Written answers
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Covid-19 Pandemic
38. To ask the Taoiseach if, in the context of the Government’s commitment to holding an inquiry/review into the State’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, he will request that the...
- Climate Action Plan
39. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress report on the Climate Action Plan. [11012/23]
- Departmental Staff
40. To ask the Taoiseach if each Government Department now has a full-time, dedicated climate scientist on its staff; and if they do not, the reason therefor. [11634/23]
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Official Engagements
41. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the senior officials of the major tech companies that he met with during his recent visit to the west coast of the United States....
- National Minimum Wage
42. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if consideration will be given to granting the full minimum wage to workers from the age of 16 years, rather than an incremental...
- Work Permits
43. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline any improvements made to introduce a minimum time for the processing of applications for work permits for non-EEA...
- Energy Prices
44. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department is liaising with IDA Ireland and the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications to ensure that...
- Employment Rights
46. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a situational update on the application of an Employment Regulation Order (ERO) for those who work in the security...
- Redundancy Payments
47. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what actions he and officials in his Department are undertaking to ensure that appropriate redundancy pay is paid by an organisation...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Energy Prices
48. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how the Government will reduce energy costs for businesses in 2023; how the EU reform of the electricity market will...
- Exploration Industry
49. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if any licences have been granted in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10909/23]
- Wildlife Protection
50. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he intends amending bye law 806 and 809 in relation to inland waters for all SAC-designated waters in order to...
- Departmental Staff
51. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of specifically qualified climate scientists employed by his Department; the level of qualification of each;...
- Departmental Correspondence
52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he can address the queries raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Schemes
53. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a person (details supplied) is entitled to claim the Government energy credit payment. [11690/23]
- Legislative Measures
54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether it is the view of the Government and his Department that the obligations created by section 6A(5) of the Climate...
- Public Sector Pensions
55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will confirm that he received a request for a pension increase in 2022 (details supplied); if the request has been...
- Departmental Consultations
56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 138 of 15 December 2022, the name of the company that won the tender for research...
- Departmental Schemes
57. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason simple heating controls such as those provided by a device (details supplied) are not eligible for funding...
- Renewable Energy Generation
58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the community benefit funds established under the renewal energy generation projects; and if he will make a statement on...
- Broadband Infrastructure
59. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when fibre broadband will be extended to a property (details supplied). [11753/23]
- Departmental Schemes
60. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to a message on the Electric Ireland website about the use of the March Government...
- Energy Policy
61. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the upcoming European Union reform of the electricity market; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Energy Prices
63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department is liaising with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and IDA Ireland to ensure that...
- Recycling Policy
64. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has plans to introduce a tyre recycling scheme for farmers similar to the scheme that operated in 2018; and if he...
- Departmental Schemes
65. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 155 of 28 February 2023, the legislative basis on which a firm (details supplied)...
- Energy Policy
66. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the Independent Review of Energy Security, being undertaken by a person (details supplied), will be finalised; when...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Road Traffic Offences
67. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any plans going forward to update the policies on the powers the local authority has in relation to the parking of camper...
- Public Sector Pensions
68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will examine the CIÉ superannuation scheme 1951 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11644/23]
- National Car Test
69. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on quality audits at NCT centres by centre and quarter/month for 2022, and to date in 2023; and if he will...
- Departmental Bodies
70. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of WTE staff by job title working in the railway accident investigation unit and air accident investigation unit as of 2 March...
- Semi-State Bodies
71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of WTE staff by job title working in the finance department of Iarnród Éireann as of 1 March 2023. [11695/23]
- Driver Test
72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in relation to the major delays experienced by those trying to complete their full driving license test, if he will ensure that a...
- National Car Test
73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered extending the validity of NCT certification to two years instead of one year to relieve the pressures and backlog in...
- Driver Test
74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current waiting time for driving tests for County Waterford; the number waiting; the reason for the delay; the steps he is taking to...
- Road Safety
77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding committed to each local authority under the safety improvement scheme in each of the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022...
- Departmental Funding
78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department maintains data as to the proportion of active travel funding spent by local authorities on new infrastructure, compared...
- Bus Services
80. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will liaise with the NTA on the matter of making adequate provision for bus stops in Ballymacarbery, County Waterford to serve the...
