Written answers

Tuesday, 18 April 2023

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • National Security
      26. To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline the current situation in regard to the development of a national security strategy. [14312/23]
    • Cabinet Committees
      28. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Economy and Investment will meet next. [15202/23]
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • An Garda Síochána
      40. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the personnel located in each of the Dublin Garda stations (and not to include regional personnel hosted in Tallaght); and if he...
    • Immigration Policy
      41. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he can clarify, in cases where a Border Management Unit decides to refuse permission to an intending visitor to this State,...
    • An Garda Síochána
      48. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there has been a 345% increase in those leaving An Garda Síochána...
    • Probate Applications
      50. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that are being taken to address delays in processing probate applications; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Prison Service
      52. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the funding allocated to the prison service for mental health supports for both staff and the prison population; for an update...
    • Domestic Violence
      53. 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...
    • Immigration Policy
      54. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people who presented at Irish airports without a valid passport during each consecutive month since Covid...
    • An Garda Síochána
      55. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the plans for adequate resourcing of frontline gardaí in the context of the recent upsurge in criminal offences such as...
    • Control of Firearms
      56. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the up-to-date position on plans to impose conditions on firearm certificate holders, and his level of consultation with...
    • An Garda Síochána
      57. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps his Department is taking to address the retention crisis in An Garda Síochána.; and if he will make a...
    • Courts Staff
      58. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 69 of 6 December 2022, his Department's policy position in relation to the number of...
    • Immigration Policy
      59. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he can clarify the procedure in relation to decisions by the Border Management Unit to refuse permission to board for...
    • Probate Applications
      60. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the actions that he has taken to deal with the prolonged delays in the probate office; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Prison Service
      61. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to address the issue of prison overcrowding; if he is satisfied to have sufficient medium and long-term prison capacity to deal...
    • An Garda Síochána
      62. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the provision of further resources to An Garda Síochána to provide a safer system of policing...
    • Data Protection
      63. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is considering legislating to allow families to avail of the digital right to be forgotten by erasing the social media...
    • An Garda Síochána
      64. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the up-to-date position on implementing the new policing model in Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18079/23]
    • Crime Prevention
      65. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the way Community Crime Prevention Programmes are promoted and encouraged under the Rural Safety Plan 2022-2024...
    • An Garda Síochána
      66. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the engagement of his Department in relation to the forthcoming new Garda Capital Investment Plan 2023-2030; and if he will make...
    • Proposed Legislation
      67. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for defamation law reform. [18081/23]
    • Online Safety
      68. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions that have been brought under Coco’s Law since it was enacted in 2021; and if he will make a...
    • An Garda Síochána
      69. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many applications were received for the Garda trainee competition 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17995/23]
    • Drug Dealing
      71. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to indicate, given the extent and growth of drug trafficking throughout the country in urban and rural areas, including the...
    • Departmental Staff
      72. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff he has on secondment to the Department of Foreign Affairs in Brussels to assist with Ireland's work at EU...
    • Mental Health Services
      73. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that has been made in establishing the trial 24-7 mental health de-escalation unit for Limerick that is due to be...
    • Crime Prevention
      74. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide the number of knives seized by gardaí in Cork city and county in each of the years 2016 to 2022 and to...
    • International Protection
      75. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a list of all countries from which people are entitled to apply for international protection status to...
    • Work Permits
      76. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline any plans to address, by legislation or otherwise, the situation whereby persons granted a work permit, based...
    • Crime Prevention
      78. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to discuss crime prevention resources for the Blackrock area of Cork city. [18012/23]
    • Proposed Legislation
      79. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on any progress made on advancing duty of care legislation; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Crime Prevention
      81. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the way animal crime is approached under the Rural Safety Plan 2022-2024 published by his Department; and if he will...
    • Data Protection
      82. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the next steps for the appointment of additional data commissioners; and to state what their principal focus will be....
    • Domestic Violence
      83. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he can confirm a breakdown of the person or body who sits on the Carlow Refuge Development Advisory Group, and when he...
    • Paramilitary Groups
      84. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date by him and his Department in considering the most recent report of the Independent Reporting...
    • Sex Offenders Notification Requirements
      85. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he is taking to stop convicted sex offenders from using the EU digital right to be forgotten to erase media reports of...
    • Citizenship Applications
      86. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of long delays at the Immigration Service Delivery, ISD, formerly the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration...
    • Coroners Service
      87. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware if autopsies are taking longer to be concluded in Dublin or elsewhere in recent years; and if so, what are the...
    • Crime Prevention
      88. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the youth diversion projects that are in place in Cork; the programmes that have been funded over the past three years; the...
    • Domestic Violence
      90. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a refuge for those fleeing domestic violence in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Crime Prevention
      91. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the establishment of community safety partnerships; if he will outline the resources expected to...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      92. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware that a person (details supplied) was sentenced to five years in jail in December 2022 and is currently in...
    • An Garda Síochána
      93. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda personnel across the Dublin area by year from 2011 to date, broken down by region; the number of Garda...
    • International Protection
      95. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the review of the changes since 2018 in labour market access permission for international protection applicants;...
    • An Garda Síochána
      96. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cybercrimes recorded in Ireland in 2022; and a breakdown of the type of cybercrimes recorded. [18076/23]
    • Sex Offenders Notification Requirements
      98. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps which he is taking to stop convicted sex offenders circumventing their monitoring through the use of a name change by...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems
      99. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline his Department’s ongoing work to address concerns around the roll-out of community CCTV systems...
    • Legal Aid
      100. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether criminal legal aid is fit for purpose, given recent industrial action by criminal practice barristers. [18065/23]
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Referendum Campaigns
      101. To ask the Taoiseach what topics are to be put to referendum this year; the topics that are planned for referendums in the years ahead; and if tentative dates have been set for each. [16333/23]
    • Departmental Staff
      102. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff within his Department who are based and working with the European Union in Brussels; their present roles and responsibilities; and the posts and...
    • Trade Data
      103. To ask the Taoiseach the volume of snus imported into the State in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and the monetary value of the imports. [17004/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      104. To ask the Taoiseach the amounts in grant aid or funding awarded by his Department, or through schemes administered by it, to an organisation (details supplied) in each year from 2010 to...
    • Departmental Staff
      105. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Departmental staff currently on sick or stress leave; and the number who took stress or sick leave in each of the past five years and to date in 2023, in...
    • Departmental Projects
      108. To ask the Taoiseach the number of meetings that have taken place of the Strategic Foresight and Strengthening Policy Development research project, jointly overseen by his Department. [18103/23]
    • Departmental Functions
      109. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the non-statutory public service modernisation, development and reform functions for which his Department is responsible. [18104/23]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Foreign Policy
      110. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is developing proposals on international security following the Russian invasion of Ukraine; his plans for a consultative forum to...
    • Middle East
      111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish citizens living in illegal settlements built by Israel on Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem; the...
    • International Sanctions
      112. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if additional tougher sanctions will be issued by the EU on Iran due to its role in providing weapons and-or ammunition to Russia for its...
    • Irish Prisoners Abroad
      113. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the assistance that his Department has given to an Irish citizen (details supplied) imprisoned in Iran since October 2022 without charge;...
    • Passport Services
      114. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a child renewal passport (details supplied) can be expedited as it was lodged on 10 March 2023, and the family are hoping to travel on 5...
    • Foreign Policy
      115. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 355 of 31 January 2023, his views on the need to use the International Criminal Court and...
    • Passport Services
      116. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passports that issued to first-time applicants in 2022 and to date in 2023. [17055/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      123. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of any reimbursement schemes for Irish citizens who paid for emergency repatriation flights to return home to Ireland upon the...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      124. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a decision has been made on a foreign births register application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Irish Prisoners Abroad
      125. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of an Irish citizen (details supplied) who is being detained abroad; if his Department has...
    • Passport Services
      127. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide data on the number of workers who engaged with the APS passport database system (details supplied). [17215/23]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      128. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish nationals living outside the State who received the centenarian bounty in each of the past four years, in tabular form....
    • Passport Services
      129. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue for a child (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17531/23]
    • Human Rights
      131. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will condemn in the strongest terms Uganda’s recent actions against the LGBT+ community; if the Irish Ambassador to Uganda has...
    • Middle East
      132. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking in response to increased tensions in Jerusalem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17701/23]
    • Departmental Staff
      133. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of departmental staff currently on sick or stress leave; and the number who took stress or sick leave in each of the past five...
    • Travel Documents
      136. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will clarify the requirements on prospective surrogate parents in terms of travel documents to bring their newborn children home...
    • International Relations
      137. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of a detained person (details supplied); if he will give his support for their immediate...
    • Passport Services
      139. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will review the passport issued to a person (details supplied) who wishes to have their full name on their Irish passport; if a new...
    • Consular Services
      140. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if construction works have commenced on a new Chancery Building in Abuja, Nigeria; and the estimated completion timeframe for this building....
    • Passport Services
      141. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the status of a passport renewal for a person (details supplied) as the applicant's date of travel is...
    • Citizenship Applications
      142. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when an applicant (details supplied) can expect to hear from his Department on their application for citizenship. [18154/23]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      143. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on FBR applications (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18156/23]
    • Foreign Policy
      144. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade how the Consultative Forum on International Security Policy will work; who the members of the forum will be; how 'expert' contributions will...
    • Passport Services
      145. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of WTE staff by grade that are currently dealing with enquiries on the passport webchat service; and if this number will be...
    • Irish Prisoners Abroad
      146. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in relation to a person (details supplied) who has been incarcerated in Iran since October 2022, and who has been sentenced to six and a...
    • Human Rights
      147. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the human rights and political situation in Peru; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18297/23]
    • Foreign Policy
      149. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Government’s position on an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16075/23]
    • Passport Services
      150. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the passport for a child (details supplied) will issue on time for a school trip abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Irish Prisoners Abroad
      154. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the detention of an Irish citizen (details supplied) who has been held in Vakilabad prison in Mashhad,...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      155. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16413/23]
    • International Relations
      156. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the context of the commitment to set up an annual high-level political dialogue between the EU and the Palestinian Authority, what plans are...
    • Official Engagements
      157. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has contacted the new leader of the Scottish National Party, Mr. Humza Yousaf, with a view to meeting with him; and if he will make a...
    • Human Rights
      158. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade what work Ireland is doing to improve the condition of human rights in Pakistan, and to protect opposition leaders there from being unjustly...
    • Citizenship Applications
      159. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on two applications for citizenship (details supplied). [16476/23]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      160. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a foreign birth registration application will be processed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      161. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of staff within his Department who are based and working with the European Union in Brussels; their present roles and...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      162. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16638/23]
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • North-South Interconnector
      164. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will clarify a matter regarding his Department’s press statement regarding the review of the North South...
    • Litter Pollution
      165. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions his Department has initiated to prevent littering; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16065/23]
    • Energy Conservation
      167. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total number of homes that had retrofit work undertaken supported by SEAI grants under the various schemes...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      168. 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 County Galway; and if he will make a...
    • Energy Conservation
      169. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the financial support available for community organisations, such as charities and community centres, to get an energy...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      170. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware that the report by the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine on Agriculture and the...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      171. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how it is possible for him to lay down, as a condition of providing broadband services, under the EU regulatory regime...
    • Departmental Schemes
      172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has plans to apply the energy credit to gas customers where the full credit amount is not used for electricity;...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the recently released 2023 report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
    • Inland Fisheries
      175. 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 Inny, which has been...
    • Energy Policy
      176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the competition that is present in the electricity market in Ireland; the components the ESB still has full control...
    • Departmental Staff
      177. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of staff within his Department who are based and working with the European Union in Brussels; their present...
    • Waste Management
      178. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide clarity and a timeframe with respect to when the issue of stabilised residual waste fines, which are going...
    • Fuel Quality
      179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the action being taken to curtail the importation and distribution of coal that does not meet the State’s...
    • Departmental Regulations
      182. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of breaches of the new solid fuel regulations that have been identified since its commencement last year,...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      183. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if grants are available for businesses to install solar or PV panels. [16645/23]
    • Climate Change Policy
      184. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide his response to the recommended actions on cutting rates of pollution and reducing energy poverty...
    • Departmental Schemes
      185. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment plans to introduce a non-profit district heating scheme here; and his plans to transition existing schemes to a...
    • Inland Fisheries
      188. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how many of the fisheries claimed by Inland Fisheries Ireland were the subject of the Irish Land Act 1903 and, if not,...
    • Official Travel
      190. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline the final costs incurred for attendance at an event (details supplied); and if he will outline how...
    • Inland Fisheries
      191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of purchase orders generated by Inland Fisheries Ireland in each of the years from 2010 to 2022 and to date...
    • Waste Management
      193. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if any consideration has been given to implementing a deposit return scheme for single-use paper items, similar to the...
    • Energy Prices
      194. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has liaised with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities on the issue of energy companies reducing electricity...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      195. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 172 of 7 March 2023, if he will provide the details of the main subcontractors...
    • Departmental Regulations
      196. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what measures are in place to regulate the financial technology sector; what regulation is in place to ensure that...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      197. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the forthcoming introduction of a 0% VAT rate on the supply and installation of solar...
    • Litter Pollution
      200. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on how innovation and digitalisation is being used to tackle littering; if microchipping a...
    • Energy Prices
      202. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide advice to households that have already significantly reduced their energy usage but who are still...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      204. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will clarify the reason there will be no broadband connection works for an area in County Offaly (details...
    • Invasive Species Policy
      206. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment given that, on 31 March 2023 Galway City Council issued an alert regarding the potential spread of the invasive quagga...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      207. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a progress report on the roll-out of the National Broadband Plan; the number of properties connected...
    • Postal Services
      208. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way a person who wishes to have their address changed or an error corrected that is listed on the Eircode website...
    • Departmental Staff
      209. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of Departmental staff currently on sick or stress leave; and the number who took stress or sick leave in...
    • Departmental Schemes
      212. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the rationale for the exclusion of homes constructed before 1940 from the fully funded energy upgrade scheme; and if he...
    • State Bodies
      218. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment as the line Minister responsible for implementation of the Postal and Telecommunications Services Act 1983, the number...
    • Energy Usage
      219. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to develop a portal that enables households to use the information from their smart electricity...
    • Departmental Schemes
      220. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will ensure that an individual (details supplied) receives the electricity account credit. [17955/23]
    • International Agreements
      221. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to ensure that the State leaves the Energy Charter Treaty. [17957/23]
    • Fuel Poverty
      222. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to parliamentary Question No. 69 of 28 February 2023, when the ESRI is due to report on proposing a metric for...
    • Departmental Schemes
      223. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how the Commission for Regulation of Utilities is resourced to monitor, regulate and enforce payments as part of the...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces
      224. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of persons that applied for the post of Head of Transformation and Head of Strategic HR for the Defence Forces; and the number of...
    • Pension Provisions
      225. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if clarification will be provided on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17016/23]
    • Naval Service
      226. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of naval ships that it is possible to put to sea at any one time at present due to staff shortages; whether it is intended to send a...
    • Defence Forces
      227. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if it is proposed to follow up on any of the recommendations outlined in the final report of the independent review group of the Defence Forces...
    • Departmental Staff
      231. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Departmental staff currently on sick or stress leave; and the number who took stress or sick leave in each of the past five years...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      234. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the level of budget expenditure Ireland incurred as a result of Ireland's membership of PESCO, in each of the years 2017 to 2022, respectively;...
    • Air Corps
      235. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of persons currently in training to become qualified air traffic controllers for the Air Corps; when each of these persons will...
    • Departmental Staff
      236. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of staff within his Department who are based and working with the European Union in Brussels; their present roles and...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Public Transport
      238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the public-state transport stakeholders group commitment from the Programme for Government; and if he...
    • Driver Test
      239. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) can sit a driving test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16349/23]
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has met with the Aircraft Noise Competent Authority regarding their review of the noise coming from the North Runway at...
    • Driver Test
      242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reasons a person's estimated week of invitation to apply for their driving test is being pushed out (details supplied); the reason...
    • Bus Services
      243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 290 of 18 January 2023, when the 236A bus route will be operational. [16515/23]
    • Road Network
      244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to provide resurfacing of the N71 at Ballylickey Bridge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16516/23]
    • Driver Test
      245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons waiting for a driver test in each centre nationwide; the average waiting time, in tabular form; and if he will make...
    • Taxi Licences
      246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that taxi drivers are presently only able to transfer their plates on the event of their death, not even upon retirement...
    • Departmental Staff
      247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of staff within his Department who are based and working with the European Union in Brussels; their present roles and...
    • Bus Services
      248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on when the BusConnects phase for the Dún Laoghaire Rathdown area will be rolled out; and if he will...
    • Taxi Regulations
      249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of reports of a rise in illegal taxi operators in certain areas; if he has communicated with the National Transport...
    • Driver Test
      254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport how a person (details supplied), who is a full-time teacher, which is deemed a frontline worker, can avail of an emergency driving test...
    • Electric Vehicles
      255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 181 of 23 March 2023, if vehicles ordered prior to July 2023 but not received by customers until...
    • National Transport Authority
      257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied that the National Transport Authority have fulfilled their obligations under the United Nations Convention on the...
    • Rail Accidents
      258. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated full year cost of recruiting three additional WTE railway accident investigators for his Department; and if he will make a...
    • Public Transport
      259. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will respond to the correspondence attached (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16794/23]
    • Rail Network
      260. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline plans for the further development of the rail network over the next five years; if his Department intends to increase...
    • Bus Services
      261. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of installing an electronic timetable with real time arrival times at bus stops that currently only have a sign; and...
    • Fuel Oil Specifications
      263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is evidence that changing to E10 fuel can cause damage to pre-2011 cars and motorcycles; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Transport
      264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will set out the mandatory accessibility requirements and or the provisions set in statute in respect of accessibility standards...
    • Transport Policy
      265. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will set out the current system for surveying and registering of Irish charter vessels and the conditions that they can operate...
