Written answers
Wednesday, 3 May 2023
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Departmental Functions
25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the public service, justice and police reform division of his Department. [20422/23]
- Departmental Contracts
27. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of contracts his Department currently has with a company (details supplied); and the estimated value of those contracts. [20195/23]
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- International Relations
28. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason for the presence of the NATO vessel (details supplied) in Bantry Bay from 11 to 13 April 2023; the details of any engagement he or...
- Foreign Conflicts
29. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will arrange for the evacuation of Irish citizens from Sudan with immediate effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Foreign Birth Registration
30. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of an application under the foreign birth registration for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Passport Services
31. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure two passports will be processed on time for the date of travel for siblings (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he...
- Election Monitoring Missions
32. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the timeframe for the establishment of a new election observation roster; the body that will be responsible for conducting the competition;...
- Passport Services
33. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a person (details supplied) will have their documents returned to them from the relevant office. [20368/23]
- Consular Services
35. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the rights outlined in Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 1963 apply to naturalised Irish citizens travelling on an...
- Diplomatic Representation
36. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to detail the refurbishment works carried out at Irish Embassies based in Washington DC and London in 2022 and to date in 2023; the further...
- Foreign Birth Registration
37. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of WTE staff by grade within his Department dealing with foreign birth registrations as of 25 April 2023; and the number of...
- Consular Services
38. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the assistance being provided to the family of a person (details supplied) who was murdered in India on March 14, 2017; if he is aware of the...
- Overseas Development Aid
39. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details of any aid the Government gives to organisations in Uganda; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20556/23]
- Foreign Birth Registration
40. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a foreign birth registration application (details supplied) will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20583/23]
- Passport Services
42. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20652/23]
- Foreign Conflicts
44. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the engagement he has had with Irish Aid agencies whose staff are still in Sudan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20761/23]
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Inland Fisheries
45. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the validation protocols his Department has in place to ensure the validity of figures produced by fish counters under...
- Climate Change Policy
46. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason for the three-year delay in delivering an up-to-date long-term climate strategy, specifying how the...
- Renewable Energy Generation
47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if, in the context of budget 2024, he would consider the restoration of the 50% SEAI grant rate on solar PV for...
- Illegal Dumping
48. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide clarity on the rules surrounding the issuance of fines by local authorities for fly tipping or...
- Renewable Energy Generation
49. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline his Department’s work in advancing the opportunity for Ireland in terms of offshore renewable...
- Public Sector Pensions
50. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the statutory obligation imposed on An Post under the Postal and Telecommunications Services Act 1983...
- Departmental Schemes
51. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 12 of 19 April 2023, the reason the total percentage(s) for the better energy...
- Fisheries Protection
54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he and his Department support the conservation of invasive perch in Derryclare Lough under the Conservation of Coarse...
- Waste Management
56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of plans by a company (details supplied) to significantly increase fees for waste collection across...
- Climate Change Policy
57. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the national energy and climate plan will be published. [20642/23]
- Illegal Dumping
58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures undertaken by local authorities in terms of CCTV monitoring of illegal dumping, including dog fouling,...
- Departmental Schemes
59. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline the schemes of grants and eligibility conditions for improving energy efficiency in private homes,...
- Energy Policy
61. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline Government policy on the importation of LNG and the commercial development of LNG infrastructure; and if he...
- Department of Defence
- Departmental Expenditure
62. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the expenditure incurred in relation to Columb Barracks, Mullingar, per expense type and including a description of the works undertaken, for...
- Departmental Reports
63. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the last report produced by his Department in relation to the architectural significance and historical significance of Columb Barracks,...
- Air Corps
64. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the runway at Baldonnel Aerodrome has the capacity to handle Airbus A380 types of aircraft. [20494/23]
- Official Engagements
65. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he plans to have a bilateral meeting with his Italian counterpart. [20495/23]
- Departmental Consultations
66. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a person (details supplied) will chair each of the four sessions of the Consultative Forum on International Security Policy planned for June...
- Defence Forces
72. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the situation with respect to entitlement to a service medal for a person who served five years in the Permanent Defence Force and continued a...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Electric Vehicles
74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will introduce measures to facilitate residents of terraced houses with no driveways to charge their electric vehicles at home; and...
- Fuel Prices
76. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the compensation he will provide to owners of vehicles incompatible with the newly mandated €10 petrol; and if he will make a...
- National Car Test
77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person (details supplied) should have to take another NCT on the same vehicle three months after passing the previous test as a...
- Road Tolls
78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to extend the low-emission vehicle toll incentive (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20288/23]
- Driver Licences
79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20318/23]
- Bus Services
80. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the residents in Dublin South-West who have received or will receive a letter of compulsory purchase order for the construction of the...
