Written answers

Tuesday, 23 May 2023

  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Pensions Reform
      78. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has considered the benefits to the State coffers of a smoothed approach to the automatic enrolment pension...
    • Cost of Living Issues
      85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are any additional supports for parents coming into the summer months. [24631/23]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      86. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider a review of the child benefit scheme, including students still in full-time second level education after...
    • Cost of Living Issues
      88. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports in place for people struggling to pay their grocery bills. [24630/23]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      89. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of claims in the education sector for short-term jobseeker’s payments from substitute teachers and all...
    • Pensions Reform
      90. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is satisfied that the automatic enrolment pension system being proposed by Government can stay below the 0.5%...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      91. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to reinstate the multiple payment of child benefit to parents of twins, triplets, and so on, which were...
    • School Meals Programme
      92. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has measured the progress and success of the school meals programme relating to diet, attendance and...
    • State Pensions
      93. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her proposed timeline regarding the development of administrative and IT systems to facilitate the provision of pensions to...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      94. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase the one-parent family payment. [24299/23]
    • Social Welfare Code
      95. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 82 of 28 March 2023, the status of the promised straw-man proposal for the restructuring...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      96. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date in June that she expects the lump sum child benefit payment of €100 per child to be paid; and if she will make...
    • Departmental Schemes
      98. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the adequacy of supports for people with disabilities who want to start their own business; if there are any...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      99. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the number of appeals against decisions made by her Department have increased or decreased in respect of...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      102. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the numbers of applicants to date in 2023 for exceptional needs payments, by category of the exceptional need (for example,...
    • State Pensions
      103. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on a State pension solution for long-term family carers; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      104. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has investigated areas where there are very high concentrations of claimants of jobseeker’s allowance,...
    • Cost of Living Issues
      106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to introduce cost-of-living supports for adult dependents or those on non-contributory pensions, as many...
    • Departmental Strategies
      107. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the implementation of the Roadmap for Social Protection 2020-2025; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      108. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will introduce a social energy tariff, targeted at households on means-tested social welfare payments...
    • School Meals Programme
      111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of schools in Cork east in receipt of the school meals scheme for the 2022/2023 academic year; how this number...
    • School Transport
      112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the engagement that she has had with the Minister for Education on the matter of school transport since 2022; and if she will...
    • Departmental Reports
      113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the Social Protection Annual Report for 2022 will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24441/23]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider in Budget 2024 extending the child dependent cut-off age to 24 years if the child is still attending a...
    • Employment Schemes
      115. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way her Department is supporting people with disabilities to gain employment; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      116. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will confirm the number of people who benefitted from the social protection lump sum payments; if further...
    • Employment Schemes
      118. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of money paid through her Department in 2022 to employers that take on workers under the Jobs Plus scheme; the...
    • Departmental Consultations
      119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the consultation process as part of her Department's work on addressing the cost of...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      120. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the proposed legislation on child maintenance system changes; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Policies
      121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the nature and extent of the engagement that her Department has had with other Government agencies and Departments in...
    • Energy Prices
      122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports that are or will be available for older people facing higher energy bills, in particular, high gas bills; and...
    • Departmental Programmes
      123. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people who availed of the activation and family support programme in 2022 to fund the cost of training supports...
    • Public Transport
      124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the use of a designated Leap card for the free travel pass, with a view to cross-departmental collaboration...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      125. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social welfare recipients that were subject to means testing as a part of the assessment of their entitlement...
    • Social Welfare Code
      127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will review the PRSI contributions system in order that adult dependents who have worked in the home may be...
    • Departmental Reports
      130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the report being compiled by her Department on expanding the free travel scheme for people who have been excluded from...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of trips that were taken by senior citizens on the free travel scheme; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Code
      133. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider raising the age limit for domiciliary care allowance to 18 years of age; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      135. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will adjust the rate of fuel allowance in a way which will be determined by a strong evidence base on the minimum...
    • Social Welfare Code
      136. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will ensure that households that have accumulated significant debts, including arrears on bills and on...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Central Statistics Office
      137. To ask the Taoiseach the estimated cost of establishing a new division within the Central Statistics Office; and the number of staff required at each level and the annual salary at each...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      139. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a breakdown of money that has already been spent by the shared island unit on projects under its remit, by year, to date. [24039/23]
    • Wildlife Conservation
      141. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department and public bodies/agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install artificial structures that provide shelter and habitat space...
    • Office of Director of Public Prosecutions
      142. To ask the Taoiseach the caseload of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for each year since 2006. [23928/23]
    • Departmental Staff
      143. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the plans sent to his Department by the Minister of State with responsibility for integration to recruit a team for community engagement...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Northern Ireland
      144. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recent developments with the Northern Ireland Troubles Bill by the British government during the final day of consideration...
    • Departmental Data
      145. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if it is possible to determine the number of Irish citizens that are resident in Northern Ireland; and if so, if the number of those...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      147. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish citizens living in the United States that have secured citizenship through the foreign birth registration process. [24119/23]
    • Passport Services
      148. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will issue on time for intended travel date of 17 May 2023 for a person (details supplied); the reason for the delayed alert...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      149. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department and public bodies or agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install artificial structures that...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      150. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on applications (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24548/23]
    • Foreign Policy
      151. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of Ireland’s pledged contribution to the European Peace Facility that has actually been transferred out of Exchequer...