    • National Car Test
      267. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, given the NCT waiting lists can be up to five months, he will consider extending all of this year’s NCT tests to include a...
    • Electric Vehicles
      268. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the options available to individuals who have been incorrectly charged for the use of public electric vehicle charging points; and if he...
    • Taxi Regulations
      269. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 233 of 7 March 2023, whether self-employed taxi drivers can specify “card not...
    • Fuel Sales
      270. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of a concern of the Irish biofuels sector at the implications for the industry of new regulations due to be brought into...
    • Rail Network
      274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Iarnród Éireann has plans to deploy undercover security personnel on both its platforms and on board its trains. [16932/23]
    • Official Travel
      275. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has plans to visit the United States of America during the remainder of 2023. [16933/23]
    • Driver Test
      276. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) who has secured an apprenticeship in Listowel post-leaving certificate, for which a driving licence is a...
    • Air Services
      278. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to restore the Cork to Leeds air route; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17000/23]
    • Driver Test
      279. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driving test for a person (details supplied) will be brought forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17002/23]
    • Public Sector Pensions
      280. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17003/23]
    • Taxi Licences
      281. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm the number of applications in total that have been received for the local hackney pilot programme since the closing...
    • Fuel Oil Specifications
      282. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider the concerns of the owners of older and classic vehicles regarding proposals to remove E5 petrol; if he will address...
    • Transport Policy
      283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if disabled persons' organisations have been consulted in the roll-out of the Active Travel and BusConnects rollout; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Schemes
      286. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of people whose application for grant funding on the wheelchair accessible vehicles scheme has been successful and are...
    • Bus Services
      287. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the breakdown of costs incurred to date for the BusConnects Cork public consultations, by vendor and staff costs, in tabular form. [17091/23]
    • Rail Network
      288. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a business case has been presented on the light rail proposal for Cork; and the cost of that project to date, in tabular form. [17093/23]
    • Driver Licences
      289. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an Australian driving licence is valid for use in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17098/23]
    • Road Projects
      290. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update in respect of the A5 road upgrade. [17125/23]
    • Electric Vehicles
      291. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of EV chargers currently operating. [17128/23]
    • Driver Test
      292. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional resources which will be given to each test centre to alleviate waiting list times; and the waiting time and number of...
    • Electric Vehicles
      293. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the regulation of e-scooters in the community. [17161/23]
    • Bus Services
      294. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to requests from community groups in Arklow, County Wicklow regarding the demand for a looped bus service...
    • Road Projects
      296. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the Claregalway Inner Relief Road; if funding will be provided from his Department for a new Claregalway Inner...
    • Taxi Regulations
      298. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport why taxi drivers legally have to offer card paying facilities, while this method of payment is optional for all other members of the...
    • National Car Test
      299. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide figures on the average waiting time for an NCT in Dublin over the past three years. [17324/23]
    • Road Traffic Offences
      301. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects to publish the transport (miscellaneous) Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17408/23]
    • Departmental Regulations
      302. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what rules govern the use of drones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17409/23]
    • National Car Test
      304. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress that has been made in recruiting driver testers and recruiting NCT testers; if he is aware that those called for a test...
    • Road Projects
      305. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update in respect of the Ardee bypass, which is a central project in the Government’s National Development...
    • Road Tolls
      306. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any discussions have taken place within his Department and-or Transport Infrastructure Ireland to look at the possibility of removing...
    • Rail Network
      307. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any consideration has been given with respect to the possible reopening of the general rail line between Drogheda and Navan, given the...
    • Road Safety
      309. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the road safety strategy and the progress to date to reduce road traffic to reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries...
    • Bus Services
      314. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Carlow town bus service; his plans to provide rural bus services between New Ross, County Wexford, and Saint Mullin's,...
    • Driver Test
      315. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; if he will introduce additional measures to deal with this situation; and if...
    • Rail Network
      316. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has received any business plans or proposals to reinstate Buttevant train station as part of active travel plans in the M20 project...
    • Road Safety Authority
      317. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the Road Safety Authority's review of road traffic collision data-sharing policies and procedures in...
    • Air Services
      318. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport how many flights from Donegal Airport have been cancelled or not taken off; what reasons have been given; and if he will make a statement...
    • Electric Vehicles
      319. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the SEAI on-street public charge point scheme for local authorities; how much funding has been drawn down...
    • Driver Test
      322. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person (details supplied) can get priority for their driving test given they depend on it for work; and if he will make a statement...
    • National Car Test
      324. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he and or his officials have undertaken an analysis of the number of cars sold in the second-hand car market in 2022 and 2023; the...
    • Departmental Staff
      325. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of Departmental staff currently on sick or stress leave; and the number who took stress or sick leave in each of the past five...
    • Driver Test
      328. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of people currently waiting for a driving test at each test centre in the country, in tabular form; and the average waiting...
    • National Car Test
      329. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of people currently waiting for NCT tests in each county in the country, in tabular form; and the average wait time in each...
    • Driver Test
      330. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to address the backlog in people waiting to take driving tests in Cork testing centres. [17965/23]
    • Departmental Projects
      332. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on cycling and walking projects in Dublin 9 and 11. [17976/23]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      333. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of money spent on active travel in Dublin City Council from the year 2020 to date; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Air Services
      335. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has concluded his consideration of the Derry City Airport’s economic assessment and supporting materials for a Dublin/Derry...
    • Rail Network
      336. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the inaccessibility of the Dublin Heuston to Cork Kent rail route to commuters working in Cork city, given that the...
    • Bus Services
      337. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be provided for the installation of a bus shelter at Dublin Bus stop No. 494. [18039/23]
    • Electric Vehicles
      338. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18095/23]
    • Rail Network
      339. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the projected percentage increase in capacity and frequency on the Northern Commuter line (Dundalk/Drogheda to Dublin) given...
    • Bus Services
      340. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the live bus tracking on the new Transport for Ireland app; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18195/23]
    • Bus Éireann
      343. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when Bus Éireann’s Expressway Route 30/30X Donegal and Route 32/32X Letterkenny will become fully wheelchair-accessible; and...
  • Department of Finance
    • Departmental Schemes
      345. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason no appeals for primary medical care are being heard at present; when appeals will be heard again; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Code
      347. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of abolishing stamp duty for first-time buyers of homes of less than €500,000 and for homes of less than €1 million in a full year; to...
    • Legislative Programme
      348. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the review of ethics legislation currently being conducted by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16446/23]
    • Departmental Staff
      349. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff within his Department who are based and working with the European Union in Brussels; their present roles and responsibilities; the posts...
    • Departmental Schemes
      350. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are any plans to increase the rate per litre of the fuel grant for disabled drivers given the current cost of fuel and the cost of living; and if he...
    • Tax Code
      357. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16632/23]
    • Official Engagements
      359. To ask the Minister for Finance if he met the Mayor of Toronto during his visit to Toronto for the recent St. Patrick's day events; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16692/23]
    • Departmental Schemes
      360. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps being taken to ensure that a bank (details supplied) recognises the Croí Cónaithe grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Customs and Excise
      361. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule indicating the number of revenue customs inspections conducted at each aerodrome location in the State including military sites...
    • Tax Yield
      362. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated additional revenue that would be raised from a 5% surcharge on all taxable income above €400,000. [16929/23]
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      367. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that the report by the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine on agriculture and the solar industry recommends that his...
    • Departmental Schemes
      368. To ask the Minister for Finance whether Citibank has received financial support directly from the State for example through the TBESS or CRSS scheme, over the past twenty years and to...
    • Business Supports
      369. To ask the Minister for Finance what support is available to new businesses that commenced business in the past 12 to 24 months under the business energy support scheme and that are facing...
    • Tax Yield
      372. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full year cost to reduce the second rate of USC from 2% to 1%, together with increasing the upper band limit for this proposed second rate of...
    • Rental Sector
      373. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of renters who have claimed the renters' credit this year. [16980/23]
    • Fiscal Policy
      374. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the impact of the implementation of Pillar One and Two rules on the Exchequer; his plans to reduce any negative impacts; and...
    • Customs and Excise
      377. To ask the Minister for Finance the total excise receipts earned from tobacco products in 2021 and 2022. [17037/23]
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      379. To ask the Minister for Finance if mortgage applicants can be protected by rising interest rates following initial mortgage agreements (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Schemes
      380. To ask the Minister for Finance how many applications have been made to the living city initiative; how many successful claimants there have been under the initiative since the scheme was...
    • Financial Services
      383. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps a person can take in cases in which there is fraudulent activity on their financial account (details supplied); how money lost can be pursued; and...
    • Tax Code
      384. To ask the Minister for Finance when the zero-rate for solar products will be in place; if it will be applied retrospectively to products purchased in 2023; if legislation is required to...
    • Financial Services
      385. To ask the Minister for Finance what regulations and policies covers the operation of ATMs in the State; what are the requirements for these to be made accessible to disabled people; who is...
    • Fishing Industry
      388. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on engaging with the Minister for Agriculture, Food, and the Marine to offer an individual a boat which was been decommissioned under the Brexit...
    • Fiscal Policy
      389. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the steps he is taking to ensure State investments are protected from international market volatility. [17219/23]
    • Business Supports
      390. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on an anomaly in the temporary business energy support scheme in which a charity that only qualified as a section 39 organisation cannot apply this...
    • Tax Yield
      391. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the amount of income taxation raised on personal pensions over the last decade, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Reliefs
      396. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider amending the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 to allow members of the public claim tax relief for physiotherapy appointments without the need...
    • Tax Yield
      397. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has carried out an analysis of the estimated additional revenue that will be generated for the Exchequer in 2024 with the introduction of his...
    • Regulatory Bodies
      398. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is concerned at the exposure of the Irish financial system to the non-bank or "shadow bank" sector; if he is satisfied that the Central Bank of Ireland...
    • Prize Bonds
      399. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of prize bonds prizes that are unclaimed or could not be claimed due to the person who held them being deceased, by county of residence last known...
    • Tax Reliefs
      401. To ask the Minister for Finance the timeline for the publication of the review of the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17561/23]
    • Departmental Bodies
      402. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17562/23]
    • Credit Availability
      403. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the practice of a bank (details supplied); his views on whether this practice is correct; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Data
      405. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons, expressed as a percentage of the total workforce, who were in the highest income tax bracket in Ireland in each of the years 2021, 2022...
    • Tax Code
      406. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm whether or not active farmland is excluded from RZLT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17680/23]
    • Departmental Staff
      407. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of departmental staff currently on sick or stress leave; and the number who took stress or sick leave in each of the past five years and to date in...
    • Tax Code
      410. To ask the Minister for Finance if capital gains tax is applied to the sales price of a pub licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17914/23]
    • Insurance Coverage
      411. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the situation facing chronically ill persons who are excluded from life insurance cover; and if he has plans to ensure that their families are...
    • Tax Code
      412. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are any plans to increase the small gift exemption for capital acquisition tax from €3,000 to €5,000; the potential cost of such a...
    • Tax Reliefs
      413. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an estimate of the level of tax foregone should the age exemption tax relief be increased to €45,000.00 or €50,000.00,...
    • Tax Code
      414. To ask the Minister for Finance when the classification for taxation purposes of loading shovels and silerators changed to the same taxation bracket as a commercial van, considering that...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      415. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to ensure that a State body (details supplied) engages productively with individuals concerning arrears, and avoids a confrontational...
    • Official Engagements
      416. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has spoken with his Canadian counterpart to date in 2023. [18040/23]
    • Tax Code
      417. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on recommendations No. 35 and No. 38 of the Report of the Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity Loss. [18092/23]
    • Departmental Schemes
      418. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on a primary medical certificate appeal by a person (details supplied). [18107/23]
    • Tax Code
      419. To ask the Minister for Finance what domestic actions he plans to take to reduce Ireland's VAT gap; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18110/23]
    • Tax Exemptions
      421. To ask the Minister for Finance to extend the exception from capital acquisitions tax for a spouse or civil partner to long-term cohabiting couples; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Interest Rates
      422. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the large hikes in mortgage rates without the corresponding increase in savings rates for banking customers; if he will...
    • Banking Sector
      423. To ask the Minister for Finance if a company (details supplied) was in possession of a banking licence when operating in May 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18188/23]
    • Interest Rates
      424. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the rise in interest rates in recent months; if he is aware of the concerns of savers who are disappointed that the interest rate given on...
    • Departmental Bodies
      428. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of loans provided by an organisation (details supplied) to developers for social and private residential developments in each county since it was...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Flood Risk Management
      429. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update in relation to a scheme (details supplied); when this scheme initially commenced; the timeline for the...
    • Office of Public Works
      431. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the OPW Jamestown Road workshop, its current utilisation and future utilisation; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      433. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of staff within his Department who are based and working with the European Union in Brussels; their present roles and...
    • Office of Public Works
      434. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to set out the guidelines or criteria that determine allocation and the allocation process of OPW lodges in the Phoenix Park for rental...
    • Public Appointments Service
      437. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the mechanisms available to the public where they are of the opinion that the Public Appointments Service have not complied with...
    • Flood Risk Management
      438. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current status of the Blackpool flood relief scheme in Cork; if revised plans are being prepared; if a date has been agreed for...
    • Departmental Bodies
      439. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current status of the Govtech Delivery Board, first suggested in 2019 in the National AI strategy, as such a board was identified as...
    • Data Protection
      440. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if providing advice and a set of best practice guidelines on data protection be part of the role of the Govtech Delivery Board, given...
    • Departmental Bodies
      441. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform given the skills gap in AI identified by the Future Skills report last year, if the monitoring and support of public sector projects...
    • National Lottery
      443. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the National Lottery requires that small retailers, wishing to be agents of the lottery, put up a lifetime deposit rather...
    • Public Appointments Service
      444. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform who has oversight responsibility for the Public Appointments Service, if his Department plans to review its performance and ensure that...
    • National Botanic Gardens
      445. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current funding that would be required to extend the opening hours of the National Botanic Gardens until 8pm during the summer...
    • Departmental Policies
      446. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 387 of 28 March 2023 to the Minister for Education, if he plans to introduce any reforms to civil...
    • Departmental Reviews
      447. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the Public Service Transformation Framework will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17107/23]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      448. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the causes of the underspend in cumulative net capital expenditure of €1.6 billion or 19.4% behind profile of...
    • Public Spending Code
      449. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline plans and the timeframe to update the Public Spending Code to more fully incorporate climate impacts and indirect effects of...
    • Public Sector Staff
      450. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of WTEs employed in the public service in each year since 2006 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      453. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total expenditure through public procurement in each of the years since 2006, broken down by capital works and goods and services,...
    • Office of Government Procurement
      454. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he intends to progress legislation establish the Office of Government Procurement on a statutory footing; and if he will make a...
    • Flood Risk Management
      455. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a full list of flood relief schemes managed by the OPW and the status of the schemes, in tabular form. [17115/23]
    • Office of Public Works
      456. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the OPW role in the provision of appropriate infrastructure at Rosslare in response to Brexit; and if he...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      459. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of all infrastructure programmes with an annual value in excess of €30 million and of five years or...
    • Public Spending Code
      460. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide additional details on the ongoing review of certain aspect of the Public Spending Code to update the shadow pricing...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      461. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the underspend of each Department in each year since 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Services Provision
      463. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if 2022 saw a decline in real terms in investment in public services due to high inflations levels; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Bodies
      464. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the transfer of the OneLearning service from his Department/National Shared Services Office, along with a number of civil servants,...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      467. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline how the SME Advisory Group purports to address the issues affecting SME participation in public procurement and to...
    • Departmental Staff
      468. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of Departmental staff currently on sick or stress leave; and the number who took stress or sick leave in each of the past...
    • Prison Service
      471. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if consideration has been given to allowing members of the Prison Service recruited post-1995 to work a certain number of hours each...
    • National Development Plan
      472. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the timescale for the delivery of each of the components of the National Development Plan; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Heritage Sites
      473. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of repair works at a site (details supplied); and when it will reopen to the public. [18306/23]
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Employment Rights
      475. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the exemptions from TUPE in circumstances (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Business Supports
      476. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether any conditions related to environmental sustainability and meeting the goals outlined in the Climate Action Plan are placed...
    • Departmental Staff
      477. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff within his Department who are based and working with the European Union in Brussels; their present roles and...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      478. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if non-Irish healthcare assistants with level 7 or level 8 relevant equivalent qualifications will only be permitted to renew their...
    • Departmental Meetings
      479. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he met the Australian Prime Minister during his recent visit to Australia for the St. Patricks day events; and if he will make a...
    • Employment Rights
      480. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in relation to transfer of undertakings protection offered to workers who are changing employer as a result of such transfers, if...
    • Business Supports
      482. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether Citibank has received financial support from the Industrial Development Agency or other semi-State bodies over the past 20...
    • Departmental Projects
      483. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current status of the working group on trustworthy AI principles and guidelines, as outlined in a response to this office in...
    • Redundancy Payments
      484. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware that a company (details supplied) announced record profits; his views on whether a company that registered billions of...
    • Private Security Authority
      485. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the regulations issued by the PSA have been altered to remove the previous clause in relation to adherence to EROs; if he...
    • Company Law
      486. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment where signed copies of negotiated company and-or union agreements are lodged (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Policies
      487. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the availability of fragrance-free options for detergents and cleaning products; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      488. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if individual farmers, fishermen and aquaculturists will be excluded from availing of the post-Brexit market growth and...
    • Departmental Staff
      489. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Departmental staff currently on sick or stress leave; and the number who took stress or sick leave in each of the past...
    • Employment Rights
      492. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he will honour the terms of the employment regulation order for the security industry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Trade Missions
      493. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the locations of trade missions in Quarters 2 and 3 of 2023 where he will participate, in tabular form. [18046/23]
    • Family Reunification
      494. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if consideration is being given to reducing the minimum salary for family re-unification concerning non-EEA healthcare assistants,...
