Written answers

Tuesday, 21 March 2023

  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Passport Services
      77. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason a passport, which is out of date for more than five years, is seen as a first-time passport; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      81. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the size of the Russian diplomatic presence in Ireland will be reduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13640/23]
    • Official Engagements
      83. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his attendance at a Good Friday Agreement 25 event with the National Committee on American Foreign Policy; and if he...
    • Ukraine War
      85. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he and other European Union countries continue to support the people of the Ukraine in the face of the continued Russian...
    • EU Meetings
      86. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the issues that were discussed at the most recent EU Foreign Affairs Council. [13502/23]
    • Middle East
      87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has discussed the increasingly high levels of Palestinian civilian casualties in the occupied West Bank with the new Israeli...
    • Ukraine War
      89. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has engaged with other foreign ministers regarding the loss of electricity power at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine due to...
    • Disaster Response
      91. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the action Ireland is taking to provide humanitarian and medical aid to the earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria; and if...
    • Foreign Policy
      93. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his assessment of the current situation in Myanmar; the action Ireland is taking at international level in relation to this; and if he will...
    • European Union
      94. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if any effort has been made by the Government to follow-up on requests for Ireland to assist Moldova in preparing for EU membership,...
    • Ukraine War
      95. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the further supports Ireland will be providing for Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13637/23]
    • Foreign Policy
      96. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will detail the level of support Ireland is providing for countries experiencing food shortages; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Brexit Issues
      97. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the engagement he has had with the British government, political parties in the North and the European Union following the...
    • Ukraine War
      98. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action that is being taken in relation to Russia's campaign to remove Ukrainian children to Russia; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Middle East
      99. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he had any discussions on the impacts of Israel’s continued aggression and illegal occupation of Palestinian territory and its...
    • Passport Services
      104. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures that are in place to deal with any surge in demand in passport applications this year; if any surge in applications will affect...
    • Religious Persecution
      102. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action Ireland is taking to protect people from persecution on account of their religious beliefs; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Northern Ireland
      103. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on any recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • International Programmes
      108. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on Ireland's contribution to the 'Global Partnership for Education'; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Middle East
      109. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on popular protests in Israel at attempts by the Netanyahu government to make changes to the country’s judicial system; and...
    • Human Rights
      110. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps the Government is currently taking to secure the release of a person (details supplied), who was recently sentenced to six and...
    • Passport Services
      111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of online passport applications that are currently waiting to be processed; the general processing times for online applications;...
    • Ukraine War
      114. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the experience of his Department following its recent exercise in persuading members from the global south to support a...
    • Good Friday Agreement
      117. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade how his Department proposes to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. [13500/23]
    • Ukraine War
      118. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on recent discussions with EU counterparts on Ukraine. [13501/23]
    • Middle East
      120. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will condemn Israeli bombing and raids in Nablus in the West Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13387/23]
    • Diaspora Issues
      121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he intends providing additional funding and resources to the Emigrant Support Programme to help remove barriers facing returning Irish...
    • Brexit Issues
      123. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions he has had with political representatives in Northern Ireland with regard to the Windsor Framework. [13499/23]
    • Ukraine War
      126. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 31 January 2023, if he will provide an update on Ireland's efforts at EU and UN levels to stop...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Bodies
      127. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the International Division of his Department. [13429/23]
    • Cabinet Committees
      128. To ask the Taoiseach when the most recent meeting of the Cabinet Sub-Committee for Accommodation and Supports for Ukrainian Refugees took place. [13433/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      129. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times funding was moved across budget lines within his Department in a process known as virement; the name and purpose of the fund the money was taken...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      130. To ask the Taoiseach if any projects under his remit are on hold due to Capital Funding pressures; and if he will indicate the projects, in tabular form [12634/23]
    • Census of Population
      131. To ask the Taoiseach if he will include a young carers section on the Census form, to ascertain and enumerate the level of care provided by young carers relating to their role in providing...
    • Departmental Records
      132. To ask the Taoiseach if he will release all his Departmental files to the National Archives regarding the High Court, Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights cases in relation to...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Departmental Funding
      133. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of times funding was moved across budget lines within his Department in a process known as virement; the name and purpose...
    • Industrial Relations
      134. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will instruct a company (details supplied) to provide written confirmation to staff in relation to the news that they will no...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      135. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if any projects under his remit are on hold due to Capital Funding pressures; if he will indicate the projects, in tabular form; and...
    • Business Supports
      136. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a grant for self-employed disabled people and disabled entrepreneurs to employ a non-disabled person to help them...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      137. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made by his Department in respect of targets and goals set out in sustainable development goals of the 2030 United...
    • Business Supports
      138. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a timeframe for introducing energy support grants for businesses that rely on oil and/or LPG that are excluded...
    • Enterprise Policy
      139. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Enterprise Ireland client companies that have been sold, acquired or merged in the past five years; the total amount...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      141. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current rate of basic level digital intensity of Irish SMEs. [13034/23]
    • Industrial Relations
      143. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to ensure that staff receive their full wages in a timely manner from a former employer. [13053/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      144. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 155 and 157 of 7 March 2023, the percentage of research and development funded by his...
    • Referendum Campaigns
      145. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when it is intended to hold the referendum on the Unified Patent Court Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Redundancy Payments
      146. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement he has had with a company (details supplied) in relation to its announcement of 240 redundancies in its Irish branch;...
    • Business Supports
      147. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if support is available to businesses to retain seasonal staff during their off-peak seasons. [13316/23]
    • Work Permits
      148. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will reconsider a work permit application for a person (details supplied); if he will reconsider this given the evidence...
    • Employment Rights
      149. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if advice will be provided to a person (details supplied) in relation to their entitlements under sick pay; and if he will make a...
    • Human Trafficking
      150. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the Workplace Relations Commission inspection staff that have training in relation to human trafficking awareness or human...
    • Industrial Disputes
      151. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will examine the legislation in relation to the non-payment of salaries by a company (details supplied); if the legislation...
    • National Standards Authority of Ireland
      152. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when an agreement certification number will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Job Losses
      153. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 56 of 16 November 2022, if he has been contacted or engaged by a company (details supplied) in...
    • Work Permits
      154. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether a person who is in Ireland on a stamp 3 visa but has a qualification that would entitle them to a critical skills permit can...
    • Co-operative Sector
      155. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will engage with the concerning the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022 (details supplied). [14003/23]
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • State Pensions
      156. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he will introduce a pension scheme for An Post workers employed since 1984 when An Post was changed to a...
    • Data Centres
      157. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how he first became aware that growth in 'Islanded' data centres could result in security of supply risk being...
    • Official Engagements
      158. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he plans to publish his ministerial diary for the period since February 2022; and if he will undertake to publish...
    • Environmental Schemes
      159. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the SEAI will have final figures for the number of and amount of funding for heating systems upgrades installed,...
    • Departmental Funding
      161. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of times funding was moved across budget lines within his Department in a process known as virement; the...
    • Business Supports
      162. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he and his Department will review correspondence from a company (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the supports...
    • Energy Prices
      163. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he intends to take steps to introduce legislation to provide greater powers to the Commission for the Regulation of...
    • Pension Provisions
      164. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the negotiations to increase the Eircom pension; when a decision is expected on this...
    • National Broadband Plan
      165. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 142 of 2 March 2023, when a new build premises (details supplied) is expected to...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      166. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if any projects under his remit are on hold due to Capital Funding pressures; if he will indicate the projects, in...
    • Energy Policy
      168. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he intends to implement a national hydrogen strategy; if he will provide an update on the working of the...
    • Pension Provisions (1 comment)
      169. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if An Post has sought his approval for the payment of a 2% increase to its pensioners from 1 January 2023; if he has...
    • EU Directives
      170. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline the situation regarding his plans to transpose EU Directive 2019/994 Article 7 on direct lines; what...
    • Broadcasting Sector
      171. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps that are being taken to ensure that all television stations and visually-based broadcast companies operating...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the roll-out of high-speed rural broadband in Cork south west. [12778/23]
    • Postal Services
      173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to ensure that new Eircodes are assigned in a timely manner rather than in batches every few...
    • Energy Prices
      175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide his response to a recommendation in a report (details supplied) concerning energy poverty calling...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      178. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware that residents in a location (details supplied) are not in receipt of broadband. [12816/23]
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress made by his Department in respect of targets and goals set out in sustainable development goals of the...
    • Mining Industry
      183. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the action that will be taken to address an issue (details supplied); the plans to reinstate this location; if any...
    • Harbours and Piers
      185. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he intends making money available to an organisation (details supplied) or to local authorities to develop piers,...
    • Angling Sector
      187. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps his Department is taking to stop the decline of trout and other fish stock in the River Shannon, which has...
    • Environmental Schemes
      188. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address concerns that an approved body operating a farm plastic scheme (details supplied) which may be...
    • Postal Services
      189. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to ensure that new eircodes are added to applications (details supplied) and other common...
    • Electricity Grid
      191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 174 of 22 November 2022, if he and his Department will amend and/or revoke the...
    • Environmental Policy
      192. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of the current waiting times for applications to SEAI (details supplied); his plans to shorten the...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      193. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will allocate an additional full-time environment attaché and communication attaché to be posted at the...
    • Departmental Reports
      194. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will publish the ministerial accountability framework referred to in his opening statement to the Oireachtas...
    • Climate Action Plan
      195. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on Action RE/23/19 in the Climate Action Plan Annex of Action. [13366/23]
    • Energy Infrastructure
      197. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes that were connected to the fossil gas grid fin each of the years 2019-2023, in tabular form. [13370/23]
    • Data Centres
      201. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number and location of islanded data centres currently operating. [13374/23]
    • Wind Energy Generation
      205. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the Governments proposed changes to off-shore wind policy announced recently and the motivation to...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      208. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are plans to create a public amenity at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Environmental Schemes
      209. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding grants. [13540/23]
    • Legislative Process
      211. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason his Department has not issued a money message or a reasoned response in relation to the Petroleum and Other...
    • Energy Policy
      212. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the date he will approve the development of domestic Irish and gas exploration; if he plans to issue a statement...
    • National Broadband Plan
      216. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the details of a new build premises (details supplied) are expected to be formally transmitted by his Department...
    • Postal Services
      217. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide assistance with obtaining an Eircode at an enclosed location (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Electricity Grid
      218. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of people who were connected to the microgeneration pilot scheme from 2009 to 2014; the number of these who...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      219. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount that has been given to domestic wind turbine developers by the Government and the SEAI, where these...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Electric Vehicles
      221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide clarification in relation to the scheme aimed at encouraging taxi drivers to convert to EV vehicles; if the unintended...
    • Driver Test
      222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reduce the lengthy wait-times experienced by those seeking to sit their driving test; when the wait-time can be expected to...
    • National Car Test
      223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of people on a cancellation list for their NCT in Cork. [12245/23]
    • Bus Services
      225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of bus stops that have had solar panels installed; the cost of installing solar panels on bus stops; and the amount of revenue...
    • Departmental Funding
      226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of times funding was moved across budget lines within his Department in a process known as virement; the name and purpose of...
    • Public Transport
      227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to improve and open toilet facilities for commuters at Balbriggan train station, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement...
    • Driver Test
      234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons that are currently awaiting an appointment date to sit their driving test, broken down by test centre, in tabular...
    • Airport Security
      235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the strategy to cease the disruption caused by drones at airports here; if he will identify the steps which need to be...
    • Driver Test
      236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures that will be implemented to eliminate unacceptable delays in applicants receiving appointments for driving tests across the...
    • Pension Provisions
      239. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to address issues concerning the pensions of former and current workers in a State transport body (details...
    • Electric Vehicles
      240. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide public electric vehicle chargers in Allihies, Castletownbere and Eyeries, County Cork. [12484/23]
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that individuals who choose to tax their car on a quarterly basis are not charged extra than those who do so annually....
    • Departmental Schemes
      242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an application for a wheelchair accessible vehicle by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Parking Provision
      243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of private parking operators such as a company (details supplied) charging the same rate for full-day parking regardless...
    • National Development Plan
      244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider correcting the decision to omit the Port Access Northern Cross Route, Drogheda County Louth from the NDP; and if he...
    • Bus Services
      245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to replace the fossil fuel local service bus fleet in County Louth with buses that use alternative or renewable fuels;...
    • Coast Guard Service
      246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a progress report on plans to construct a new coastguard station in Greystones, County Wicklow; if contracts have been...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any projects under his remit are on hold due to Capital Funding pressures; if he will indicate the projects, in tabular form; and if...
    • Bus Services
      248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to alter the Athlone town bus service which serves Bealnamullia to serve a school (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Driver Test
      249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) will be offered a date for a driving test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12736/23]
    • Bus Services
      250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will instruct the NTA to introduce self-beep ticketing on Cork buses as part of BusConnects; and the estimated cost of same, in...
    • Marine Accidents
      251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport with his responsibilities under the Merchant Shipping (Salvage and Wreck) Act 1993; and the steps he is taking in relation to MV Alta in...
    • Public Transport
      252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on ensuring that Castletownbere is classified as a larger town within the Connection Ireland plan to ensure that the Beara...
    • Bus Services
      253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an additional sheltered bus stop on the western side of Bandon to facilitate elderly residents. [12807/23]
    • Electric Vehicles
      256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to regulate e-scooters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12810/23]
    • Driver Test
      260. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driving test can be expedited for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal for employment purposes; and if he will make a...
    • Energy Policy
      261. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a timeline for the publication of legislation enabling additional renewable transport fuel obligation certificates to...
    • Road Safety Authority
      263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the current policy on anti-drink driving advertisements under the view of the Road Safety Authority, in particular,...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made by his Department in respect of targets and goals set out in sustainable development goals of the 2030 United Nations...
    • Parking Provision
      265. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rules that govern the provision of disabled car parks; if a private provider can be compelled to provide disabled parking spaces; and...
    • Public Transport
      266. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for when the Cabra and Kylemore Road Dart stations, included in the GDA Transport Strategy, will begin design work; and when...
    • Driver Test
      267. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of people on a waiting list (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12976/23]
    • Public Transport
      268. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason, unlike most other sections of the business society, taxi drivers are legally obligated to offer card paying facilities to...
    • Departmental Funding
      269. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of funding for active transport allocated to each local authority from 2019 to 2023; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      270. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13007/23]
    • Rail Network
      271. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NTAs review of bus and rail fares (detail supplied) will finally end the current rip-off rail commuters are experiencing on the...
    • Road Projects
      272. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Government expects to approve the entire scheme concerning the planned road upgrades on the N24 between Cahir, County Tipperary...
    • Pension Provisions
      274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has submitted the business case and consent request to the Minister for Public Expenditure as required regarding a company's...
    • Public Transport
      275. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the situation where private operators could not participate in the initiative on the February bank holiday weekend whereby...
    • Rail Network
      276. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the proposed new railway station for the Narroways, Bettystown, County Meath which has been included as...
    • Electric Vehicles
      277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if grant schemes are available to those looking to purchase an electric bicycle who do not qualify for the bike to work scheme; and if he...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      278. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will insist that CIÉ provides answers to the issues and questions expressed in relation to the CIE '1951 Scheme' as detailed...
    • Public Transport
      279. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 199 of 28 February, the reason a substantial part of the greater Knocknacarra area, which is...
    • Bus Services
      280. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport which routes on the upper Ballymoneen Road area of Galway city are operated under licence from the National Transport Authority, by Bus...
    • Driver Licences
      281. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the current procedure used by the RSA for notifying An Garda Síochána in relation to cases where drivers...