- Aviation Industry
81. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the alleged backlisting of air traffic controllers by the Irish Aviation Authority; if he is aware this is happening at...
- Driver Test
83. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of people currently waiting to sit their driving test in the Dublin area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20357/23]
- National Car Test
85. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps his Department is taking to alleviate the backlog of NCT appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20359/23]
- Rail Network
86. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the delivery of MetroLink; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20360/23]
- Driver Test
87. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that waiting times for driving tests in Dublin currently range from approximately four to eight months; what action is...
- Legislative Programme
90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of Road Safety Authority (Amendment) Bill 2021; the timeframe for when theBill will move to the next Stage; and if he...
- Transport Policy
91. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of schools in counties Cavan and Monaghan that are enrolled in the Safe Routes to School programme in 2022 and to date in 2023,...
- Dublin Bus
92. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the top ten highest yield Dublin Bus routes in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [20505/23]
- Rail Network
93. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding provided in 2023, 2024 and 2025 to purchase extra LUAS carriages; and when these new carriages will come into...
- Departmental Meetings
94. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the names of major international airlines and-or airline groups with whom he had bilateral meetings with senior officials in 2021, 2022...
- Legislative Programme
95. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the Railway Safety (Amendment) Bill; and when this Bill will move to the next Stage. [20508/23]
- Dublin Bus
96. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the up-to-date position regarding the installation of the necessary technology to accept debit and credit cards for payment on the Dublin...
- Departmental Schemes
97. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of a safe routes application for a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Electric Vehicles
98. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when additional electric vehicle charging points will be provided in counties Cavan and Monaghan; the locations that will have such...
- Driver Licences
99. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20558/23]
- Taxi Licences
100. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will support a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20567/23]
- Driver Test
101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the case of a person (details supplied) will be resolved. [20587/23]
- Travel Trade Sector
102. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of people traveling to the UK from Ireland by air and by sea on an annual basis in 2020, 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a...
- Bus Services
103. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the 15B from stop 493 was listed on the TFI app as cancelled after two stops on 22 April 2023; and if he will make a statement...
- Department of Finance
- Tobacco Control Measures
106. To ask the Minister for Finance to confirm why there is a discrepancy in the figures provided in response to two different parliamentary questions (details supplied) in respect of the...
- Universal Social Charge
107. To ask the Minister for Finance the plans, if any, in place to abolish the universal social charge, which was brought in as a temporary measure; and if he will make a statement on the...
- International Bodies
109. To ask the Minister for Finance if he aspires to have any major European Union or United Nations institutions headquartered in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19629/23]
- Business Supports
110. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to widening the TBESS to assist businesses with energy costs who have attempted to apply for the TBESS but are encountering...
- Tax Data
111. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of abolishing stamp duty for first-time buyers of homes costing less than €425,000. [20510/23]
- Tax Yield
112. To ask the Minister for Finance how much of the betting levy has been distributed to the League of Ireland and an association (details supplied) in the previous three years; and if he will...
- Departmental Reports
113. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of external consultant reports commissioned by his Department in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; the cost of same; the...
- Tax Collection
115. To ask the Minister for Finance , further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 208 to 210, inclusive, of 25 April, if he will clarify with the Revenue Commissioners whether they are recovering...
- Departmental Bodies
116. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the current operation of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal; the current membership of the board; when the latest members of the...
- Official Engagements
119. To ask the Minister for Finance if he spoke with the Commissioner of Internal Revenue during his recent visit to the United States. [20675/23]
- Tax Reliefs
120. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to increasing the allowances for those who qualify for vehicle registration tax, VRT, and VAT relief for the purchase of a...
- Public Sector Pay
122. To ask the Minister for Finance when arrears will be paid to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20718/23]
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Office of Public Works
123. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform on behalf of a person (details supplied), if the Office of Public Works will take responsibility for a pathway up to a ring fort; and if...
- National Lottery
124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has engaged with the operators of the national lottery or the regulator of the national lottery in the context of gambling...
- Departmental Expenditure
125. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the deflator that is applied to expenditure projections by his Department in order to estimate the cost of maintaining the current level...
- Departmental Contracts
126. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of framework contracts currently in place to provide roofing services, window fitters and gas engineers to carry out works on...
- Coast Guard Service
127. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when a project (details supplied) which has been granted planning permission can proceed; if this project has been advertised in order...
- An Garda Síochána
128. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Garda stations within the Kildare division that were refurbished by the OPW in 2022 and to date in 2023; the nature of the...
- Public Sector Pensions
129. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has plans to review the current pension abatement arrangements for public service staff who complete their employment in one area...
- Flood Risk Management
132. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the flood defence works on Strand Road, Sandymount will commence and be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Employment Rights
133. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans to amend legislation to address the situation where job interviewees are given malicious and false references by a former...
