Written answers
Thursday, 23 March 2023
- Department of Defence
- Naval Service
12. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when the recently purchased naval vessels from New Zealand will commence operation; the progress to date in obtaining a replacement flagship...
- Defence Forces
13. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the role the Defences Forces play in fulfilling the security needs of the Border region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14235/23]
- Foreign Policy
14. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the considerations of expanding cooperation with NATO in areas of cyber-attack and maritime intelligence; if this has implications...
- European Union
15. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Government decision to participate in an EU battlegroup erodes Irish neutrality. [13944/23]
- Ukraine War
16. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the role Defence Forces' personnel will play in the European Union Military Assistance Mission in support of Ukraine. [14168/23]
- Defence Forces
18. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if all Defence Force pensioners are included in the next payment tranche of 2% due in March 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Air Corps
21. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of functioning aircraft currently in service with the Air Corps; when additional aircraft will arrive and begin service here; and if...
- Defence Forces
23. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the action being taken in relation to the finding of the Commission on the Defences Forces that in the current structure, the army brigades are...
- Civil Defence
29. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will outline the policy that has been developed by his Department with respect to the privileging of Civil Defence paramedic and advanced...
- Defence Forces
30. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 17 of 2 February 2023, when the independent assessment (details supplied) will be published; and if he will...
- Ukraine War
31. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will outline the implications of the ongoing war in Ukraine for Ireland's security and defence. [14231/23]
- Defence Forces
32. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the position regarding ongoing developments to improve the quality and quantity of accommodation for service personnel in the Defence Forces; and...
- Department of Education and Skills
- School Facilities
58. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the retrofitting of schools under the national retrofit programme; the number that have been refitted to date; the target...
- School Textbooks
61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify the situation with respect to stakeholder engagement on free schoolbooks; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Education Policy
63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the establishment of a secondary school on Inishbofin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12008/23]
- Educational Disadvantage
66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update in relation to the DEIS programme; if further expansion of DEIS is being considered; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Strategies
67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the rollout of the Department's digital strategy for schools; the implementation of training around online safety...
- Schools Building Projects
68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a school building project (details supplied) in Carlow and the DEIS status of a school in Bagenalstown. [13925/23]
- Education Policy
71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she intends reviewing the criteria for eligibility for the status of small school for both voluntary and ETB secondary schools in view of the...
- School Facilities
72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being taken to identify schools in mid-Cork to include under the energy retrofit pathfinder programme; and if she will make a...
- Schools Building Projects
73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a school (details supplied) in County Louth receives priority funding to commence the long awaited project which the...
- School Admissions
75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the progress made to date in securing additional provision for first year places in Limerick city for the 2023-2024 school...
- Schools Building Projects
76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the selection of a site and construction of a new school building for a school (details supplied). [13887/23]
- School Staff
77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the implementation of the new pay deal for school secretaries; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- School Textbooks
78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the plan to provide free schoolbooks to primary school children this September; when a payment schedule will be...
- School Facilities
79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress on the schools decarbonisation pathfinder programme; the number of schools are part of the programme; if there are plans to increase...
- School Curriculum
80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the recent announcement to teach transgenderism in primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13946/23]
- School Transport
81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the review of the school transport scheme will be finalised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14194/23]
- School Admissions
82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which adequate provision has been made to ensure sufficient school places in all schools, pre-school, primary and post-primary...
- Teacher Training
83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will deliver a comprehensive programme of in-person continuing professional development to support curriculum change together...
- Education Policy
84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way the withdrawal of children from the updated sexual education course on the forthcoming curriculum will be facilitated; if that will differ...
- School Curriculum
85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way the Department will ensure coherence in the system in order that the implementation of the new primary curriculum is prioritised and...
- Education Policy
86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will indicate how her Department assesses standards of literacy and numeracy at school entry and through primary education. [14232/23]
- School Funding
87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether the Covid cleaning grant for schools will be continued for term 2; and when the payment schedule will issue. [14330/23]
- Education Policy
89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on mental health support teams that operate in some schools in England (details supplied); if she has considered rolling out a similar...
- Special Educational Needs
90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give a date for the allocation of SNAs for the coming school year; the model of allocation that will be used; and if she will make a...