- Rail Network
82. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport who owns the large freight crane at Colbert Station, Limerick; the future plans for it; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Finance
- Tax Reliefs
83. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on the adequacy of the rent a room scheme in the context of supply of housing; and his views on the accessibility of the scheme for...
- Business Supports
84. To ask the Minister for Finance if the temporary business energy support scheme will now allow businesses who heat and fuel their premises through oil, such as dry cleaners, to access the...
- Tax Reliefs
85. To ask the Minister for Finance if he can devise a mechanism to prevent developers from not accepting the help-to-buy scheme as a deposit for a new house purchase; and if he will make a...
- Insurance Industry
86. To ask the Minister for Finance the latest update regarding the insurance Action Plan Implementation Report; the timeline for the amendment of legislation with regard to duty of care under...
- Consumer Rights
88. To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to introduce legislation to protect access to cash as recommended by the Retail Banking Review; and if this legislation will include a protection...
- Revenue Commissioners
89. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of final demands issued by revenue and the number of sheriff referrals below the value of €1,000, €5,000 and €10,000...
- Vehicle Registration Tax
90. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide statistics relating to the Revenue Commissioners seize and release VRT enforcement procedure, in tabular form (details supplied); and if he...
- Primary Medical Certificates
93. To ask the Minister for Finance when a new Medical Appeal Board will be appointed to assess appeals in relation to primary medical certificates for purchasers of cars; and if he will make a...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Brexit Supports
94. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount that was allocated by the European Union to the State under the Brexit adjustment fund; the amount that has been spent; and...
- National Development Plan
95. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the use of bundled construction projects for delivery of the National Development Plan; if he accepts that in the event of...
- Public Sector Pensions
96. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of a pension increase (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11748/23]
- Coastal Protection
97. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform with responsibility for Office of Public Works if he will ensure that coastal defence works are carried out at a property (details...
- Capital Expenditure Programme
98. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reasons for the delay in cases accessing arbitration; the number of cases waiting for arbitration; the average waiting time; what...
- Office of Public Works
99. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the proposed walking and cycling bridge across the River Liffey from the War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge; if funding has...
- Departmental Correspondence
101. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11995/23]
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Scéimeanna Teanga
102. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a fuair an Roinn iarratas ar íocaíocht deontais (sonraí tugtha); cén uair a dhéanfar an...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Rental Sector
103. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Residential Tenancies Board will resolve an ongoing issue for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in view of...
- Housing Provision
104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the number of homes that will be put forward for the affordable housing scheme under Fingal County Council;...
- Housing Schemes
106. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the first-home scheme; if he supports requests for the scheme to be restructured to allow first-time...
- Defective Building Materials
107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the introduction of a Mica/Pyrite redress scheme for County Clare households; and if he will...
- Rental Sector
108. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the criteria used to determine the duration of the eviction moratorium; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11835/23]
- Local Authorities
110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount paid in compensation by each local authority in 2022 due to defective roads and pavements; and if he will make a...
- Public Sector Pay
111. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on pay and conditions for retained firefighters; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Housing Policy
112. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of any analysis carried out by his Department into the operation of the choice-based letting system; what measures...
- Planning Issues
113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 90 of 26 January 2023, the status of the development of the promised section 28...
- Wildlife Protection
114. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a complaint has been received about unauthorised works in a priority habitat (details supplied); the action that is being...
- Departmental Contracts
115. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm whether a contract for security work at 90 North King Street from his Department has been awarded to a firm...
- Departmental Staff
116. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of staff allocated to housing, local government and heritage in County Wexford, detailed by his...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Official Engagements
120. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken with the Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Ireland to date in 2023. [11707/23]
- Overseas Development Aid
121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the status of the new initiative on sexual and reproductive health and rights as outlined in the policy for...
- Human Rights
122. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will give detailed consideration to all the issues outlined in a recent publication (details supplied); if he will raise these issues...
- Department of Defence
- Official Engagements
124. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has spoken with his Canadian counterpart to date in 2023. [11696/23]
- Defence Forces
125. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when the Government intends to introduce the working time directive for the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11833/23]
- Public Sector Pensions
126. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if clarification will be provided on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11996/23]
- Department of Education and Skills
- Home Schooling
127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if assistance will be provided in relation to the appointment of a home school tutor for a child (details supplied). [11648/23]
- Site Acquisitions
128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm unequivocally that the search for a school site at a location (details supplied) is for the existing school; if she will...