- Enterprise Support Services
134. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the criteria for companies to avail of the Ukraine enterprise crisis scheme; if his attention has been drawn to reports that...
- Redundancy Payments
135. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has had any correspondence with a company (details supplied) regarding collective redundancies; if he has read an article...
- Employment Rights
136. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has been contacted or engaged by a company (details supplied) in respect of job losses at the company; if so, the nature of...
- Work Permits
138. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department will add general labourers to the critical skills visa list, given the labour shortage and ongoing housing crisis;...
- Trade Promotion
139. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he met the Chief Commissioner of the Victoria Police (details supplied) during his recent visit to Australia; and if he will make...
- Departmental Meetings
140. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if Enterprise Ireland will engage immediately with a company (details supplied) relative to an urgent proposal from the company....
- Departmental Reports
141. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of external consultant reports commissioned by his Department in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023;...
- Health and Safety
143. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which a person (details supplied) can be facilitated in relation to the transfer of some staff members to Naas, who...
- Department of Education and Skills
- School Accommodation
144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be made available for the urgent provision of modular classrooms for a school (details supplied) in advance of September 2023 as...
- Special Educational Needs
146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available to a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20247/23]
- School Enrolments
147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all efforts are being made to ensure a school place in Kilcock will be accommodated for the forthcoming year in the case of the children of a...
- Special Educational Needs
148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20253/23]
- School Enrolments
149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department plans to provide more capacity for boys' secondary school places, which are very low in the school planning area of Clontarf,...
- Schools Building Projects
150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update in respect of the accommodation brief for a building project (details supplied); if she will provide a further...
- School Transport
151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that a school bus (details supplied) providing school transport for children with additional needs has ceased to operate since...
- School Accommodation
152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to ensure the temporary accommodation committed to for a school (details supplied) will be in place for September 2023;...
- Special Educational Needs
153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 383 of 21 February 2023 (details supplied), when a response will issue; and if she will make a statement on...
- School Transport
156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when reliable and consistent school transport will be supplied by her Department to a pupil (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
- School Patronage
158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to expand the provision of co-educational, non-denominational post-primary education in Westport, County Mayo; and if she...
- School Enrolments
159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedure for enrolment into a national State school where the consent of one parent is withheld or not available; if the school can deny...
- Education Welfare Service
160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the length of time of absence from primary school after which a child’s welfare must be referred to Tusla and other school authorities;...
- Special Educational Needs
161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action her Department is taking to increase teacher and SNA uptake of the Summer Education Programme for 2023; and if she will make a...
- School Transport
162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport can be provided to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20393/23]
- Schools Building Projects
163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update in respect of a site her Department owns and its intended use for a permanent building for a school (details...
- School Facilities
164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she intends to commence a national programme to deliver sports halls to the many schools that have no such facilities, thus remaining...
- School Staff
165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person currently employed as an SNA is entitled to include years worked as a care assistant in the HSE/health board in their years of...
- Education Welfare Service
166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of educational welfare officer posts allocated to counties Cavan and Monaghan in 2021,2022 and to-date in 2023; the number of...
- School Textbooks
167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give consideration to increasing the funding of €96 per student to schools to cover the cost of schoolbooks, workbooks and...
- Residential Institutions
168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she, and the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, will meet with a person (details supplied) as a matter of...
- School Staff
169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to recruit extra doctors for a company (details supplied) in the mid-west; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Schools Building Projects
170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an announcement will be made on the approval of funding for projects under the 2023 summer works scheme; and if she will make a statement on...
- Departmental Reports
171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of external consultant reports commissioned by her Department in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023; the cost of...
- Departmental Bodies
172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of external consultant reports commissioned by the bodies under her Department's aegis in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to...
- School Staff
173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department's plans to tackle the shortage of teachers in primary and post-primary schools; her plans to incentivise the return of teachers...
- Education and Training Provision
175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will review the alternative education pathways and settings available for under-16s in the Clondalkin area; and if she will...
- Schools Building Projects
176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made on an extension for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20601/23]
- School Staff
177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to the cycle to work scheme, which is a tax incentive to encourage employees to cycle to work, if her Department currently offers...
- School Transport
178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is considering providing free or reduced cost school transport seats in rural areas where there are not sufficient pupils who meet the...
- Schools Building Projects
179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding any school in County Wicklow currently part of the pathfinder scheme, at any stage of completion and that seeks to fully...
- School Accommodation
180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the accommodation needs for a school (details supplied); if this is under review by her Department; if the...
- School Funding
181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options that are available for a school (details supplied) with regard to funding to provide an all-weather pitch within the school grounds;...
- School Staff
183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if access to a payslip for teachers requires the teacher to have a Public Services Card; her views on whether access to a person's own payslip is...