    • Departmental Schemes
      282. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if additional funding will be provided to the wheelchair accessible (WAV23) scheme, given the unprecedented interest in the scheme; and...
    • Cycling Facilities
      285. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated full-year cost of establishing the public bike scheme in County Cavan consisting of eight bike stations and 96 bikes. [13347/23]
    • Bus Services
      286. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to extend a bus terminus (details supplied). [13348/23]
    • Public Transport
      288. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he, in consultation with Transport Infrastructure Ireland, will ensure that a child fare is introduced as standard across all public...
    • Bus Services
      289. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the plans to change the 54A bus route and if it is possible to retain the route as is; and if he will...
    • Human Trafficking
      290. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of Marine Survey Office staff that have been training in relation to human trafficking awareness or human trafficking...
    • Rail Network
      292. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are proposals to support the redevelopment of the train station in Edenderry, County Offaly; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Public Transport
      293. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to improve the frequency and expand the range of local link services in Cork south west. [13475/23]
    • Rail Network
      295. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to provide a train station in the Ballyfermot, Kylemore area on the recently approved Railway Order submission to An...
    • Electric Vehicles
      296. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if owners of electric cars who only have access to on street parking can apply for the grant support towards the full cost of...
    • Road Projects
      297. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the National Road projects for which 2023 funding is dependent on match funding from EU sources such as the Connecting Europe Facility,...
    • Haulage Industry
      298. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the standards of services for lorry drivers that are required at service stations on motorways and national roads around...
    • Pension Provisions
      300. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will meet with a group (details supplied) concerning issues relating to a semi-State transport body pension scheme. [14020/23]
    • Rail Network
      303. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if full catering facilities will resume on the Dublin to Sligo train service before the end of Q3, 2023. [14038/23]
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Code
      304. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has plans to review and change the structure of the taxation system (details supplied). [12238/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      305. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of times funding was moved across budget lines within his Department in a process known as virement; the name and purpose of the fund the money was...
    • Tax Exemptions
      306. To ask the Minister for Finance if an exemption will be made for a category of persons in relation to the zoning tax (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12313/23]
    • Financial Services
      307. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will instruct the Irish Credit Bureau to close a loan account (details supplied). [12325/23]
    • Housing Schemes
      308. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of help-to-buy scheme mortgages drawn down in Waterford and nationally in two years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Exemptions
      309. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a list of sporting groups receiving tax exemption under Section 235 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 is no longer available to view on the...
    • Financial Services
      310. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is informed on the type of loans taken out by all customers of all financial institutions in the State; if so, if they are segmented by health needs,...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      311. To ask the Minister for Finance if any projects under his remit are on hold due to Capital Funding pressures; if he will indicate the projects, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Insurance Coverage
      312. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the plight of motorcycling sport clubs in the Republic as a result of massive insurance premiums, and the current prospect of the governing...
    • Tax Code
      313. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the decline in both the total number of individuals subject to the high-income individuals’ restriction and the estimated additional...
    • Electric Vehicles
      314. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to ensure that the fuel grant element of the disabled drivers' and passengers scheme facilitates disabled driver charging their...
    • Rental Sector
      315. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that the rent-a-room scheme is extended to allow households that have an available bedroom to rent it to an asylum seeker. [12786/23]
    • International Protection
      316. To ask the Minister for Finance if, following the Advisory Group on the Provision of Support including Accommodation to Persons in the International Protection Process, the rent-a-room...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      317. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made by his Department in respect of targets and goals set out in sustainable development goals of the 2030 United Nations Agenda for Sustainable...
    • Tax Data
      318. To ask the Minister for Finance the value to the Exchequer of the amount of VAT collected annually under Section 9 of Annex III of the EU VAT Directive. [12918/23]
    • National Development Plan
      319. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider releasing funds from the national reserve fund to alleviate the capital funding pressures which are now delaying NDP delivery; and if he...
    • Tax Code
      320. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the VAT rate for dog grooming is at 23%, while the hair dressing industry is taxed at 9%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13029/23]
    • Tax Credits
      322. To ask the Minister for Finance the way the BIK taxation regime can be reformed to achieve the reductions set out in the Climate Action Plan 2023 (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Rental Sector
      323. To ask the Minister for Finance if the rent tax credit is envisaged as being a permanent part of the tax base in the years ahead; if the rent tax credit is in the base for 2024, 2025, 2026,...
    • Fiscal Policy
      324. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will provide a five-year forecast with respect to the fiscal position in the upcoming Stability Programme Update (details supplied). [13092/23]
    • Banking Sector
      325. To ask the Minister for Finance if he agrees that it is a common strategy by Irish banks to assign their legal or equitable rights over debts and securities to so-called vulture funds; if he...
    • Rental Sector
      327. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the application of the rental tax credit, to ensure that the children of a property owner who are registered tenants in the property with...
    • Departmental Schemes
      328. To ask the Minister for Finance the conditions of approval in establishing the approved profit-sharing scheme for a company (details supplied) under categories; and if he will make a...
    • Rental Sector
      329. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person who is renting a room in a house owned by their parent which is not the principal residence of the parent, at market rent and registered...
    • Fiscal Policy
      330. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide information on the status of the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund investments in a company (details supplied); if he is concerned at the...
    • Banking Sector
      331. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department is engaging in any assessment of the collapse of a bank (details supplied) and the potential implications for Irish investors; and if he...
    • Tax Exemptions
      332. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to increase income tax exemption limits for persons aged over 65 years in the time ahead. [13444/23]
    • Departmental Data
      333. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual increases in the retail price of the most popular price category MPPC for a 20-pack of cigarettes since 2011; the portion of the increase related...
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      335. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that mortgage provides in the Irish market furnish their customers with proper information and clarity on how interest rate increases are...
    • National Asset Management Agency
      336. To ask the Minister for Finance the interest of NAMA in a site (details supplied); the status of the ownership and the remaining length of tenure; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Measures
      337. To ask the Minister for Finance the timeline he is working toward in drafting access to cash legislation, as recommended by the Retail Banking Review; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Schemes
      338. To ask the Minister for Finance if a help-to-buy application can be reassessed in circumstances in which the applicant has been approved for the help-to-buy scheme and lengthy delays of 12+...
    • Illicit Trade
      339. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners, in its actions to combat the illicit trade of tobacco products has conducted searches of online websites; if so, how many...
    • Print Media
      341. To ask the Minister for Finance if the 0% VAT rate introduced on newspapers on 1 January 2023 was passed on to the consumer with a price reduction, given the price of nearly all newspapers...
    • Tax Credits
      342. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will give consideration to the granting of enhanced tax credits specifically targeted at young adult carers, to enable them to remain in the workforce;...
    • Tax Reliefs
      343. To ask the Minister for Finance the full-year cost of mortgage interest relief against rental income in the years 2020, 2021 and 2022. [13947/23]
    • Departmental Data
      347. To ask the Minister for Finance the quantity of cigarette packs containing 20 cigarettes sold in each of the past ten years; and the quantity of cigarette packs sold containing more than 20...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Departmental Funding
      348. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of times funding was moved across budget lines within his Department in a process known as virement; the name and purpose of...
    • Rental Sector
      349. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount by which the Department of Health has overpaid rent for its premises on Baggot Street; the estimated projected cost of the...
    • Road Projects
      350. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the role his Department has in sanctioning or approving the spending of public funds on road building projects; if he will list any such...
    • Office of Public Works
      351. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if funding is available from the OPW to repair a bridge (details supplied), considering it is a key heritage, cultural and tourism point...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      353. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a direction to scale back on capital expenditure has been issued to each Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Sector Staff
      354. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an overview of the expenses and renumeration paid to retired public servants who provide their skills as members of...
    • State Properties
      355. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update and provide any additional information on the transfer of ownership of the historic Westgate House,...
    • Parental Leave
      356. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 267 of 7 March 2023, if he will set out the rationale for the age thresholds of children in...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      357. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any projects under his remit are on hold due to Capital Funding pressures; if he will indicate the projects, in tabular form; and if...
    • Pension Provisions
      358. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will sign off on the 3% pay increase for Eircom pensioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12682/23]
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      359. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made by his Department in respect of targets and goals set out in sustainable development goals of the 2030 United Nations...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      360. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied that An Post, the Irish Aviation Authority and Coillte are complying with their respective founding legislation that...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      361. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason projects have been put on hold due to capital funding pressures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12954/23]
    • Pension Provisions
      364. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason that retired civil servants with qualifying pensions have not yet received the pay increases granted under Building Momentum...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      365. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the DAA is covered under the Freedom of Information Act 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13123/23]
    • Office of Public Works
      366. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way his Department is handling rapidly increasing insurance premiums for individuals whose homes reside in the OPW's new fluvial...
    • Climate Change Policy
      367. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he consulted with or plans to consult with the Climate Change Advisory Council in relation to the efficacy, or lack thereof, of the...
    • Flood Risk Management
      369. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when necessary maintenance work will be carried out on the Bunadober River near Bunadobar Mill, Ballinrobe County Mayo, given the...
    • Departmental Strategies
      370. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps that have been taken, since the publication in March 2022 of the Government's Digital and ICT Strategy for Ireland's Public...
    • Health Services
      371. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 595 of 21 February 2023, when the tendering process will next open for the transport of patients...
    • Pension Provisions
      372. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he can clarify in relation to retired OPW workers, if these retired workers will receive a due pension increase; when this increase...
    • Office of Public Works
      373. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Garda stations within the Dublin region that are scheduled to be refurbished by the OPW for the remainder of 2023; the nature of...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Equality Issues
      374. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she is taking to address rates of online abuse targeted at LGBTQ+ people; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Funding
      375. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of times funding was moved across budget lines within her Department in a process known as virement; the name and...
    • Defibrillators Provision
      377. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if Government grants are currently in place for the provision of a community defibrillator; when the Sports Capital and Equipment...
    • Commemorative Events
      378. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when one year's minimum notice for the commemoration day for An Gorta Mór, both at home and abroad, will be inaugurated; and...
    • Sports Events
      379. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the joint Ireland and UK bid to host the UEFA EURO 2028 competition; the level of support the...
    • Online Safety
      380. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has any plans to block access to pornography on computer devices, and in particular, smart phones registered to children;...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      381. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if any projects under her remit are on hold due to Capital Funding pressures; if she will indicate the projects, in tabular form;...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      382. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress made by her Department in respect of targets and goals set out in sustainable development goals of the 2030 United...
    • Insurance Coverage
      383. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will outline the engagement she has had with an organisation (details supplied) in connection with prohibitive insurance...
    • Calafoirt agus Céanna
      384. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht maidir lena polasaí i leith fhorbairt Chalafort Ros a’ Mhíl ar fad agus an cheantair timpeall air chun deiseanna...
    • Údarás na Gaeltachta
      385. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an ndearna duine (sonraí tugtha) iarratas chuig Údarás na Gaeltachta ar cheart slí trí thalamh an...
    • Rental Sector
      386. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the planned legislation in relation to the establishment of a register for short-term rental...
    • Culture Policy
      387. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the work of the night-time economy taskforce; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Sports Funding
      389. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 59 of 29 September 2022, if her Department's review of the Large Scale Sport Infrastructure...
    • Departmental Strategies
      390. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 308 of 31 January 2023, if there is an updated timeframe for the completion of the national...
    • Departmental Funding
      391. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a grant is available under her Department that a local community organisation could apply for (details supplied); and if she...
    • Sports Organisations
      393. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current members of Sport Ireland; the Minister who appointed each; and the current remuneration of each, in tabular form....
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Gorse Burning
      394. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the operation of Sections 39 and 40 of the Wildlife Act, 1976 and Section 7 of the Heritage Act 2018 to...
    • Rental Sector
      395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has plans to review the rent pressure zones (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12238/23]
    • Energy Conservation
      396. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are two schemes for social housing retrofitting, one for voids and one for occupied homes. [12251/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      398. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times funding was moved across budget lines within his Department in a process known as virement; the name and...
    • Rental Sector
      399. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on when a standardised approach to the calculation of rents for local authority tenants will be...
    • Departmental Properties
      400. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the security contract for the Department of Housing, 90 North King Street has been awarded to a company (details supplied);...
    • Departmental Data
      401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeless people on the housing list in Waterford and nationally, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Fire Service
      402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of plans for the implementation of the recommendations of the report Retained Fire Services in Ireland: A Review...
    • Housing Provision
      403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes completed in the past two years in Waterford and nationally, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Water Supply
      405. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown on the amount of subsidy administered for type A, B and C determinants by each local authority...
    • Housing Policy
      408. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will arrange for his Department to request all local authorities to carry out an audit of their housing stock in respect...
    • Property Registration
      410. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm who is entitled to view deeds of transfer held by the Property Registration Authority; who is entitled to...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      411. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify what health and safety standards local authorities are supposed to adhere to in the provision of emergency...
    • Museum Projects
      412. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will investigate the possibility of the Custom House History Museum recording, recognising and acknowledging An Gorta...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      413. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if any projects under his remit are on hold due to Capital Funding pressures; if he will indicate the projects, in tabular...
    • Traveller Community
      414. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when it is intended to re-open the caravan loan scheme for the Traveller community; if funding will be made available to fund...
    • Defective Building Materials
      415. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in relation to the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022, when is it envisaged...
    • Rental Sector
      416. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that any named person on a HAP application is provided with accommodation alongside their partners also...
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      417. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline all funding options available to persons or non-profit groups carrying out stewardship activities of...
    • Wildlife Protection
      418. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to ensure the protection of hedgerow habitats. [12802/23]
    • Housing Schemes
      419. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider relaxing the rules in relation to the bedrooms required in order that purchasing a property with a tenant...
    • Rental Sector
      420. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a series of matters in relation the renting of holiday homes in rent pressure zones (details supplied); and if he...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      422. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made by his Department in respect of targets and goals set out in sustainable development goals of the 2030...
    • Housing Schemes
      423. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of the new initiatives for which he has recently got approval from Cabinet (details supplied) that...
    • Departmental Reviews
      426. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 298 of 7 March 2023, if there is a timeframe for his consideration of the report; and...
    • Housing Provision
      427. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown, by local authority area which outlines the locations for each of the housing units mentioned by An Taoiseach in...
    • Rental Sector
      429. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline for when legislation will be introduced to give tenants first refusal on purchasing their home if the landlord is...
    • Road Projects
      432. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a response will issue to proposed amendments that were submitted by Galway County Council to the heritage section of the...
    • Defective Building Materials
      434. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if homes within an apartment complex (details supplied) qualify under the defective apartments redress scheme; and if he will...
    • Legislative Measures
      436. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will consider the amendments made to the Wildlife Bill 2016 in Seanad Éireann; when he will complete his...
    • Derelict Sites
      437. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the derelict sites levies, levied, collected, owed and cumulatively owed; and the number of sites on the register on 31...
    • Grant Payments
      438. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 306 of 7 March 2023, in which it was stated that the registration date of 2013 helped to...
    • Rental Sector
      439. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement his Department has had with local authorities, in particular Wicklow County Council, in order to plan for the...
    • Housing Schemes
      440. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the limits on the first home scheme will next be reviewed. [13056/23]
    • State Bodies
      442. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on delays in response times by the Residential Tenancies Board; his further views on how current delays compare with...
    • Referendum Campaigns
      444. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the proposed referendum on housing will be held; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13102/23]
    • Equality Issues
      445. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to collate and publish data on LGBTQ+ homelessness in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13103/23]
    • Invasive Species Policy
      448. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a peer review (details supplied) on rhododendron management has been completed; and when he will release the review to the...