    • Health Services Staff
      495. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of healthcare assistants who have been granted a general employment permit since changes to the scheme in 2021, which set...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Schools Building Projects
      497. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of a school building project (details supplied); and when it is expected that the project will be completed. [16328/23]
    • Child Abuse
      498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to ensure that victims of historical abuse in non-Catholic day and boarding schools are included in the scoping inquiry...
    • Special Educational Needs
      499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what action the parents of a child such as a person (details supplied) should take to ensure their child has access to a place in a reading...
    • Schools Building Projects
      500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools affected by her Department's decision to pause school building works going to tender or construction phase in Dublin 5,...
    • School Staff
      501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how many teachers, across all categories of schools, have been employed by her Department in each of the past four years. [16526/23]
    • School Accommodation
      503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 358 of 28 March 2023, the actions that are being taken now to ensure capacity for the next school year in...
    • Fee Paying Schools
      505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how many private schools there are in the State; if she will provide a list of them; and how many have provided special classes for children with...
    • School Admissions
      506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what options are available to the family of a student (details supplied) who has withdrawn from school and is refusing to attend due to...
    • School Curriculum
      507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is considering aligning the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages for primary and secondary schools; and if she...
    • Mental Health Services
      508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what measures are in place to assist teachers in the south Clondalkin area to support high-risk students given the waiting lists for CAMHS are so...
    • School Funding
      509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what options and funding streams are available to a school that wishes to start a school library and stock it with books. [16849/23]
    • School Curriculum
      510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a response will issue to correspondence (details supplied). [16855/23]
    • Rights of the Child
      511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department plans to publish rights-based guidance on restraint and the elimination of seclusion that will protect children and young...
    • Schools Building Projects
      512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason she has halted the long-promised development of school buildings (details supplied) which already has planning permission in place and...
    • Official Engagements
      513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills If she met the Governor of Pennsylvania during her recent visit to Philadelphia for St. Patrick’s Day. [16920/23]
    • School Curriculum
      514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will bring swimming lessons and driving lessons into second level education in (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Staff
      515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the eligibility of a person (details supplied) for the supplementary panel for primary teaching will be reviewed; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts being made by her Department to ensure special school placements are available to all children who require them; and if she will...
    • School Accommodation
      518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision on an application by a school (details supplied) could be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16965/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how the parents of a pupil (details supplied) can be evaluated and access a suitable supported place in a mainstream school as a transfer from...
    • Schools Building Projects
      520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the building of the second phase of a school (details supplied) due to commence works in September 2023 and for...
    • School Funding
      521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will explain why a school (details supplied) has received communication from her Department that funding allocated to the school in 2021...
    • Schools Building Projects
      522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update regarding extensions to two national schools (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Transport
      523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update with respect to a student in County Cork who is receiving school transport under the scheme for children with...
    • Education Schemes
      524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons the free schoolbook scheme has not been extended to private national schools; if she will consider reviewing this decision; and if...
    • Health Services
      525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of schools by region or the number of schools that have received or introduced free period products or funding for similar...
    • Schools Building Projects
      526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can clarify whether a school (details supplied) is among the schools affected by the stalled school building programme; if the approval...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be approved DEIS status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17137/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons for the delay in the progression of the permanent building for a school (details supplied), before and since inflationary issues have...
    • School Accommodation
      529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which a school (details supplied) will move from temporary accommodation. [17148/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the support measures in place for schools or neighbouring schools, impacted by the hold on 58 school building projects; if such extenuating...
    • School Staff
      531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a decision has been taken to suppress a ninth teaching post for a school (details supplied), given that it is a developing school and...
    • School Accommodation
      532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for reversing the decision to allow a school (details supplied) permission to put in place a second block of prefabs for the...
    • Teacher Training
      533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if teaching experience could be treated similarly to industry experience for the calculation of incremental credits (details supplied); and if...
    • Education Welfare Service
      534. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details regarding resources for educational welfare officers allocated to County Wicklow; if all posts are currently filled; and if she will...
    • Schools Building Projects
      535. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application under the school building programme, submitted by a school, (details supplied), can be fast-tracked to take account of the...
    • School Accommodation
      536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will assess and address the needs of a school, (details supplied), for an indoor sports/multipurpose facility, changing rooms and...
    • School Admissions
      538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills is she aware that a child (details supplied) has not secured a secondary school place in Kilkenny. [17250/23]
    • School Staff
      539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when additional full-time educational assistants can be appointed to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Accommodation
      540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding four temporary prefab classroom units for a school (details supplied); if they will be in place in advance of the coming...
    • Special Educational Needs
      541. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions her Department will take to ensure all children awarded summer provision are provided with a place given there are still a number of...
    • Schools Building Projects
      542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 112 of 29 March 2023, as a public representative for the Mayo constituency and in the context of withheld...
    • Education Schemes
      543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the free primary schoolbooks scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17344/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      544. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what progress is being made to build a school in Clongriffin (details supplied), given the very high demand for school places in the area and...
    • State Examinations
      549. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date the Leaving Certificate results for 2023 will be issued to students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17390/23]
    • School Admissions
      550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all efforts are being made to accommodate a person (details supplied), whose parents are making every effort to secure them a primary school...
    • Schools Building Projects
      551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether she has considered a proposal submitted by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17429/23]
    • School Accommodation
      552. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will detail the contact her Department has had with a school (details supplied) regarding an additional accommodation scheme application;...
    • Special Educational Needs
      553. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail the data that was collected in regard to the recently introduced approach to completing the report on educational needs in schools...
    • School Facilities
      559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a statement on the survey being conducted on primary schools about afterschool facilities, including the timings for the study and which...
    • Departmental Data
      560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will list the schools in the Killester, Raheny and Clontarf area at primary and at secondary level; if she will indicate the denomination...
    • State Examinations
      564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the minor requests to be made for exams (details supplied), and the digital papers pilot in particular, which would greatly...
    • Special Educational Needs
      565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to address the inadequate levels of special needs supports being extended to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Energy Conservation
      566. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and secondary schools that have undertaken an energy retrofit as part of the national energy efficient retrofit pathfinder...
    • School Staff
      568. 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....
    • Schools Building Projects
      571. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for when construction will start on additional accommodation at a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a...
    • Education Policy
      572. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has plans to undertake a consultation on the medical and social models of service provision to autistic pupils; and if she has plans to...
    • School Transport
      575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the minimum number of eligible students required to establish a new bus service in a primary school that is not currently served by school...
    • School Accommodation
      576. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when additional accommodation will be provided for a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      577. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will work to progress the issuing of a Schedule of Accommodation for a school (details supplied) in its new building...
    • School Accommodation
      579. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the status of an application submitted by a school (details supplied) which is in dire need of construction to...
    • School Textbooks
      580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she made the decision to include a book (details supplied) on the Junior Cycle Relationships and Sexuality Education 1 reading list for...
    • School Accommodation
      581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for additional school accommodation for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Transport
      583. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given the profound difficulties experienced with the school transport system in 2022, the changes she plans to introduce for primary, post...
    • Departmental Staff
      584. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Departmental staff currently on sick or stress leave; and the number who took stress or sick leave in each of the past five years...
    • Third Level Education
      588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 416 of 28 March 2023, the steps her Department can take to address the anomaly that has arisen in relation...
    • Schools Building Projects
      589. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the development of a school (details supplied) is going ahead; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17885/23]
    • School Accommodation
      595. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18004/23]
    • State Examinations
      596. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to explain why leaving certificate language oral exams take place at Easter; if the impact on students was taken into account when this change...
    • School Staff
      597. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the secondary subjects with the highest number of vacant teacher posts, such as metalwork, woodwork, Spanish, computer science and so on, from...
    • School Admissions
      598. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will assist a child (details supplied) in obtaining a school place in Kilkenny. [18116/23]
    • School Transport
      599. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what arrangements have been put in place in relation to applying late for school transport for pupils who have not been accepted into any school...
    • Schools Building Projects
      602. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the application for additional buildings of a school (details supplied). [18150/23]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child (details supplied) will get their appointment with the National Educational Psychological Service. [18152/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child (details supplied) will get a place appropriate to their growing needs [18153/23]
    • School Uniforms
      605. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to require all schools to use generic uniforms and to give students the option to wear trousers; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a breakdown of the 92 new special classes nationally; if any of these places will be allocated to Kilkenny; the schools in Kilkenny will they...
    • State Examinations
      607. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if special arrangements will be made for students sitting the Leaving Certificate in 2023 and 2024 given the difficulties they faced in respect...
    • Special Educational Needs
      608. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the delay in providing ASD classes in two schools (details supplied); if she will intervene to ensure that the ASD classes...
    • School Transport
      609. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why second-level students (details supplied) are not provided with access to school transport services to access schools in Drogheda where the...
    • School Facilities
      610. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school canteen (details supplied) has not yet opened since Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18236/23]
    • Teacher Training
      611. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of second level teachers qualified per subject per year in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement...
    • School Staff
      612. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers on different types of leave that is, job share, maternity break, career break and so on in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, in...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      613. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional assistance can be provided to a rural DEIS primary school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18240/23]
    • Education Policy
      615. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will take the Explorium - National Sport and Science Centre into public ownership and re-open the educational facility, making...
    • Schools Building Projects
      616. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a build programme for a school (details supplied) is back on track; and the indicative timeframes for all works to be completed. [18290/23]
    • Departmental Data
      617. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to list the primary schools in the Dublin 8, 10, 12 and 20 areas, their patronage, the number of pupils attended and the current capacity of each...
    • School Admissions
      618. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given that there is no educate together secondary school in Dublin 8, the reason pupils coming out of educate together primary schools are not...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      619. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on works to allow schools (details supplied) in Ballyfermot to be in a single campus, given the current disjointed...
    • Education and Training Provision
      620. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that will be in place for the 2023/2024 academic year for bursaries for the education of trainee educational psychologists who have...
    • Education and Training Boards
      621. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Education Training Board has completed its 2018 report on pluralism and patronage in schools; when that report is set to be released; and...
    • School Accommodation
      622. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on an additional school accommodation scheme application from a school (details supplied); if additional...
    • Special Educational Needs
      623. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a second-level school place for a child (details supplied). [18350/23]
    • School Facilities
      624. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of building works applications, additional accommodation scheme and a summer works scheme 2020, in respect of a school (details...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      625. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the progress of development works including an ASA scheme and a SWS 2020 scheme at a school (details supplied);...
    • School Facilities
      626. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied); if additional emergency accommodation will be provided to this school in view of the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      627. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the re-location of a school (details supplied); if she is aware that the NCSE evaluation was finalised in March...
    • School Curriculum
      629. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider establishing an EU at school initiative which would involve secondary school students in transition year being informed...
    • School Facilities
      630. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether a school (details supplied) has developed an ASD unit within the new school building; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Refurbishment
      633. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the school building works at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16386/23]
    • School Management
      634. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a report written by a person (details supplied) in relation to religious ethos in schools coming into conflict...
    • Education Policy
      635. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is the policy position of her Department that home-schooling can cause social isolation by limiting the ability of children to socialise;...
    • School Transport
      636. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of difficulties experienced by an organisation (details supplied) in County Cork in recruiting transport chaperones/escorts for...
    • School Facilities
      637. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide clarity on proposed funding for an extra classroom in a school (details supplied) for which they have been waiting for nearly...
    • School Attendance
      638. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown by gender of the pupils entering or leaving the Killester, Raheny and Clontarf school catchment area for...
    • Schools Building Projects
      641. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on building works at a school (details supplied). [16457/23]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      642. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in Counties Longford and Westmeath that have had school buildings/refurbishment/extension works approved; and the number of...
    • Schools Building Projects
      643. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of all the schools on the school building programme which have recently been put on hold for all counties, including...
    • Legislative Measures
      644. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is any intention on the part of her Department to seek changes to the Children’s First Act 2015 to include special needs...
    • Special Educational Needs
      645. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the case of a student (details supplied) who has a dual diagnosis of Down's syndrome and autism spectrum disorder, who has...
    • Departmental Staff
      647. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff within her Department who are based and working with the European Union in Brussels; their present roles and...
    • Schools Building Projects
      648. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline a timeframe for her Department to address and repair the serious deficiencies in a school building project (details...
    • School Accommodation
      649. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the temporary accommodation sanctioned for a school (details supplied) is on track to be in place for the new school year in September 2023;...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      650. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person with a Masters of Education from the United States, where they worked at university level teaching adults, and therefore did not hold...
    • Schools Building Projects
      651. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) can expect to receive approval on a tender and progress its build project; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Public Sector Pay
      652. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department’s payroll section will provide requested information urgently required for a person (details supplied) in County...
    • School Accommodation
      653. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of accommodation for a school in County Wexford (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs
      654. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a secondary school place will be accommodated for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16753/23]
    • School Enrolments
      655. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the demand that will be placed on national schools in Rush, County Dublin; if provision has been made to increase national...
    • Special Educational Needs
      656. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all efforts are being made to facilitate a full-time ASD secondary school place in Leixlip/Lucan for a person (details supplied); and if she...
    • School Accommodation
      657. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to present an update on the plans for the future accommodation needs of (details supplied); if she will appreciate the serious concerns of the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      659. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a new school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16770/23]
    • School Transport
      660. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make arrangements to restore supervised school transport for a pupil (details supplied) in County Cork attending a special school....
    • Legislative Measures
      661. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Section 67 of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 has been commenced; if not, when it is expected that it will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      662. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied). [16823/23]
    • Education Policy
      663. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to encourage teachers and SNAs to participate in the summer programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Education and Training Provision
      668. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how many additional post-primary SEN places will be available in the Clondalkin area from September 2023; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Facilities
      669. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 551 of 21 June 2022, if she will again request the NCSE to respond to the query (details supplied). [16859/23]
    • Education and Training Boards
      670. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the eligibility of a person (details supplied) for the supplementary panel will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Departmental Budgets
      671. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht what funding is available for a proposed project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16500/23]
    • Departmental Staff
      672. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of staff within her Department who are based in and working with the European Union in Brussels; their present roles...
    • Tourism Industry
      673. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will meet with representatives from a group (details supplied) regarding insurance; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Tourism Funding
      675. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will respond to significant concerns raised by a club (details supplied) in respect of its energy bill, which has increased...
    • Arts Policy
      677. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a breakdown by each county of the number of successful and unsuccessful eligible applicants for the basic income for...
    • Sports Funding
      678. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current status of applications submitted under the large-scale sport infrastructure fund; when the next allocation will be...
    • Údarás na Gaeltachta
      680. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht maidir le Ceisteanna Pharlaiminte Uimhir 84 den 20 Meitheamh 2017 agus Uimhir 77 den 14 Samhain 2017 cé mhéad foirgneamh...
    • Land Issues
      681. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of all undeveloped lands in the ownership of Údarás na Gaeltachta, by county, in tabular form; the length of...
    • Tourism Policy
      682. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 146 of 30 March 2023, if she will outline the issues the EU Commission set out in its...
    • Arts Council
      683. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide further details on the basic income for the arts scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Tourism Policy
      684. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the recent proposals submitted by a political party (details supplied) in respect of including...
    • Sports Facilities
      685. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide details on any discussions which have taken place to date within her Department in respect of the proposed large-scale...
    • Tourism Policy
      687. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has made representations to ticket sales and distribution companies on fees charged to customers for sporting, music and...
    • Tourism Revenue
      688. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht given that over 90% of the short-term rental business is transacted online, the reason the sanctions that can be issued against...
    • Departmental Staff
      689. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of Departmental staff currently on sick or stress leave; and the number who took stress or sick leave in each of the...
    • Enterprise Policy
      692. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the budget that has been specifically ring fenced for the implementation of the recommendations set out in the Sustainable...
    • Sports Funding
      693. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the next round of sports capital applications will open for clubs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17974/23]
    • Íocaíochtaí Deontas
      694. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a íocfar deontas (sonraí tugtha) le duine i nDáilcheantar Ghaillimh Thiar; údar na moille leis...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Pension Provisions
      695. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the misclassification of pension entitlements for workers in local authorities; and if he can provide an...
    • Regeneration Projects
      696. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the updated position regarding a project (details supplied) in County Mayo; the stage this project is at; the funding that has...
    • Grant Payments
      698. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if grants are in place from his Department for the repair and restoration for wrought iron gates; and if he will make a...
    • Land Issues
      699. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of instances in each local authority in each of the past five years in which residential zoned land was later...
    • Local Authorities
      700. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities have any flexibility when applying the underaccommodation rule in assessing tenant purchase applications....
    • Housing Policy
      701. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many housing units were supplied to the State in the past ten years through NARPS; the average length of each of these...
    • Local Authorities
      702. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent by the State in each of the past five years on properties rented by local authorities for the social housing...
    • Vacant Properties
      703. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the report published by an organisation (details supplied) in relation to bringing vacant...
    • Housing Provision
      704. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the cost in relation to the requirement for both a passport and a birth certificate when applying for housing will be...
    • Vacant Properties
      705. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the number of vacant housing officers in each local authority, in tabular form; and...
    • Departmental Policies
      706. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what decision-making led to declaring certain species on the open season list as being under threat; and what part the...
    • Grant Payments
      707. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the number of applications to the croí cónaithe towns scheme; the number of...
    • Compulsory Purchase Orders
      709. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown by local authority of the number of CPOs of vacant properties completed, ongoing and under...
    • Vacant Sites
      710. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown, by local authority, of the amounts collected under the vacant site levy, in tabular form; and...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      711. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many approved housing bodies are currently in operation in Ireland at present; what is their combined number of housing...
    • Housing Provision
      716. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the cost to the State per annum of housing delivered by way of a lease agreement (details supplied); the breakdown of the...
    • Housing Policy
      717. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a local authority tenant hoping to purchase his or her home under the tenant incremental purchase scheme 2016 does not...
    • Judicial Reviews
      719. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding proposed amendments to Part 9 judicial reviews under the current draft of the Planning and Development...