- School Funding
184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grant aid available for primary schools to develop play areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20787/23]
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Artists' Remuneration
185. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will extend a scheme (details supplied) for new applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20383/23]
- Sports Funding
187. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of applicants for the previous two rounds of the sports capital programme who were granted funding but did not draw...
- National Cultural Institutions
188. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the status of all capital development plans, as provided for under the National Development Plan,...
- National Library
192. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress, at the level of her Department, in relation to the creation of a digital legal deposit infrastructure to support...
- Pleanáil Teanga
193. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé mhéad daoine a bhfuil cónaí orthu sa chuid de Limistéar Pleanála Teanga Dhúiche Sheoigheach...
- An Ghaeltacht
194. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé mhéad daoine a bhfuil cónaí orthu i nGaeltacht Chontae Mhaigh Eo, agus an bhféadfar é a bhriseadh...
- Pleanáil Teanga
195. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé mhéad daoine a bhfuil cónaí orthu sa chuid de Limistéar Pleanála Teanga Bhearna/Chnoc na Cathrach...
- Údarás na Gaeltachta
196. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will detail the total cost to date of Údarás na Gaeltachta's Páirc na Mara project, including staffing,...
- Sports Funding
197. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the large-scale sport infrastructure fund will be open for applications. [20593/23]
- Television Licence Fee
198. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of prosecutions made in 2022 for failure to pay a television licence. [20688/23]
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- National Parks and Wildlife Service
199. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will make available the available data the NPWS is using to inform decisions on the review of the Open Seasons Order and...
- Local Authorities
200. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the subsidies for local authorities that will be put in place to replace their income from development levies which are now...
- Housing Provision
202. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable housing units delivered via the cost-rental equity loan, the affordable housing fund and project...
- Traveller Accommodation
203. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Government intends to reopen applications for the caravan loan scheme; the funding that will be allocated; and if he...
- Wind Energy Generation
204. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the procedure when a wind farm development goes through An Bord Pleanála for approval and not a local authority; the...
- Defective Building Materials
205. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities can apply for the scheme to fix defects in apartments and duplexes. [20256/23]
- Wildlife Regulations
206. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of licences issued to hunt fauna on State-owned foreshore over the past ten years; the number granted to gun clubs...
- Housing Provision
207. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in instances in which his Department is funding the sale of the site back to a local authority for social housing, if he will...
- Housing Schemes
208. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability; and if he will make a...
- Defective Building Materials
209. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will amend the legislation or regulations that limit the reconstruction of homes with defective blocks to the same...
- Departmental Funding
210. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 825 and 842 of 18 April 2023, the amount in grant aid or funding awarded by his...
- Housing Policy
211. 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...
- Wastewater Treatment
212. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the review his Department conducted regarding domestic wastewater treatment systems and the...
- Local Authorities
213. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether local authorities must vote at a full council meeting to allow the individual sales of affordable homes to progress....
- Valuation Office
214. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average processing time for valuations to be processed by the Valuation Office; if there is a difference in processing...
- Defective Building Materials
216. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on his recent engagements with campaigners (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
- Housing Schemes
217. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons availing of the first-time home scheme since its recent introduction, by county, in tabular form; and if...
- Planning Issues
218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will advise regarding planning exemptions in relation to the change of use of a property from commercial to residential;...
- Local Authorities
237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the request by Limerick City and County Council for additional funding to acquire three...
- Water Services
238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will bring the wording for a referendum on the public ownership and management of water services, a commitment having...
- Regeneration Projects
239. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the regeneration of an estate (details supplied); if he is aware of a move by Dublin City Council to cease its...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- School Meals Programme
240. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the guidelines in place for healthy eating in the new roll-out of the school meals programme; the supports in place for...
- Social Welfare Benefits
241. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason child benefit is not paid for those aged 18 years who are still in full-time education; and if she will make a...
- Public Services Card
242. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an adoption certificate is necessary when applying for a public services card when a person has already provided...
- State Pensions
243. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine a pension query (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20238/23]
- Social Welfare Payments
244. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to the Exchequer of providing a recipient of one-parent family payment with access to the living alone...
- Social Welfare Appeals
247. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Welfare Eligibility
248. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is possible to claim an additional half-rate carer’s allowance in respect of another person when already in...
- State Pensions
249. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps being made to address the issue of foster carers having no access to PRSI contributions being paid while fostering...
- Social Welfare Offices
250. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware of instances in which local Intreo offices have given incorrect advice, particularly around illness benefit;...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
251. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if reconsideration of an application for exceptional needs payment will be facilitated in the case of a person (details...
- Community Employment Schemes
252. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has proposals to aid community employment schemes in filling their quota of participants (details...