- Schools Building Projects
91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the concerns of a school (details supplied); if she has taken steps to address these concerns; and if she will make a statement...
- Education Policy
92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support plans for an independent Gaelcoláiste an Chláir in Ennis, County Clare. [13886/23]
- School Staff
93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she is taking to address the shortage of teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13892/23]
- School Transport
94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the review of the school transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14193/23]
- Special Educational Needs
96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the process by which an area is assigned a special school. [13917/23]
- Schools Building Projects
97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the school building programme; if she is satisfied with its progress to date; and if she will make a statement on...
- School Textbooks
99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the promised free schoolbooks scheme. [14195/23]
- Schools Building Projects
100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reinstate priority approval for a school (details supplied) given the new building has now been put on hold. [14130/23]
- School Textbooks
102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that there are sufficient preparations and resources allocated to ensure that all primary school children will be able to...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will guarantee a reduction of primary class sizes to the EU average of 20, considered as vital for the successful...
- School Curriculum
104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the research she or her Department have undertaken into the impact on primary school children as young as nine or ten years of age of teaching...
- Departmental Policies
105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she is intending to bring in to address the high cost of housing which is impacting on the ability of schools to recruit and retain...
- School Curriculum
106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the decision to include an 'opt-out' for parents of school children in the RSE curriculum; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Special Educational Needs
107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase the number of school places in mainstream post-primary schools in Dublin south west for children with ASD and additional...
- School Textbooks
108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the introduction of the free schoolbooks scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13924/23]
- School Facilities
109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether the provision and availability of facilities is a core issue in the implementation of a quality physical education programme...
- School Attendance
110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the number of referrals from schools for students missing days that are currently before education and welfare...
- School Admissions
112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has projected future needs for extra primary school places in the Midleton area in east Cork, given ongoing and planned local...
- Schools Building Projects
113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the delay in the school building programme including providing a full list of the 58 schools affected; the projected cost...
- School Transport
114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she can bring forward a review of the school transport system in order to identify and eliminate areas of friction resulting...
- School Staff
115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will introduce a housing allowance for teachers living in areas with high housing costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- School Funding
116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the issue at a national school in Louth (details supplied); the steps being taken to resolve the issue; and if she will make a...
- School Curriculum
117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the dedicated time teachers will be given to engage with, understand, implement and embed the primary curriculum framework. [14236/23]
- Special Educational Needs
119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 128 of 2 February 2023, her plans to publish the Department’s review of the summer programme; and if...
- Schools Building Projects
120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the schools building programme at schools (details supplied); if these projects have been stalled due to capital...
- School Facilities
121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has considered installing solar panels in all primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13926/23]
- School Accommodation
122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the review of the extension project at a school (details supplied); and when that review will be complete. [14245/23]
- School Staff
123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has been in contact with the Minister of State at the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and the Minister...
- Schools Building Projects
124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action her Department is taking to ensure a project in a school in Rathcoole (details supplied) is delivered at the earliest opportunity...
- School Staff
126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to ensure schools in Cork south west have sufficient teachers to meet local needs. [13920/23]
- Education Policy
127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will commence planning for a new secondary school in the Dublin 8 school planning zone. [13670/23]
- Schools Building Projects
128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date position on delivery of new building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14096/23]
- Forbairt na Gaeilge
129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte Uimh. 145 den 11 Feabhra 2023, soiléiriú a thabhairt ar an dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir leis...
- Education Policy
130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the way the process by demand is assessed for Irish medium secondary school education in school. planning zones. [13671/23]
- Oideachas trí Ghaeilge
131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil sé i gceist aici go mbeidh breis is 70 uair an chloig níos lú le caitheamh ag daltaí bunscoile leis an nGaeilge in...
- School Transport
132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the ongoing school transport review will facilitate children in September 2023 who cannot gain access to their nearest school due to a...
- Schools Building Projects
133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the fact that 58 school building projects have been set back due to costs; and if she intends to ensure that the school building...
- School Transport
134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the review of the school transport scheme; if consideration is being given to concessionary students in rural...
- Education Policy
136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the in-school and early years therapy support demonstration project; if there are plans for the project to be rolled out...