    • Departmental Staff
      720. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff within his Department who are based and working with the European Union in Brussels; their present roles...
    • Departmental Strategies
      721. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the implementation plan for the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2022–2027 will be published; the...
    • Departmental Meetings
      723. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he met the Atlanta Fire Department Chief Fire Officer during his visit to Atlanta for the recent St. Patrick's Day events;...
    • Disability Services
      724. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what financial, personal assistant, administrative or other supports are available for persons with disabilities before,...
    • Banking Sector
      725. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps being taken to ensure that a bank (details supplied) recognises the Croí Cónaithe grant scheme; and if he...
    • Departmental Strategies
      726. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the implementation plan of the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2022-2027 will be published; the reason for...
    • Departmental Schemes
      727. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm the total spend on the housing assistance programme and the rental accommodation scheme for 2022. [16727/23]
    • Housing Schemes
      728. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm the total spend via the social housing current expenditure programme in 2022 broken down by lease types, including:...
    • Housing Provision
      730. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm the total number of new repair and lease homes that were delivered in 2022. [16730/23]
    • Grant Payments
      732. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of adaptation grants processed in Cork in each of the past five years for social housing, in tabular form. [16741/23]
    • Local Authorities
      736. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether local authorities can apply for funding to build extensions to social housing due to overcrowding. [16745/23]
    • Housing Policy
      737. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the 100 homes due for retrofitting in Churchfield, Cork and the addresses of these homes. [16746/23]
    • Rental Sector
      738. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount that was spent on the affordable rental scheme in the 2022 calendar year; if he would provide the locations where...
    • Water Services
      739. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the promised constitutional referendum to keep Irish Water in public ownership will be held in November along with the...
    • Environmental Policy
      740. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many homes built by local authorities since 8 February 2020 are fully carbon neutral; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Rental Sector
      741. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a tenant with a notice to quit who is looking to avail of the tenant-in-situ scheme, who is living in a HAP property in one...
    • Departmental Policies
      742. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2022 – 2027 Implementation Plan will be published; the reason...
    • Housing Policy
      743. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 233 of 13 July 2022, if his Department is considering any changes to the tenant...
    • Tax Code
      744. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason landowners have to pay the 3% tax on lands that are being actively farmed and whose lands have no residential...
    • Citizens' Assembly
      745. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will make a statement on recommendations No. 22 and No. 13 of the Report of the Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity Loss....
    • Housing Schemes
      746. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if steps are being taken to increase the staffing budget for local authorities to enable them to react in a timely manner to...
    • Local Authorities
      748. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses registered in the name of each local authority as full owners in Ireland with the land registry in each...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      749. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if any further recommendations will be put in place to make sure that approved housing bodies are not in competition with one...
    • Departmental Communications
      750. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding an explanatory memo to be provided to the Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      753. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if houses in control of Approved Housing Bodies are entitled to receive the HAP payment. [16491/23]
    • Land Issues
      754. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what percentage of Irish land is designated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16543/23]
    • Departmental Schemes
      757. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person who owns a derelict house and wishes to avail of the vacant property refurbishment grant, and as a result of the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      760. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to question No. 296 of 7 March 2023, if he will provide a further breakdown within of both allocations and outturns of...
    • Invasive Species Policy
      761. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what agency of Government or his Department is responsible for the eradication of Japanese knotweed in particular around...
    • Rental Sector
      763. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can recommend how a person renting a room in landlord-occupied or non-landlord occupied (details supplied) can seek...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      764. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the social welfare payments included in the income assessments both for eligibility for and awarding of the amount offered in...
    • Departmental Strategies
      765. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2022 – 2027 Implementation Plan will be published; the reason...
    • Rental Sector
      767. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to introduce new planning legislation in relation to short-term lettings; his views on the current position in...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      768. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that Transport Infrastructure Ireland has confirmed to this Deputy in writing that it has no responsibility for...
    • Fire Service
      769. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details as to what provision there is in the Budget allocated to the LGMA for the running of the Retained Fire...
    • Water Services
      770. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when it was decided to locate Uisce Éireann's new national laboratory in Limerick; the formal appraisal that was carried...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      771. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that there is capacity for single homeless persons in State-funded emergency accommodation. [16979/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      772. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the projected funding for Marine Protected Areas in 2023 and 2024; if any funding has been allocated or spent to date; and if...
    • Environmental Policy
      773. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline his plans to effectively manage, monitor and enforce marine protected areas, MPAs, as they increase from...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      775. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding that was made available to each local authority for the homeless HAP place finder service; when funding was made...
    • Housing Policy
      777. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify whether it will be open to owners of a vacant property or future renters/occupiers of a vacant property or both of...
    • Rights of Way
      781. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 150 of 30 March 2023, if he will outline in detail any changes to provisions in the...
    • Derelict Sites
      782. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to a previous Parliamentary Question, if his Department will urgently correspond with an organisation (details...
    • Departmental Strategies
      783. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2022-2027 Implementation Plan will be published; the reason for delay;...
    • Housing Schemes
      784. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects to publish the revised rural housing guidelines in the context of a review of the 2005 planning guidelines on...
    • Defective Building Materials
      785. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the defective builds scheme is now available to be applied for by someone living in Tipperary; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      786. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what funding is available for a voluntary housing association (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hare Coursing
      787. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of hares captured from the wild for the 2022-2023 season; and how many times they were used during capture....
    • Housing Policy
      790. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding housing estates in urban areas that are not connected to the sewerage network; if any grant funding is...
    • Housing Schemes
      792. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps his Department is taking to promote the Ready to Build scheme; the support if any, that his Department extends to...
    • Housing Policy
      795. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether it is intended, under the capital advance leasing facility, CALF, scheme of funding housing associations to purchase...
    • Water Pollution
      798. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the status of Irish Water's plans as regards treating wastewater with ultraviolet light or equivalent...
    • Water Quality
      799. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on what future infrastructure investment is needed to protect Dublin coastal and river water quality; and the...
    • Rental Sector
      801. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the incremental tenants purchase scheme and the Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) (Amendment)...
    • Housing Policy
      802. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to abolish the build-to-rent apartment standards. [17350/23]
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      803. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline his engagement with the Minister for Finance to reduce the costs for accountancy services for small owner-occupier...
    • Rental Sector
      804. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to protect student renters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17357/23]
    • Departmental Data
      805. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications for the repair and leasing scheme (details supplied) that did not proceed due to a lack of housing...
    • Housing Schemes
      807. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 172 of 30 March 2023, if rent allowance, which was replaced by the housing assistance...
    • Defective Building Materials
      808. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that the current regulatory oversight and testing of quarries across this State is adequately resourced and...
    • Departmental Data
      810. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the latest available data on the number of vacant properties by county, in tabular form. [17403/23]
    • Housing Policy
      811. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the options for families in real terms as they are faced with eviction (details supplied). [17454/23]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      812. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether officials in his Department contacted Cork City Council with preliminary RTB data prior to its publication. [17456/23]
    • Rental Sector
      814. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the process for allocating cost-rental properties managed by approved housing associations, in particular...
    • Housing Policy
      815. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline in detail the new vacant property legislation; the amount payable for a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Invasive Species Policy
      818. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government given that, on 31 March 2023 Galway City Council issued an alert regarding the potential spread of the invasive quagga mussel...
    • Housing Policy
      819. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify if houses in complexes with apartments are exempt from paying management company fees due to legislation...
    • Energy Policy
      821. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will respond to concerns regarding the energy efficiency retrofit programme being carried out by a local authority...
    • Departmental Funding
      822. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Department funding could be increased for a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Housing Policy
      823. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when assessing income from earnings for access to a local authority social housing waiting list, if local authorities have the...
    • Departmental Data
      825. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amounts in grant aid or funding awarded by his Department, or through schemes administered by it, to an organisation...
    • Citizens' Assembly
      827. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide his response to the report from the Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity and Loss; and if he will make a...
    • Rental Sector
      828. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide his response to calls for a public body (details supplied) to establish a dedicated investigation unit to...
    • Departmental Schemes
      829. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for a centralised platform or website to advertise all the various cost-rental schemes open for applicants...
    • Disability Services
      830. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2022-2027 Implementation Plan will be published; the reason for delay;...
    • Local Authorities
      833. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the number and cost of extensions constructed for council tenants for each local authority for the...
    • Housing Provision
      834. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a copy of the most recent unit cost ceilings and averages for social housing new builds and acquisitions by local...
    • Energy Policy
      836. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify the status of a report submitted to him by the Planning Regulator/An Bord Pleanála regarding the wind...
    • Departmental Staff
      837. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Departmental staff currently on sick or stress leave; and the number who took stress or sick leave in each of...
    • Housing Provision
      840. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of homes constructed by Local Authorities and Approved Housing Bodies in 2022, by county. [17847/23]
    • Disability Services
      843. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2022-2027 Implementation Plan will be published; the reason for the...
    • Housing Policy
      844. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can provide an update on a proposal submitted to his Department relating to an amendment to the nursing home support...
    • Departmental Offices
      845. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people employed by the National Building Control Office in each year since it was established, in tabular form;...
    • Quarrying Sector
      847. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has any plans to establish a single authority overseeing quarries within the State; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Local Authorities
      848. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount of outstanding development contributions and levies owed to Mayo County Council for each year for which data...
    • Planning Issues
      849. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government regarding section 254 of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2021, what right of appeal will exist under the Draft...
    • Housing Schemes
      850. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 541 of 18 January 2023, if he will amend the terms and conditions of the tenant purchase...
    • Planning Issues
      851. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government with respect to the new communications masts that are becoming apparent around Waterford city, what safeguards are being built...
    • Urban Development
      852. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the €121.3 million funding for Dublin’s north inner city announced in 2021....
    • Citizens' Assembly
      853. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will make a statement on recommendation No. 143 of the Report of the Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity Loss; and the...
    • Housing Provision
      855. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of new local authority homes added to the social housing stock by county since 27 June 2020, in tabular form;...
    • Local Authorities
      856. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when it is expected the baseline Funding Allocation Review of local authority funding will be completed; whether it is...
    • Departmental Schemes
      860. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he proposes to further extend the scope of the defective concrete blocks scheme to include additional residential...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      861. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what measures are being taken to increase emergency accommodation in the Cork South-West constituency; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      862. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects that homeowners will be able to make applications for redress to the revamped defective concrete block scheme;...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      863. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the waiting times for the processing of applications for carer’s allowance and carer's benefit; the number of...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      865. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been left waiting several months for a decision from the appeals offices regarding...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      866. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of a carer’s allowance claim by a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made; and if...
    • State Pensions
      867. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if pension contributions paid by those in employment over the age of 66 years will be taken into consideration when...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      868. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will detail her Department's eligibility criteria for assessing a child with a neurodivergent condition whose parents...
    • Social Welfare Code
      870. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will amend the operational guidelines of Jobseeker's allowance relating to allow all those under 25 years to access...
    • Departmental Staff
      871. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff within her Department who are based and working with the European Union in Brussels; their present roles...
    • Labour Activation Measures
      872. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress that has been made on each of the recommendations of the Report on Labour Activation by the Joint Oireachtas...
    • State Pensions
      873. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what advancement has been made in providing a pension in relation to carers (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Labour Activation Measures
      874. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people referred to JobPath since 2015, in tabular form. [16615/23]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      878. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are income supports for 65-year-olds who wish to continue working part-time hours, five days per week until they...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      879. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if notice to cease a carer's allowance payment for a person (details suppled) in County Donegal can be stayed until requested...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      880. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will expedite an invalidity appeal on behalf of a person (details supplied). [16670/23]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      881. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to pay the full basic supplementary welfare allowance to asylum seekers who are not in direct provision and if...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      882. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the rate of illness benefit for a person (details supplied) can be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      883. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary No. 289 of 23 March 2023, assuming a person who is working a full-time job in a four-day week has...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      884. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision is expected on a disability allowance application (details supplied). [16777/23]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      885. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16791/23]
    • General Practitioner Services
      887. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has informed GPs not to issue medical certs for those individuals seeking such certificates for social...
    • School Meals Programme
      888. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to conduct a review of the implementation of the hot school meals programme to ensure it is receiving optimum uptake from...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      889. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the Social Welfare Appeals Office will make a decision on a domiciliary care allowance appeal (details supplied); and if...
    • State Pensions
      890. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to a previous Parliamentary Question, if she will provide an update on an application for a State pension...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      892. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue in relation to an appeal submitted by a person (details supplied) in June 2022; and if she will...
    • Departmental Staff
      894. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of WTE staff by grade working in the special investigations unit of her Department as of 30 March 2023; and if she...
    • Employment Support Services
      896. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department recognises a disability employment service (details supplied) as 23 separate companies, and how this will...
    • Departmental Policies
      898. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the work her Department has done on extending free travel eligibility to persons who suffer...
    • Employment Support Services
      899. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that the staff in a disability employment service (details supplied) receive a suitable increase in...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      900. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated annual cost of providing domiciliary care allowance to children aged 16 and 17 years, in view of the fact that...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      901. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how many people received the household benefit scheme in 2020, 2021 and 2022; and the cost of the scheme to the State in each...
    • Departmental Policies
      902. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what supports are available for employees and self-employed people with chronic illness to attend medical appointments during...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      903. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether considerations have been made to ease the eligibility criteria for partial capacity benefit to increase security for...
    • Social Welfare Application Forms
      904. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider the possibility of streamlining applications for the additional needs payments for cancer patients on...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      905. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if and when basic supplementary welfare will issue to a person (details supplied) who has two dependent children; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      906. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the provisions that are in place for women who are rejected for maternity benefit due to insufficient PRSI contributions,...
    • State Pensions
      907. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the record of contributions for pension purposes will be made available to a person (details supplied). [17131/23]
    • Departmental Strategies
      908. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for not purchasing a building which housed a Citizens Information Centre on Wynnefield Road, Rathmines when it was...
    • Citizens Information Services
      909. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the decision to reduce in-person citizens information services in view of the housing and cost-of-living...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      910. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for carer's benefit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      911. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reinstate a person’s (details supplied) agent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17201/23]
    • Gender Recognition
      912. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection regarding the recommendations of the Review Report of the Gender Recognition Act 2015, published in November 2019, if she...
    • Social Welfare Code
      913. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider abolishing the means test for carers where the care recipient is a child who has lifelong medical needs...
    • Employment Schemes
      914. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on ensuring that the rates of payment under the job initiative scheme are benchmarked to cost-of-living rates....
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      915. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on ensuring that individuals on job initiative schemes are eligible for the fuel allowance. [17267/23]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      916. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a one-parent family payment and arrears will be immediately paid in the case of a person (details supplied). [17268/23]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      918. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the request for the backdating of the invalidity pension claim for a person (details supplied) was refused; if...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      919. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reconsider the criteria for fuel allowance in light of the housing crisis, where many adult children cannot get...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      920. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine an appeal by a person (details supplied) and the salient points made therein. [17389/23]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      921. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the working family payment for a person (details supplied) will be renewed; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      922. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal has been completed for a carers support grant application by person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Gender Recognition
      923. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how a person under 18 years of age who has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria by a clinical psychologist can acquire a...
    • Public Services Card
      924. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are currently delays for appointments to get a Public Services Card; the current timeframe to apply and receive a...
    • School Meals Programme
      925. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of schools outside DEIS status who are providing hot or cold meals to children by county, in tabular form; and if...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      927. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined. [17580/23]
    • Departmental Policies
      928. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 204 of 30 March 2023, if, given the fact that the recipient of the free travel referred...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      929. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will confirm receipt of a recent disability allowance appeal by a person (details supplied). [17641/23]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      930. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify the circumstances where an employee is eligible for a social welfare payment arising from medical advice...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      931. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review a claim for disability allowance by a person in County Cork (details supplied); and if, in particular, she...
    • Community Welfare Services
      932. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reasons the community welfare officer service was removed from her Department's office in Ardee, County Louth; and if she...
    • Departmental Policies
      933. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether there is any update on her Department's position regarding the recognition of Covid-19 as an occupational disease for...
    • Departmental Funding
      934. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amounts in grant aid or funding awarded by her Department, or through schemes administered by it, to an organisation...
    • State Pensions
      935. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on a pension application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17739/23]
    • Departmental Staff
      937. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of Departmental staff currently on sick or stress leave; and the number who took stress or sick leave in each of...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      940. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was refused a disability allowance; if the case will be reviewed; and if she will make...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      941. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the one-parent family payment will be restored in the case of a person (details supplied) while all outstanding matters...
    • Insurance Coverage
      942. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce a State life insurance for persons who are excluded from such cover due to chronic illness and other...
    • State Pensions
      943. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine a matter in relation to the pension of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      944. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the carer’s allowance arrears due to a person (details supplied) will be paid immediately. [17932/23]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      945. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the contributory pension appeal by a person (details supplied); and if an oral hearing can...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      946. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18143/23]
    • Pension Provisions
      947. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her Department's views on correspondence (details supplied) which relates to the application of change of status PRSI credits...
    • Employment Support Services
      948. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her future plans regarding the employability service which supports people in the community who have a disability, illness,...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      951. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the one-parent family payment and, separately, supplementary welfare allowance were not approved in the case of a...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Departmental Policies
      952. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to make a statement on the restorative justice initiatives his Department supports; and any plans he may have to legislate in...
    • Control of Firearms
      953. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will set out his rationale for not expanding the membership of the firearms expert committee to include a broader...
    • An Garda Síochána
      954. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of unfilled posts in the Kilkenny-Carlow division, including rank, in tabular form. [16682/23]
    • Asylum Seekers
      955. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he plans to lift the restrictions on the right to work to allow all asylum seekers to work and implement all the...
    • Immigration Status
      956. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the application status of a person (details supplied) to the Afghan admission programme; and if...
    • Travel Documents
      957. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current processing times for travel document applications for the family reunification of a person who has refugee status;...
    • Prison Service
      959. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in light of the recent decision by the Minister for Defence to appoint a statutory investigation into complaints made regarding...