- Employment Support Services
253. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration is being given by her Department to the rationalisation of the various employment activation schemes...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
254. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person can apply for carer’s allowance while they are receiving jobseeker’s allowance; what happens to...
- Social Welfare Payments
255. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the partner of a person is receiving half-rate carer’s allowance for their child, how the payments work if their...
- Social Welfare Benefits
257. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise in relation to a person (details supplied) who has been refused invalidity pension and supplementary...
- Community Employment Schemes
258. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will be assigned a place on a community employment scheme arising from a successful interview...
- Departmental Reviews
259. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on her Department’s review report in respect of the expansion of the free travel scheme...
- Social Welfare Payments
260. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expedite an application for carer's allowance on behalf of a person (details supplied). [20763/23]
- Department of Justice and Equality
- International Protection
262. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures his Department is putting in place to assist those seeking international protection from Sudan, considering the...
- Legislative Reviews
264. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the programme for Government commitment to review the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011; and if...
- Residency Permits
265. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the status of an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Legislative Measures
266. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the proposed legislation for the regulation of the gambling industry contains provision for holding companies to account in...
- Legal Aid
268. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown of the amount of criminal legal aid that has been paid out to solicitors in respect of their...
- Deportation Orders
270. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process to be followed by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20270/23]
- Naturalisation Applications
271. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if applications for naturalisation have been submitted in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Regulatory Impact Assessments
272. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a regulatory impact analysis will be conducted on the sale of alcohol Bill 2022; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Legislative Measures
273. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is considering carrying out a public health assessment on the sale of alcohol Bill 2022, as recommended by the Oireachtas...
- Departmental Meetings
274. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a schedule of meetings he and his predecessors have had with the chief constable of the PSNI and ministerial...
- An Garda Síochána
275. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of PSNI police officers seconded to An Garda Síochána in the past five years, to date; the number of Garda...
- Crime Prevention
279. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his Department's views on the current level of involvement, if any, of current or former members of Sinn Féin or the...
- Legislative Process
280. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details on the anticipated timeframe for the enactment of hate crime legislation; if he will confirm when he...
- Control of Firearms
281. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will commit to meet with the representatives of the Firearms Users Representative Group (FURG) in respect of the review...
- Data Protection
282. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has consulted the Data Protection Commissioner or carried out a data protection impact assessment in relation...
- Legal Aid
283. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the work of the legal aid review group; when he expects the review to be concluded; and if he...
- Departmental Correspondence
284. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will make direct contact with a person (details supplied). [20417/23]
- Legislative Reviews
285. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the review (details supplied) of the effects of the Part 4 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2020 has been published...
- Immigration Status
286. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for permission to remain in the State on the basis of parentage of...
- An Garda Síochána
287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of knife crime prosecutions that have been confirmed since 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Proposed Legislation
289. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider interim changes to the Guardianship of Infants Act 1964, whereby it will allow psychotherapists to provide...
- State Bodies
290. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times the Criminal Assets Bureau has hired out external quantity surveyors to carry out works on its behalf in...
- An Garda Síochána
291. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of incidents of suspected needle spiking reported to An Garda Síochána in 2022 and to date in 2023, in...
- Legislative Reviews
297. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has plans to amend Article 19A of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017, which allows for the provision of...
- Legislative Measures
298. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the regulations on service charges and sinking funds, as required under sections 18.17 and 19.9 of the Multi-Unit...
- Visa Applications
300. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider making changes to the processing times for short-term stay visa applications whereby the application is for...
- Legislative Reviews
301. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has any proposals to amend section 78 of the Succession Act 1965 to ensure that persons who witness wills would be...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Agriculture Supports
302. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20215/23]
- Agriculture Schemes
303. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider changes to the basic income support for the sustainability scheme (details supplied). [20230/23]
- Greyhound Industry
304. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the start-up cost of the greyhound care centre operated by Rásaíocht Con Éireann in Croom, County Limerick; the date...
- Horticulture Sector
305. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the scheme of investment aid for the development of the commercial horticulture sector will be made available; if he is aware of...
- Greyhound Industry
306. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if proposed statutory instruments legislating that euthanasia of a greyhound must only be carried out by a vet have been adopted...
- Horse Racing Industry
309. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 221 of 29 March 2023, if the numbers of thoroughbred horse deaths in 2022 (1,874) and to date...
- Transfer of Entitlements
310. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason agricultural planners can no longer witness signatures for his Department’s application forms, such as transfer of...
- Animal Diseases
311. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the annual badger population figures for Ireland in each of years 2018 to 2022, in tabular form; and if he will...
- Trade Missions
315. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a food-related trade mission to Vietnam will occur during 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20459/23]
- Animal Welfare
316. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the new rodenticide recently approved for use by British authorities (details supplied); if he is...