- School Admissions
137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that there are sufficient special school places in Cork city and county for September 2023 intake; the engagement she has had...
- Education Policy
138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a detailed roadmap with interim targets for achieving the Government's target of 400 multi-denominational primary schools by...
- School Accommodation
139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the commitment to deliver the new extension at a school (details supplied) will be delivered upon. [14244/23]
- School Transport
140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on her Department's work on the school transport scheme, ahead of the new academic year later in 2023; and if she...
- School Curriculum
141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the new SPHE curriculum for senior cycle which is currently under redevelopment will be made mandatory, as recommended recently by the UN...
- Educational Disadvantage
142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason three schools in Youghal, County Cork did not qualify for DEIS status at a post-primary and primary level despite the fourth school...
- Special Educational Needs
143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when next year's special needs assistant allocation will be announced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14342/23]
- School Accommodation
144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give approval for the design team to proceed on works for temporary accommodation to cater for an ASD unit at a school (details...
- Education Policy
145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the reimagined senior cycle of education for post-primary students, equity and excellence for all: where the...
- School Transport
146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the procurement process for school bus contracts considers the distance a company has to travel to and from a school and how this fits in with...
- Schools Building Projects
147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that the decision to put 58 school building projects on hold (details supplied) has the knock-on effect of further delaying the...
- Education Policy
149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the development of L1 and L2 specifications in Leaving Certificate Irish; and if she will make a statement on...
- School Transport
151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on school transport for the coming year; the cost for parents; and the number of places that will be provided next...
- Special Educational Needs
152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date for the release of the SNA allocations. [14308/23]
- Schools Building Projects
154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a full update on a long awaited school (details supplied); if the project will be delayed by the current Departmental funding...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Skills Shortages
155. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he last reviewed the critical skills list; his plans to expand the list to address the national skills shortages in healthcare,...
- Employment Permits
156. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he last reviewed the ineligible list of occupations for employment permits; and his plans to reduce the list to address skills...
- Enterprise Policy
157. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Enterprise Ireland investments that have been made over the past five years; and the number of these that had...
- Social Media
159. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the protocols and or guidelines he has issued in respect of the use of personal social media accounts by officials in his Department;...
- Industrial Development
160. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he expects to appoint a new CEO of the IDA. [14565/23]
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Climate Change Policy
162. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider developing a code of practice to assist State bodies to comply with the obligations under section...
- Telecommunications Security
163. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has considered banning an application (details supplied) from the phones of Ministers and civil...
- Social Media
164. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has had any engagement with representatives of a social media application (details supplied); if so, if he will...
- Broadband Infrastructure
165. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of premises in County Mayo; the number of premises that have had National Broadband Ireland surveys...
- Environmental Schemes
166. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14495/23]
- Social Media
169. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the protocols and or guidelines he has issued in respect of the use of personal social media accounts by officials in...
- Wind Energy Generation
170. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the transition to a plan-led approach in offshore wind farming and the engagement of industry and...
- Broadband Infrastructure
172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason a house (details supplied) that is not in receipt of a broadband signal of 30mbs is not covered by the roll...
- Energy Prices
173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he intends to introduce legislation to ensure that all customers in the State pay the same standing charge for their...
- Broadband Infrastructure
174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will seek a report from NBI about the continuing issues in an area (details supplied) where broadband was...
- Illegal Dumping
175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason for the delay in bringing forward secondary legislation to facilitate CCTV cameras to counter illegal...
- Legislative Reviews
176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a post-enactment review has been completed for each piece of legislation passed by his Department from 2018 to 2022,...
- Pension Provisions
177. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has given approval to a request by a company (details supplied) for pension increases for its pensioners payable...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Transport Policy
178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the underuse of the 2022 Active Travel budget according to figures released by the National Transport Authority; if...
- Electric Vehicles
181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details as to how the gradual reduction announced in Budget 2023 in the grant towards the purchase of electric...
- Maritime Safety
182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details on whether a load line survey application has been applied for with respect to the hebble dredge ship which is...
- Bus Services
183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 205 of 25 October 2022, if funding will be provided to deliver a town bus service in Clonmel,...