- Schools Building Projects
129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide on update on the provision of a new school building on existing lands for school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- School Accommodation
131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on an application by a person (details supplied) for additional accommodation; and if she will make a statement on...
- Schools Building Projects
132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the progress of a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- School Accommodation
133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to ensure a school (details supplied) has sufficient classroom space to accommodate existing and future demand; if she is...
- School Funding
134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm that schools will receive the minor works grant immediately to allow Boards of Management to carry out essential maintenance...
- Special Educational Needs
136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will instruct her Department to make provisions for a student (details supplied).; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11771/23]
- School Accommodation
137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will have a decision on the three proposed plans it has submitted for additional school accommodation in order...
- Special Educational Needs
138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children with special educational needs who are waiting for primary and secondary school places in each county, in tabular form;...
- School Admissions
140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school placement can be addressed for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11896/23]
- School Textbooks
141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when schools will receive guidelines and funding for the primary schoolbook scheme, as booksellers need to be closely involved in the ordering...
- Schools Building Projects
142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a planning application for a permanent building for a school (details supplied) will be submitted; if her Department has revised the...
- School Accommodation
143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total cost to date for the provision of temporary accommodation for a school (details supplied) since the establishment of the school on its...
- School Transport
144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she agrees it to be unacceptable for a submission to the Schools Transport Appeals Board to take 17 months to be considered; and if she will...
- School Admissions
145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school place will be offered in the correct establishment for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Benefits
146. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for carer's benefit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to providing flexibility regarding the rules requiring eligible participants to be in receipt...
- Employment Support Services
150. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to reducing the current minimum duration of six months required pertaining to a contract of...
- Social Welfare Appeals
152. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal for an exceptional needs’ payment will be processed for a person (details supplied); and if she will make...
- Departmental Data
156. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide statistics in relation to the numbers of applications for rent supplement received in the Dublin central...
- Social Welfare Payments
158. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current position in regard to the recovery of alleged overpayments in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
159. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise on requirements for people applying for additional needs payments to assist with energy bills to have...
- Social Welfare Payments
161. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 401 of 28 February 2023, if participants who were on a qualifying payment for over a...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
162. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that in all correspondence issued by her Department referencing a person’s possible entitlement to...
- School Meals Programme
163. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of schools in County Kildare that receive funding for breakfast clubs; the number of those that are Deis schools;...
- Social Welfare Benefits
164. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people currently in receipt of the widow's, widower's or surviving civil partner's (contributory) pension; and...
- State Pensions
165. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify in relation to periods spent on illness benefit, or on Covid supports, such as the temporary Covid-19...
- Social Welfare Code
166. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify, where a dispute exists between an employee and an employer as to the status of the person regarding...
- Social Welfare Benefits
167. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on the carers review requested by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
169. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated annual additional cost of extending the free travel scheme to people with disabilities who have a long-term...
- Social Welfare Appeals
172. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a decision regarding an appeal for an invalidity pension by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Emergency Accommodation
173. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will urgently intervene to ensure that payments owed to a company (details supplied) in respect of...
- Residential Institutions
174. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will examine the level of payments made by a person (details supplied) for their residential care...
- Emergency Accommodation
175. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has considered the vacant former HSE site on a site (details supplied) for the purpose of accommodating...
- Disability Services
176. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will meet with a group (details supplied) to discuss the National Report of Children’s Disability...
- International Protection
177. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the alternative accommodation that has been sourced to accommodate beneficiaries of temporary protection and...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
180. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of complaints received by Pobal in respect of reported breaches of core funding for both the...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Departmental Funding
183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will fund exclusive free courses in each ETB on how to use iPhones, android tablets and so on for older persons with little or...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of electrical, plumbing, carpentry and joinery and bricklaying, stone laying apprentices, respectively, waiting to progress their...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Immigration Status
185. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average processing time, in months, for applications currently being processed in 2023 by the undocumented unit; and if he...
- Residency Permits
187. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of instances where a fee of €300 was paid for the issuing of an IRP (formerly GNIB) card including both...
- An Garda Síochána
188. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding has been secured in 2023 to increase the number of horses in the garda mounted unit. [11703/23]
- Departmental Data
191. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of threats to kill incidents reported to Garda within the division in 2020 to 2022, and to date in 2023, in tabular...
