. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take urgent action to provide the resources to bring the current level of 80 neurological nurses to the European norm of 100 (details supplied); and...
    • Mental Health Services
      703. To ask the Minister for Health if he will identify the seven audits into CAMHS that were referenced at the Oireachtas sub-Committee on Mental Health recently; the stages they are at; when...
    • Departmental Data
      704. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who received voluntary and involuntary electroconvulsive therapy from 2020 to 2022; the hospitals that perform this therapy; and if he...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      705. To ask the Minister for Health the interim ICT system that CAMHS will be operating for electronic case file management; when this will be in place; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Dental Services
      707. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address urgent concerns relating to the dental health of a child (details supplied) and delayed access to treatment; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Services
      708. To ask the Minister for Health if services currently situated at a site (details supplied) are to be moved to an alternative location; and the reason this is the case, given a guarantee was...
    • Disability Services
      709. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 853 of 14 February 2023, if a timeline will be provided for the review of the implementation of the PDS service model....
    • Ukraine War
      711. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the supports that his Department has provided for Ukraine and for Ukrainian people since February 2022, whether in Ukraine or within the State;...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      712. To ask the Minister for Health the number of discrimination cases taken and won against his Department over the past ten years, under each of the grounds as applicable, in tabular form; and...
    • Health Services Staff
      713. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for the decision basis on which of the 24 integrated consultant posts in enhanced community care hubs, only 12 were funded, with 12 unfunded; and...
    • Community Care
      714. To ask the Minister for Health the locations of all enhanced community care hubs; their purpose; the full staffing list of each hub, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Greyhound Industry
      715. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of matings in the greyhound racing and coursing industries that involved surgical artificial insemination in each of the...
    • Coillte Teoranta
      721. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of payments received by the State forestry company, Coillte, from the European Union for each of the...
    • Forestry Sector
      723. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of dividends paid by Coillte to the Exchequer from the year of its establishment, 1988, until the end...
    • Irish Sign Language
      724. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by his Department and by agencies which operate under the...
    • Legislative Process
      725. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the recommendation by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine in its report on the pre-legislative...
    • Veterinary Services
      726. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that the implementation of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feeds, and Fertilisers Regulation Bill...
    • Departmental Staff
      727. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a new recruitment campaign for technical agricultural officers will be launched before Easter 2023. [8361/23]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      728. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8452/23]
    • Veterinary Services
      732. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that the implementation of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feeds and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023...
    • Forestry Sector
      734. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of monies that were unspent for 2022 and returned to the central Exchequer concerning forestry programmes. [8610/23]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      735. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide full details on how a farmer (details supplied) in County Kerry did not meet the requirements of the BEAM scheme;...
    • Departmental Advertising
      736. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount expended on advertising and promotion in his Department and all agencies under the remit of his Department in 2022 and in...
    • Departmental Staff
      737. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of communications staff currently employed in his Department; the cost of these staff for 2022; the expected cost for...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      738. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to farmers who applied through an agent, as was stipulated, to the ACRES scheme and who failed to...
    • Land Issues
      739. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the history and the Land Commission records of a plot of ground (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      740. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the eligible number to participate in the sheep improvement scheme 2023 for a person in County Cork (details...
    • Fishing Industry
      741. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the kilowatt system is used for access to Irish waters within Europe; the countries that have kilowatt days in the Irish EEZ for...
    • Ukraine War
      742. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the supports that his Department has provided for Ukraine and for Ukrainian people since February 2022, whether in...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      743. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of discrimination cases taken and won against his Department over the past ten years, under each of the grounds as...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Departmental Schemes
      744. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a breakdown of the number of local improvement scheme applications waiting to be processed, by county; and if she...
    • Departmental Funding
      746. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if grant support is being considered to support community groups including one such group (details supplied) to assist with purchasing...
    • Irish Sign Language
      747. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by her Department and by agencies which operate under the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      748. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will provide an update on the energy support scheme for community and voluntary organisations that do not qualify for the...
    • Departmental Funding
      749. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule of NGOs to which she and bodies under the aegis of her Department suspended funding and or grant aid...
    • Departmental Advertising
      750. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount expended on advertising and promotion in her Department and all agencies under the remit of her Department in 2022 and in...
    • Departmental Staff
      751. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of communications staff currently employed in her Department; the cost of these staff for 2022; the expected cost for 2023;...
    • Departmental Funding
      752. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the 2023 community centres investment fund; when details of this scheme will be made available; and...
    • Rural Schemes
      753. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when consideration of the review of CLÁR areas nationally, undertaken in 2021 using the 2016 Census of Population data, will be...
    • Ukraine War
      754. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the details of the supports her Department has provided for Ukraine and for Ukrainian people since February 2022, whether in Ukraine...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      755. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of discrimination cases taken and won against her Department over the past ten years, under each of the grounds as...

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