    • Legal Aid
      960. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the necessary steps will be completed by his Department to allow for legal aid in cases relating to the Assisted...
    • An Garda Síochána
      961. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the engagements he or any Ministers of State in his Department have had with the Garda Commissioner in relation to delivering a...
    • Family Reunification
      964. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm when a corrected letter stating the correct date of birth for a person (details supplied) will issue; and if...
    • An Garda Síochána
      965. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the closing date for accepting tender offers for the provision of new helicopters and aircraft for the Garda air support unit....
    • Legal Aid
      966. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the last review of the financial thresholds for qualification for legal aid from the Legal Aid Board took place; his views...
    • Public Inquiries
      967. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he and-or predecessors have received interim and final reports of an inquiry in respect of a person (details supplied); the...
    • Family Reunification
      968. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of family reunification applications currently awaiting a decision by his Department; the number of applications...
    • Visa Applications
      969. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a work visa application by a person (details supplied) will be granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Private Security Authority
      970. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the most recent legislation and regulations governing the private security industry; and if he will make a...
    • Courts Service
      972. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he will make a decision on a position (details supplied) considering that the recruitment process has been completed; and...
    • Immigration Policy
      975. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on an immigration matter (details supplied). [17269/23]
    • An Garda Síochána
      976. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána who were redeployed or retired from the Clare Garda division during 2021...
    • Paramilitary Groups
      977. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has a current estimate of the wealth of the IRA terrorist organisation; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Citizenship Applications
      978. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the circumstances under which a person under 18 years of age born in Ireland to non-Irish, EU citizen parents can become an...
    • Prison Service
      979. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the situation in relation to retired prison officers and the situation regarding abatement of pension if they take...
    • Misuse of Drugs
      980. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of the growing use of fast gas as a drug within communities; and whether her Department and the gardaí have...
    • EU Bodies
      981. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm whether he or his Department have engaged with Frontex or Europol regarding the operational data collected...
    • Citizenship Applications
      982. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application by a person (details supplied) for citizenship, which is pending...
    • Immigration Policy
      983. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware that many Bolivian citizens travelling to Ireland to commence English language studies are being denied boarding...
    • Citizenship Applications
      984. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review the refusal of an application for citizenship in the name of a person (details supplied); if they are now...
    • Residency Permits
      985. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if leave to remain will be considered in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Regulations
      986. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what rules govern the retention of drone footage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17414/23]
    • An Garda Síochána
      989. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in relation to section 15 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2014, which allows for gardaí to be seconded as social...
    • Immigration Status
      990. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an application (details supplied) made under the Regularisation of Long-Term Undocumented Migrants Scheme will be decided...
    • Immigration Policy
      991. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications received under the Regularisation of Long-Term Undocumented Migrants Scheme; the number processed;...
    • Oireachtas Committees
      992. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he is taking in response to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice Report on an Examination of the Present...
    • An Garda Síochána
      994. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of serving gardaí who have had complaints against them, upheld and not upheld, in the past ten years, by the...
    • Probation and Welfare Service
      999. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the additional resources that will be made available to the Probation Service and other relevant organisations in order to...
    • Departmental Funding
      1000. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amounts in grant aid or funding awarded by his Department, or through schemes administered by it, to an organisation...
    • Visa Agreements
      1001. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 329 of 8 February 2023, if he will issue clear instructions to INIS and relevant...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1002. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the mental health and well-being supports that are currently in place for members of GSOC; how long they are in place; and if...
    • Family Law Cases
      1003. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the reforms in the Family Courts which have been initiated; and if he will report the progress to date....
    • An Garda Síochána
      1004. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons recruited to An Garda Síochána in each of the past five years, and to date in 2023, in tabular...
    • Departmental Staff
      1010. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Departmental staff currently on sick or stress leave; and the number who took stress or sick leave in each of...
    • Gambling Sector
      1013. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a schedule of organisations his Department funds in the context of supporting persons seeking support with...
    • Probation and Welfare Service
      1015. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a report has been commissioned by his Department for victims of child sex abuse carried out by members of the Probation...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1016. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way a person (details supplied) can expedite Irish citizenship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17881/23]
    • Visa Applications
      1019. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to examine a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18027/23]
    • An Garda Síochána
      1020. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if all Garda members within roads policing units are fully trained in reading tachographs within HGV vehicles. [18048/23]
    • Legislative Measures
      1023. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he intends to update the laws on hearsay to match those of other jurisdictions to ensure that juries are allowed to hear of...
    • Departmental Regulations
      1024. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will amend the necessary regulations to ensure that someone convicted of murder or manslaughter does not benefit in any...
    • Legislative Measures
      1025. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if airport police can be included within the emergency service workers who will be included within proposed legislation to...
    • Prison Service
      1026. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of pregnant women who were cared for in prison in 2022; the number of babies born to pregnant women in prison in...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1028. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the family of a person (details supplied) will be in a position to apply for citizenship; and if he will make a statement...
    • Gangland Crime
      1029. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to tackle gangland crime in Ireland. [18168/23]
    • Departmental Data
      1030. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people charged with directing the activities of a criminal organisation, participating in or contributing to a...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1031. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown of the number of knives seized by An Garda Síochána in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022,by...
    • Official Engagements
      1034. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has spoken with the United States Secretary of Homeland Security to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1035. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and percentage of the Garda fleet within the Wicklow Garda division that are aged between 0-1, 2-4, 5-9 and over 9...
    • Alcohol Sales
      1037. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of liquor licensing inspections carried out by gardaí in the R district within DMR on pubs, clubs and so on in...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1038. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount spent on purchasing new weaponry for armed Garda personnel in the years of 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023, in...
    • Immigration Policy
      1042. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who were refused permission to land at Dublin airport by nationality in the first quarter of 2023, in...
    • Immigration Status
      1043. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review in its entirety the application under the regularisation of the long-term undocumented migrants scheme by a...
    • Family Law Cases
      1044. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress in regard to the promised investigation into section 47 and similar reports currently used in family law courts;...
    • Drug Dealing
      1045. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which matters are ongoing to curtail drug trafficking affecting second-level schools and colleges, and in many...
    • Departmental Data
      1046. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of accused persons currently on bail throughout the country; the number of such cases of repeat offending; and if...
    • Crime Prevention
      1048. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the efforts currently being made to discourage young people from becoming involved in a life of crime, including drug...
    • Courts Service
      1049. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of positions to be filled on the benches of District, Circuit and High Court; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Prison Service
      1050. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons deemed to be members of criminal gangs who are currently serving time in prison; and if he will make a...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1053. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which state-of-the-art technology is currently available or being made available to An Garda Síochána...
    • Missing Persons
      1054. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons deemed to be missing persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18326/23]
    • An Garda Síochána
      1055. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality total number of gardaí available throughout the country on a full-time basis; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Crime Prevention
      1056. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which hate speech, hate crime and racism continue to be addressed in all areas throughout the country; and if he...
    • Private Security Authority
      1058. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what engagement he has had with the Private Security Authority on the need to include the sheriff in the carrying out of...
    • Immigration Status
      1059. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a process through which a person who is living in Ireland on a specific permission (details supplied) and who is a...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1060. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if documentation, including declaration and a police record, have been received in respect of the ongoing application for...
    • Child Abuse
      1061. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 287 of 14 February 2013 and 110 of 29 January 2015, and the reply thereto in the matter...
    • International Protection
      1062. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the international protection office schedules interviews for applicants on weekends. [16350/23]
    • An Garda Síochána
      1063. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are policies in place in relation to the questioning of underage victims or witnesses to crime by gardaí; and if...
    • Visa Applications
      1064. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will ensure that an original passport is returned to a person (details supplied) who submitted it as part of a visa...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1065. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many decisions to grant citizenship were made in 2017 to 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16369/23]
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1066. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a British passport holder, who is applying for naturalisation on the basis of marriage to an Irish national must supply...
    • Court Accommodation
      1068. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the status of the Hammond Lane Family Courts Complex site; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Immigration Status
      1069. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current and or expected residency status of a person (details supplied) who recently applied to the undocumented scheme;...
    • Departmental Staff
      1071. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff within his Department who are based and working with the European Union in Brussels; their present roles...
    • Prison Service
      1072. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of whole-time and part-time prison chaplains working in each prison, in tabular form. [16578/23]
    • Legal Aid
      1074. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the promised review of the civil legal aid scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1075. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank attached to the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau as of 20 March 2023. [16680/23]
    • Immigration Policy
      1076. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has plans to increase the penalties that apply to carriages for breaches of the Immigration Act (Carrier Liability)...
    • Prison Service
      1077. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has any plans to put the Irish Prison Service on a statutory basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16720/23]
    • Legislative Measures
      1078. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will amend the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011 to ensure that owners are limited to one vote regardless of the number...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1079. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a replacement for the Immigrant Investor Programme is currently being considered; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Visa Applications
      1080. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the options available to a prospective visa applicant, applying following family reunification application approval, who is...
    • Family Reunification
      1081. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a family that plans to travel to Ireland, following approval of their family reunification application, could travel to...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1082. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána by rank who have sought an extension of their mandatory retirement age...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Forestry Sector
      1083. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is considering purchasing woodlands (details supplied) in County Carlow to preserve them; and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1085. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the organic capital investment scheme provides grants for mulchers attached to tractors and self-propelled mulchers towed by...
    • Agriculture Supports
      1086. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the entitlements linked to the herd number of a person (details supplied) will be reinstated, given they did not lease or sell...
    • Forestry Sector
      1087. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason his Department is not currently processing form 1As regarding forestry applications; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Timber Supply
      1091. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will take the time to review correspondence (details supplied) and request a derogation from legalisation that will forbid...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1092. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a farm payment appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16961/23]
    • Greyhound Industry
      1093. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a dead greyhound being eaten by wildlife was found at a registered greyhound premises in Kilkenny in mid-March 2023; the reason...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1094. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the compensation payments will be paid to landowners whose lands were damaged during the Shass mountain landside in Drumkeerin....
    • Animal Diseases
      1095. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions his Department is taking to control the spread in the marine environment of the deadly contagious bacterial disease...
    • Harbours and Piers
      1098. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if investment will be given to Kenmare Pier, County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17025/23]
    • Hare Coursing
      1099. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of coursing clubs that were active in the 2022-2023 season. [17152/23]
    • Fishing Industry
      1102. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the implications of a court case in a European jurisdiction (details supplied) on the allocation of the bluefin tuna...
    • Greyhound Industry
      1109. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding provided by his Department to address the viability of a greyhound stadium (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Inshore Fisheries
      1110. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the work being carried out in relation to concerns expressed by this Deputy in private members business on inshore fishermen...
    • Animal Diseases
      1111. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that scabyivax is no longer available to treat the disease ORF in sheep (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Energy Production
      1112. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to ensure that there is sufficient firewood for domestic consumption in the country. [17260/23]
    • Forestry Sector
      1113. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the level of engagement with forestry and farmer groups regarding the reconstitution and underplanting scheme...
    • Forbairt Calaí agus Céanna
      1115. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén uair atá i gceist síneadh a lorg ar an gcead pleanála d’fhorbairt na céibhe domhainmhara i Ros...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1116. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a farmer who recently took up suckling would be eligible for payment under the SCEP; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Animal Diseases
      1117. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will detail the incident levels of TB in the dairy/cattle herd for the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1119. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the breeders' grant which is typically provided by his Department, on an annual basis, to (details supplied) will issue this...
    • Agriculture Supports
      1120. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when compensation payments will be made with regard to the 2020 Shass Mountain landslide; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1121. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine regarding the difference in testing figures published by IHRB and the figures published by the State, if he will explain this...
    • Greyhound Industry
      1122. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide information from the Rásaíocht Con Éireann Traceability System on the number of non-coursing dogs...
    • Fishing Industry
      1126. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide his response to the draft report on co-management of fisheries in the EU and the contribution of the fisheries...
    • Greyhound Industry
      1127. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Rásaíocht Con Éireann's total expenditure on Youghal Greyhound Stadium for each of the years 2020, 2021 and 2022,...
    • Land Issues
      1130. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an issue (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17425/23]
    • Fishing Industry
      1131. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine by how much the Norwegian blue whiting quota in Irish waters exceeds Ireland’s quota; and when this decision was made. [17430/23]
    • Forestry Sector
      1135. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide his response to the issue of only four afforestation licences in March 2023; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Insurance Coverage
      1137. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the expenditure by a State organisation (details supplied) on professional indemnity insurance; if he can provide...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1138. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current situation regarding a 2022 BPS payment (details supplied); and if his Department can issue payment on two outstanding...
    • Land Issues
      1140. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 739 of 21 February 2023, what are the requirements and what approval is necessary to transfer...
    • Control of Dogs
      1141. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update in relation to the Control of Dogs Act 1986 working group; if he will provide details of the number of additional dog...
    • Fishing Industry
      1142. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the response of his Department to the submission on Herring 6A South Quota to them by Donegal County Council Fisheries Committee;...
    • Departmental Staff
      1143. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Departmental staff currently on sick or stress leave; and the number who took stress or sick leave in each of the past...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      1146. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding his Department has provided the horse racing industry with in 2022 and to date in 2023. [17831/23]
    • Animal Diseases
      1147. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will examine a series of matters (details supplied) in relation to BVD reactors in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Animal Welfare
      1148. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions being taken in seeking a resolution to allow the importing of a vaccine (details supplied) which cannot be bought in...
    • Fishing Industry
      1149. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17855/23]
    • Agriculture Supports
      1151. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the measures under Budget 2023 to address the group of farmers known as "forgotten farmers" will be implemented; if the farmers...
    • Forestry Sector
      1152. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on Coillte's examination of how better to work closely with farmers and to acquire land directly. [18087/23]
    • Citizens' Assembly
      1153. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make a statement on recommendation No. 120 of the Report of the Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity Loss; his plans to...
    • Coillte Teoranta
      1155. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Coillte (details supplied) relinquished its leasehold interest to lands at Bellamont forest Cootehill; and if he will...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1156. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps his Department is taking doing to support the Irish sheep sector. [18161/23]
    • Brexit Supports
      1157. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in relation to the fishing sector, how the Brexit Adjustment Reserve is being delivered; the amount that has been allocated to each...
    • Forestry Sector
      1158. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will detail the actual expenditure by the Forest Service of his Department from 1 January 2023 to date; if he will detail the...
    • Land Issues
      1160. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of designated land that there is an entitlement attached to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16545/23]
    • Forestry Sector
      1161. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of designated land that is afforested; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16546/23]
    • Agriculture Industry
      1162. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current status of the application to secure EU PGI status for Irish beef; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16551/23]
    • Departmental Staff
      1164. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of staff within his Department who are based and working with the European Union in Brussels; their present roles and...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1165. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider introducing a specific scheme (details supplied) in view of the benefits for climate and biodiversity; and if he...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1166. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to ensure that Ireland does not default to a maximum limit of 220 kgN/ha under the mid-term review of the nitrates action...
    • Trade Missions
      1167. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the food related international trade missions that will take place for the remainder of 2023 by location, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1168. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the banning of creosote from April 2022; if derogation has been or is available to individuals and businesses who...
    • Commonage Land Use
      1169. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the latest figures available for dormancy of commonages, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16747/23]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1170. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in paying farmers under the hen harrier scheme; and if he will arrange to pay a farmer (details supplied)...
    • Departmental Policies
      1171. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is an update on the review of the prescribed burning code of practice. [16759/23]
    • Harbours and Piers
      1172. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if funding will be approved for the remarking of (details supplied); and the last time funding was allocated for this project. [16921/23]
    • Departmental Meetings
      1173. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he last met with the CEO of Bord Bia; and when he will next meet the CEO. [16922/23]
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Home Care Packages
      1174. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a person (details supplied) is not getting the full home support care; the reason carers are not...
    • Disability Services
      1175. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline his plans for the development of respite services in each LHO of CHO4 for persons with...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1177. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that the State forensic investigators are to acquire advanced new technology to allow them to...
    • Disability Services
      1178. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a timeline for the roadmap being developed to support all stakeholders to progress the next...
    • Legislative Process
      1179. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth considering that the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Act 2022 is now enacted and the Decision...
    • Childcare Services
      1180. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth given the recent success in reducing creche fees, when a similar initiative will be available for childminders;...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1181. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the report of the public consultation of the Tusla Early Years Inspectorate;...
    • Legislative Process
      1182. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the drafting of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2022; and if he will make a...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      1183. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when legislation for flexible work will be brought before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a...
    • Nursing Homes
      1184. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on a residential care application by a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Disability Services
      1185. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of speech and language therapist posts that are currently within children disability network teams...
    • International Protection
      1188. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a property (details supplied) in County Clare is being acquired by International Protection Accommodation...
    • Disability Services
      1189. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to previous representations and correspondence to him, if he will outline the care and supports put in...
    • Health Services Staff
      1190. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to ensure pay parity for employees of Section 39 organisations providing disability...
    • Disability Services
      1191. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline his engagement with the Minister for Transport concerning the operation of the 236A bus route...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1192. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on providing temporary funding assistance to the families of children on waiting lists for...
    • Departmental Staff
      1193. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff within his Department who are based in and working with the European Union in Brussels;...
    • Disability Services
      1194. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment with the national children disability services;...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1195. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the delay in assessing a child (details supplied) in County Donegal for speech and language...
    • Employment Rights
      1196. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is considering introducing specific leave for women who have suffered a miscarriage; and if he will make...
    • Disability Diagnoses
      1197. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what appeals process is open to a patient when their symptoms are attributed solely to a diagnosis of ASD, to...
    • Disability Services
      1198. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the key services and supports available to children with learning disabilities such as autism in counties Sligo...
    • Ukraine War
      1199. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number and location of each accommodation property for beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine;...
    • Direct Provision System
      1200. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to increase the direct provision allowance, as welfare allowances have been increased several times...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1201. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if someone in receipt of a blind welfare allowance from the HSE will continue to receive this allowance when...