    • Planning Issues
      449. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the median and average waiting time for a decision on appeals to An Bord Pleanála; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Provision
      450. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a report on the total number of private home completions in 2021 and 2022, broken down by local authority...
    • State Bodies
      452. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 78 of 1 March 2023, if he will provide details of the protocols in place for responding...
    • Housing Schemes
      453. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost to the Exchequer in 2022 per unit of accommodation for housing schemes (details supplied), in tabular form....
    • Rental Sector
      454. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to assist persons over 65 years in long-term rental accommodation who are seeking to purchase their own...
    • Derelict Sites
      455. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to address dereliction in Bandon, Ballineen and Enniskeane, County Cork. [13236/23]
    • National Parks
      456. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to ensure that all policies concerning National Parks and Nature Reserves consider the needs of...
    • Housing Provision
      457. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of modular homes that have been and are being ordered for each county in the State, given the dearth of social and...
    • Rental Sector
      458. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans that are in place to accommodate tenants who will be forced to leave their properties once the eviction ban is...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      464. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people currently in emergency accommodation, by each local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Policy
      466. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to prevent thousands of people being evicted into homelessness from 1 April 2023. [13281/23]
    • Housing Provision
      467. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to deliver affordable housing units in the south Kildare constituency; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Energy Conservation
      469. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the numer of the local authorities whose housing stock has been retro-fitted in the south Kildare constituency; if the...
    • Scéimeanna Tacaíochta Gaeilge
      470. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government an bhfuil miondealú ar na figiúirí idir cainteoirí Gaeilge agus daoine nach iad, de réir...
    • Defective Building Materials
      473. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Wexford homeowners will be included in the defective blocks scheme where it is established that they have been impacted;...
    • Housing Provision
      474. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports available for families that are experiencing overcrowding in the family home and that are in need of essential...
    • Rental Sector
      475. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the necessary regulations will be put in place in respect of planning for the owners of property who operate short-term...
    • Departmental Staff
      477. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are any staff situated at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13452/23]
    • Planning Issues
      479. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how An Bord Pleanála is resourced to process applications for off-shore wind farms. [13485/23]
    • Fire Stations
      482. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a timeline for the delivery of a Fire Station in Lucan, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Planning Issues
      483. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether it is acceptable the inordinate amount of time it is taking An Bord Pleanála to make decisions on...
    • Waterways Ireland
      485. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of Waterways Ireland's ownership of a site (details supplied); if Waterways Ireland has any intended use for the...
    • Planning Issues
      486. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the full membership of the Planning Advisory Forum. [13566/23]
    • Vacant Properties
      487. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 141 of 9 March 2023, if he will outline the local authorities that have applied to his...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      488. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he hopes to designate designated marine areas so that the planning and development of wind farms can proceed; and if he...
    • Planning Issues
      489. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide his response to the recommendation in the UCC report Housing and Sustaining Communities on the West Cork...
    • Island Communities
      490. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide his response to the recommendation in the UCC report Housing and Sustaining Communities on the West Cork...
    • Inshore Fisheries
      491. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will engage with inshore fishers, their representative organisations, and their producer organisations concerning the...
    • Foreshore Issues
      492. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 644 of 8 September 2022, when a long running foreshore licence application will be...
    • Commemorative Events
      493. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department have any plans to mark the 60th anniversary of the passing of a person (details supplied) in October 2023;...
    • Housing Provision
      494. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify the reason there is no appeal mechanism for a parent to query a decision by their local authority to...
    • Rental Sector
      496. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the average wait-time for a response from the Residential Tenancies Board to landlords seeking to...
    • Housing Schemes
      498. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of applications for the Croí Cónaithe towns grant; the number approved and the number drawn down...
    • Housing Provision
      501. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will explain the ongoing delay in closing the purchase of affordable homes in Kilcarberry, Dunemer and Cork; and if he...
    • Housing Schemes
      502. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable housing units brought to market in 2022 in Swords, County Dublin; the forthcoming projects that are...
    • Farm Inspections
      503. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 198 of 24 March 2022, if he will report on the progress made implementing a State-wide...
    • Housing Schemes
      504. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the options that are available to pyrite homeowners who have a second property available but which needs repairs; if they can...
    • Housing Policy
      505. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason recipients of the widow's, widower's or surviving civil partner's (contributory) pension, set at the same rate as...
    • Housing Schemes
      506. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of money provided to local authorities for the payment of HAP and RAS in each of the past ten years, per local...
    • Vacant Properties
      508. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if businesses or local authorities can qualify for the vacant property refurbishment grant. [13937/23]
    • Traveller Accommodation
      509. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding drawn down by each local authority for Traveller accommodation in each of the past five years per local...
    • Vacant Properties
      510. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of money provided by his Department to local authorities for the purpose of refurbishing vacant properties; and the...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      512. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what course of action is available to an individual if they do not qualify for social housing and find themselves homeless due...
    • Housing Policy
      513. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will engage with self-catering accommodation providers in rural areas concerning the impact of the Short-term Lettings...
    • Animal Welfare
      514. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to address badger baiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14014/23]
    • eGovernment Services
      516. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will engage with and assist a public body under his remit (details supplied) with a view to improving their online...
    • Vacant Properties
      518. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will seek the details on the total number of vacant properties owned by each local authority nationwide which have been...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Departmental Funding
      519. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of times funding was moved across budget lines within his Department in a process known as virement; the name and purpose of the...
    • Deaths of Irish Citizens Abroad
      520. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will instruct officials in his Department to engage with the family of a person (details supplied) deceased in Spain who are awaiting...
    • Passport Services
      521. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will intervene in relation to a passport application for a child (details supplied). [12448/23]
    • Citizenship Applications
      522. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure the timely processing of an application for Irish citizenship (details supplied). [12464/23]
    • Passport Services
      523. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of an application by a person (details supplied); when a passport will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      524. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a decision will be made in respect of an application by a person (details supplied) for a foreign birth registration; and if he will...
    • Departmental Meetings
      525. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 327 of 7 March 2023, the groups or organisations his Department consulted with or that provided an...
    • Departmental Projects
      526. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if any projects under his remit are on hold due to capital funding pressures; if he will indicate the projects, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Passport Services
      527. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if an application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [12659/23]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      528. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking to address the backlog of applications to the foreign birth registry system. [12787/23]
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      530. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress made by his Department in respect of targets and goals set out in sustainable development goals of the 2030 United Nations...
    • Departmental Policies
      531. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of his Department’s policy regarding each of the four recommendations from the ‘Put Children First: End Orphanage...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      532. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the estimated funding that will be allocated to the UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, in 2023; and if he will...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      534. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the reports of Aleppo Airport being out of service due to an air raid (details supplied); if he will publicly condemn this...
    • Passport Services
      535. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if an electoral identity card, issued by the Electoral Office of Northern Ireland, will be accepted as photographic proof of identity for...
    • Irish Prisoners Abroad
      536. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps Ireland is taking to seek the release of a person (details supplied) from prison in Iran; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      537. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when an application for foreign birth registration will be processed (details supplied); the reason for the delay in processing the...
    • Official Travel
      539. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has plans to visit Malaysia during 2023. [13346/23]
    • Irish Communities Abroad
      540. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will discuss the safety and protection of Irish citizens and students living or visiting the United States in relation to anti-LGBT...
    • Northern Ireland
      541. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he plans to raise with the British Government the demands of the family of a person (details supplied) for an inquest into their killing...
    • Passport Services
      542. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied) given the applicant's date of travel is...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      543. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a decision will be made on the application for a foreign birth registration by a person (details supplied) who applied in February...
    • Passport Services
      544. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update (detail supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13546/23]
    • Irish Prisoners Abroad
      548. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied) who has been imprisoned in Mashhad Central Prison in Iran since 3 October 2022;...
    • Foreign Policy
      549. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will further elaborate on his comments, reported in the media regarding Irish neutrality, that neutrality is a policy issue that can...
    • International Relations
      550. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has discussed with his counterparts in Finland and Sweden their decision to join NATO; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Northern Ireland
      551. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his engagement with the British Government on the very negative impact of the UK Nationality and Borders Bill for...
    • Disaster Response
      552. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his engagements with other world leaders to provide support for Türkiye and Syria in the aftermath of the...
    • Northern Ireland
      553. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will detail the efforts he and his Department are making to restore power sharing in Northern Ireland. [12640/23]
    • Brexit Issues
      557. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the ongoing contact by him and his office with the Northern Ireland authorities in the context of recent deliberations on the Northern...
    • Departmental Records
      559. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will release all his Departmental files to the National Archives regarding the High Court, Supreme Court and European Court of Human...
    • Middle East
      560. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the role his Department is playing in reintroducing the Occupied Territories Bill 2018; if this will be reintroduced given the escalation of...
    • International Bodies
      562. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the financial contribution of Ireland to the European Peace Facility, EPC, each year since its establishment in March 2021; if there are...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      563. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which Irish overseas development aid continues to meet the needs of those most seriously affected by deprivation and...
    • EU Meetings
      565. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he and his Department through the EU continue to foster good relations between the communities in the western Balkans;...
    • EU Enlargement
      567. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which the EU continues to have positive discussions with the Ukraine with a view to some form of membership of the European...
    • United Nations
      569. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade how Ireland's membership on the UN Security Council has been used to foster a greater awareness of hardships suffered by women and children...
    • International Bodies
      570. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress in the admission to NATO of the current applicant countries, with particular reference to the need to ensure a fair and...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      571. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which Irish aid continues to target those for whom such aid is intended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13913/23]
    • Official Engagements
      572. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he and his Department and other envoys abroad have managed to secure extra business and export contacts with obvious...
    • International Relations
      573. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which Ireland's missions abroad, assisted by recent St Patrick's Day visits by Ministers and VIPS have continued to benefit...
    • Northern Ireland
      575. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he has taken by to assist in re-establishing the Northern Ireland Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13965/23]
    • State Visits
      576. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details on the proposed trip to Ireland by the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden; if the President...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      577. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he will take either alone or through the European Union to uphold international law in the Lachin corridor to protect Armenian...
    • Fisheries Protection
      578. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline his engagement with the Minister for Agriculture, Food, and the Marine concerning the State's response to non-Irish...
    • Middle East
      579. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade given the recent transfer of jurisdiction for the Israeli civil administration in occupied Palestine away from military command, if he will...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      581. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has concerns regarding the scale of the Russian diplomatic presence in Ireland; the latest breakdown of personnel in the embassy on...
    • Departmental Data
      583. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of times the Irish Ambassador to United States has visited Norfolk in the state of Virginia in 2022 and to-date in 2023, in...
    • Ukraine War
      584. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has undertaken any diplomatic efforts to call for peace and a cessation of the war in Ukraine; if he has discussed Irish neutrality in...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces
      585. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if and how military emissions are being recorded in relation to legally binding targets at national and European level; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      586. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of times funding was moved across budget lines within his Department in a process known as virement; the name and purpose of the fund...
    • Defence Forces
      587. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he intends to introduce reforms arising from a case (details suppled); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12385/23]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      588. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if any projects under his remit are on hold due to Capital Funding pressures; if he will indicate the projects, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Civil Defence
      589. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a breakdown the number of active members of the Civil Defence in each of the 28 Civil Defence units across the State in each...
    • Departmental Data
      590. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of prospective members of the Reserve Defence Force currently awaiting an induction medical assessment; how long the average waiting...
    • Departmental Reports
      591. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on the commitment to revitalise the Reserve Defence Force as part of the work to move to 'Level of Ambition 2'...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      593. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the progress made by his Department in respect of targets and goals set out in the sustainable development goals of the 2030 United Nations...
    • Departmental Funding
      594. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the level of funding provided to the permanent structured co-operation initiative, in each of the years 2017 to 2022, respectively; and the...
    • Defence Forces
      595. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence , further to Parliamentary Question No. 923 of 14 June 2022, if there has been progress on clearing the backlog of medical exams for the Defence...
    • Air Corps
      596. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has visited Casement Aerodrome since his appointment as Minister for Defence. [13359/23]
    • Departmental Policies
      597. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he plans to raise the mandatory age of retirement for non-commissioned members of the Defence Forces from 50 years of age to 60, in view of...
    • Departmental Data
      598. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of staff in the Defence Forces who must retire in the next three years due to the mandatory age of retirement; the way it is intended...
    • Departmental Policies
      600. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if people who leave the Defence Forces due to poor pay and conditions can receive their gratuity early in order to help them with the housing...
    • Ukraine War
      601. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence , further to Parliamentary Question No. 21 of 24 November 2022, if he will provide an update on Ireland's involvement in the European Union...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Accommodation
      602. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an additional accommodation application submitted by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the location and timeframe for the building of a school (details supplied). [12244/23]
    • School Funding
      604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of an application by a school (details supplied) for English as an Additional Language, EAL, teaching support; and if she will...
    • School Accommodation
      605. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an additional accommodation application for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12261/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of times funding was moved across budget lines within her Department in a process known as virement; the name and purpose of the fund...
    • Schools Building Projects
      607. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be made available to allow school building projects, for schools such as a school (details supplied) that use temporary...
    • Special Educational Needs
      609. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if section 67 of Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018 has been commenced; if this will allow the National Council for Special Education...
    • Departmental Data
      610. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staffrooms funded by her Department in 2020, 2021 and 2022 in second-level schools; the number of applications for staffrooms...
    • Schools Building Projects
      611. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in approving the funding for the Nore school building bundle; the timeframe for approval; and if she will make a...
    • School Staff
      612. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department can examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12401/23]
    • Departmental Data
      613. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements that are being made for a child (details supplied) in south Tipperary to have a school place in an autism spectrum disorder,...
    • School Staff
      614. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that school caretakers will be paid over a 52-week period before the end of this school term, as per the agreement reached...
    • School Transport
      616. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide school transport to pupils (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12433/23]
    • School Textbooks
      617. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify how the free schoolbook scheme will be rolled out; if the scheme will be administered from publishers, wholesalers or...
    • Special Educational Needs
      618. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify her plans for the continued funding and development of early intervention ASD classes. [12462/23]
    • School Curriculum
      620. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what research her Department has carried out on the effect on primary school children of delivering material on transgenderism in the classroom;...
    • School Accommodation
      622. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the temporary accommodation committed to a school (details supplied); the timeline for the installation of same; if any...
    • Schools Building Projects
      623. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on an application by a school (details supplied) for a permanent building to replace the existing prefabs; and if...
    • Undefined
      624. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a request by a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12550/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      625. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the confirmed delay of a new school building for a school (details supplied); the basis for this decision in...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      626. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projects that are paused or being considered for pausing under capital expenditure. [12568/23]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      627. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of works for a school rebuild (details supplied). [12569/23]
    • School Admissions
      629. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will act with the utmost urgency to ensure that a young person (details supplied) can return to secondary school education at the earliest...
    • School Transport
      630. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the terms of reference in respect of the review of the school transport scheme that commenced in February 2021; the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      631. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be made available to allow the school building project, for a school (details supplied) to proceed, to allow this school to move...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      632. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently expedite an emergency works application for a school (details supplied). [12590/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      633. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the case of a child (details supplied) who has level two autism and whose parents have been unsuccessful in securing a primary...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      634. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will detail the contacts she has had with a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary in respect of the need to progress the building...
    • Schools Building Projects
      635. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm if a school project (details supplied) did in fact go out to tender, given that it was announced in May 2022 that it would go...