- Departmental Reports
317. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of external consultant reports commissioned by his Department in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023;...
- Agriculture Schemes
319. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the proposed dairy farmer retirement scheme details have been finalised; and if there is a timeline for when farmers will be able...
- Assisted Animal Reproduction
320. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if legislation provides for sanctions where substandard artificial insemination, AI, straws are provided to farmers by bovine AI...
- Agriculture Supports
322. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an Areas of Natural Constraint, ANC, payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
- Greyhound Industry
325. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 474 of 8 February 2023, if an exclusion order against a named person (details supplied) remains...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Departmental Budgets
326. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total cost of the transfer of the disability portfolio from the Department of Health to the Department of...
- Disability Services
328. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 518 of 6 December 2022, the status of the roll-out of the two community...
- Special Educational Needs
329. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has been made aware of the difficulties that a special needs preschool (details supplied) that caters for...
- Employment Rights
330. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to amend legislation to address the situation whereby job interviewees believe they have been...
- Legislative Measures
331. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the drafting of legislation to ban conversion therapy in Ireland; and if he will...
- Disability Services
333. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will support a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20257/23]
- Departmental Policies
335. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the programme for Government commitment to ban conversion therapy in Ireland; if...
- Disability Services
336. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current position regarding the roll-out of the national neuro-rehabilitation team for CHO 8 covering County...
- Child and Family Agency
345. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth where a family is extremely dissatisfied with the manner in which they have been dealt with by Tusla, the avenue...
- Disability Services
346. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the pay budget amount for each children’s disability network team, in tabular form. [20408/23]
- Disabilities Assessments
347. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 200 of 22 March 2023, in relation to the €11 million that has been...
- Disability Services
348. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE allocations for the Kilkenny children’s disability network team; the number of WTE...
- Rights of People with Disabilities
352. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will be...
- International Protection
353. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on outstanding payments to an accommodation centre for Ukrainian refugees (details...
- Disability Services
355. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated full-year cost of providing 180 and 450 additional intensive support packages for children with...
- Disability Diagnoses
358. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if irlen syndrome is a recognised disability within the HSE; if not, if there are plans to recognise it as such;...
- Disability Services
359. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children aged zero to 18 years of age in each CHO, by individual area, awaiting first-time...
- Departmental Reports
360. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of external consultant reports commissioned by his Department in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022...
- Departmental Policies
362. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of plans to legally ban conversion therapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20573/23]
- Nursing Homes
363. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if will report on the progress of the €3 billion allocation to remove 18 young adults from the nursing...
- Disability Services
364. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total allocation of his Department's budget to the provision of personal assistance services, by county, in...
- International Protection
365. 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...
- Youth Services
367. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has engaged with his colleague in the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery...
- Disability Services
369. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on plans to increase respite for children and adults with disabilities in County...
- Disabilities Assessments
370. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many assessments of needs were completed in CHO 7 in 2021 and 2022, broken down by CDNT areas. [20691/23]
- International Protection
372. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on IPAS plans to use a location (details supplied) in Dublin 22 for the provision...
- Departmental Correspondence
373. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a response will issue to a request made by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Disability Services
374. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE allocations for the Carlow disability network team; the number of WTE posts vacant on 1 April...
- Department of Health
- Primary Medical Certificates
377. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who applied for, but were not granted, a primary medical certificate in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form; and if he will...
- Ambulance Service
378. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to children requiring paediatric intensive care, and the fact transportation services only operate between the hours of 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., if...
- Hospital Admissions
379. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be admitted to the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dún Laoghaire; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Facilities
380. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm when funding will be made available for a five-storey extension to Cork University Hospital to facilitate additional dedicated paediatric...
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
383. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the amount of money spent to date on the design and assessing the suitability of St. Patrick’s Hospital, Cashel, for the...
- Health Service Executive
385. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a complete list of the HSE's National Clinical Guidelines programmes, including the names of the members of each National Clinical...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
387. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a young child (details supplied) is waiting so long for surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20278/23]
- Hospital Appointments Status
388. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment for a child (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20280/23]
- Health Strategies
390. To ask the Minister for Health when the roll-out of the National Epilepsy Care Programme will take place; when patients in CHO 8 can expect to see an improvement in epilepsy services; and if...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
391. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not received their €1,000 pandemic payment from the HSE as announced for care workers in 2022. [20311/23]
- Departmental Funding
392. To ask the Minister for Health the amounts in grant aid or funding awarded by his Department, or through schemes administered by it, to organisations (details supplied) in each year from...
- Hospital Appointments Status
393. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for a hip operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20322/23]
- Medicinal Products
394. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has not received reimbursement for a payment made in February 2023 under a scheme in view of the length...