    • Child Detention Centres
      1202. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of young people within Oberstown Children Detention Campus offered temporary release for each...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      1203. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a service provider (details supplied) will be paid. [16805/23]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1205. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will increase the ECCE capitation to address the operational costs of preschools (details supplied); and...
    • International Protection
      1206. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 472 of 7 March 2023, if an informal offer or discussions have taken place...
    • Childcare Services
      1208. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a childcare facility (details supplied) can urgently be considered for DEIS status. [16887/23]
    • Direct Provision System
      1209. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that an organisation (details supplied) proposed actions in relation to the well-being of people...
    • Health Services
      1210. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update in the case of therapy sessions for a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Disability Services
      1211. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the Disability Capacity Review Action Plan; when the action plan will be published; the reason...
    • Health Service Executive
      1212. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of funding provided by the HSE to the National Multiple Sclerosis Care Centre in 2021, 2022 and...
    • Disability Services
      1213. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many young adults with an intellectual disability on the northside of Dublin are on the waitlist for day...
    • Health Services Staff
      1220. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he outline the progress relative to the pay parity issue for section 39 staff employed in the disability...
    • Disability Services
      1221. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of unfilled positions for speech and language therapists in each of the community disability network...
    • International Protection
      1227. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a property (details supplied) in County Clare is being acquired by the International Protection...
    • Disability Services
      1228. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that the two senior psychologists working in CHO5 children’s disability network team,...
    • International Protection
      1229. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the basis for calculating the daily expense allowance under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme for...
    • Childcare Services
      1232. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has engaged with stakeholders in the childcare sector regarding unintended consequences of the new NCS...
    • Childcare Qualifications
      1233. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the fact that under the new national childcare scheme, the capitation rate paid to services with...
    • Health Services Staff
      1234. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of dietitian posts allocated to the 2 CDNTs in South Tipperary; the numbers of those posts vacant;...
    • Childcare Services
      1236. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to increase the rate of the after-school childcare scheme given the ongoing cost-of-living crisis;...
    • Departmental Funding
      1237. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if financial supports could be put in place to reopen a facility (details supplied) for the continued...
    • Childcare Services
      1238. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average staff turnover rate in early learning and care services, broken down by service type (details...
    • Disability Services
      1239. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking in response to the finding in the National Report of Children's Disability Networks Team...
    • Housing Provision
      1241. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a property (details supplied) is to be used for emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Childcare Services
      1242. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that the national childcare scheme payments for afterschool clubs are accessible by children...
    • Disability Services
      1243. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what additional staffing resources have been provided during 2022 and to date in 2023 to the Clare...
    • Health Services
      1244. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will engage with the HSE to investigate whether providing group speech and language therapy while...
    • International Protection
      1246. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he sought and received planning advice in respect of a building to accommodate persons seeking international...
    • Health Services
      1247. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide additional funding to the MS care centre to provide an additional 1.128 bed-nights per year...
    • Disability Services
      1248. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the parents of a person (details supplied) will receive a response/reply to their application for...
    • Direct Provision System
      1249. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the progress made with implementing the white paper on ending direct provision;...
    • International Protection
      1250. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when IPAS will issue a payment to an accommodation provider (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will...
    • Ukraine War
      1251. 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...
    • Direct Provision System
      1252. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the progress his Department has made on ending direct provision and establishing a new...
    • Disability Services
      1253. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of vacant occupational therapy roles in each children's disability network team; and if he will make...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1257. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the payment assistance that is available for relative foster carers; the criteria that they have to meet to...
    • Disability Services
      1258. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to provide an occupational therapy service for those with mild intellectual disability in...
    • International Protection
      1259. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people in accommodation provided by the international protection accommodation services,...
    • Disability Services
      1262. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of vacant psychology roles in each children's disability network team; and if he will make a...
    • Adoption Services
      1265. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on the operation of the Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022; the number of entries made to...
    • Ukraine War
      1266. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a hotel (details supplied) can expect to be paid for services it has provided to the State in terms of...
    • Asylum Seekers
      1267. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will expand the rent-a-room scheme to allow households who have an available bedroom to rent it to asylum...
    • Direct Provision System
      1269. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will increase the direct provision allowance, given that welfare allowances have been increased several...
    • Disability Services
      1270. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average time it takes to advertise a post (details supplied) that has been left vacant in children's...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1271. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amounts in grant aid or funding awarded by his Department, or through schemes administered by it, to an...
    • Disability Diagnoses
      1272. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who awaits a diagnosis and follow-up therapies for...
    • Disability Services
      1273. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the way in which resources are allocated between different community healthcare...
    • Childcare Services
      1274. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the application for sustainability funding by a pre-school facility (details...
    • Disability Services
      1275. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on HSE funding for transitions to adult supports for autistic people; if he can provide more...
    • Local Authorities
      1276. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total value of capital expenditure allocated to play and recreation, by local authority, in each of the...
    • Departmental Staff
      1278. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Departmental staff currently on sick leave or stress leave; and the number who took stress leave...
    • Departmental Functions
      1281. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can expedite payment to a service provider (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • International Protection
      1282. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline in detail specific information (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Data
      1283. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a full response will issue to correspondence from this Deputy (details supplied) sent in March 2022; and...
    • Disability Services
      1284. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of providing 100,000, 200,000 and 500,000 additional personal assistance hours for people...
    • Health Services Staff
      1296. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the starting salary cost of employing a basic staff grade physiotherapist, a staff grade speech and language...
    • Disability Services
      1306. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated capital cost of providing 1,200, 1,450 and 1,700 additional day service places for school leavers...
    • Child Protection
      1310. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he has taken in response to a report (details supplied), including any actions to ensure immediate...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      1311. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will clarify whether a State body (details supplied) will engage in a public consultation process in the...
    • Departmental Policies
      1312. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeframe for the publication of the Disability Capacity Review Implementation Plan; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Data
      1313. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons released from Oberstown Detention Centre in each of the past ten years and to date in...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      1320. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the concerns of persons in a location (details supplied) are warranted; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Childcare Services
      1321. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of increasing the threshold for the maximum subsidy under the national childcare scheme from...
    • Departmental Staff
      1322. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated full year cost breakdown of increasing the intake of graduate social workers to 350 throughout...
    • Legislative Process
      1323. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the assisted capacity bill will be enacted. [18263/23]
    • Departmental Data
      1324. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in the context of the UNHCR resettlement programme, if he will provide a schedule of the annual refugee...
  • Department of Health
    • Health Services Staff
      1325. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm information received by parents of young children in Newcastle, County Dublin that no public health nurse service is available in their...
    • Hospital Services
      1327. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made to upgrade and enhance paediatric care and services in Cork University Hospital, CUH; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Facilities
      1328. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made in relation to the installation of a helipad at Cork University Hospital, CUH (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Patient Transfers
      1329. To ask the Minister for Health when an urgent transfer will proceed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16060/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1330. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting to be seen by child and adolescent mental health services by Community Healthcare Organisation, CHO, and Local Health Office,...
    • Health Services Staff
      1331. To ask the Minister for Health if concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16067/23]
    • Health Services
      1332. To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department is taking to improve the resourcing of genetic services in Ireland for the detection and treatment of rare diseases; and if he will...
    • Defibrillators Provision
      1334. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of the locations of defibrillator machines in areas (details supplied). [16084/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1335. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of funding of clinical staff required supplemental to general funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16100/23]
    • Departmental Data
      1337. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people attending the diabetes clinic in Dundalk who are living with type 1 diabetes; the number of people with type 1 diabetes on a waiting list...
    • Health Services Staff
      1339. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline how many diabetes specialist nurses, DSNs, and dietitians are currently working in the diabetes clinic in Dundalk, both full-time and...
    • Health Services
      1341. To ask the Minister for Health when a new pump clinic will be provided at Dundalk’s diabetes clinic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16324/23]
    • Disease Management
      1342. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16325/23]
    • Medical Cards
      1343. To ask the Minister for Health if medical card holders can be charged for having blood samples taken at their GP clinics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16334/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1344. To ask the Minister for Health when an individual (details supplied) will be seen for an appointment with the Orthopaedics Section of UHL; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Staff
      1345. To ask the Minister for Health if the CHO3 adult ADHD clinic is fully staffed; the number of vacancies, if any, that exist in CHO3, adult ADHD services; what the current caseload of the...
    • Health Services
      1346. To ask the Minister for Health if there are active policies and procedures in place in CHO3 to guarantee a smooth transfer from CAMHS to adult ADHD services for children with ADHD who reach...
    • Hospital Staff
      1347. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the provision of a Parkinson’s nurse specialist for Waterford and Tipperary University Hospitals, following a funding...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1348. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of all costs associated with the removal of trees in Merlin Woods, Galway to date in 2023; the name of the companies or persons...
    • Health Service Executive
      1349. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the HSE decision-making process leading to tree-felling works carried out in Merlin Woods, Galway in 2023; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1350. To ask the Minister for Health if the Covid recognition payment has been issued to an organisation (details supplied) for payment to its staff. [16357/23]
    • Hospital Services
      1351. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the services provided at St. Brigid's Hospital Carrick-on-Suir; the plans to provide other services at this location; his views on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1352. To ask the Minister for Health what steps should be taken by nursing home workers where a former employer sought and was paid the Covid bonus payment on their behalf, but the worker has not...
    • Industrial Relations
      1353. To ask the Minister for Health the progress if any in resolving the pay issues arising from the section 42 report and the Labour Court; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16376/23]
    • Nursing Education
      1355. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider reinstating the €100 placement grant that was available to students on placement as a result of the pandemic, particularly for...
    • Departmental Data
      1356. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children diagnosed with scarlet fever and hospitalised due to same in the months October 2022 to March 2023, inclusive, broken down by...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1357. To ask the Minister for Health if he will release correspondence he has received for 2023 relating to the operation of all facilities of an out-of-hours service (details supplied). [16388/23]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1358. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the phone service for a facility (details supplied) in 2022 and to date in 2023; and the costs paid out by the HSE for each facility in 2022 and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1360. To ask the Minister for Health the position of his Department regarding pay for those healthcare workers who contracted long-Covid and who have been and are still certified as medically...
    • Health Services
      1361. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to provide adequate resources for genetic services in CHI Crumlin; the steps he will take to reduce waiting lists for genetic testing...
    • Hospital Staff
      1362. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Parkinson's disease nurse specialists working in neurology centres in Tipperary University Hospital, University Hospital Limerick and University...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1364. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to transition the current Covid-19 vaccine roll-out programme from being administered at vaccine centres to being solely administered...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1365. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined and appropriate treatment expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16406/23]
    • Pension Provisions
      1366. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive their pension increments; the reason former HSE staff are awaiting over a year for these increments to commence;...
    • Health Services Staff
      1367. To ask the Minister for Health to outline where the two new roles, the national clinical lead for mental health and the assistant director for youth mental health, will fill into the...
    • Health Services
      1368. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the access criteria for someone to enter one of the three pilot projects for dual diagnosis; the capacity of each project; and if he will make a...
    • Food Safety
      1369. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of carcinogenic substances present in oranges (details supplied); the steps his Department intends to take to address the issue; and if he will...
    • Health Services
      1370. To ask the Minister for Health what progress is being made with regards to reinstating public health nurse check-ups for infants and children in Newcastle, County Dublin; and if he will...
    • Patient Transfers
      1372. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will get transferred from Letterkenny University Hospital, LUH, to Galway University Hospital, GUH; and if...
    • Health Services
      1373. To ask the Minister for Health if pain management patches can be supplied to a person (details supplied). [16440/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1374. To ask the Minister for Health when a public health nurse will be available for residents in Newcastle, County Dublin; the current and levels of public health nurses by area in Dublin...
    • Medicinal Products
      1376. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on an application for reimbursement being considered by the HSE in relation to Voretigene Neparvovec (Luxturna); and if he will...
    • Ambulance Service
      1377. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of all Delta calls received by the DFB Dispatch (ERCC) and the National Ambulance Service in Dublin that were responded to beyond...
    • Emergency Services
      1380. To ask the Minister for Health the number of court cases pending against the Dublin Fire Brigade and the National Ambulance Service relating to the ambulance service it provides; and if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1381. To ask the Minister for Health when an individual (details supplied) will receive their Covid bonus. [16474/23]
    • Hospital Services
      1383. To ask the Minister for Health the way that his Department is supporting the medical genetics service in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, as committed to in the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1384. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the vacant position of public health nurse in the Newcastle area has not been filled for some time, which is...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1386. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify whether private security staff that worked at public hospitals during the first waves of Covid-19 are eligible for the Covid recognition...
    • Health Services Staff
      1387. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure pay parity for employees of Section 39 organisations providing healthcare services with comparable workers in the HSE. [16510/23]
    • Nursing Homes
      1391. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently review an application for nursing home support by a person (details supplied). [16519/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1392. To ask the Minister for Health when the €1,000 workers pandemic recognition payment will be paid to agency workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16524/23]
    • Health Services
      1393. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently reassess transgender healthcare; if he will consider the model of informed consent led by GPs in local communities; the consultations he...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1394. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the appointment of a new GP to a surgery (details supplied) in Blarney, County Cork. [16528/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1395. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to review the pay of Section 39 workers, given that they have not received a pay rise since 2008; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Nursing Homes
      1396. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in the determination of an application for fair deal in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      1398. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the National Strategy for Accelerating Genetics and Genomics Medicine in Ireland; the status of the development of the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1399. To ask the Minister for Health further to the National Strategy for Accelerating Genetics and Genomics Medicine in Ireland, the status of recruitment of the recently approved posts of...
    • Disease Management
      1400. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to develop a revised National Rare Disease Plan; the timeline for the development of the plan; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Dental Services
      1401. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Cork will receive an appointment for braces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16542/23]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1402. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a campaign (details supplied); the actions he is taking to address the concerns raised in relation to the diagnosis of rare...
    • Health Services
      1403. To ask the Minister for Health if he will indicate his latest assessment of the extent of long Covid, of the optimum services to meet the challenges for such patients, and of the extent to...
    • Departmental Staff
      1404. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff within his Department who are based and working with the European Union in Brussels; their present roles and responsibilities; the posts...
    • Departmental Data
      1405. To ask the Minister for Health following the introduction of free contraception for women aged 17 to 26 years and the anticipated roll out to women under 30 years from 1 September 2023, if...
    • Hospital Staff
      1408. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the current work placement system and the issue of pay for trainee midwives (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1410. 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. [16589/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1411. To ask the Minister for Health the status of recommendation ten from the Report of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Health Care Assistants; the...
    • Health Services
      1413. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the reason local social services groups are currently being denied access to the HSE clinic at 81 Derrygreenagh Park, Rochfortbridge,...
    • Health Services Staff
      1414. To ask the Minister for Health how long a vacancy (details supplied) has existed; and when it will be filled. [16641/23]
    • Medical Cards
      1415. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects to bring forward legislation to expand the GP card scheme to children under six and seven years of age; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1416. To ask the Minister for Health if the suitability of the current site of St. Patrick’s Hospital, Cashel for a new 60-bed community nursing unit has been determined in light of a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1417. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a pathway to payment of the pandemic special recognition payment for a front-line healthcare agency ex-staff member who is unable to get a...
    • Dental Services
      1419. To ask the Minister for Health if he is considering the restoration of self-referral access to primary dental care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16653/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1420. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses in Dublin mid-west by area; the number of vacancies by area; the recruitment plan for public health nurses in Dublin...
    • Health Services
      1421. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the mobile breast screening units that will not return to Mullingar and Athlone until the end of 2023, the number of women who were scheduled...
    • Departmental Funding
      1422. To ask the Minister for Health the budget allocated by his Department for 2023 to the National Treatment Purchase Fund to provide for the scheme to provide autism assessments for children....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1423. To ask the Minister for Health when a cohort of agency workers (details supplied) can expect to receive their pandemic payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16660/23]
    • Departmental Meetings
      1424. To ask the Minister for Health if he has had representations from an organisation (details supplied) regarding an inquiry into the situation of families affected by a medication, sodium...
    • Disability Services
      1425. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that all HSE psychiatrists are operating on the basis that patients with an ASD diagnosis will be given a timely assessment and treatment...
    • Health Services Staff
      1426. To ask the Minister for Health if current trainee counselling psychology students will be funded in line with incoming first year students in the same course; the plans by his Department to...
    • Ambulance Service
      1428. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the expansion of ambulance services in Athlone, County Westmeath. [16678/23]
    • Hospital Inspections
      1429. To ask the Minister for Health when the last HIQA site inspection was carried out at St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16683/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1430. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to appoint a WTE consultant nephrologist with a special interest in glomerulonephritis at University Hospital, Waterford; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      1433. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to make the non-invasive prenatal tests available free of charge to all pregnant women; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Data
      1434. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons within CHO5 awaiting respite services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16688/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1435. To ask the Minister for Health if those working as Covid vaccinators are entitled to the pandemic special recognition payment; if so, when they can expect to receive same; and if he will...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1436. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have a required surgery carried out; if a guarantee can be provided regarding a date, given the surgery has been...
    • Disability Services
      1438. To ask the Minister for Health when an application for a primary medical certificate will be finalised (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16717/23]
    • Health Services
      1439. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be any State-funded fertility treatment programme available in the State in the coming period; if his Department has plans in relation to same;...
    • Defibrillators Provision
      1440. To ask the Minister for Health the location of all automated external defibrillators local to Terenure, Dublin 6; if a national database of defibrillator locations can be provided for...
    • Departmental Data
      1442. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for people with a rare disease to access genetic testing and then to receive a subsequent diagnosis after a referral; and if he will...
    • Hospital Staff
      1443. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown in tabular form of staff numbers, rank and hours worked (full-time or part-time) at the Department of Clinical Genetics of Our Lady’s...
    • Departmental Data
      1444. To ask the Minister for Health the reason behind the long wait times for processing applications in CORU; the issue regarding qualification requirements (details supplied) in circumstances...