- Sentencing Policy
192. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a review will be completed on the temporary release of certain offences, as required by section 29 of the Judicial Council...
- An Garda Síochána
193. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda vehicles assigned to Kildare Garda station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11890/23]
- Legislative Measures
195. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Private Security Services (Amendment) Act 2021 will be fully commenced; when the insertion of definitions of "court...
- Department of Health
- Medical Aids and Appliances
196. To ask the Minister for Health if funding or grants are available to help persons who need a permanent oxygen machine with their electricity costs to run oxygen machines required as part of...
- Hospital Services
197. To ask the Minister for Health when the day hospital will re-open at St. Joseph's Hospital, Stranorlar, County Doegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11636/23]
- Care Services
198. To ask the Minister for Health when daycentre services will re-open at Ramelton community nursing home in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11637/23]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
199. To ask the Minister for Health when the pandemic recognition payment will be paid to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11641/23]
- Alcohol Sales
200. To ask the Minister for Health if health warning labels on alcohol products will be bilingual, reflecting warnings in both English and Irish; and if not, if including the Irish language on...
- Hospital Services
201. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the immediate plans to restore full services to Wexford General Hospital; the length of time this will take; and if he will make a statement...
- Disability Services
202. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received and reviewed a press statement by an organisation (details supplied) concerning the recently published National Report, Staff Census, and...
- Departmental Data
207. To ask the Minister for Health whether any neurological, dermatological, respiratory or oncological illnesses are reported in higher proportion around Coillte planted areas than others;...
- Hospital Staff
208. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric neurosurgeons working in CHI Temple Street in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [11698/23]
- Emergency Departments
209. To ask the Minister for Health if he is confident that the emergency department of Beaumont Hospital could successfully deal with a high volume trauma event at Dublin Airport. [11699/23]
- Departmental Data
210. To ask the Minister for Health the number of young persons aged between 0-18 years that suffer with migraine in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [11700/23]
- Health Services Staff
211. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time stop-smoking advisors employed by the HSE in CHO9 in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and the locations within this CHO...
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
212. To ask the Minister for Health the major capital works projects that were carried out at Beaumont Hospital during 2022 and to date in 2023; the nature of these works projects; and the...
- Health Strategies
213. To ask the Minister for Health the plans his Department has to implement the national cancer care strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11714/23]
- Obesity Levels
217. To ask the Minister for Health the plans he has to bring forward a Public Health (Obesity) Bill to deal with the obesity crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11718/23]
- Assisted Human Reproduction
218. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 214 of 22 February 2023, if he will confirm whether persons paying for IVF treatment between now and September 2023 will...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
219. To ask the Minister for Health when the staff in an nursing home (details supplied) in Kilkenny will be paid the pandemic payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11733/23]
- Medicinal Products
220. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of ampligen for treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis, ME; and the engagement he has had with the European Medicines Agency, EMA, on the...
- Hospital Appointments Status
222. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive an appointment at Crumlin Children’s Hospital for an urgent scope; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Services Waiting Lists
224. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is being taken off the public list and has been advised to go cross Border as the waiting list with the HSE is over ten...
- Dental Services
225. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a child (details supplied) cannot stay on the dental public list after accessing treatment under the cross-border healthcare directive; and if he...
- Hospital Services
226. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the rate of theatre utilisation in University Hospital Limerick at Dooradoyle for 2022; and if he will provide the rate of theatre...
- Hospital Procedures
227. To ask the Minister for Health the number of surgeries cancelled at Ennis Hospital in December 2022, January 2023 and February 2023; and if he will provide a breakdown of the surgical...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
228. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting on hip and or knee surgery and cataract surgery in counties Clare, Limerick and Tipperary, respectively. [11805/23]
- Health Strategies
229. To ask the Minister for Health on foot of the National Clinical Programme on Self Harm report, when he proposes to launch the National Traveller and Roma Mental Health Action Plan as agreed...
- Departmental Data
230. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to introduce an ethnic identifier in coroner courts’ reporting and in Irish health services as a core data item; and if he will make a...
- Health Strategies
231. To ask the Minister for Health in recognition of Travellers as a priority group as being at an increased risk of suicidal behaviour when he will instruct the Connecting for Life Advisory...