- Road Projects
184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the spend each year since 2008, on new national roads out of money allocated to TII and the NRA; the allocation for new roads allocated...
- Road Network
186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total length of national road, by county, broken down between national primary and national secondary roads; the amount of this that...
- Official Engagements
187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a schedule of engagements he and/or his officials have had in the past five years to date with CIE and or the...
- Social Media
188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the protocols and or guidelines he has issued in respect of the use of personal social media accounts by officials in his Department; the...
- Transport Infrastructure Ireland
189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will detail engagements between his officials and TFI over the past 12 months around the TFI Live App; if he will provide an update...
- Road Network
190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will set out his plans to review and amend the designation and or classification of national roads; and the date on which his...
- Airport Security
191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a schedule of the measures he plans to put in place in 2023 to enhance airport security and passenger screening at...
- Road Network
192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that adequate funding is allocated to a local authority in 2023 to advance proposed road projects (details supplied);...
- Pension Provisions
193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the information his office was provided with after 24 February 2023 that advised him contrary to the fact that the CIÉ...
- Traffic Management
197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of plans to alleviate traffic congestion in Celbridge, County Kildare; when the proposals are likely to be finalised...
- Road Projects
199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current proposals to improve the roadway from Ballagh to Timahoe via Derrycrib/Derryvarroge which is now in dangerous condition, and...
- Department of Finance
- Disability Services
200. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will take the lead on any new scheme that replaces the disabled drivers and disabled passenger's scheme; if not, which Department will take...
- Defective Building Materials
201. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to extend the local property tax exemption for properties certified as damaged by pyrite to new applicants beyond 22 July 2023; and if he will...
- Vehicle Registration Tax
202. To ask the Minister for Finance his views regarding VRT and its relationship with EU trade law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14421/23]
- Legislative Programme
203. To ask the Minister for Finance if he proposes to introduce any legislation to regulate and or prohibit the use of crypto currency in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Interest Rates
204. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is in receipt of correspondence or documentation detailing the impact of interest rate rises on mortgage holders on their monthly repayments; and if so,...
- Social Media
205. To ask the Minister for Finance the protocols and or guidelines he has issued in respect of the use of personal social media accounts by officials in his Department; the number of sanctions...
- Insurance Coverage
206. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on insurance for a property (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14542/23]
- Rental Sector
207. To ask the Minister for Finance what taxation plans are being mooted to retain small, accidental landlords who are charging very low rent, have costs outweighing rental income, and, in some...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Social Media
208. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the protocols and-or guidelines he has issued in respect of the use of personal social media accounts by officials in his Department;...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Grant Payments
209. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will outline the specific grants available for a sports club to install a lift and-or stairlift facility to allow members...
- Social Media
211. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the protocols and-or guidelines she has issued in respect of the use of personal social media accounts by officials in her...
- Tourism Industry
212. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the outcome of discussions she has had with her counterpart in the British Government concerning the difficulties that will arise...
- Sports Funding
213. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a new sports capital programme will be announced at an early date in view of its importance in assisting sporting organisations...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Cúrsaí Oidhreachta
214. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government an bhfuil sé i gceist aige an comhartha talún “Toit Chonáin” (GA091-012), a théann i bhfad...
- Defective Building Materials
216. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will agree to Donegal County Council's request for more families in County Donegal to be able to avail of the...
- Local Authorities
218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether there is any obstacle to a local authority signing up to the Climate Perks Programme, which would involve certain...
- Departmental Schemes
219. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of the new purchasing scheme (details supplied); when these details will be made available to...
- Social Welfare Payments
220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will examine the impact that small social welfare increases have on rent costs for local authority tenants under the...
- Social Media
221. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the protocols and or guidelines he has issued in respect of the use of personal social media accounts by officials in his...
- Approved Housing Bodies
222. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of overall units and number of complexes owned and managed by an approved housing body (details supplied); and the...
- Departmental Schemes
224. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on a grant scheme for a property (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Housing Policy
225. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person can be considered for a local authority home loan where exceptional circumstances pertain in relation to one of...
- Climate Action Plan
227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the 14 October 2022 statement by An Bord Pleanála that it was not aware that the Climate Action Plan had...