    • Departmental Funding
      1445. To ask the Minister for Health if any consideration has been given to providing much needed core funding to a charity (details supplied) for their counselling, well-being and emotional...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1446. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the status of the Covid-19 recognition payment to eligible workers in non-HSE and non-section 38 organisations; the number of...
    • Housing Provision
      1447. To ask the Minister for Health about Clúid Housing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16761/23]
    • Departmental Schemes
      1448. To ask the Minister for Health the average length of time it takes to process an application under the discretionary hardship scheme to provide an explanation for the current delay in...
    • Medical Cards
      1449. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on an application for a person (details supplied) under the discretionary hardship scheme. [16765/23]
    • Health Services
      1450. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults on the waiting list for day-care services in CHO9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16769/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1451. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No 674 of 28 March 2023, if he will provide the following (details supplied) acknowledging that this information does not...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1452. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 200 of 15 February 2023 and 1151 of 21 March 2023, the number of staff directly employed by the HSE known to be on...
    • Health Service Executive
      1453. 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, 204 of 15 February 2023 and 1153 of 21 March...
    • Mental Health Services
      1454. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 484 of 16 November 2021, 1715 of 19 January 2022, 169 of 9 February 2022, 186 of 23 March 2022, 720 of 17 May 2022,...
    • Departmental Data
      1455. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of any contracts awarded to company (details supplied) by the HSE; namely, the exact value of each contract, the details of works,...
    • Medical Cards
      1456. To ask the Minister for Health whether or not “unlicensed medicines” in pharmacies for medication where the regularly prescribed medication is unavailable (details supplied)...
    • Legislative Measures
      1457. To ask the Minister for Health if he will amend the appropriate statutory instrument to allow suitable professionals registered with the Physiotherapists Registration Board to refer...
    • Health Service Executive
      1459. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 599 of 31 January 2023 and the subsequent correspondence of the HSE dated 14 February 2023, if the sale of Corlough...
    • Hospital Services
      1460. To ask the Minister for Health when the opening hours of the minor injuries unit at Monaghan Hospital will be extended to include weekends; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Abortion Services
      1461. To ask the Minister for Health whether reimbursement payments to abortion-providing GPs was included as part of the €11.5 million figure allocated in 2019 to abortion services; and...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1464. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for a procedure in the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar. [16807/23]
    • Departmental Reviews
      1465. To ask the Minister for Health when the National Review of Specialist Cardiac Services will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16810/23]
    • Health Promotion
      1466. To ask the Minister for Health why the evaluation of the sugar-sweetened drinks tax has not been completed almost five years since its introduction; the current stage of the evaluation;...
    • Dental Services
      1467. To ask the Minister for Health why a person (details supplied) had to pay for dental work for their child when it should have been free; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16812/23]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      1468. To ask the Minister for Health if children with autism are eligible to apply for a primary medical certificate; and, if not, if he intends to change the eligibility criteria to include...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1469. To ask the Minister for Health why a person (details supplied) is waiting on a procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16817/23]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1470. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a detailed update of the HSE's plans for a final end use of 162-165 James's Street; if he will provide a copy of the business case or...
    • Dental Services
      1472. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists who provide services under the general medical card scheme, by county, in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [16826/23]
    • Disease Management
      1473. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to improve the diagnosis capacity and treatment of Lyme disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16834/23]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1475. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the waiting times for individuals with rare diseases requiring genetic testing; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Process
      1477. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the public health (tobacco and nicotine inhaling products) Bill to prohibit the use of nicotine inhaling products by persons under 18...
    • Hospital Staff
      1478. To ask the Minister for Health the action the HSE has taken to recruit a physiotherapist for the rehab unit at St. Columba's Hospital, Thomastown, County Kilkenny, since January 2023 when...
    • Home Help Service
      1479. To ask the Minister for Health if a response will issue to a home care complaint by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16857/23]
    • Medical Cards
      1480. To ask the Minister for Health if a HAA card has been provided to all survivors of Magdalene laundries as recommended by the report on Magdalene laundries; if survivors of the New Ross...
    • Health Services Staff
      1481. To ask the Minister for Health if speech and language therapists, on registration with CORU, who received their training outside of the State but are missing components required by CORU,...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1482. To ask the Minister for Health the average timeframe wheelchair users are waiting to receive their first wheelchair from application to handover; the average timeframe wheelchair users are...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      1483. To ask the Minister for Health the average processing period for the recognition of qualifications by CORU of speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and physiotherapists...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1484. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were previously diagnosed with breast cancer and who are waiting for a recommended follow-up mammogram appointment in the Saolta...
    • Health Services
      1496. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people living in County Donegal who have attended Altnagelvin Hospital, Derry for treatment over the past year; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Staff
      1498. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE plastic surgery registrars working in Beaumont Hospital in each of the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [16923/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1499. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE child and adolescent psychiatrists and clinical psychologists working in CAMHS and Mental Health Intellectual Disability Teams in CHO7 in...
    • Hospital Staff
      1500. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE ICU nurses working in Tallaght University Hospital in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if this number will be...
    • Health Services Staff
      1502. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time and part-time healthcare attendants employed by the HSE working in each health centre and primary care centre within CHO7 in 2022 and...
    • Hospital Staff
      1503. To ask the Minister for Health when clerical and administration staff who have retired from Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda will receive their pension increases; and if he will make...
    • Home Help Service
      1504. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) was awarded 14 hours home support care from the HSE and only 11 hours have been acknowledged; and if he will make a...
    • Mental Health Services
      1505. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a role is advertised as a part-time position rather than a full-time position (details supplied), given the recognised importance of developing and...
    • Health Services
      1506. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commit to having the health technology assessment by HIQA into the addition of spinal muscular atrophy to the national new-born bloodspot screening...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1507. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a new bed and mattress for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17013/23]
    • Departmental Data
      1508. To ask the Minister for Health the information that is exchanged between the HSE's women's health service and anti-human trafficking team and An Garda Síochána - that is, how...
    • Hospital Services
      1509. To ask the Minister for Health the plans currently in place to establish a genetics service at Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Crumlin to help diagnose and treat rare diseases. [17018/23]
    • Departmental Data
      1510. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times for child health visits by public health nurses, by area in Dublin mid-west, by year from 2017 to 2022, and to date in 2023; and if...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1511. 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. [17024/23]
    • Disability Diagnoses
      1512. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the response from An Tánaiste on 23 March 2023 in relation to the use of the National Treatment Purchase Fund for those seeking an assessment...
    • Medicinal Products
      1513. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to move the drug eltroxin onto the long-term illness core list for people with Down syndrome, and other chromosomal abnormalities; and if he will...
    • Mental Health Services
      1514. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing levels in each of the 73 CAMHS teams; how many CAMHS teams are fully staffed; the vacancy rates per CAMHS team; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1515. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the operation of the fair deal scheme and the changes which are being made relating to rental income; and if he will make a...
    • Care of the Elderly
      1516. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the entitlements that exist for elderly dementia patients living at home; if such entitlement differs around the country (details...
    • Medicinal Products
      1517. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to the State for the drugs payment scheme threshold for single-headed households to be reduced to €72 per month; and if he will make...
    • Medical Cards
      1518. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to the State to abolish prescription charges for all medical card holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17048/23]
    • Health Strategies
      1519. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding required to ensure the full financial resourcing and implementation of the National Cancer Strategy 2017-2026 recommendations around...
    • Health Services
      1520. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of the recommendations contained in the clinical governance and operational arrangements for supporting a model of care for children with...
    • Health Strategies
      1521. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding required to ensure that the National Skin Cancer Prevention Plan 2023-2026 is implemented in full; the amount of funding that has been...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1522. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding that has been allocated to the HSE and the National Treatment Purchase Fund to source additional outpatient, endoscopy, diagnostics and...
    • Health Services
      1523. To ask the Minister for Health if funding has been allocated to the lymphoedema model of care to date; if so, the amount of funding that has been allocated, and in what years; and if he...
    • Hospital Services
      1525. To ask the Minister for Health to examine a situation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17066/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1526. To ask the Minister for Health if an expedited appointment for child and adolescent mental health services will be facilitated for a child (details supplied). [17082/23]
    • Health Services
      1527. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of how the €710,000 funding in 2022 and €810,000 funding for 2023 for period products has been allocated, by...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1528. To ask the Minister for Health if an issue (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17087/23]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1529. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1752 of 26 July 2022, if he will provide updated information in relation to the work that has been carried out to...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1530. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a review of the community ophthalmic services medical treatment scheme; if he will request this process be expedited in light of...
    • Health Services Staff
      1531. To ask the Minister for Health when retired nurses will receive the back payment owed to them (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17094/23]
    • Health Services
      1532. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the national women and infant health programme to provide a reply to a person (details supplied) regarding their correspondence. [17095/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1534. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that all trainee psychologists are remunerated for their work carried out as part of compulsory placement; and if he will...
    • Substance Misuse
      1535. To ask the Minister for Health if he has engaged with the relevant stakeholders in relation to the recommendation in the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice report entitled An Examination...
    • Home Care Packages
      1536. To ask the Minister for Health if a home care plan will be agreed with a family for a family member (details supplied) before they are discharged from Castlecomer hospital, Kilkenny; if...
    • Medicinal Products
      1537. To ask the Minister for Health what financial supports or benefits are available to purchase wigs for children under the age of 18 years who have lost hair due to alopecia or other...
    • Health Services Staff
      1538. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17139/23]
    • Health Services
      1539. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the lack of paediatric palliative care in the south-east region; if there are plans to rectify this; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1540. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that outstanding deferred payments under the Fair Deal scheme are currently being increased at the very high current rate of inflation, which...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1541. 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. [17162/23]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1542. To ask the Minister for Health when the changes to the income limits for GP visit cards will come into place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17163/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1543. 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. [17169/23]
    • Hospital Complaints Procedures
      1545. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the slow process of cases being dealt with by alternative dispute resolution (details supplied); his plans to speed up cases; and if he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      1546. To ask the Minister for Health when staff and former staff of an organisation (details supplied) will receive the pandemic unemployment payment; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1547. To ask the Minister for Health to address concerns that there are insufficient funding supports available to trainee counselling psychologists who incur significant debt while completing...
    • Nursing Homes
      1548. To ask the Minister for Health if private nursing home residents in the Tuam primary care team, PCT, area with leg ulcers can be seen at the leg ulcer clinic in Tuam Primary Care, County...
    • Home Help Service
      1549. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the provision of home help hours for a person (details supplied). [17181/23]
    • Medical Cards
      1550. To ask the Minister for Health given the positive clinical results being achieved by the HSE's structured chronic disease management programme, the reason certain cohorts of medical...
    • Health Services
      1552. To ask the Minister for Health when adult ADHD services will be in place in CHO4; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17192/23]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1555. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the steps he has taken to alter policy and practices in response to decisions by the Coroner's Court relating to infant deaths whereby the HSE...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1556. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent annually on rent for each of the following facilities (details supplied) for the years 2020 to 2022, inclusive, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1557. To ask the Minister for Health his views on increasing the rate nursing homes receive on the fair deal scheme to address the rise in operating costs over the past year; and if he will make...
    • Health Strategies
      1558. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of when the review of the long-term illness scheme will commence under the Sláintecare Implementation Strategy; and if he will...
    • Health Services
      1559. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to improve public adult ADHD services in CHO4, including details of when adult ADHD services will be operating in each LHO in CHO4; and...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1560. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure individuals who otherwise qualify for the long-term illness scheme can avail of the scheme for mental illness over the age of...
    • Health Services
      1561. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide information on care pathways available to 16- and 17-year-olds with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria. [17231/23]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1563. 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. [17238/23]
    • Covid-19 Tests
      1564. To ask the Minister for Health the reasoning for the closure of PCR testing centres; and if he will consider reopening them should health conditions require same. [17241/23]
    • Health Services
      1565. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline what progress has been made in regard to access to hormone replacement therapy for trans people in the State; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1566. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long on surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17252/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1567. To ask the Minister for Health the reason (details suppled) is waiting on an operation in Cavan General Hospital in the ENT department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17253/23]
    • Health Service Executive
      1568. To ask the Minister for Health the average processing time for HSE pension commencements from claim to final approval by division, in tabular form; the target time; and if he will make a...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1569. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 833 of 14 February 2023, the status of the development of a primary care centre on Inisbofin; the status of the land...
    • Health Services
      1571. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the reopening of the day centre in Áras Mhic Dara in Carraroe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17272/23]
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      1572. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients recorded on trolleys at each public hospital in the State in the period from January to March 2023, and for the same period in 2019,...
    • Mental Health Services
      1573. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update and outline his views on the adequacy of existing mental health supports for children in the Louth and east Meath area; if he...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1574. To ask the Minister for Health to report on the Hello Again World campaign; how this campaign is supporting Covid-19 safety for older and immunocompromised people; the way the campaign's...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1577. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17301/23]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1578. To ask the Minister for Health the strategies in place to address the General Practitioners shortfall in County Tipperary, particularly in light of the impending retirement of certain...
    • Health Services
      1580. To ask the Minister for Health if a reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16791/23]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1588. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 593 of 28 February 2023, if a reply will issue to the question (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospice Services
      1589. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on plans to provide a hospice facility at a location (details supplied); if a capital allocation has been made to the project; if...
    • Disability Services
      1590. To ask the Minister for Health the status of adult ADHD services in CHO4 which were intended to be in place by the end of 2022; and if he can confirm when these services will be in place...
    • Health Services
      1591. To ask the Minister for Health when the long-term illness scheme will be reviewed under the Sláintecare implementation strategy. [17380/23]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1593. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) remains waiting for an operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17396/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      1594. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of reports of a market shortage of a semagluetide under a brand (details supplied); if he is aware of the causes of any shortage; and the...
    • Hospital Services
      1595. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the immediate plans from Government to provide additional appropriate resources to address the extreme bed pressures in St. John's Ward in Crumlin...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      1596. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the removal of PCR testing centres, given the seven-day positivity rate almost doubled from 7.4 % to 13.9% recently and the rise in infections...
    • Home Care Packages
      1597. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be back-paid for paying for private home care support as agreed with the HSE last October; and if he will make a...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      1598. To ask the Minister for Health what regulations govern psychotherapists; what plans he has to regulate the profession; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17418/23]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      1599. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be considered for an operation under the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      1600. To ask the Minister for Health if dental and nursing qualifications issued by Northern Irish institutions are still recognised as equal to qualifications issued by Irish institutions....
    • Departmental Data
      1602. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 174 of 22 June 2022, if the further steps (details supplied) have been implemented; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Staff
      1603. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1275 of 21 March 2023, if he will address a number of issued raised (details supplied). [17451/23]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1604. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a long standing commitment to the refurbishment of a building in the old St. Otterans site in Waterford so that community services presently...
    • Health Services Staff
      1606. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant occupational therapy roles in children's primary care services by Community Healthcare Organisation, CHO, area; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Trusts
      1607. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a board of trustees of the Royal City of Dublin Hospital, Baggot Street, Dublin 4; if so, the names of the board members; and if he will make a...
    • Medicinal Products
      1608. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to approve Skyclarys (omaveloxolone) for Friedreich's Ataxia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17470/23]
    • Dental Services
      1609. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently awaiting a dental appointment in primary care, by Community Healthcare Organisation, CHO, area; and if he will make a...
    • Medicinal Products
      1610. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that there is a shortage of the diabetes drug, ozempic; what is being done to increase stocks; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1611. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric orthopaedic appointments, by appointment type, cancelled in January and February 2019-2023, inclusive, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Medicinal Products
      1612. To ask the Minister for Health what measures are in place to combat the shortages of Ozempic, a medication for type-2 diabetes; the reason for the ongoing shortages; what long-term...
    • Health Services Staff
      1613. To ask the Minister for Health to ensure that the special leave with pay for healthcare workers with long-Covid will continue beyond 30 June 2023; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      1615. To ask the Minister for Health his views on enabling individuals to purchase six-months of HRT in one calendar month to avail of the drugs payment scheme given that this medication is not...
    • Home Care Packages
      1617. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the home support waiting list in CHO4; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17501/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1618. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to recruit more healthcare support assistants in CHO4; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17502/23]
    • Health Services
      1619. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HSE proposals to limit home birth services for women and pregnant people living within 30 minutes of a maternity hospital; and if he will...
    • Meals-on-Wheels Services
      1620. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide clarification on funding recently allocated to a meals-on-wheels service (details supplied); if he will ring fence adequate annual funding...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1621. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the hospital appointment of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17516/23]
    • Dental Services
      1622. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on any discussions between his Department and the Irish Dental Association on further revision of the dental treatment service...
    • Medicinal Products
      1623. To ask the Minister for Health if he has had representations from an organisation (details supplied) regarding an inquiry into the situation of families affected by a medication sodium...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1624. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a progress update on the new east Meath primary care centre; the latest expected date for completion of the project and for services to...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1625. To ask the Minister for Health if a final decision has been agreed upon to provide the appropriate resources to the accident and emergency department in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital,...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1626. To ask the Minister for Health about the case of a person (details supplied) who was referred by the Infectious Disease and OPAT Clinic at University Hospital Limerick for a CT scan and has...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1627. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork who was referred in 2018 will have a date for cataract surgery assigned to him. [17544/23]
    • Health Services
      1628. To ask the Minister for Health what care pathways are in place for under 18s requiring gender affirming care as a result of clinical psychologist diagnosed gender dysphoria; and if he will...
    • Medical Cards
      1630. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to support GPs and dentists to begin to take on new patients covered by medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17551/23]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1631. To ask the Minister for Health when Tullow, County Carlow will get a primary care centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17552/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1632. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the payment of the pandemic bonus; if all eligible to receive the payment have done so; the number in receipt of the payment by county; and...
    • Dental Services
      1633. To ask the Minister for Health what steps are being taken regarding the GMS dentistry service to provide a service for medical card holders which satisfies all stakeholders; and if he will...