- Hospital Charges
395. To ask the Minister for Health if he is personally aware that accounts for inpatient charges in public hospitals are referred to collection services within two months of non-payment from the...
- Health Services Staff
396. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the pay differential between professionals such as occupational therapists and speech and language teachers in an organisation (details...
- Hospital Staff
397. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time there has been no paediatric neurologist at UHL; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20342/23]
- Public Sector Pensions
401. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 371 of 8 February 2023, if he will provide an update on the introduction of pension increases (details supplied); and if...
- Departmental Schemes
402. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria used when deciding a disease or condition is added to the long-term illness card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20361/23]
- General Practitioner Services
404. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GMS patients attached to a practice (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20379/23]
- Pharmacy Services
406. To ask the Minister for Health what the policy is in an area that has no pharmacy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20381/23]
- Tobacco Control Measures
408. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 572 and 573 of 25 April 2023, if he is aware of research from the University of Bristol and Cambridge University...
- Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
409. To ask the Minister for Health the funding streams available to a charity (details supplied) given the difficulty it is facing providing mental health supports due to a drop in charitable...
- Medicinal Products
410. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused a drug; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20390/23]
- Hospital Appointments Status
411. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an orthopaedic appointment at Galway University Hospital; if they are on the routine or urgent...
- Medicinal Products
412. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update as of April 2023 on the production and publication of a review of the access and reimbursement issues surrounding the availability...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
413. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for orthopaedic outpatient appointments and surgeries at Galway University Hospital, by length of time, in tabular...
- Nursing Homes
414. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a fair deal application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20416/23]
- Hospital Facilities
415. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to make the new mortuary at UHW available to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20423/23]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
416. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting so long to see a consultant neurosurgeon at Beaumont Hospital. [20424/23]
- Medical Cards
417. To ask the Minister for Health when GP visit card eligibility will be extended, as announced in budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20429/23]
- Medical Aids and Appliances
418. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hoist for a child (details supplied). [20430/23]
- Health Services Staff
420. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule of neurology nurse specialists by location in the State; and his plans to engage with the HSE with a view to the provision of...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
422. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for hip replacement surgery at Cavan General Hospital as of 24 April 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
- Health Services Staff
423. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant optometry and ophthalmology roles in primary care services in CHO 1; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20454/23]
- Health Services
424. To ask the Minister for Health his views on establishing midwife-led clinics for community-based maternity services in areas of the country more than 45 minutes from a maternity hospital...
- Primary Care Centres
425. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe within which we will see the opening of the new primary care centres in both Clones and Monaghan town; the services that will be provided in each...
- Hospital Procedures
426. To ask the Minister for Health the number of theatre slots for dermatology surgeries that were allocated each week in 2022 and to date in 2023 in Our Lady Of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; and...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
428. To ask the Minister for Health when a catering assistant who worked in a nursing home all through the pandemic for a company (details supplied) will receive their pandemic special...
- Home Care Packages
429. To ask the Minister for Health if a person’s (details supplied) 60 care hours in the absence of a suitable provider can be transferred into a grant so that the family can get some...
- Hospital Appointments Status
430. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who, following an endoscopy on 23 February 2023, was referred to the cardiology...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
431. To ask the Minister for Health if he will put in place a refund scheme which would allow persons (details supplied) who have to rent medical equipment such as breathing assistance machines...
- Health Services Waiting Lists
432. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) who is in constant pain has been told they cannot get physiotherapy until after the summer; and if he will make a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
433. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the special Covid leave scheme will cease on 30 June 2023 despite the large number of healthcare staff on long-term leave due to long-Covid; if he...
- Hospital Staff
434. To ask the Minister for Health if the posts of both national director for genetics and genomics and the bioinformatics lab director have been filled for the Genetic Testing Service at CHI...
- Health Promotion
435. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have availed of HSE stop smoking classes within each CHO in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [20498/23]
- Hospital Staff
436. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE staff by job title working in the long-Covid clinic at Tallaght University Hospital; the number of WTE staff vacancies by job title at this...
- General Practitioner Services
437. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase direct access to echocardiography for general practitioners through community-based ambulatory care hubs. [20500/23]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
438. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a report on the waiting list for genetic test for BRCA1; the number of persons on the waiting list; and the average waiting times, per...
- Qualifications Recognition
439. To ask the Minister for Health the current average processing time for the CORU international recognition process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20516/23]
- Assisted Human Reproduction
443. To ask the Minister for Health when details of State subvention for IVF treatment due to start in September 2023 will be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20520/23]
- Hospital Appointments Status
444. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect to receive an appointment for an operation in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will...