- Housing Provision
228. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing estates and developments completed and not yet occupied in Maynooth, Celbridge, Leixlip, Kilcock,...
- Traffic Management
229. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of traffic alleviation measures including road and bridge re-alignments incorporating new bridge over the...
- Housing Provision
230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated number of persons on the Kildare local authority housing list at present; the likelihood of having their housing...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Foreign Policy
231. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there is an agreement between the UK Government, the UK Ministry of Defence, and the Irish Government in regard to UK aircraft and...
- Foreign Birth Registration
232. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding a foreign birth registration for a family (details supplied) which was submitted in June 2022; and if he will make a...
- Foreign Policy
233. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has considered banning an application (details supplied) from the phones of Ministers and civil servants, in line with...
- Departmental Inquiries
234. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade For if he will provide an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14499/23]
- Social Media
235. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the protocols and or guidelines he has issued in respect of the use of personal social media accounts by officials in his Department; the...
- Passport Services
236. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps applicants are required to take if they wish to change their name on their passport; the legal basis for same; and if he will make...
- Undocumented Irish in the USA
238. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the outcome of any recent discussions he had with the United States authorities regarding the need to regularise the status of the...
- Brexit Issues
239. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the outcome of any recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and with the British Foreign Secretary concerning the...
- Equality Issues
241. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will join the European Commission’s infringement proceedings against Hungary for its anti-LGBTQ+ propaganda law; and if he...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces
242. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if, in lieu of forcing personnel who want to remain in the Defence Forces to retire on age grounds, he will consider a proposed fix of rehiring...
- Departmental Policies
244. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the protocols and or guidelines he has issued in respect of the use of personal social media accounts by officials in his Department; the number...
- Defence Forces
246. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which he remains satisfied that the Defence Forces have access to adequate equipment such as air and seagoing vessels in order to...
- Air Corps
249. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the degree to which the Air Corps continues to be upgraded in line with the needs of an island country and the need to ensure regular coastal...
- Naval Service
250. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which the Naval Service continues to be upgraded in terms of equipment and seagoing vessels in order to ensure adequate coastal...
- Defence Forces
251. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which the Irish Defence Forces continue to co-operate with their peers throughout the European Union with a view to ensuring...
- Air Corps
254. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the degree to which he remains satisfied that the Air Corps is adequately equipped in terms of aircraft and training to do its job in the event...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Special Educational Needs
255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to encourage special needs assistants to undertake continuing professional development through Irish universities and...
- School Staff
256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the status of home economics as the second most difficult subject to recruit teachers for, the measures she will take to tackle the...
- Education and Training Boards
257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide more information on the proposed contract for adult education tutors working in the ETB sector; and the action she is taking...
- Educational Disadvantage
258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proposals, to confer DEIS status on a school (details supplied) in Thurles, County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- School Textbooks
259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has received correspondence from an organisation (details supplied), concerning her Department's guidelines for the new free...
- School Transport
260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 441 of 28 September 2021, and subsequent correspondence received from her Department sanctioning the...
- School Staff
261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will detail the contacts she has had with a school (details supplied) regarding the allocation of additional mainstream teacher(s); if she...
- Good Friday Agreement
262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department plans has to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Special Educational Needs
263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if route 4 qualification is to be abolished for special needs teachers; if analysis has been carried out of the number of special needs teachers...
- Teaching Council of Ireland
264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will request the Teaching Council to consider allowing for the recognition of a masters in special education as a recognised qualification...
- Schools Building Projects
265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will instruct her Department, to reconsider the decision to put the construction of a new building for a school (details supplied) in...
- Mental Health Services
267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider introducing similar payments and supports that are currently available to clinical psychologists during their doctoral...
- Social Media
268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the protocols and or guidelines she has issued in respect of the use of personal social media accounts by officials in her Department; the number...
- Disability Diagnoses
269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 217 and 220 of 24 November 2022, the training primary school teachers receive to diagnose if a student has...
- Schools Building Projects
270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14537/23]
- School Admissions
273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the case of a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14561/23]
- School Transport
274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when two students (details supplied) in County Cork who are approved under the school transport scheme for children with special educational...
- School Admissions
275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which adequate primary and second level school places remain available to school goers throughout north Kildare, an area of rapid...