    • School Accommodation
      641. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the application by a school (details supplied) for the urgent provision of additional accommodation, which the...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      642. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any projects under her remit are on hold due to Capital Funding pressures; if she will indicate the projects, in tabular form; and if she will...
    • State Examinations
      643. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when sixth-year students can expect to receive definite timetable scheduling for their Leaving Certificate oral examinations (details supplied);...
    • Schools Building Projects
      645. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school building project, (details supplied); if she will advise what is the current position with the project; when contracts...
    • School Transport
      646. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if children (details supplied) can be catered for in the provision of school bus tickets as per her last budget announcement as happened for...
    • School Enrolments
      647. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to address the over subscription to national schools in a town (details supplied). [12765/23]
    • School Staff
      648. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that an additional teacher is assigned to a national school (details supplied) under the criteria alleviating some of the...
    • State Examinations
      649. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details on the date set for the issuing of Leaving Certificate results. [12767/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      650. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will immediately make available the SNA allocations for secondary schools in Cork south west for the 2022-2023 academic year. [12768/23]
    • School Accommodation
      653. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking in relation to a shortage of spaces in secondary schools in Clonakilty, County Cork. [12772/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      654. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will meet with a group (details supplied) concerning the establishment of a special needs school in the Cork south west. [12773/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      656. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the school building project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs
      657. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) and award a special needs allowance to them; if not, the reason for not doing so; the...
    • State Examinations
      658. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider implementing measures to alleviate Leaving Certificate stresses (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      659. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide students (details supplied) with tickets for the school transport scheme. [12844/23]
    • Departmental Staff
      660. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of officials that are based in the school transport scheme section of her Department, by grade as whole-time equivalents and part-time...
    • School Accommodation
      661. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on an additional accommodation project at a school (details supplied), given the tendering process for this school...
    • Schools Building Projects
      662. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the progress of a school building project at a location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Staff
      663. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will permit a school (details supplied) in County Limerick to retain a teacher; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12894/23]
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      664. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made by her Department in respect of targets and goals set out in sustainable development goals of the 2030 United Nations Agenda...
    • Special Educational Needs
      665. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of plans for the modification of a mainstream classroom to a special educational needs classroom in a school (details...
    • National Council for Curriculum and Assessment
      667. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment uses any child development model; and if so, if she will specify which one. [12943/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      668. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the details of the 58 schools whose building projects are currently on hold due to capital funding pressures. [12949/23]
    • School Accommodation
      669. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review arrangements for additional classroom delivery in County Cork (details supplied) in order to ensure optimum financial...
    • School Facilities
      670. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) is to remain on a site in the 2023-2024 school year; if her Department will provide additional prefab classrooms...
    • School Accommodation
      671. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the accommodation plan for a school (details supplied) for the 2024-2025 school year; when An Bord Pleanála will make a final decision on...
    • School Admissions
      672. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will assist a child (details supplied) with their school situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12984/23]
    • School Transport
      673. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take urgent steps to restore a school taxi service to a pupil (details supplied) in County Cork. [12985/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      674. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 421 of 18 October 2022, if she will provide an update in relation to the status of a project for a school...
    • School Meals Programme
      675. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be fully integrated into the Kilkenny School Completion Programme in order that it can provide school meals...
    • Special Educational Needs
      676. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the provision of home tuition for children with complex...
    • School Transport
      677. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she intends to improve and reform the school transport scheme in time for the beginning of the 2023-2024 school year, following the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      678. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the pause placed on 58 new school buildings; if current delays are expected to affect the 2023-2024, 2024-2025 and 2025-2026...
    • Bus Services
      682. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a pick-up location on a school bus route in County Westmeath will be reconsidered, given that there are more suitable locations in the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      683. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of the schools that have been advised of delays in their capital projects; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Teacher Training
      684. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason students in a college (details supplied) who are carrying out their programme to be a primary school teacher must pay their own...
    • Schools Building Projects
      685. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update and status of a school building project in respect of a school (details supplied). [13040/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      687. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any updates on the Covid cleaning grant for term 2 that was expected in January 2023; and the timeframe in which it will be...
    • School Costs
      688. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the €95 per student transition year grant for schools in the free education scheme for post-primary schools directly subsidises the...
    • Ukraine War
      689. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will commit to her Department to engaging with all post-primary schools that are accommodating Ukrainian students with regard to the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      690. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will list the 58 school building projects which have been halted by her Department [13081/23]
    • Departmental Inquiries
      691. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to concerns raised by person (details supplied) in relation to the scope of enquiry into historical sexual abuse in schools;...
    • Schools Building Projects
      692. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of the 58 schools whose building projects have been put on hold from proceeding to either tender or construction...
    • Special Educational Needs
      693. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons waiting for a laptop, tablet or other specialist software under the assistive technology grant; how this figure compares...
    • Schools Building Projects
      694. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will summarise in detail the number of new school build projects in County Tipperary that have been put on hold by her Department; the...
    • Ukraine War
      696. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Ukrainian children that are enrolled in schools in County Wicklow, broken down between primary and secondary schools; the name of...
    • Schools Building Projects
      697. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason plans to develop 58 new schools have been put on hold; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13116/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      700. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when details of the home-based, summer education programme for 2023 will be published by her Department. [13136/23]
    • National Council for Special Education
      701. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider introducing a timebound appeals process for schools appealing to the NCSE, in order that they might have a prospective date...
    • School Textbooks
      702. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when each primary school will be advised of the amount they have been allocated under the new free book scheme; and when each school can expect...
    • School Transport
      703. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider introducing an annual schedule of grants and their pay-outs in order to provide schools with more clarity in an...
    • School Accommodation
      705. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the plans for the future accommodation needs of a school (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      706. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 142 of 8 March 2023, if she will provide additional information (details supplied) pertaining to the cost...
    • Ukraine War
      722. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children from Ukraine currently living in Mullingar, County Westmeath who are availing of school transport and to which school, in...
    • School Accommodation
      723. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the length of time a school (details supplied) has been vacant; her Department's plans for the property; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      724. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of the 58 school building projects that are currently facing delay, in order of prioritisation, and by the criteria...
    • School Funding
      725. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in counties Carlow and Kilkenny that have had their capital funding halted; when funding will be reinstated, in tabular...
    • School Transport
      729. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a child (details supplied) who was denied a place on the school bus to their secondary school in 2022 although they...
    • Schools Building Projects
      730. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of schools affected by the stalling of construction projects; if schools where construction is underway such as a...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      733. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the case of a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13377/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      734. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the 58 school building works which are currently under review by her Department; and the 29 schools which have had works put on hold or...
    • School Equipment
      735. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of HEPA filters that have been installed in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13398/23]
    • State Examinations
      737. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the Leaving Certificate results will be issued given that many students require clarity, especially if they intend to study abroad; and if...
    • School Staff
      738. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason teachers registered pre-2012 are receiving additional allowances than all teachers registered post-2012, these teachers are finding it...
    • Irish Language
      739. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider funding a proposal by a school (details supplied) on a pilot basis which would see English speaking schools twinned with...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      742. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13424/23]
    • School Textbooks
      743. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update in respect of the free books scheme that will operate for the 2023-2024 academic year. [13447/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      748. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to ensure that all students with ASD in Cork south west will be supplied with a secondary school place in their locality....
    • School Curriculum
      749. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on introducing neurodiversity lessons into the primary school curriculum to help young people learn about different conditions in a...
    • Departmental Programmes
      750. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the inclusion of a school (details supplied) in the planned pilot programme for the rollout of therapy in schools. [13507/23]
    • School Funding
      751. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the contacts her Department has made with a school (details supplied) in respect of the school's need for funding for cleaning, which has been a...
    • School Admissions
      752. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support a person (details supplied) as a matter of urgency. [13539/23]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      753. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the pupil-to-teacher ratio for reader units in primary schools; how this ratio is determined; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Staff
      754. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding financial support offered to registered post-primary school teachers to upskill to teach mathematics, physics and...
    • School Admissions
      755. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the advice or assistance her Department can provide to a family whose child (details supplied) is number 166 on the waiting list for a first year...
    • Schools Building Projects
      757. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in the establishment of new primary schools in Bray, Clondalkin, Naas, Gurranabraher and West Kilkenny; the current status...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      759. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13592/23]
    • School Funding
      761. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposed funding of two schools (details supplied) in Dublin 4 and Dublin 6; when these facilities will be developed given that...
    • School Admissions
      762. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which ongoing dialogue continues between her Department, the KWETB and the relevant school authorities in Maynooth, County Kildare...
    • Schools Building Projects
      769. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date toward the provision of a replacement for a school (details supplied) at the proposed new campus to cater for three schools...
    • School Transport
      771. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that adequate measures are being taken to ensure that children of both levels are accommodated as previously towards giving...
    • Departmental Schemes
      772. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to an alternative delivery mechanism for a scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      773. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline her engagement with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science since 1 January 2021...
    • School Transport
      774. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if details of a family (details supplied) have been forwarded to her Department for consideration for the remote area grant; the steps the family...
    • Education Schemes
      775. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the Gaeltacht school recognition scheme; the number of schools recognised to-date as Gaeltacht schools under the scheme; the...
    • Legislative Measures
      776. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the Education (Student and Parent Charter) Bill 2019; the expected timeline for the enactment of the legislation; the reason for...
    • School Transport
      777. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is expanding capacity on the school transport network for the 2023-24 school year. [13703/23]
    • Education Policy
      779. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will sponsor a campaign for the purposes of raising awareness among teaching and related professionals of the challenges facing young...
    • Special Educational Needs
      780. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if assistance will be provided in relation to the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13769/23]
    • School Transport
      781. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support an application for the provision of school bus transport for 14 students from Emly, County Tipperary, who require school bus...
    • Schools Building Projects
      783. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on school building projects in Dublin Fingal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13803/23]
    • Site Acquisitions
      784. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the address and location under consideration for a permanent site for a school (details supplied) as per an update received where the Department...
    • School Transport
      785. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the provision of school transport for schools in Straffan and Rathcoffey will be investigated with a view to putting in place an amicable...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      786. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) can have his or her appeal pursuant to the secondary, community and comprehensive school teachers pension scheme...
    • Special Educational Needs
      787. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in the Carrigaline, County Cork, area who are transitioning from an ASD primary unit to an ASD secondary unit; and the...
    • Education Schemes
      789. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a student (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13962/23]
    • School Funding
      790. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of a 15% increase in the ancillary services grant for primary and special schools to cover the costs from 1 September 2023 to...
    • Special Educational Needs
      791. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when each of the vacant special education needs organiser positions within County Kildare will be filled, in tabular form. [14028/23]
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      792. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12254/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      793. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of times funding was moved across budget lines within his Department in a process known as virement; the name and...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      794. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a maintenance payment paid to an ex-spouse is not taken into account when calculating means to qualify for the...
    • State Pensions
      795. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the averaging system used for the calculation of State pensions is to be retained; if not, the proposals the Government...
    • Social Welfare Code
      797. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person can apply to become a carer for two persons, for example, a husband and wife; the process, the criteria and the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      798. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for the carer’s allowance will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      801. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if Covid-19 is to be recognised as an occupational disease for frontline health care workers in Ireland as per EU ACSH...
    • Social Welfare Code
      802. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12451/23]
    • Disability Services
      803. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will engage with a group (details supplied) concerning a shortfall in funding the provision of disability support...
    • State Pensions
      804. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a response to an organisation’s (details supplied) call for an €11 increase in the State...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      805. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide funding for individuals to avail of medical microblading on similar terms to the provision of wigs and...
    • Public Services Card
      808. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider automatically extending public services cards for people over 80 years of age who have physical and...
    • Birth Certificates
      809. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a digitalised version of a birth certificate will be accepted for marriage (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      810. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to extending eligibility to the living alone allowance to people in receipt of the one-parent...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      811. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if any projects under her remit are on hold due to Capital Funding pressures; if she will indicate the projects, in tabular...
    • Departmental Policies
      812. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 255 of 2 March 2023, the reason a person seeking to change their name in circumstances...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      813. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline whether her Department can cover any social protection service in respect of providing persons with...
    • State Pensions
      814. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has given any consideration to the long-running issue of the inclusion of Tusla-approved foster carers in...
    • Social Welfare Code
      815. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the living-alone allowance is counted or discounted for the purpose of calculating the means for the fuel allowance. [12693/23]
    • Departmental Policies
      816. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the proposals in relation to ending the campaign to pursue former partners for unpaid child maintenance...
    • Departmental Advertising
      817. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent to date on the advertisement of the additional needs' payment, in social media and traditional media, by...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      818. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide her response to a recommendation in a report (details supplied) concerning energy poverty calling for the...
    • International Protection
      819. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she has taken in response to the recommendation in the Report of the Advisory Group on the Provision of Support...
    • Social Welfare Code
      820. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person in receipt of the livin- alone allowance on the State pension can relinquish this payment in order to avail of...
    • Direct Provision System
      822. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, following the report of the Advisory Group on the Provision of Support including Accommodation to Persons in the...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      823. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made by her Department in respect of targets and goals set out in sustainable development goals of the 2030...
    • Care Services
      824. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has given consideration to introducing a young carer’s grant, similar to the one introduced in...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      825. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the living alone allowance can be backdated to July 2021 for a person (details supplied) on a discretionary basis; and if...
    • Fuel Poverty
      826. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people who applied for the fuel allowance from October 2022 to February 2023; the number of those applications...
    • Pension Provisions
      827. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for an old age contributory pension by a person (details supplied); and if she...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      829. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of individual payments of €800 made under the pledged accommodation scheme for Ukrainian refugees; the...
    • Pension Provisions
      830. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a self-employed person who pays S contributions and was in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment during 2020 and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      831. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has plans to streamline the system for early years educators who have to undertake a full application for jobseeker's...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      848. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether there are plans to open an Intreo centre in Lucan County Dublin given the population growth in the area; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      849. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has a policy of writing to social welfare payment recipients and asking them to change their method of...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      850. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if people who did not qualify for the fuel allowance in advance of starting a community employment scheme can now access the...
    • Employment Support Services
      851. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if any funding for the local area employment services in Dún Laoghaire has changed in recent weeks or months; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      854. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people with direct eligibility for free travel under the free travel scheme; and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      862. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of PPS numbers issued in Ireland from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022, the breakdown by nationality that each...
    • Irish Sign Language
      863. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 396 of 14 February 2023, if she will report the recommendations of the Irish Sign...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Family Support Services
      864. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way he plans to deal with an issue in relation to autism (details supplied); the steps he is taking to...
    • Disability Services
      866. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the options available for a child (details supplied) in the Balbriggan area who has been told by the children's...
    • Departmental Funding
      870. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times funding was moved across budget lines within his Department in a process known as virement;...
    • Birth Certificates
      871. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons who have applied for birth information since the introduction of the Birth Information and...
    • Asylum Seekers
      872. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of asylum seekers and refugees who are currently homeless in the State. [12303/23]
    • International Protection
      873. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of unaccompanied minors seeking international protection who have gone missing while in the care of...
    • Child Protection
      874. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of children who have gone missing while in the care of the State in each of the past ten years...
    • International Protection
      875. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons who have died in the State while seeking international protection in each of the past ten...
    • Disability Services
      876. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Farrelly Commission of Investigation has concluded its work; if so, the date upon which it was concluded;...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      877. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when overdue payments for accommodating Ukrainian refugees will issue to a hotelier (details supplied) in County...