- Health Services
233. To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the population that each CHO area covers, reflecting the new census 2022 figures, in tabular form. [11834/23]
- Medicinal Products
234. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the costs of the prescription medications melatonin and propranolol are not covered by the medical card; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Reports
235. To ask the Minister for Health the reason he has not produced a Sláintecare progress report since December 2021; if he intends to publish a progress report this year; and if he will...
- Health Strategies
236. To ask the Minister for Health if the regional health area implementation plan has been completed, given that it was due in quarter four of 2022; the timeline he is working towards for...
- Nursing Homes
239. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish any further progress reports on the implementation of the Covid-19 nursing homes expert panel recommendations, given that a number of...
- Care Services
241. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the new home care tender process; the timeline he is working towards for issuing the invitation to tender; and if he will make...
- Nursing Homes
242. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he intends to take to support small rural nursing homes to prevent any further closures following his meeting with an organisation (details...
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
243. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the status of the new build at St. Vincent's Hospital, Athy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11889/23]
- Health Services Waiting Lists
244. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting on occupational therapy in County Kildare; the number waiting for more than six months; the number waiting for more than one...
- Disease Management
246. To ask the Minister for Health if anything can be done to help people with diabetes who cannot afford dressings when they have skin breakdown due to their diabetes, given that dressings are...
- Defibrillators Provision
247. To ask the Minister for Health where all automated external defibrillators, AEDS, are located; if they can be added to the national database; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Dental Services
248. To ask the Minister for Health if orthotic therapists could help with the backlog for orthodontic treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11914/23]
- Nursing Homes
249. To ask the Minister for Health if the commissioner of the report of the investigation of complaints made by protected disclosure into a community nursing home (details supplied) was...
- Ambulance Service
250. To ask the Minister for Health if the new protocol introduced in the University of Limerick Hospital Group in January 2023, whereby ambulances could bring patients to the medical assessment...
- Hospital Staff
251. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dedicated whole-time equivalents of consultant endocrinologists, dietitians, advanced nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, staff...
- EU Funding
253. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has made a submission indicating Ireland's interest in participating in the EU4Health Joint Action for Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
254. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with diabetes who are awaiting a first appointment to the adult outpatient's diabetes clinic in University Hospital Waterford; the...
- Hospital Services
255. To ask the Minister for Health if he could please confirm in tabular form the number of Adult Patients attending University Hospital Waterford for Type 1 Diabetes care in 2018, 2019, 2020,...
- Hospital Admissions
259. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients presenting through the University Hospital Waterford emergency department or due to diabetic ketoacidosis; how many of these presenting...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
260. To ask the Minister for Health if it would it be possible to fund and provide "Izzy" stickers to all maternity wards in the State (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Schemes
261. To ask the Minister for Health when a new scheme will be introduced to replace the motorised transport grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11987/23]
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Departmental Staff
262. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of full-time, specifically-qualified climate scientists employed in his Department; the level of qualification of each,...
- Brexit Supports
264. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount that was allocated to the Brexit voluntary permanent cessation scheme; and the amount of this that has been spent. [11643/23]
- Forestry Sector
265. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the independent scientific, safety analyses of chemicals used by Coillte that have been undertaken in each of the past ten years; if...
- Brexit Supports
272. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount his Department has been allocated from the Brexit adjustment reserve by year; the measures to which these funds were...
- Agriculture Supports
273. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how he plans to address viability issues in the sheep industry; if he will make arrangements to introduce a €30/ewe targeted...
- Agriculture Schemes
274. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine he maximum funding available for TAMS via the Rural Development Programme and CAP Strategic Plans over the 2023 to 2027 period; the...
- Agriculture Industry
275. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will commission a social, economic and environmental impact assessment of factory-controlled feedlots. [11762/23]
- Agriculture Supports
277. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagements he has had with his Cabinet colleagues to support and encourage women farmers. [11764/23]
- Gorse Burning
279. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the options available to upland farmers, other than burning, to manage older growth heather; the resources and support available to...
- Agriculture Schemes
280. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11991/23]
- Control of Dogs
281. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in relation to the Control of Dogs Act working group, the stakeholders who were consulted during the process; if scientific evidence...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Departmental Funding
282. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development whether she is aware that an organisation (details supplied) in Cork has received no increase in funding for the past five years and...