- Health Services
445. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the case of a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20566/23]
- Dental Services
446. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of dentists that take medical cards in east Galway, in tabular form. [20571/23]
- Mental Health Services
448. To ask the Minister for Health if a national psychology placement office has been established; if funding models have been identified for psychology students at doctoral level; and if he...
- Health Service Executive
449. To ask the Minister for Health the reason minutes of a meeting from February 2023 of the HSE Board's Safety and Quality Committee, at which the closure of the Owenacurra Centre, Midleton was...
- Hospital Charges
450. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure an inpatient hospital charge is removed for a person (details supplied). [20589/23]
- Departmental Funding
451. To ask the Minister for Health the funding and supports available to the charity organisation (details supplied) to fund salaries; the application process for these supports; and if he will...
- Health Services Staff
452. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 644 of 28 March 2023, the reason for the delay in issuing a response (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
453. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on pandemic bonus payments for a person (detail supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20603/23]
- Pharmacy Services
454. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm whether pharmacies use a different supplier for medical card holders and those who are buying their medications. [20607/23]
- Mental Health Services
455. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the number of patients currently under the care of psychology services within the Waterford primary care service; if he is aware that the...
- Education and Training Provision
456. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on talks with Trinity College Dublin about funds for counselling psychologists; and when he anticipates the details of the agreement will be...
- Health Services Staff
457. To ask the Minister for Health if a gastroparesis specialist will be immediately recruited to the HSE; and if, in the meantime, patients who need treatment from a gastroparesis specialist...
- Hospital Appointments Status
458. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20639/23]
- Health Services
460. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that appropriate treatment is made available for children suffering with ailments (details supplied) as is provided in other countries; and...
- Legislative Measures
461. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to introduce legislation in the area of safeguarding for vulnerable adults; the status of the legislation; when it will be introduced; and if...
- Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
462. To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland regarding a nursing licence for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Tobacco Control Measures
463. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department will conduct a full review of the Tobacco Free Ireland programme; and if there will be public consultation on the programme. [20659/23]
- Health Services Staff
464. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE paediatric speech and language therapists working in each primary care centre within CHO 5 in each of the years 2021, 2022 and to date in...
- Medical Cards
468. To ask the Minister for Health the action that is being taken to expedite the processing of applications for medical card holders in the south-east CH05 area who require care under the HSE...
- Health Services Staff
469. To ask the Minister for Health when the 2% pay increase for staff working in the health sector, which was due to come into effect on 1 March 2023, will be paid to staff (details supplied);...
- Hospital Appointments Status
470. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) cannot get their appointment in Cavan General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20696/23]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
471. To ask the Minister for Health when an application for the special recognition pandemic payment will be processed for staff at a nursing home (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Health Service Executive
472. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline he is working towards for recruitment of chief executives for the new regional health areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20707/23]
- Alcohol Sales
474. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints made to the HSE in relation to breaches of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2008, and to which sections of the Act they refer to, in...
- Qualifications Recognition
476. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1768 of 18 April 2023, if a healthcare award at level 6,7, or 8 instead of the QQI healthcare support level 5 award will...
- Healthcare Policy
477. To ask the Minister for Health if patients on waiting lists will be encouraged to opt for the treatment abroad scheme where appropriate; and if the scheme can be streamlined in order to make...
- Hospital Equipment
479. To ask the Minister for Health the progress on the provision of an MRI scanner at Mullingar hospital; the timeline for the provision of this service; the budget allowed for the staffing of...
- Health Services
480. To ask the Minister for Health if the addiction service for those under 18 years in the midlands counties, which was delivered by the Midlands Regional Drug and Alcohol Taskforce in counties...
- Health Services Staff
481. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 403 and 404 of 8 February 2023, how certain titles came to be used in two CHOs (details supplied); the means by which...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Grant Payments
482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a matter could be investigated as a student (details supplied) is at risk of losing out on a year of SUSI grant through no fault of their own;...
- Third Level Admissions
483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered the deterring impact of the matriculation requirement of leaving certificate Irish, or in some cases, higher level leaving...
- Education and Training Provision
484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the selection criteria and tendering process for new retrofitting centres; the progress of establishing these new centres; and if he will make a...
- Educational Disadvantage
485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the allocation made to each education and training board under the Mitigating Against Educational Disadvantage Fund, in tabular form; and if he...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Departmental Funding
486. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department funds community groups with a stream of grant aid in the context of persons with gambling addiction; and if her...
- Library Services
487. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will outline the guidance provided by her Department to local authorities in relation to public library membership; and if she...
- Library Projects
488. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if consideration has been given towards the provision of funding for a community centre and library for Kill, County Kildare, given...
- Regeneration Projects
489. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when a decision will be made to approve additional funding for Loughrea town hall; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Youth Services
490. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule on a county and local authority basis showing the funding her Department has provided to youth-focused...