    • Disability Services
      878. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason staff that are being moved from a newly designated service (details supplied) given the impact this...
    • Youth Services
      879. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will put in place a sustainable investment strategy to ensure that all young people have access to youth...
    • Youth Work Projects
      881. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the percentage of young people across Ireland that are involved in universal youth work; how he plans to...
    • Disability Services
      883. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on disability service waiting lists for children's disability networks teams, by CHO/CDNT...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      885. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on waiting lists for an assessment of needs for January and February 2019 to 2023,...
    • Disability Services
      886. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of hiring four additional administrative staff per children's disability network team, in...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      890. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the provision of community neuro-rehabilitation teams in each CHO. [12455/23]
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      891. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to oversee the services provided to Ukrainian refugees accommodated in hotels. [12458/23]
    • Direct Provision System
      892. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will engage with a group (details supplied) concerning a shortfall in funding for a direct provision...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      893. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to address transphobia. [12460/23]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      894. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children and young persons on waiting lists for an assessment of need in each LHO, in tabular...
    • Disability Services
      895. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the staffing to caseload ratios used to calculate the numbers, types and scale of therapists and clinicians...
    • Health Services
      897. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to provide community neuro-rehabilitation services. [12474/23]
    • Disability Services
      898. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a child (details supplied) can expect to receive a date for both an appointment for a speech and language...
    • Community Care
      899. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of an application by a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12513/23]
    • International Protection
      900. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if families with children and those who are in bad health will remain in a hotel (details supplied). [12515/23]
    • Disability Services
      901. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a child (details supplied) will receive services from the local disability network team; and if he will...
    • National Archives
      902. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 195 of 5 May 2022, when the archive of the McAleese commission will be...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      903. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will instruct his Department to take immediate action to ensure provisions are made for an assessment and...
    • International Protection
      904. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason payments have not issued to an accommodation centre housing Ukrainian refugees (details supplied) for...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      905. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if any projects under his remit are on hold due to capital funding pressures; if he will indicate the projects...
    • Ukraine War
      906. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will acknowledge the huge work, support and solidarity shown by communities around the country in...
    • International Protection
      907. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if, in light of the recent announcement that one in ten asylum seekers has no accommodation, there are plans to...
    • Childcare Services
      912. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the situations in which childcare providers can refuse to provide specific care for children (details supplied)....
    • International Protection
      913. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 470 of 7 March 2023, when a person (details supplied) who is awaiting a...
    • Broadcasting Sector
      914. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of his engagement with the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications...
    • Child Abuse
      915. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the publication of a report concerning historical abuse in an organisation...
    • Disability Services
      916. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the provision of community neuro-rehabilitation teams in each CHO. [12796/23]
    • Emergency Accommodation
      917. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the 2023 emergency accommodation contracts will be issued to property owners; the duration of the contacts;...
    • Disability Services
      918. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number and percentage of complaints made to the disability complaints office under section 14(1)(b) of the...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      919. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reassurance he proposes to give persons with autism and their families who were diagnosed by a person...
    • International Protection
      920. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department can confirm the total number of persons who are permitted to reside in St. Anne's, Roscrea; if...
    • Maternity Leave
      922. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on plans to amend current legislation that prevents women from deferring their...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      923. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress made by his Department in respect of targets and goals set out in sustainable development goals of...
    • Care Services
      924. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans underway in his Department to establish a cross-departmental working group on young carers;...
    • Disability Services
      926. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason children's disability network team 2 Ballyboden is not able to use the local primary care centre in...
    • Residential Institutions
      927. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if it has been brought to his attention that survivors are reporting a high-level of inconsistency in the...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      930. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position regarding the First 5 Little Library Initiative; if a library book bag will be provided to every...
    • Disability Services
      931. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current vacancy rate for Carlow children’s disability network team. [12979/23]
    • Departmental Policies
      932. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he intends to restore the title of early childhood care and education rather than early learning and care,...
    • State Bodies
      933. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking in response to individuals being informed that they will not be provided with their...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      934. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that funding is put in place for childcare providers to receive a wage all year round. [13051/23]
    • Disability Services
      937. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a child (details supplied) who has autism will receive the care and attention of the HSE.; and if he will...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      938. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current waiting times for psychological assessments of need for children in the public system per CHO, in...
    • Direct Provision System
      939. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has entered into an agreement to use a building (details supplied) in County Kerry as a direct...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      942. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the supports that are available from his Department to assist a small rural primary school...
    • Disability Services
      943. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the provision of a community neuro-rehabilitation team in CHO7, particularly with regard to the...
    • Asylum Seekers
      945. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number and type of premises in County Wicklow used by the State for accommodation for refugees and asylum...
    • Disability Services
      946. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a community neuro-rehabilitation team will be put in place for CHO5; if funding has been allocated in 2023...
    • International Protection
      947. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 129 of 1 March 2023, if an assessment has been carried out to support the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      948. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on waiting lists for an assessment of need for in CHO7 in each of the months of 2021,...
    • International Protection
      950. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of all accomodation schemes in existence to house Ukrainian refugees and asyslum...
    • Legislative Reviews
      951. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on his Department's review of the Equal Status Acts 2000-2018; and if he will make...
    • Childcare Services
      952. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that a person can register as an individual childminder with Tusla, rather than requiring a...
    • Departmental Bodies
      953. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total budget for Tusla; the portion of this budget that covers pay; and the breakdown of the total pay bill...
    • Disability Services
      955. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the delay to the introduction of a community neuro-rehabilitation centre in CH09; and if he will...
    • International Protection
      957. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will list the various schemes and programmes under the remit of his Department that have located third...
    • Direct Provision System
      959. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 443 of 14 February 2023, and the provision of the information by email, if...
    • Health Services Staff
      960. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if exit interviews with staff departing CDNTs are being carried out; if such interviews are being carried out...
    • Disability Services
      961. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an independent review of the Progressing Disability Services programme will be subject to an independent...
    • Health Services
      962. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures he is taking to increase the number of dieticians in CDNTs; the number of dieticians available to...
    • International Protection
      964. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an application has been received to utilise a facility (details supplied) in Birr, County Offaly, as an...
    • Disability Services
      966. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports available to parents of children with disabilities who require tube feeding to send them to...
    • International Protection
      971. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update in respect of a site (details supplied). [13511/23]
    • Direct Provision System
      972. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the direct provision centre in Shannon, County Clare; the plans there are to...
    • Departmental Data
      973. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the study commissioned by his Department to evaluate the processes for implementation of three...
    • Care Services
      979. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will give consideration to the establishment of a cross-departmental working group for the purposes of...
    • Departmental Bodies
      980. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the steps involved in making a complaint to Pobal in respect of an alleged breach of Core...
    • International Protection
      981. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason his Department did not contract a property (details supplied) for the provision of humanitarian...
    • Departmental Reports
      982. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that a parent of a person with a disability (details supplied) will receive a copy of a report...
    • Legislative Programme
      983. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the implementation of the Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Act...
    • Direct Provision System
      985. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the place finders service offered to individuals and families with leave to...
    • Departmental Data
      986. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which a preliminary enquiry might be carried out in respect of issues relating to numerous cases...
    • An Garda Síochána
      987. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what action has been taken by his Department on a disclosure made to him by email from this Deputy's office on...
    • Ukraine War
      988. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of households or families who expressed an interest in hosting Ukrainian Refugees in each of the past...
    • International Protection
      990. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if IPAS has decided that current applicants for international protection staying in accommodation in rooms on...
    • Ukraine War
      991. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that a hotel accommodating Ukrainian refugees (details supplied) immediately receives the...
    • Departmental Policies
      992. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department intends to develop a policy relating to children in informal kinship care, following the...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Departmental Funding
      993. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of times funding was moved across budget lines within his Department in a process known as virement; the name and purpose of the fund...
    • Third Level Education
      994. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the third level access programme; the number of persons who have taken part in the programme in each year since it...
    • Further and Higher Education
      995. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when retired lecturers who worked in institutes of technology will receive the increases due to them, in terms of their pensions; and if he will...
    • Ukraine War
      996. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any proposals to allow Ukrainian students, who meet the educational requirements, full and automatic access to SUSI supports while...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      997. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for phase 2 of their electrical apprenticeship; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Third Level Education
      999. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of SUSI applications submitted for dependents under 23 years of age that applied for irreconcilable estrangement from parents; and the...
    • Student Accommodation
      1001. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on plans to provide new student accommodation for students at Dublin City University; and if he will make a...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1002. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any projects under his remit are on hold due to Capital Funding pressures; if he will indicate the projects, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Grant Payments
      1003. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he would consider a specific bursary for young carers attending third level institutions, similar to the successful young carer's grant...
    • Education Schemes
      1004. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider further initiatives to support the transition of young carers to further and higher education and apprenticeships via access...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      1005. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department carries out any economic or value for money evaluation in respect of the annual €1 million bill for the two Cork PPP...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1006. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will detail the arrangements with respect to the €5 million in emergency funding provided to IT Tralee in 2019/2020; and if he will...
    • Third Level Education
      1007. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will detail the impact of rising interest rates on the borrowing of our university sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Third Level Costs
      1008. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 127 of 25 May 2016, in respect of 100 major capital projects listed, to identify which projects proceeded...
    • Third Level Education
      1009. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the various procurement stages in respect of the acquisition of Premier House by the Institute of Technology Tallaght, now...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1010. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a detailed explanation of the processes, milestones and timelines for releasing ring-fenced funding in his Department in...
    • Technological Universities
      1011. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will detail capital expenditure within each of the technological universities since their creation; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Third Level Education
      1012. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to establish a third-level veterinary course in Munster. [12789/23]
    • Student Accommodation
      1015. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he, in conjunction with the relevant Government departments, will take steps to alleviate the stress on the student accommodation system; and...
    • Third Level Education
      1016. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will include an independent expert on veterinary education in the Expert Advisory Panel set up by the HEA to ensure that any new programme...
    • Student Accommodation
      1017. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of beds which are available in purpose built student accommodation in Cork, Dublin, Limerick and Galway, in particular, in...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      1018. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made by his Department in respect of targets and goals set out in sustainable development goals of the 2030 United Nations Agenda...
    • Education Schemes
      1019. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts being made by his Department to support the transition of young carers to further and higher education; if there are apprenticeships...
    • Pharmacy Services
      1020. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will actively engage with the three third-level institutions which offer pharmacy degree programmes, namely University College Cork, Royal...
    • Research and Development
      1021. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for scaling back the Governments research and development target from 2.5% of GNP to 2.5% of GNI*; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Grant Payments
      1023. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware that affidavits are not accepted by SUSI as proof of estrangement from parents, and if he could outline the reasoning behind...
    • Pension Provisions
      1024. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made on the issue of pension provision for research staff grades who do not have access to public service pensions in...
    • Third Level Staff
      1025. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether it is unfair that part-time lecturers in NCAD are being treated less favourably than their full-time colleagues (details...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1026. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding options that are available to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13166/23]
    • Public Transport
      1027. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of his engagement with the Minister for Transport concerning the provision of public transport services for disabled...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1028. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the length the waitlist expected to be between phase 2 and phase 4 of SOLAS in each relevant apprenticeship; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Medical Qualifications
      1029. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the preparations being made, and the measures being put in place to address the shortage of training spaces for dieticians; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1030. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received correspondence (details supplied) from a group of 1st year students from the University of Limerick who are partaking in a...
    • Student Accommodation
      1031. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of a huge crisis in student accommodation in Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13567/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      1032. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 463 of 28 February 2023, his views on the disparity for accreditation of similar SNA courses in two...
    • Grant Payments
      1033. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider adding the specific family circumstances of young carers as a ground for determining eligibility for SUSI grants for third...
    • Third Level Education
      1035. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider setting aside funding for the financing of dedicated educational bursaries for young carers; and if he will make a statement...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1036. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the site selection process for the Swords College of Further Education and Training, County Dublin; and if he...
    • Pension Provisions
      1037. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address persisting inequalities in the receipt of pensions across higher education institutions, namely for individuals in the...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Citizenship Applications
      1038. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of the difference in timelines for receipt of acknowledgment letters and e-vetting requests for those who...
    • Asylum Applications
      1040. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an application by a person (details supplied) dating from February 2022 to the Afghan admission programme will finally be...
    • Departmental Funding
      1041. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times funding was moved across budget lines within his Department in a process known as virement; the name and...
    • Control of Firearms
      1042. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will clarify the current restrictions which apply to the holder of firearms; if it is intended to amend these...
    • Departmental Staff
      1043. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if probation officers working in the Department of Justice are public servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • International Agreements
      1044. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he can clarify when and if Ireland will ratify the UNCRC second optional protocol on children, child prostitution and child...
    • Policing Authority
      1045. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the security contract for the Policing Authority, 90 North King Street has been awarded to a company (details supplied)....
    • Domestic Violence
      1046. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details of the number of domestic violence refuge spaces in each county, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Asylum Applications
      1047. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of asylum applications made nationally in the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12359/23]
    • An Teanga Gaeilge
      1051. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality an bhfuil taifead á choinneáil ar líon na mbreithiúna a bhfuil sé ar a gcumas acu cás a...
    • Deportation Orders
      1052. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deportation orders issued, the number of deportations carried out and the countries to which the failed...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1053. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of text alert groups that have been paid the text alert rebate for 2022 to date, by county; the reason for the...
    • Control of Firearms
      1054. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the proposals that are being mooted for an organisation (details supplied); if new regulations are being introduced; if so,...
    • Fishing Industry
      1055. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will clarify whether the recent changes to the atypical workers scheme for non-EAA fishers, that is, those that can...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1056. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of income derived to the Exchequer from the Immigrant Investor Programme, by year, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1057. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if any projects under his remit are on hold due to Capital Funding pressures; if he will indicate the projects concerned, in...
    • Immigration Status
      1058. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times checkpoints were carried out to check the immigration status of people in 2022; the number of persons that...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1059. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider an issue (details supplied). [12702/23]
    • An Garda Síochána
      1060. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are any plans to change the status of civil service who work in An Garda Síochána to public servants; and...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1061. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on an application for naturalisation by an Indian national (details supplied); and if he will...
    • International Protection
      1062. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he has taken in response to the recommendation in the Report of the Advisory Group on the Provision of Support...
    • Prison Service
      1063. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a person (details supplied) was granted repatriation to the UK, in view of the fact that other foreign nationals in...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      1065. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made by his Department in respect of targets and goals set out in sustainable development goals of the 2030...
    • Prison Service
      1066. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of occasions on which prisoners slept on mattresses, by prison during Q4 2022; and if he will make a...
    • Antisocial Behaviour
      1071. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of antisocial behaviour in and around a flat complex (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if she is aware of...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1072. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality cé na comhráití a bhí aige le Coimisinéir an Gharda Síochána maidir leis an dualgas...
    • Prison Service
      1073. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when it is intended to publish all outstanding reports on the Dóchas centre for women prisoners; the reason for the delay...
    • Immigration Status
      1074. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that has been made to date in the determination of an application as part of recent undocumented scheme in the...
    • Visa Applications
      1075. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of long stay join family visa applications processed each week in the past twelve months; if additional staff are...
    • Courts Service
      1078. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review the status of experts under the Guardianship of Infants Act 1964, (Child's Views Expert) Regulations 2018,...
    • Peace Commissioners
      1079. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that a person should take in order to become a peace commissioner; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Domestic Violence
      1086. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of domestic violence liaison officers attached to each Garda division as of 10 March 2023 and 30 June 2021, in...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1087. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cases that each Garda divisional protective services unit has dealt with in 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023, in...