- School Transport
276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can give an assurance that the school transport system can be adapted to meet the needs of children in north Kildare, currently unable to...
- School Admissions
277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which efforts continue to be made to provide adequate school places at all levels to prevent stress arising from a lack of school...
- Education Policy
278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the ongoing efforts, if any, to provide afterschool services given the necessity for both parents to remain in employment due to high mortgages;...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which the pupil-to-teacher ratio is being improved in all schools in County Kildare and throughout the country, at primary and...
- Schools Building Projects
280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which new school buildings are required throughout north Kildare, whether replacement or the building of new schools; the progress...
- School Staff
285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a permanent teaching post is likely to be offered in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Benefits
286. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way a person (details supplied) can adequately complete a disability allowance application. [14445/23]
- Social Welfare Payments
287. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the qualifying period for lump sums (details supplied). [14453/23]
- Social Welfare Code
288. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the way in which savings and assets are treated in means-test assessments, since the very stringent...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
289. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are guidelines set out for granting illness benefit to workers whose full-time work schedule is based on a four-day...
- School Meals Programme
290. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if discussions are expected to provide school lunches to all schoolchildren in all schools (details supplied); and if she...
- Social Media
291. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the protocols and-or guidelines she has issued in respect of the use of personal social media accounts by officials in her...
- Public Services Card
292. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will detail in tabular form the number of public service card applications processed per month, by INTREO office, in...
- Social Welfare Payments
294. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will seek assistance for a person (details supplied) in relation to their wait for a disability allowance; and if she...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Disability Services
296. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position regarding a local community neurorehabilitation team for CHO7; and if he will make a statement on...
- Disabilities Assessments
297. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children waiting for their assessment of need in the Balbriggan, Swords and coastal CDNT teams;...
- Disability Services
299. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the status of negotiations between the HSE and a group (details supplied)...
- Disabilities Assessments
301. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when an assessment of need will be undertaken in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- International Protection
302. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the method by which the rates of payment are presently being calculated for those premises providing...
- Assisted Decision-Making
303. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expects the proposed decision support service searchable register to be operational under the Assisted...
- Disability Services
304. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a clinical governance framework has been developed and implemented nationally within the 91 children’s...
- Health Services Staff
309. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average time it takes to advertise a post that has been left vacant, from the time that the staff member...
- Disability Services
311. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consultation took place with therapy professionals representative organisations (details supplied) with...
- Social Media
314. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the protocols and or guidelines he has issued in respect of the use of personal social media accounts by...
- Equality Issues
315. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the delay by his Department in completing the report of the review of the Equality Acts (Equal...
- After-School Support Services
316. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the ongoing efforts, if any, to provide afterschool services given the necessity for both parents to remain in...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Student Accommodation
317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of beds that are available in purpose-built student accommodation in Cork, Dublin, Limerick and Galway; the number of new beds...
- Further and Higher Education
318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new dental school at University College Cork; when it will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14415/23]
- Social Media
320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the protocols and or guidelines he has issued in respect of the use of personal social media accounts by officials in his Department; the number...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Probate Applications
321. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has received submissions from the Probate Office for more resources to deal with the backlog of cases awaiting approval...
- An Garda Síochána
322. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action that has been taken by his Department regarding a disclosure made to him by email from this Deputy's office on 18...
- Departmental Policies
323. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has received correspondence from an organisation (details supplied) concerning the Firearms Expert Committee; when he...
- Social Media
324. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the protocols and or guidelines he has issued in respect of the use of personal social media accounts by officials in his...
- Domestic Violence
326. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in providing a refuge centre in counties Cavan and Monaghan for victims of domestic abuse; and if he will...
- Travel Documents
327. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has engaged with various airlines to see the additional measures that can be introduced to ensure all passengers...
- Citizenship Applications
328. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 652 of 18 October 2022, the procedure to be followed to achieve citizenship in the case...
- Department of Health
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
329. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an up-to-date position on a project (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14392/23]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
330. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long for their special recognition bonus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14393/23]
- Health Services Waiting Lists
331. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in the Dublin Fingal constituency waiting on speech and language therapy through their local primary care centres; and if he will make a...