    • Health Services
      1636. To ask the Minister for Health if the €750,000 funding announced for trainee counselling psychologists will include support for current trainees or only those who begin their...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      1637. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the establishment of the inquiry into the historical licensing and prescribing of sodium valproate; the timeline that he is working towards in...
    • Disability Services
      1638. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the provision of adult ADHD services in CH04 - Cork covering North Lee, South Lee and North Cork; when these services will be fully in place;...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1639. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts his Department is making to develop multidisciplinary teams within GP services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17573/23]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      1645. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons a person (details supplied), who had received septorhinoplasty ENT treatment through the National Treatment Purchase Fund, has been denied...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1646. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter concerning bed capacity at University Hospital Waterford (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17593/23]
    • Hospital Services
      1647. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter concerning cardiology services at University Hospital Waterford (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17594/23]
    • Ambulance Service
      1649. To ask the Minister for Health the average ambulance response times in Tipperary per quarter over the past five years, in tabular form. [17596/23]
    • Pension Provisions
      1651. To ask the Minister for Health when a retired healthcare worker (details supplied) will receive their pension increment. [17599/23]
    • Health Services
      1652. To ask the Minister for Health the plans, if any, he has to review the qualifying criteria for benefit under the long-term illness scheme; if he believes it appropriate that persons...
    • Hospice Services
      1655. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a progress update with regard to the development of the Newgrange Hospice in Drogheda; if a suitable site has been located and a...
    • Hospital Services
      1656. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting 12 hours or more at St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, in each of the years 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and to date in...
    • Cancer Services
      1657. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the process to include the cancer medicine, verzenios, for reimbursement under the medicine access scheme for persons diagnosed with...
    • Primary Care Services
      1658. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant optometry and ophthalmology roles in primary care services by CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17623/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1662. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment for hip surgery at Mayo University Hospital, Castlebar; if a referral to...
    • Abortion Services
      1663. To ask the Minister for Health if he has read reports of concerns that abortion services in Ireland may collapse [17633/23]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1664. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to update policies around doctors providing locum GP services, particularly around hourly locum rates and doctors' eligibility to locum; and if he...
    • Medicinal Products
      1665. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of shortages of a medication (details supplied); and if measures can be put in place to alleviate this shortage. [17638/23]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1666. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on waiting lists for diagnostic scan services at CHI Crumlin, by type, by wait length time band, and by adult/child, in tabular form....
    • Hospital Facilities
      1667. To ask the Minister for Health in respect of the new two-storey laboratory extension at University Hospital Waterford which has received planning permission from the Waterford local...
    • Primary Care Services
      1668. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the HSE to install mother-and-baby carpark spaces in the primary care centre, Tuam; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17651/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      1669. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can be facilitated with the PCSK9 inhibitor drug; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17662/23]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1670. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the cath lab and full array of diagnostic cardiac services are now fully operational at Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he...
    • Medicinal Products
      1671. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide information on the supply of two medications, amitriptyline and dalmane (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1672. To ask the Minister for Health when the person (details supplied) will receive their urgent medical appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17679/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1673. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the pandemic special recognition payment still has not been paid to staff of an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Nursing Homes
      1675. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 249 of 8 March 2023, if a response will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17689/23]
    • Protected Disclosures
      1676. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 332 of 9 March 2023, if a response will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17690/23]
    • School Textbooks
      1677. To ask the Minister for Health if he made the decision to include a book (details supplied) on the HSE developed “Relationships and Sexuality Education 1” reading list for...
    • Health Services
      1678. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1522 of 21 March 2023, if he will support the consistent use of a separate symbol on medical charts to indicate...
    • Mental Health Services
      1679. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on CAMHS waiting lists by CHO and length of wait for January and March 2019-2023, inclusive, in tabular form. [17719/23]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1680. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 198 of 15 February 2023, which has not been answered by the HSE; if Cork University Hospital has engaged a substantial...
    • Health Service Executive
      1681. To ask the Minister for Health when HSE arrears will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17724/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1682. To ask the Minister for Health the reason staff of an organisation (details supplied) , both current and former, are still waiting for the Covid pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1683. To ask the Minister for Health when the primary care centre project in Ballyhaunis was first approved; when the tendering process was opened and concluded; when the design phase was...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1684. 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. [17731/23]
    • Pension Provisions
      1686. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that there is a delay of six months or more for people who have retired from employment from section 38 voluntary organisations and voluntary...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1688. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) who having been fitted and approved for a replacement wheelchair in 2019, has yet to receive the wheelchair; and if he...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1689. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will be called for a procedure considering that he has been on the waiting list since October 2020; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      1690. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of medical negligence claims that are pending against each of the 19 maternity hospitals, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1692. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is still waiting for an operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17753/23]
    • Pension Provisions
      1693. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm when increased pension payments and arrears will be paid to retired nurses and other HSE staff; and if the payments will be expedited....
    • Departmental Staff
      1694. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Departmental staff currently on sick or stress leave; and the number who took stress or sick leave in each of the past five years and to date in...
    • Health Services
      1697. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that have availed of gambling addiction services in the health service in 2021, 2022 and to do date in 2023. [17828/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1699. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the payment of the pandemic bonus payment for contracted security staff; when he expects this to be made; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1700. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied). [17840/23]
    • Hospital Services
      1701. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the co-location of Limerick Maternity Hospital to the main UHL campus at Dooradoyle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17846/23]
    • Health Services
      1702. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the Programme for Government commitment to "create and implement a general health policy for Trans people, based on a best-practice...
    • Home Care Packages
      1703. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the new home care tender to replace the existing tender which is due to expire on 30 April 2023; when he expects this new...
    • Health Services
      1705. To ask the Minister for Health if matters in relation to Lyme's disease (details supplied) will be examined and addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17856/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1706. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting five years on a hospital appointment in Cavan General Hospital with a person; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      1707. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the regional eye care and surgical centre in the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital; the date this opened, or will...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1710. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a surgical procedure for a person (details supplied) has been cancelled on three occasions; when this surgery will proceed; and if he will make a...
    • Home Care Packages
      1711. To ask the Minister for Health if the enhanced home care package scheme is available in every county in Ireland (details supplied); if it is not, if he will list the counties that the...
    • Emergency Departments
      1712. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time to admit patients from ambulances to the ED at Letterkenny University Hospital in each month of 2022 and in January, February and...
    • Hospital Admissions
      1716. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be admitted to the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, as a matter of urgency. [17939/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1717. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the increase health risks people are suffering as a result of Covid-19. [17961/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1718. To ask the Minister for Health if staff in an organisation (details supplied) will be recognised for their work during the pandemic. [17968/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1719. To ask the Minister for Health how many cases are involved in the ongoing north Kerry look-back review into CAMHS; how many families/patients came forward; and if he will provide an...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1720. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have received the pandemic bonus payment; the number of applicants who have not yet received their payment and if a person (details...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1721. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for a first consultation with a geriatric specialist in Cork. [17982/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1723. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who, following their pre-assessment for cataract surgery in January at University...
    • Emergency Departments
      1724. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in 2022 who waited over twelve hours to be treated following presentation at the emergency department of University Hospital Limerick;...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1728. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details, in tabular form, on the number of theatre appointments by procedure type that were cancelled at University Hospital Limerick in 2022; and...
    • Disability Services
      1729. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a 14-year-old child in Nenagh, County Tipperary who requires occupational therapy for sensory processing disorder and dyspraxia cannot access this...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1730. To ask the Minister for Health if he will implement the European Commission recommendation that member states recognise Covid-19 as an occupational disease if contracted by healthcare...
    • Dental Services
      1731. To ask the Minister for Health the number of independent dental practices that signed up to the dental treatment services scheme in each of the past five years, broken down by county in...
    • Health Services Staff
      1734. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole time equivalent vacant posts by role currently unfilled in each of individual lung rapid access clinics, in tabular form. [18043/23]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1736. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the following information in relation to spinal surgeries performed on patients with spina bifida at Temple Street between 2018 and the end of...
    • Hospital Services
      1737. To ask the Minister for Health what date in 2022 were spina bifida-related surgeries at Temple Street formally suspended. [18067/23]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1740. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of any external or internal pressure being placed on clinical staff at Temple Street to restart spina bifida-related surgeries in advance of...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1741. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 358 of 8 February 2023, the reason for the extreme delay in his Department providing an answer; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Qualifications
      1742. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether doctors that have qualified in Ukraine and have been recognised with an equivalent relevant health care qualification to that of a health...
    • Mental Health Services
      1744. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 236 of 22 March 2023, the HSE managers who approved contracts for renovations and other works to Glenwood House,...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1749. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a timeline of when works are due to commence on the development of a helipad at the Cork University Hospital site; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1750. To ask the Minister for Health when the oversight group for National Standards for Bereavement Care Following Pregnancy Loss and Perinatal Death under the National Women and Infants Health...
    • Hospital Services
      1751. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1495 of 18 January 2023, the reason the Question has not been answered (details supplied). [18144/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      1752. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of Exchequer funding that has been allocated to an organisation (details supplied) for 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [18151/23]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1753. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of all primary care centres open, under construction and planned; the number of centres that are publicly owned, privately leased,...
    • Medical Records
      1754. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a progress report on investment in a proper system of electronic health records; if he will indicate the barriers, if any, to more rapid...
    • Medical Cards
      1755. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to put an end to medical card holders being charged for blood tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18166/23]
    • Ambulance Service
      1756. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the ongoing issues within County Tipperary ambulance service; the steps he is taking to provide additional support to ambulance services in...
    • Health Services
      1759. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that facilities to apply for the technical aids grant is available in each CHO; to provide a list of the items covered by the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1761. To ask the Minister for Health when surgery will be scheduled for a person (details supplied) in Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18182/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1762. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of staffing levels by profession in each of the 73 CAMHS teams across the State; the vacancy levels per CAMHS teams by profession in tabular...
    • Medical Register
      1764. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on the CORU registration period of adaptation requirements for individuals who have moved to the State with regard to a particular case...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1765. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultations provided by Shannondoc out of hours service on 24,25, 26 and 27 December 2022 by centre and day, in tabular form; and the number...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1767. To ask the Minister for Health if public moneys have been used to fund public relations activities for a heath service provider funded by the HSE (details supplied); if so, the amount; and...
    • Medical Qualifications
      1769. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to concerns regarding the overseas aptitude test for general nursing (details supplied); the steps being taken to address...
    • Medical Register
      1770. To ask the Minister for Health when a registration will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18233/23]
    • Hospital Services
      1771. To ask the Minister for Health why there is no longer paediatrics available in Cahersiveen Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18234/23]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1773. To ask the Minister for Health when visiting restrictions at St. James's Hospital in Dublin will be lifted, in particular the requirement to pre-book a visiting slot. [18243/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1774. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18244/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1775. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant WTE nursing posts at the Mater Hospital as of 4 April 2023; and when the these will vacancies be filled, in tabular form. [18253/23]
    • Hospital Services
      1776. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital has 24-7 emergency service or on-call doctor for emergencies. [18254/23]
    • Medical Research and Training
      1777. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of fully subsidising the training of an additional 150 ICU nurses. [18255/23]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1778. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operating theatres at both CHI Temple Street and CHI Crumlin; and the hours of the week each of these theatres are opened for, in tabular form....
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1779. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the current average waiting times for urgent and routine paediatric cardiology appointments in each of the seven hospital...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1780. To ask the Minister for Health when applications for the special recognition pandemic payment award will be processed for private ambulance staff who worked through and supported the NAS...
    • Medicinal Products
      1781. To ask the Minister for Health the latest guidelines and regulations which govern the sale and supply of codeine containing products by retail pharmacy businesses; when these were last...
    • Regulatory Bodies
      1782. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff employed by the Pharmaceutical Society, by grade, in tabular form; the number of staff employed for inspections of retail pharmacy...
    • Legislative Programme
      1788. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the Health (Amendment) Bill 2023 to be commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18300/23]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1789. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the current Covid vaccinations programme advice for vulnerable people and the elderly and those who required future boosters; and if he...
    • Health Strategies
      1790. To ask the Minister for Health the assessment that has been undertaken by his Department on the proposed "Europe's Beating Cancer Plan" that would impose EU-wide labels on alcohol products;...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1791. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18308/23]
    • Health Service Executive
      1793. To ask the Minister for Health if he can report on the amount of revenue the HSE spent on the cross-Border directive for the year ending 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1795. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently expedite a surgical appointment for a person (details supplied). [18332/23]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1796. To ask the Minister for Health when the vaccination compensation scheme will be set up for those who have suffered adverse effects from the Covid vaccine and other vaccines; and if he will...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1798. To ask the Minister for Health if he will directly intervene in a case of a patient (details supplied) who has faced an extreme waiting time for routine surgery. [18341/23]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1799. To ask the Minister for Health if a wheelchair will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18342/23]
    • Health Services
      1800. To ask the Minister for Health when HPV and cytology sample processing for CervicalCheck will be resumed in the Coombe Hospital. [18351/23]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1801. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on capital works on the Charlestown ETB building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16517/23]
    • Departmental Staff
      1802. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff within his Department who are based and working with the European Union in Brussels; their present roles and...
    • Third Level Fees
      1803. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he intends to bring a proposal to Cabinet to reduce third-level fees as part of a sustainable funding model for higher education; and if he...
    • Student Accommodation
      1804. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans being developed to increase student accommodation units for the 2023/2024 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1805. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposal to establish a NFQ level 5 healthcare assistant apprenticeship, as outlined in the Action Plan for Apprenticeship...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      1806. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what progress has been made on the access to public service pensions in some higher education institutions for researchers since March 2022, to...
    • Fishing Industry
      1808. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what engagements he has had with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will examine education and training schemes for...
    • Research and Development
      1810. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details (details supplied) in relation to a research centre hosted by University College Dublin. [16712/23]
    • Education Policy
      1811. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will set out how he intends to differentiate between community education facilitators working directly in the area of community education,...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      1814. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 550 of 28 March 2023, his views on whether there is sufficient engagement between his Department and...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      1815. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 208 of 22 March 2023, if the business case document has been completed; if not, the proposed timeframe for...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1816. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will prioritise the establishment of an alternative learning service in the south Clondalkin area; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Official Engagements
      1817. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Minister of State within his Department visited University of Malaya during his recent visit to Malaysia for St. Patrick’s Day....
    • Health Services
      1818. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of the third-level institutions that have received or introduced free period products or funding for similar initiatives; and if...
    • Student Accommodation
      1819. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to increase the provision of student accommodation for students with disabilities in County Cork-third-level educational...
    • Third Level Education
      1822. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to ensure that all third level education institutions operate blended learning models; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Projects
      1823. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the progress made to date with respect to the development of a facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Staff
      1824. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Departmental staff currently on sick or stress leave; and the number who took stress or sick leave in each of the past five years...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1827. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to increase the percentage rates of pay for apprentices to ensure that they begin on minimum wage; and if he will make a...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1828. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of EU funding received for capital works projects in universities in 2022 and to-date in 2023; and the amount of funding received per...
    • Addiction Services
      1829. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports and advance guidance he provides to higher level institutions and 3rd level institutions regarding gambling addiction [18050/23]
    • Third Level Costs
      1830. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what funding options are available for a person (details supplied) in County Clare who has been accepted to study a Masters in Physician...
    • Pension Provisions
      1831. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on his Departments efforts to resolve pension issues across the university sector (details supplied). [18145/23]
    • Education and Training Provision
      1832. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of education and training institutes providing QQI level 5 healthcare assistant; and the cost of these courses respectively in each...
    • Grant Payments
      1833. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing the lower income threshold for the full SUSI grant from €24,500 to €31,000. [18260/23]
    • Third Level Fees
      1834. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will retain the current fees for third level education in Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18301/23]
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Climate Change Policy
      1836. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding streams currently open to applications that provide financial assistance to projects seeking to build capacity and...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1837. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the progress made to date with the mountain access scheme, first commenced 15 years ago; if farmers who participate are indemnified...
    • School Funding
      1838. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will explain the decision not to provide the community recognition grant to a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and...
    • Departmental Staff
      1839. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of staff within her Department who are based and working with the European Union in Brussels; their present roles and...
    • Rural Schemes
      1840. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she intends on amending Section 81 part (3) of the Local Government Act 2001 in order to make the rules in relation to the local...
    • Grant Payments
      1841. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when grants under the Community Recognition Fund will be approved. [16847/23]
    • Community Development Projects
      1842. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the new round of Clár funding could be applied for by a school and a club (details supplied) jointly to develop a new car...
    • Housing Provision
      1843. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide her response to the recommendation in the University College Cork report: 'Housing and Sustaining Communities on...
    • Greenways Provision
      1845. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the proposed works for the Mell Greenway, Drogheda, following the further engagement from her...
    • Departmental Funding
      1846. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amounts in grant aid or funding awarded by her Department, or through schemes administered by it, to an organisation (details...
    • Departmental Staff
      1847. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of Departmental staff currently on sick or stress leave; and the number who took stress or sick leave in each of the past...
    • Addiction Services
      1850. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the supports that her Department can provide for persons and or groups in the context of assisting persons with gambling addictions....
    • Control of Dogs
      1851. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide the resources necessary to secure extra dog wardens for Cork county; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Funding
      1852. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the next round of CLÁR funding will be open to applications. [18031/23]
    • Control of Dogs
      1853. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the action she will take to ensure an organisation (details supplied) will engage in stakeholder consultation in relation to the...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      1854. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on steps being undertaken by her Department to address connectivity issues on some sites with the...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      1855. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department would consider applying the UNSDGs Acceleration Tool available from DECC to incorporate the Sustainable Development...
    • Departmental Funding
      1856. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the Community Recognition Fund 2023 will be allocated to the successful groups. [18181/23]
    • Departmental Bodies
      1857. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of WTE forensic accountants and enforcement lawyers employed by the Charities Regulator in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to-date in...

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