    • Human Trafficking
      1089. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of INIS staff that have training in relation to human trafficking awareness or human trafficking indicators; to...
    • Irish Sign Language
      1090. 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 the Courts Service. [13491/23]
    • Visa Applications
      1094. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 510 of 7 March 2023, if he will clarify the official date of receipt of a visa...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1096. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to each town in south Kildare in 2010, 2019 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1097. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average processing times for citizenship applications (details supplied) in each of the years 2015 to date in 2023, in...
    • Child Protection
      1099. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he will introduce the Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2022 which was due to be published at...
    • Immigration Status
      1100. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13660/23]
    • Departmental Policies
      1101. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has engaged with the relevant stakeholders in relation to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice Report on an...
    • Domestic Violence
      1102. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he is taking in response to the Joint Committee on Justice Report on Women's Shelters and Domestic Abuse Refuges...
    • Female Genital Mutilation
      1103. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the procedures in place to protect girls living in Ireland who are identified as being at risk of female...
    • Departmental Records
      1107. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will release all his Departmental files to the National Archives regarding the High Court, Supreme Court and European...
    • Immigration Policy
      1108. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has plans to remove the visa requirement for Peruvians entering Ireland; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Family Reunification
      1109. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will make a statement on applications for family reunification for programme refugees, including the number of staff he...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1110. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide the number of knives seized by gardaí in each county, in each of the years 2016 to 2022 and to date in...
    • Data Protection
      1111. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will commission a fully independent review of how to strengthen and reform the Data Protection Commission to ensure that...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1112. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Garda Reserve Strategy 2021 to 2025 guidelines are being implemented as outlined; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Staff
      1113. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff employed by the Irish Immigration Service; and his plans to appoint additional staffing. [13829/23]
    • An Garda Síochána
      1115. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda Reserves that are currently active in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13833/23]
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      1116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the programme for Government commitment to introduce domestic homicide reviews legislation can be delivered as he has yet...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1119. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí who have resigned from An Garda Síochána, per month, in 2022, by county and rank, in...
    • Online Safety
      1123. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions made under the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017; the number which...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1125. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he is taking to reform the Garda vetting process, including ensuring individuals to conduct one vetting check every...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      1127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vehicles seized by gardaí for having no insurance within Kildare Garda division in 2022, and to-date in...
  • Department of Health
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1128. To ask the Minister for Health the extent of expenditure on ventilators during the pandemic, in tabular form; the number procured; the procurement process followed by batch; whether...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1129. 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 Admissions
      1131. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital admissions that occurred through the University Hospital Waterford emergency department due to diabetic ketoacidosis in each of the...
    • Health Promotion
      1132. 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;...
    • Departmental Funding
      1133. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times funding was moved across budget lines within his Department in a process known as virement; the name and purpose of the fund the money was...
    • Mental Health Services
      1134. To ask the Minister for Health the way the €750,000 allocated in Budget 2023 for trainee counselling psychologist courses will be used (details supplied). [12285/23]
    • Ambulance Service
      1135. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances and ambulance staff operational or stationed at each ambulance station in the country, by station; the average response time to...
    • Emergency Departments
      1141. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that attended the accident and emergency department at St. James's Hospital from the 1 January to the 31 December 2022 and to date in...
    • Health Strategies
      1143. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost when he establishes an international expert working group to examine pre-term births to reduce neonatal mortality rates. [12307/23]
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      1144. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of running each of the sexual assault treatment units in 2022, in tabular form. [12308/23]
    • Health Strategies
      1145. To ask the Minister for Health if monies were used or transferred from the national maternity strategy to fund abortion services in 2019 or 2020; if so, the amount transferred, in monetary...
    • Health Services
      1146. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of adverse incidents reported to the national incident management system which related to termination of pregnancy in each of the past five...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1149. To ask the Minister for Health if plans exist to remove the temporary prefab buildings of the neurology unit in GUH; the plans that exist to allow neurology consultants to continue to see...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1150. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount spent on the purchasing of ventilators which either did not work or were unsuitable, during the pandemic; the name of the companies from...
    • Health Service Executive
      1153. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 638 of 5 October 2021, 691 of 29 November 2022, 1553 of 18 January 2023 and 204 of 15 February 2023, if he will provide...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1156. To ask the Minister for Health if a new GP can be facilitated in the case of persons (details supplied) who have been unable to source local GP care and require care for repeat...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1157. To ask the Minister for Health if a procedure will be arranged immediately for a person (details supplied); the waiting time for this procedure; and the number of patients waiting. [12372/23]
    • Emergency Departments
      1158. To ask the Minister for Health the average patient experience time to admission via an emergency department for all patients for January and February for each year from 2019 to 2023,...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1162. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12377/23]
    • Hospital Transfers
      1163. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed transfers of care in January and February for each year from 2019 to 2023, inclusive, by location in tabular form; the number of delayed...
    • Hospital Services
      1164. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital-initiated scheduled care cancellations, by appointment type, in each month of 2022 and in January and February 2023, by hospital group...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1166. To ask the Minister for Health if an immediate appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied) given their GP has deemed their case to be urgent; the waiting time for such...
    • Ambulance Service
      1167. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO and clinical status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient-carrying vehicle in 18 minutes and 59 seconds or less...
    • Health Services Staff
      1169. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against patients at HSE facilities in January and February for each year from 2019 to 2023, inclusive, in tabular form. [12386/23]
    • Hospital Services
      1171. To ask the Minister for Health the bed occupancy rates of each public and public voluntary hospital, by hospital group, for each year from 2019 to 2023, inclusive, in tabular form; the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1172. To ask the Minister for Health the mean, median, and maximum wait times on NTPF reported waiting lists, by speciality and by location, for January 2019 to 2023, inclusive, in tabular form....
    • Hospital Facilities
      1175. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of acute inpatient beds available at the end of February 2020 and at the end of February 2023, by location, in tabular form. [12394/23]
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      1177. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims before the CervicalCheck tribunal; the number of claims resolved by the tribunal; the timeframe for completion of the tribunal's work;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1178. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 733 of 31 January 2023, if he will provide an up-to-date timeframe in which a person (details supplied) will be awarded...
    • Regulatory Bodies
      1179. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the process to have the social work qualifications of a person recognised and registered with CORU in cases in which the person worked in...
    • Community Care
      1180. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on primary care and community healthcare waiting lists, for each care service, for January and February 2019-2023, inclusive, in...
    • Mental Health Services
      1181. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on CAHMS waiting lists by CHO and length of wait for January and February 2019-2023, inclusive, in tabular form. [12412/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1183. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric orthopaedic appointments, by appointment type, cancelled in January and February 2019-2022, inclusive, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Abuse in Hospitals
      1184. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 270 of 23 February 2023, if the independent reviewer who has been engaged in the case referred to will be asked by his...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1185. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with scoliosis and the number of children with spina bifida on waiting lists for December 2022 and January and February 2019-2023,...
    • Health Services
      1187. To ask the Minister for Health the number of spinal fusion and other paediatric orthopaedic procedures carried out by Children's Health Ireland in each of the years 2017-2023, by month at...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1188. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children removed from paediatric orthopaedic waiting lists in November and December 2022 and January and February 2023, by reason for removal;...
    • Home Help Service
      1189. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on home support waiting lists for January and February 2019-2023, inclusive, in tabular form; and the breakdown by length of wait....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1190. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12424/23]
    • Departmental Policies
      1191. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the benefits to Ireland of a decision to join the EU4Health Joint Action on Diabetes and CVD; the further action that his Department is...
    • Mental Health Services
      1192. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in providing CAMHS and CDNT services for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Facilities
      1193. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds in the proposed 96-bed ward block at Wexford General Hospital that will provide additional capacity to the hospital; the number that will...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1195. To ask the Minister for Health when free GP care for children under seven years of age will come into effect. [12468/23]
    • Psychological Assessments
      1196. To ask the Minister for Health the services he is providing for individuals who receive assessments of need or other treatments from unqualified and/or unregistered psychologist. [12469/23]
    • Wage-setting Mechanisms
      1197. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to provide pay parity for Section 39 organisation staff [12470/23]
    • Health Services
      1198. To ask the Minister for Health the current status and proposed timeframe for the First 5 action plan to develop a dedicated child health workforce, adopting a population-based approach; and...
    • Cancer Services
      1199. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to support individuals who are required to travel to the UK for cancer treatment. [12473/23]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1200. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not been given a date for a procedure in view of the consequences caused by the delay; and if he will make a...
    • Ambulance Service
      1201. To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department has taken to address the ambulance service provision issues identified in the 2016 Brady and Flaherty Review of Arrangements for the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1202. To ask the Minister for Health the process by which a person (details supplied) can access the Covid bonus payment for their staff. [12492/23]
    • Health Services
      1203. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in issuing insulin pumps for children (details supplied) in Limerick; if the issue is pertaining to training as suggested; and the...
    • Abortion Services
      1204. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 823 of 14 February 2023, if the contracts for the 73 WTEs recruited in 2019 were hired specifically to provide...
    • Departmental Staff
      1205. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of HSE and staff in his Department that were hired between 2019 and 2022 with abortion/termination of pregnancy mentioned in their contract;...
    • Medical Cards
      1206. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the changes made to the medical card eligibility criteria in Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12500/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1207. To ask the Minister for Health when an individual (details supplied) will receive their pandemic special recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12507/23]
    • Health Services
      1208. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who detransition in Ireland each year; and the supports the health service provides to these people. [12509/23]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1209. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the issue of a long wait for orthodontic surgery in CHO8 (details supplied). [12512/23]
    • Medical Records
      1210. To ask the Minister for Health the provision that has been put into place regarding women who have suffered a still birth at pregnancy; and if there is 'pregnancy after loss' notification...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1211. To ask the Minister for Health when an individual (details supplied) will received their pandemic special recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12519/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1212. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a copy of all emails between the HSE, CRT and HIQA with a care facility (details supplied) in Limerick in the lead-up, during and after the...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1213. To ask the Minister for Health the number of concerns that were raised about care facility (details supplied) in Limerick, to HIQA and to his Department in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1214. To ask the Minister for Health the exact supports that were offered to a care facility (details supplied) in Limerick during the Covid outbreak in 2020, when there was a huge loss of...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1215. To ask the Minister for Health the number of concerns that were received regarding the Mercy Hospital Cork in 2020, 2021, 2022, and to date in 2023, broken down into categories. [12523/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1219. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who following a referral in October 2021 to the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service at UHL has...
    • Abortion Services
      1220. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 823 of 14 February 2023, the breakdown, by category of the €7 million allocated towards abortion provision in...
    • Departmental Staff
      1222. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the recruitment process for the chief HSCP post advertised in December 2022; and if a successful candidate has been selected...
    • Health Services
      1223. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12543/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      1224. To ask the Minister for Health if an organisation (details supplied) was included in the one-off funding for voluntary and community providers announced by his Department in February; if...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1225. To ask the Minister for Health if the report of the review of the model of care for the termination of pregnancy service for telemedicine abortion is available publicly; if not, if he plans...
    • Health Services Staff
      1226. To ask the Minister for Health the process that is in place to ensure frontline employees who worked in private nursing homes during the Covid-19 pandemic can receive their recognition...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1227. To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals which can offer MRI scans for patients with a pacemaker or AICD; the locations to which patients in need of such scans are currently being...
    • Health Services
      1228. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct his Department to take immediate action to ensure that provisions are made for an assessment and treatment for a child (details supplied)....
    • Hospital Admissions
      1229. To ask the Minister for Health the wait times from admittance to the emergency department to a hospital bed in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda from December 2019 to January 2020...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1231. To ask the Minister for Health the number of procedures cancelled in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda from December 2019 to January 2020 through to December 2022 to January 2023, in...
    • Departmental Data
      1232. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount charged for parking at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022; the total amount of revenue generated by parking...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1234. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of engagements between his office, his Department, the HSE and named stakeholders in relation to the three-year review into...
    • Abortion Services
      1235. To ask the Minister for Health when the bid management strategy to automatically outbid websites other than MyOptions in search engine results was set up; if he will provide a breakdown of...
    • Hospital Services
      1236. To ask the Minister for Health the number of appointments offered for genetic counselling, by hospital setting in each of the years 2019 to 2022, and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1237. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12589/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      1238. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the position of access to Kaftrio for the 35 excluded children with cystic fibrosis; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      1239. To ask the Minister for Health if maternity hospitals have a policy in place for dealing with expectant mothers who have previously experienced a late-stage pregnancy loss or still birth;...
    • Medicinal Products
      1240. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prescriptions issued for fentanyl as part of a public drug scheme or in a HSE hospital, psychiatric facility or primary care setting and by a...
    • Health Services
      1249. To ask the Minister for Health the plans to develop and expand services and treatments for people with opioid use disorder; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12614/23]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1250. To ask the Minister for Health if any projects under his remit are on hold due to Capital Funding pressures; if he will indicate the projects, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Cancer Services
      1251. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who started radiation therapy for cancer treatment within the recommended timeframe, on a monthly basis, between 1 January 2019 to date,...
    • Health Services Staff
      1260. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time equivalent radiation therapists working in the public health system to provide radiation therapy to cancer patients at the end of each...
    • Cancer Services
      1262. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount paid to the private healthcare sector to provide radiation therapy to cancer patients from the public health system, via the National...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1263. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the review of the Health (Regulation of the Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; when the final reports will be published; if he has received all...
    • Abortion Services
      1264. To ask the Minister for Health if he will retain remote consultations for abortion services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12675/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1265. To ask the Minister for Health the projected timeframe in which a system will be in place to facilitate processing of the pandemic special recognition payment to those who worked with a...
    • Medicinal Products
      1266. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reinstate versatis patches on the drugs payment scheme; and if he is reviewing the decision to withdraw them from the scheme. [12688/23]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1267. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 290 of 15 September 2022, if he will provide an update on the situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Services
      1268. To ask the Minister for Health the ten highest risks on the risk register maintained by each of the eight hospital groups in respect of each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if...
    • Hospital Staff
      1269. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in clear detail the number of whole-time equivalents or redirected personnel who have been recruited as part of the University Hospital...
    • Hospital Services
      1270. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an opening date for the beginning of cardiac interventional procedures in the new cardiac cath lab in Waterford; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      1275. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12715/23]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1276. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12716/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1277. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 204 of 15 February 2023, if the HSE plans to provide specifically 'continuing care' mental health placements as well as...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1278. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the support the HSE provided to Marymount Hospice, Cork, in January 2021 in the context of a Covid outbreak in the facility; the dates on which...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1281. To ask the Minister for Health the exact dates in 2021 on which ground floor staff, including nurses, healthcare assistants, catering and housekeeping staff of Marymount Hospice, Cork, were...
    • Hospital Charges
      1282. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline proposals to abolish inpatient charges, if he will provide information (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Primary Care Centres
      1283. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently reinstate primary care services at Clonbrusk Primary Care Centre, Athlone, for all service users who have recently had their service...
    • Mental Health Services
      1285. To ask the Minister for Health the number of autistic individuals and individuals with autism with an intellectual disability who are attending CAMHS or are under CAMHS remit in each CHO....
    • Medicinal Products
      1286. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address concerns expressed by an organisation (details supplied) in relation to the ongoing issue of medicine shortages. [12794/23]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1287. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that all the details concerning SouthDoc centres are up to date on the official website. [12795/23]
    • Health Services
      1288. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to provide timely treatment for persons diagnosed with adenomyosis. [12797/23]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1289. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the number of people on waiting lists to see a gynaecologist in CHO 5; and the breakdown of waiting times on a quarterly basis,...