- Dental Services
333. To ask the Minister for Health the dentistry supports available through the HSE to children with additional needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14399/23]
- Health Services Staff
341. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE did not alert the families of patients assessed by an individual (details supplied); if the HSE had serious concerns with the individual's...
- Hospital Appointments Status
343. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a case (details supplied) and when the person concerned can expect an appointment at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital,...
- Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
344. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the funding that is provided to meals on wheels services and consider increasing their allocated funding, given they provide invaluable...
- Departmental Projects
345. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 of 23 February 2023, when his Department will issue a reply, given all other Departments have responded in full to...
- Home Care Packages
346. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on an application by a person (details supplied); and if the decision will be expedited. [14444/23]
- Departmental Schemes
347. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to include ileostomy bags in the long-term illness scheme. [14456/23]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
348. To ask the Minister for Health if Traveller health care workers employed by Section 39 agencies will be eligible to receive the pandemic special recognition payment; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Schemes
349. To ask the Minister for Health if he agrees with the need to ensure that fibromyalgia, which affects one in 50 Irish people, is recognised in Ireland as a long-term illness, that causes...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
350. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14464/23]
- Nursing Homes
351. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of persons who were in receipt of the nursing home fair deal who listed rental from their primary residence in the assessment in 2021, 2022...
- Healthcare Policy
352. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a policy in relation to shared care between children’s disability network teams, child and adolescent mental health services and primary...
- Regulatory Bodies
354. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated to CORU in each of the past five years; the number of staff working in CORU in each of the past five years; the number of organisations...
- Hospital Services
355. To ask the Minister for Health the number of surgeries carried out in an area (details supplied). [14487/23]
- Medicinal Products
357. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update following talks (details supplied) in relation to the kaftrio drug for cystic fibrosis. [14491/23]
- Hospital Staff
358. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied) in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Media
359. To ask the Minister for Health the protocols and or guidelines he has issued in respect of the use of personal social media accounts by officials in his Department; the number of sanctions...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
360. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 454 of 8 March 2023, if he has responded to a request from the Minister for Social Protection to designate long-Covid as...
- Health Services Staff
361. To ask the Minister for Health if he will revert to this Deputy with a response to an issue (details supplied) which was raised recently during questions on priority legislation; and if he...
- Pension Provisions
362. To ask the Minister for Health when arrears will be paid to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14560/23]
- Home Help Service
363. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form in each CHO region the current number of home helps employed; the nuance of vacancies; if there are plans to hire additional...
- Care Services
364. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in advancing a project to provide additional accommodation at a health care facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
365. To ask the Minister for Health when the outstanding Covid bonus payments will be made to health care workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14586/23]
- Home Care Packages
366. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently put in place a home care package that has already been approved for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Agriculture Schemes
367. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if financial assistance is available to a farmer (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14378/23]
- Fishing Industry
368. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority has raised any concerns regarding the effective monitoring and enforcement of...
- Fisheries Protection
374. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the implementation of the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority capability review; how many of the 46...
- Departmental Appointments
375. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether an advisory board, nominated by his Department, comprising members with expertise and/or professional experience in senior...
- Gorse Burning
377. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 7 March 2023, the area of land covered by gorse and heather and so on, that has been...
- Laboratory Facilities
378. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a laboratory (details supplied), based in County Limerick, is currently operational; if not, when it was shut down; the reason for...
- Agriculture Supports
379. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if dairy farmers who are excluded from grant-aid for milking machines and dairy equipment, are eligible for grant-aid for the milking...
- Agriculture Schemes
380. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will urgently open a round of GLAS to accommodate the 14,000 farmers who have not been able to apply to the ACRES scheme but...
- Social Media
381. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the protocols and or guidelines he has issued in respect of the use of personal social media accounts by officials in his Department;...
- Forestry Sector
382. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will undertake a review of the Forest Licencing Plan 2022, specifically comparing output per licence and scheme type against...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Rural Schemes
385. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason in laying down the conditions to qualify for a local improvement scheme for non-county roads, there is a requirement that...
- Social Media
386. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the protocols and or guidelines she has issued in respect of the use of personal social media accounts by officials in her Department;...