    • Health Services Staff
      1290. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure workers in section 39 (Health Act 2004) organisations receive the same annual leave entitlements as workers in section 38...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1291. To ask the Minister for Health when an HSE employee (details supplied) will receive their Covid bonus payment. [12803/23]
    • Hospital Services
      1292. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the absolute number of people who started radiation therapy for cancer treatment, and if they started within the recommended timeframe, for...
    • Health Services Staff
      1304. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the way the HSE recruits workers for key healthcare roles from abroad when the roles cannot be filled locally; if there is an avenue for a...
    • Nursing Homes
      1305. To ask the Minister for Health if allowances will be made when calculating a fair deal application by a family for an adult son (details supplied) residing in the home who is over 21 years...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1306. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 645 of 7 March 2023, if a breakdown will be provided by the HSE to this Deputy, of spending, including set-up costs and...
    • Health Services
      1307. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients with severe asthma currently being treated with anti-IL-5 therapies; if any additional funding has been put in place for new patients...
    • Electric Vehicles
      1308. To ask the Minister for Health when the electric charging point located at unit 4, Merlin Park Hospital, Galway, which was installed in 2022, will be available for use by the public and...
    • Departmental Data
      1309. To ask the Minister for Health the number of sudden unexplained deaths in childhood that have been recorded, per year, for the past ten years; if his Department has conducted any recent...
    • International Programmes
      1310. To ask the Minister for Health the preparations that are underway for the upcoming tenth conference of the parties to the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control,...
    • eGovernment Services
      1311. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the business case for the National ePrescribing Project; if it has been submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure,...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      1312. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made by his Department in respect of targets and goals set out in sustainable development goals of the 2030 United Nations Agenda for Sustainable...
    • Health Services
      1313. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the details of the HSE’s new service for the delivery of gender-affirming healthcare; if there is a timeline; if members of the...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1315. To ask the Minister for Health the expected transport upgrades associated with the development of a new elective hospital at St. Stephen's Hospital, Cork; if improvements, including the...
    • Pharmacy Services
      1317. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the formation of a minor ailment scheme implementation project group, with the view to enhancing services provided by community pharmacies...
    • Medicinal Products
      1319. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the expansion of medicines noted in Schedule 8 of the Medicinal Products (Prescription and Control of Supply) Regulations 2003, as...
    • Departmental Staff
      1321. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give full consideration to the appointment of a chief pharmaceutical officer within his Department to develop and coordinate a national strategy...
    • Pharmacy Services
      1322. To ask the Minister for Health if he will fully consider the allocation of sufficient funds to support future service delivery in the community pharmacy sector; and if he will make a...
    • Medicinal Products
      1327. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the implementation of a fully functioning and funded national prescribing service, as a priority; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Irish Language
      1328. To ask the Minister for Health if a matter in relation to the labelling of alcohol will be examined (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12948/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1329. To ask the Minister for Health the options that are open to front-line staff contracted by the HSE during the Covid-19 pandemic who have not received their recognition payment (details...
    • Medicinal Products
      1331. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allow community pharmacists to dispense oral contraceptives without the need for a prescription, in line with WHO best practice; if not, the reason...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1334. To ask the Minister for Health if he has reviewed the Health Service Executive’s Capital Plan 2023, as approved by the HSE board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13004/23]
    • Nursing Homes
      1335. To ask the Minister for Health the budget for residential care in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13005/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1336. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13006/23]
    • Disability Services
      1337. To ask the Minister for Health the process by which Resource Allocation Group applications in CHO5 are received, assessed and decided by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medicinal Products
      1339. To ask the Minister for Health if an application has been submitted to the HSE to have sativex oromucosal spray added to the drug payment scheme reimbursement list; if he is aware of any...
    • Health Services Staff
      1340. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to concerns raised in respect of due back payments for retirees in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; and if he will seek an update on...
    • Mental Health Services
      1341. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the rollout of CAMHS-ID teams across the State; the cost of resourcing one CAMHS-ID team; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Medicinal Products
      1342. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make hormone replacement therapy, HRT, medication free for persons going through menopause; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13055/23]
    • Health Services
      1343. To ask the Minister for Health the location and number of the minor-injury units referred to in the HSE Care Flowchart; the numbers treated in these dedicated units in tabular form over the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1344. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify when the Covid bonus payment will be made to a person (details supplied). [13065/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1345. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of any issues having been raised with the management of Letterkenny University Hospital by staff regarding staffing levels; and if he will make...
    • Health Services Staff
      1346. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon who is a retired HSE staff member and who has not had their pension increased or arrears paid in respect...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1347. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people with Kerry addresses who are currently waiting on outpatient appointments for orthopaedics in UHK, CUH and the South Infirmary Cork; and...
    • Health Services Staff
      1348. To ask the Minister for Health if a timeline will be provided for the implementation of pay increases for staff working in section 39 organisations; if he is aware of the regional imbalance...
    • Nursing Homes
      1349. To ask the Minister for Health the guarantees that have been sought by the HSE with respect to public patients in a proposed facility (details supplied). [13091/23]
    • Birth Certificates
      1350. To ask the Minister for Health when legislation will be delivered to provide legal recognition to both parents who have children through surrogacy either in Ireland or abroad; and if he...
    • Hospital Staff
      1351. To ask the Minister for Health if patients with hemochromatosis can still be treated in the day ward at Nenagh General Hospital by a person (details supplied); if he will review...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1352. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to prescribe dedicated training for HSE-funded personnel administering sexually transmitted infection tests, and providing support to persons living...
    • Abortion Services
      1354. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the review of the legislation the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; when this will be published; and...
    • Disability Diagnoses
      1355. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Treatment Purchase Fund can be availed of for those seeking an assessment of need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13125/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1358. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an appointment for a procedure at Ennis General Hospital, UL Hospitals Group; and if he will...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1359. To ask the Minister for Health given the urgent need to fast track the re-build and restoration of Wexford General Hospital, and ensure that vital services are restored there as soon as...
    • Health Services
      1360. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements in place to ensure dialysis patients can get treatment in different centres around the country to allow them visit relatives or go on holiday...
    • Hospital Staff
      1361. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the safe staffing framework and safe staffing levels in hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13145/23]
    • Hospital Admissions
      1362. To ask the Minister for Health the average patient waiting time from arrival at the emergency department in Naas General Hospital to admission for each individual month of 2021, 2022 and to...
    • Hospital Staff
      1363. To ask the Minister for Health if Naas General Hospital is operating at its full complement of medical staff at all levels and across all disciplines; the number of staff it is missing in...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1364. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital-initiated scheduled care cancellations by Naas General Hospital, by appointment type, in each of the months of 2022 and to date in...
    • Hospital Services
      1365. To ask the Minister for Health the bed-occupancy rate at Naas General Hospital for each week of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; the number of beds available for the period;...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      1366. To ask the Minister for Health the mean, median and maximum wait time on the NTPF reported waiting lists, by speciality, for each month of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023 for Naas General...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1368. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on diagnostic waiting lists at the end of each quarter of 2021 and 2022 at Naas General Hospital, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Home Help Service
      1369. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on home support waiting lists for each month of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023 in community healthcare organisation or CHO7; the length...
    • Mental Health Services
      1370. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on the child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, waiting lists by length of wait for 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023 for the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1371. To ask the Minister for Health , further to Parliamentary Question No. 184 of 1 March, the reason Irish citizens who accepted a place in an Irish medical school directly from the medical...
    • Home Help Service
      1372. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to concerns raised in a report and correspondence (details supplied) in respect of waiting lists for home care; and if he will make a...
    • Mental Health Services
      1373. 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. [13165/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1374. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment from Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13168/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1377. To ask the Minister for Health the number of child and adolescent psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, occupational therapists, social workers, speech and language therapists, social...
    • Mental Health Services
      1379. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for an appointment, the number of people on the waiting list, and the number of people waiting over a year, with CAMHS mental health...
    • Meals-on-Wheels Services
      1380. To ask the Minister for Health if he will increase the budget available to meals on wheels providers in recognition of increased running costs to providers to ensure this vital service can...
    • Health Services
      1385. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1079 of 2 November 2021, the current situation regarding a person (details supplied); how their care needs are being...
    • Home Help Service
      1386. To ask the Minister for Health if this HSE-mandated training for home helps is mandatory for all persons working as home helps in private companies; if this training is exclusively online;...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1387. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken in response to the Strategic Review of Medical Training and Career Structure (MacCraith) Reports. [13231/23]
    • Medical Qualifications
      1388. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline his engagement with a regulatory body (details supplied) to address the backlog in the processing of applications for individuals to work...
    • Health Service Executive
      1389. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE owns a facility (details supplied) or is renting it long-term; and if the HSE funded its construction. [13233/23]
    • Health Services
      1390. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to provide the staff and resources to treat individuals diagnosed with deep endometriosis in a timely manner. [13234/23]
    • Disability Services
      1392. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he intends to take to ensure that delays to the appointment of a dialectical behavioural team in the mid-west are overcome in as short a timeframe...
    • Departmental Funding
      1394. To ask the Minister for Health if he will recognise and meet with an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13243/23]
    • Dental Services
      1395. To ask the Minister for Health when an urgent dental appointment for surgery will be issued to a person (details supplied) in Shantalla Health Centre, Galway in light of the exceptional...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      1396. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has conducted any tests on disposable vapes currently on sale in Ireland following the discovery of non-compliant stock on the UK market where some...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1397. To ask the Minister for Health if he will revise the long-term illness scheme to cover persons diagnosed with Crohn's disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13261/23]
    • Nursing Homes
      1398. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure a transitional nursing home payment is extended for a person (details supplied). [13263/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1399. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be given an appropriate place for their care in the State; if not, if their care will be outsourced; if they will be...
    • Health Services Staff
      1402. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the 142 neurological nurses that are required to support population growth; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1403. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who is working in an agency will receive the pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13303/23]
    • Departmental Meetings
      1405. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in organising a meeting with a person (details supplied) regarding the Civil Registration (Amendment) (Certificate of Life) Bill...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1406. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine a request (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13307/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1407. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; the reason their scheduled appointments have been constantly postponed for the past two years;...
    • Health Services Staff
      1408. To ask the Minister for Health the reason clinical audiologists in Ireland do not have a professional registration body such as CORU to monitor and guide professional conduct and standards,...
    • Public Sector Pay
      1409. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to clinical audiologists; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      1410. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Treatment Purchase Fund can be used to reimburse families who have had to secure therapies not available through their CDNT due to staffing...
    • Public Sector Pay
      1411. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that are being taken to address the issue of pay parity among CDNT service providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13331/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1412. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff approved in each of CAMHS 1 and 2 in south Tipperary; the number and specialty of the positions which are filled; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      1413. To ask the Minister for Health the data used that resulted in the increase in nursing resources for the medical assessment unit in Nenagh; his views on whether the increase in WTEs is...
    • Hospital Services
      1414. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on the bid by the HSE for €5.2 million to support the medical assessment units at Nenagh, Ennis and St. John's Hospitals;...
    • Hospital Staff
      1415. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant ophthalmologists with a special interest in extracapsular cataract at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital in 2021, 2022 and...
    • Health Services Staff
      1416. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE audiologists working in each primary care centre within CHO8 as of 9 March 2023, in tabular form. [13352/23]
    • Health Services
      1417. To ask the Minister for Health the number and location of palliative care beds in County Meath; and if palliative care services will be further improved during the remainder of 2023. [13353/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1418. To ask the Minister for Health the number of jigsaw youth mental health services currently in operating in each CHO area, in tabular form. [13354/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1419. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant ENT surgeons attached to each hospital that is part of the Ireland East Hospital Group as of 10 March 2023, in tabular form....
    • Suicide Prevention
      1420. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Safe Talk Programmes that were delivered in County Meath in 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form. [13356/23]
    • Departmental Reviews
      1421. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the work his Department has engaged in to implement the nine recommendations of the Value for Money Review on Nursing Home...
    • Hospital Services
      1422. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request that UHL is more accommodating with visitors to patients at the hospital given it is causing upset and stress to patients and family...
    • Eating Disorders
      1423. To ask the Minister for Health Further to Parliamentary Question No. 239 of 1 February 2023, if consideration will be given to a National Feeding Disorders Programme, given feeding...
    • Mental Health Services
      1424. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide information in relation to the population in acute psychiatric units and the number of long stay residents in the State; the number who...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1425. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date in relation to the site selection process for proposed elective hospitals in Galway, Cork and Dublin; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      1426. To ask the Minister for Health when a drug will be supplied under the drug repayment scheme to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13423/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1427. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE staff that have training in relation to human trafficking awareness or human trafficking indicators; to what level this training is...
    • Medical Cards
      1428. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the announcement in Budget 2023 that those on income below the median wage would be eligible for a GP medical card; and when this will be...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1429. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting so long on a hospital appointment for an operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Pension Provisions
      1430. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the increase to pension under the public service pay agreement which retired nurses have received since 1 January 2020 and are...
    • Health Services
      1431. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the fact that 103 women accessed abortion services in England and Wales in 2021 due to the fact they were not eligible for care under section 11...
    • Mental Health Services
      1432. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that participants in a psychology training programme (details supplied) are provided with the same funding and supports as persons...
    • Medical Cards
      1433. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that private opticians accept medical cards for eye tests. [13468/23]
    • Legislative Reviews
      1434. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018. [13469/23]
    • Legislative Programme
      1435. To ask the Minister for Health the date he is working towards for the second stage discussion of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2022. [13470/23]
    • Hospital Services
      1436. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline when the capital funding program the money is being allocated for the development neuro-rehabilitation service centre at University...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1437. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment in Crumlin Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13480/23]
    • Environmental Policy
      1438. To ask the Minister for Health the biodiversity action plans that are in place for HSE estates or properties under its management in line with Government policy of protecting green spaces...
    • EU Funding
      1439. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 8 March 2023, the specific funding amount that he is referring to in the response; if he will define the quantum...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1440. To ask the Minister for Health if the Government intends to set up a public enquiry into the handling of the Covid pandemic in nursing homes; when the enquiry will get underway; how long it...
    • Pension Provisions
      1441. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an increase to their HSE pension payments which fell due in February and October 2022, and in March 2023;...
    • Nursing Homes
      1442. To ask the Minister for Health if an update will be provided on the fair deal application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13521/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1447. To ask the Minister for Health when backpay, which fell due in February and October 2022, and in March 2023 will be paid to a former HSE employee (details supplied) at Our Lady of Lourdes...
    • Health Services
      1451. To ask the Minister for Health the timelines for the health technology assessment which HIQA has been requested by the National Screening Advisory Committee to undertake in relation to the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1452. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has considered the career development and deployment of nurses in hospitals, in order that this highly qualified group could deploy their...
    • Nursing Homes
      1453. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider having a system through which families could get impartial advice on the fair deal scheme in view of its complexity, through for example,...
    • Mental Health Services
      1455. To ask the Minister for Health the WTE allocations for team 1 and team 2, in the CAMHS teams based in Clonmel, County Tipperary, broken down into disciplines; the vacancies within each...
    • Health Services
      1457. To ask the Minister for Health when the mobile BreastCheck unit last operated in Mullingar; the reason it will not return to this highly populated area until late in 2023, given that the...
    • Hospital Services
      1458. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to carry out a review of the HSE acute care active performance management system, as recommended in the 2022 Spending Review Report, Hospital...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1459. To ask the Minister for Health when all Section 39 staff working in long-term residential facilities who worked throughout Covid with many still awaiting the payment will be paid the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1461. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that a vacant psychology post on the CAMHS Team in Clonmel, County Tipperary remains vacant and that the recruitment drive received no...
    • Health Services
      1462. To ask the Minister for Health his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13595/23]
    • Hospice Services
      1463. To ask the Minister for Health if both the hospice and the care centre of Milford Hospice, Limerick will both be re-designated as S.38 service providers; and if he will make a statement on...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1464. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that are in place to deal with the shortage of GPs in Shannon town, County Clare and the surrounding areas especially in view of the pending...
    • Hospital Services
      1465. To ask the Minister for Health in response to the Programme for Government commitment to supporting the genetics service at CHI, Crumlin; if he will allocate additional funding and supports...
    • Health Services
      1466. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the response of both his Department and the HSE to address and prevent issues of foetal misdiagnosis occurring within the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1467. 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. [13609/23]
    • Health Services
      1468. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of a national treatment centre for suffers of Lyme disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13627/23]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1470. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date in providing a new 40-bed community nursing unit in Clifden to replace Clifden Hospital and St. Annes nursing home; when it was...
    • Health Services Staff
      1471. To ask the Minister for Health the status of discussions regarding pay increases and full pay restoration for section 39 workers and those who work in day care centres for the elderly and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1472. To ask the Minister for Health if the Covid pandemic payment for healthcare professionals has been transferred to a private agency (details supplied) to distribute among their staff; and if...
    • Health Services
      1473. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify what the qualifying criteria are for an individual with T1 Diabetics accessing the GP Card. [13709/23]
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      1474. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking in response to synthetic cannabinoids use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13710/23]
    • Departmental Data
      1476. To ask the Minister for Health the civil registration offices that remained operational during the Covid pandemic restrictive periods; the centres in which staff were awarded the pandemic...
    • Public Sector Staff
      1477. To ask the Minister for Health the reason staff at the civil registration office north east that were not awarded the pandemic special recognition payment, considering that staff at other...
    • Departmental Funding
      1478. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ringfence dedicated funding for young carers to access counselling or psychological support from professionals with specific expertise in the area;...
    • Carer's Leave
      1479. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider granting young carers a minimum of 20 days respite per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13746/23]
    • Care Services
      1480. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include young carers in the National Care Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13747/23]
    • Departmental Records
      1481. To ask the Minister for Health if he will release all his Departmental files to the National Archives regarding the High Court, Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights cases in...
    • Health Services
      1482. To ask the Minister for Health the options available for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13756/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1484. To ask the Minister for Health if he will identify the placement alternatives for the client group under the care of the Laois/Offaly mental health services who either currently reside at a...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1485. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an architect's report on a facility (details supplied) in County Laois was shared recently with a local newspaper, almost five months after it was...
    • Mental Health Services
      1486. To ask the Minister for Health the number of 24-hour staffed community mental health residences in CHO5 and CHO8; the percentage of those facilities that meet the requirements of the HSE...
    • Mental Health Commission
      1487. To ask the Minister for Health if a new 24-hour staffed community mental health residence being purchased by the HSE for three people in Midleton will be regulated by the Mental Health...
    • Community Care
      1488. To ask the Minister for Health how he can reconcile the provision of three residential community placements in the HSE catchment of Midleton, Youghal, Cobh and Glenville with the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1489. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he and his Department have taken to ensure that NIAC's advice to offer an enhanced influenza vaccine for those aged over 65 years is heeded; the...
    • Departmental Data
      1490. To ask the Minister for Health the total compliment of long-stay beds HIQA approved in a nursing home (details supplied) in Roscrea in each of the years 2016 to 2022 and to date in 2023, in...
    • Health Services Staff
      1492. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made on implementing the enhanced travel and subsistence scheme for student nurses and midwives; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1493. To ask the Minister for Health the date the agreement was made by the HSE to purchase of a facility (details supplied); when the contract was signed and by whom for both parties; and the...
    • Departmental Data
      1494. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new patients the gender clinic in Crumlin Hospital have taken in from 2018 to date in 2023, in tabular form. [13796/23]
    • Nursing Homes
      1496. To ask the Minister for Health the guidelines regarding value for money and risks that they have in place for the purchase of private nursing homes. [13798/23]
    • Health Services
      1497. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 281 of 20 January 2022, 532 of 13 December 2022 and 528 of 5 December 2022, if he will confirm that the review and...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1498. To ask the Minister for Health the status of surgery for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13807/23]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1499. To ask the Minister for Health the reason MRI scans are performed in St. Vincent’s Hospital only between 9am and 5pm on Monday to Friday; if steps will be taken to ensure that MRI...
    • Care Services
      1500. To ask the Minister for Health if an extra home help will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13820/23]
    • Health Services
      1501. To ask the Minister for Health if CORU has considered protecting and regulating the title psychologist in preference to trying to regulate individual areas of psychology that is, clinical,...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1502. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined, who following a referral to St. John’s Hospital, Limerick for an operation has yet to...
    • Ambulance Service
      1503. To ask the Minister for Health the average time it takes for an ambulance to arrive at the location of a 999 call; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13849/23]
    • Health Services
      1504. To ask the Minister for Health if the copper coil is covered under the free contraception programme; if not, the decision-making process that led to it not being included; and if he will...
    • Departmental Staff
      1507. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to create a chief pharmaceutical officer position in his Department; his views on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13860/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1508. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the ongoing sick pay dispute HSE employees diagnosed with long-Covid who contracted Covid-19 in the workplace are currently...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1509. To ask the Minister for Health if hyperbaric oxygen therapy for long-Covid symptoms is being considered as an approved and licensed treatment by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Services
      1510. To ask the Minister for Health if the appointment only system introduced in the paediatric outpatient and urgent care centre in Blanchardstown Hospital is initially for three months and...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1511. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the disposal of HSE buildings (details supplied); the stage at which this process is at and the intended timeframe for this to...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1512. To ask the Minister for Health the position for people who were illegally docked their disabled persons maintenance allowance during their stay in psychiatric hospitals; the process by...
    • Health Services Staff
      1513. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on his plans for the €750,000 funding announced for trainee counselling psychologists; if this funding will cover part of...
    • Departmental Data
      1514. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners, by HSE regional area, who have applied to be approved to prescribe PrREP to patients under the drug payment scheme, by...
    • Emergency Services
      1517. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the case of a person (details supplied); and the steps he will take to prevent such a situation occurring again. [13964/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1518. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review correspondence from a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary concerning proposed amendments to the Mental Health Act 2001; if he will...
    • Health Services
      1519. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 532 of 13 December 2022 and 528 of 5 December 2022, according to the these response, University Hospital Waterford will...
    • Departmental Meetings
      1520. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 532 of 13 December 2022 and 538 of 5 December 2022, if he will clarify a date for the meeting between the SECH Older...
    • Hospital Services
      1521. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a copy of the design, layout and plans for the footprint of the development at St. Anthony’s unit, Clonmel to this Deputy and the...
    • Health Services
      1522. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support the 'Izzy' stickers initiative in public maternity healthcare settings (details supplied). [14005/23]
    • Departmental Data
      1523. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 683 of 28 February 2023, if he will provide details on the number of people on waiting lists for adult ADHD assessment...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1524. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the period poverty initiatives being rolled out across 26 local authorities, as committed to in the women's health action...
    • Health and Safety
      1525. To ask the Minister for Health the obligations of the HSE to conduct inspections of private residences and/or rented accommodation where the environment is considered a hazard and dangerous...
    • Data Protection
      1526. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to engage with persons impacted by data breaches due to cyber-attacks on HSE systems. [14010/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1527. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the adults being treated for serious mental health conditions would be eligible for the long-term illness card. [14011/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1528. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant otolaryngologist attached to each hospital part of the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group in 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023, in...
    • Health Services
      1532. To ask the Minister for Health the number of resuscitation suites in the accident and emergency department at St. Vincent's University Hospital and Tallaght University Hospital, in tabular...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Wind Energy Generation
      1533. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the 60% grant is not available to farmers to purchase a domestic wind turbine (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      1534. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of times funding was moved across budget lines within his Department in a process known as virement; the name and purpose...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      1535. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, under the new Tams 3, solar capital investment scheme, farmers can export back to the grid for an agreed price; and if he will...
    • Turf Cutting
      1536. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if clarification will be provided on a matter (details supplied) in relation to the cutting of bogs; and if he will make a statement...
    • Animal Welfare
      1537. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has acted on the concerns submitted to his office by an individual (details supplied) regarding numerous websites that have...
    • Fishing Industry
      1538. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to monitor and act on any environmental issues concerning the operation of a fish farm (details supplied)....
    • Departmental Funding
      1539. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide funding for farmers and landowners to employ the services of a tree specialist to help them review the health of...
    • Departmental Meetings
      1540. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of the meetings that he or the Ministers of State in his Department have had with an organisation...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1541. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any projects under his remit are on hold due to Capital Funding pressures; if he will indicate the projects, in tabular form; and...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1542. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps a farmer should take if they are a participant in the Beef Data Genomics Programme and wish to switch from the use of a...
    • Animal Carcase Disposal
      1543. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the names of the factories that have been fined for excessive carcass trimming from 1 January 2016 to date; and if he will make a...
    • Fishing Industry
      1544. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will meet with an organisation (details supplied) concerning ongoing issues in the inshore fishing sector. [12754/23]
    • Agriculture Industry
      1545. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking in response to the environmental impacts of an increase in intensive farms. [12755/23]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1546. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of his engagement with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science;...
    • Hedge Cutting
      1547. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to ensure the protection of hedgerow habitats. [12757/23]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1548. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the amount spent on the response to ash dieback. and the funding given to landowners, forestry...
    • Departmental Funding
      1549. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the amount of funding awarded to community organisations for tree planting in the years 2020 to 2022,...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1550. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 718 of 6 December 2022, if he will clarify the reason some ACRES advisors, who had fulfilled...
    • International Agreements
      1552. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are plans for a sanitary agreement to be established between Ireland and Algeria for dairy and infant formula; if the...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      1553. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views generally on the availability and restrictions on grant aid for solar panels under TAMS; his views specifically on the...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      1556. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made by his Department in respect of targets and goals set out in sustainable development goals of the 2030 United...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1557. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the new scheme replacing the BEEP scheme for suckler cows called SCEP will open for applications; and if he will make a...
    • Animal Welfare
      1559. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions he has taken since taking office to combat animal cruelty and improve animal welfare. [13047/23]
    • Fishing Industry
      1560. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he has taken to address the call in the Inshore Fishing: Motion (Private Members) of 25 January 2023 immediately to...
    • Departmental Funding
      1561. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide further funding from EU Brexit funding to support the inshore fishing sector. [13049/23]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1562. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the current situation regarding a basic payment to a farmer (details supplied) in County Cork. [13076/23]
    • Brexit Supports
      1563. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the details of funding allocations made to date under the BREXIT Adjustment Reserve Fund; and if he will make a...
    • Animal Culls
      1564. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will give an up-date on the closure of mink farms in the country; if he can confirm that all mink have been euthanised; the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1565. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the eligibility for the new TB compensation rates; if owners of all herds undergoing a breakdown for which...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1566. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated capital and current costs that would be required if his Departmental officials were present at Dublin Airport between...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1567. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a late application will be accepted for the ACRES scheme on exceptional circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Human Trafficking
      1571. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of agricultural inspectorate staff that have training in relation to human trafficking awareness or human trafficking...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1572. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) whose REAP scheme ended in January 2023 can apply for the ACRES scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Forestry Sector
      1573. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 706 of 7 March 2023, if he will clarify a number of matters relating to forestry (details...
    • Animal Welfare
      1574. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount of monies assigned to animal welfare organisations for 2020, 2021, and 2022, inclusive, including a breakdown of...
    • Greyhound Industry
      1575. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown by month and, of all greyhound drug testing from January 2020 to date in 2022, in tabular form as a percentage of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1576. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details on the total amount spent by his Department and public bodies that operate under his remit on developing...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1577. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a number of concerns from a farming organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Animal Welfare
      1578. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the Working Group set up to look at the Control of Dogs Act 1986 in relation to protection of sheep...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1579. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13587/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      1580. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure a producer organisation (details supplied) provides start-up funding to a recently established producer...
    • Inshore Fisheries
      1582. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will use the current capacity in the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund to assist inshore fishers in addressing high fuel...
    • Court Judgments
      1584. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking in response to a recent court of appeal ruling (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Fishery Harbour Centres
      1585. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of his engagement with a port company concerning the enforcement of bay bye-laws (details supplied)...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1586. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review restrictions on farmers when installing solar panels (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1587. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether repairs and resurfacing of a farm road are covered under TAMS 3 funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Fishing Industry
      1588. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a ban on trawling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13811/23]
    • EU Regulations
      1589. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the basis upon which creosote fencing will be banned from April 2022; if a derogation is or had been available if arising from...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1590. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the strands available under TAMS for fencing; the allocation to such; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13822/23]
    • Agriculture Industry
      1591. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his proposals to ensure an adequate supply of fencing for agricultural purposes in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Fishery Harbour Centres
      1593. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with regard to the permit parking arrangements at Ros an Mhíl Fishery Harbour Centre for persons whose normal place of...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1595. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will advise the supports he intends to provide to sheep farmers to ensure they can sustain their industry; and if he will make...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1596. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he can clarify a point in relation to commonage in the new ACRES scheme (details supplied) and the effect this is going to have...
    • Greyhound Industry
      1598. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of non-coursing greyhounds who competed in at least one official trial at a greyhound track in each of the years 2016 to...
    • Fishery Harbour Centres
      1601. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the budget allocation in 2021 and 2022 for capital works projects under the Fishery Harbours and Coastal Infrastructure Development...
    • Forestry Sector
      1602. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an application for an afforestation grant or forestry premia will be entertained by his Department in respect of lands which were...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Departmental Funding
      1603. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of times funding was moved across budget lines within her Department in a process known as virement; the name and purpose...
    • Road Projects
      1606. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the local contribution required by her Department under the local improvement scheme 2023; if there is a cap on the contribution...
    • Departmental Funding
      1609. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if any projects under her remit are on hold due to Capital Funding pressures; if she will indicate the projects, in tabular form; and...
    • Animal Welfare
      1610. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will outline any activities he is pursuing around legislative changes concerning conditions of dog ownership and or licensing....
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      1611. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the progress made by her Department in respect of targets and goals set out in sustainable development goals of the 2030 United...
    • Departmental Funding
      1612. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when applications will open for the Community Centre Investment Fund. [13003/23]
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      1613. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason a community-based organisation that promotes health and wellbeing through sport cannot be designated as charity under the...
    • Departmental Funding
      1614. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding options that are available to an organisation (details supplied) for upgrade works to ensure continuation of a service;...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      1615. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on work to provide a pay deal for TUS supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Bodies
      1616. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of WTE senior case managers at the grade of higher executive officer employed by the Charities Regulator in each of the...
    • Departmental Funding
      1617. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she intends to provide funding for the purchase or long lease, including fit-out, of long-term secure accommodation for an...
    • Rural Schemes
      1620. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 508 of 8 February 2023, if he is aware that the RRDF project in Carrick-on- Suir, County...
    • Island Communities
      1623. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide her response to the recommendation in the UCC report Housing and Sustaining Communities on the West Cork Islands...

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