    • Passport Services
      153. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on the status of a passport application (details supplied) as the applicant’s travel date is imminent and all...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      154. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason a person (details supplied) has not received their foreign birth registration; the reason they are waiting since 2020; and if he...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      155. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish citizens who remain in Sudan; the steps he is taking to ensure their safe return; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Passport Services
      158. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of revenue generated for his Department through all aspects of passport fees in the years of 2022, and to date in 2023, in...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Energy Prices
      159. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagement he has had with energy companies in advance of winter 2023 in order to protect vulnerable persons from...
    • Recycling Policy
      160. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address an issue of small retailers collecting plastic bottles (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Energy Prices
      161. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the protections, if any, that are currently in place to ensure vulnerable, elderly people who live alone are not...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      163. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a response will issue to communication (details supplied) relating to a broadband issue; and if he will make a...
    • National Broadband Plan
      164. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update as to when an area in Tralee (details supplied) will get broadband; and if he will make a...
    • Energy Conservation
      165. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of applications received under the "revisit" warmer homes scheme since its announcement; the number of homes...
    • State Bodies
      167. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a breakdown of how the dividend arising from the ESB in 2009 was allocated, in tabular form. [24202/23]
    • Inland Fisheries
      168. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he and his Department have put in place any measures to prevent an app (details supplied) and other AI applications...
    • Postal Services
      170. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he expects to approve a proposed increase in the pension entitlements of An Post workers; and if he will make a...
    • Energy Policy
      171. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department will engage with the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland with a view to altering the cut-off date...
    • National Broadband Plan
      172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the solutions his Department can offer to businesses (details supplied) facing closure due to the lack of adequate...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department and public bodies/agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install artificial...
    • Energy Policy
      174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to address the rising cost of materials to install solar panels on private residences and farm...
    • Waste Management
      178. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether he believes there is justification for the introduction of a charge on brown bins - and therefore food and...
    • Energy Policy
      180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has any plans to address the access barrier to the low-interest loans for energy upgrades caused by inflation in...
    • Departmental Staff
      181. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of staff from his Department who are working on electricity demand reduction; and the number of staff...
  • Department of Defence
    • Wildlife Conservation
      182. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department and public bodies/agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install artificial structures that provide...
    • International Bodies
      183. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the benefits he considers are associated with membership of the Chiefs of European Navies (Chen); the conditions of membership; the resources...
    • Defence Forces
      184. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of accommodation dwellings in Defence Forces ownership, that are currently unoccupied at each location; the estimated average cost of...
    • International Bodies
      185. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on Ireland's participation in NATO's Partnership for Peace programme; the current activities that Ireland are participating in...
    • European Union
      186. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on Ireland's participation in the European Union's Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO); the obligations this puts on...
    • Naval Service
      189. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on the acquisition of two ships by the Irish Naval service; the cost of purchase, transport and refitting; the works that are...
    • European Union
      190. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the cost to date, including off-budget costs, of Ireland’s participation in PESCO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24963/23]
    • Air Corps
      191. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the nautical miles that each Air Corps aircraft can go; and the nautical miles that each Naval Service ship can go, in tabular form. [24973/23]
    • An tSeirbhís Chabhlaigh
      193. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence an bhfuil i gceist filleadh ar an nós a bhí ann bád cabhlaigh de chuid na hÉireann a ainmniú i ndiaidh pearsa...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • National Car Test
      194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps his Department will take to help with the backlog of NCT tests (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Driver Licences
      195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will explain the exemptions for individuals with a driving licence from a different jurisdiction; the countries Ireland has a...
    • Road Network
      196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an operator of an animal-drawn vehicle for commercial purposes is required to have some form of public liability or other insurance,...
    • Public Transport
      197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the Transport for Ireland Leap card does not work for both bus and train nationwide (details supplied).; and if he will make a...
    • Bus Services
      198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on Local Link services in rural areas; if there are plans to expand services to ensure there is connectivity...
    • Road Projects
      199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of taxpayers' money spent on Ardfinnan Bridge since 2015, including monies spent by Tipperary County Council, the NTA, TII,...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department and public bodies/agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install artificial structures that...
    • Rail Network
      201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for the design, planning and construction of new DART stations at Heuston West and Kylemore Road, Ballyfermot. [24309/23]
    • Pension Provisions
      202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the delay in relation to paying the new pension rate increase to those employed by Dublin Port; and if he will make a...
    • Public Transport
      203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to delays in the transfer of Leap card top-up stations to An Post; if the knock-on impact for those who...
    • Road Projects
      204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Ardfinnan Bridge has been removed from 2023 funding programme; if this decision will be reviewed immediately; and if he will...
    • Public Transport
      205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the local hackney pilot; his plans to expand it to other communities; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Car Test
      206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of fines and the amount of same issued to a company (details supplied) in respect of non-delivery of national car tests do...
    • Road Projects
      210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to confirm the N17 from Collooney to Knock scheme will receive minimum funding over the next few years to progress the design phase...
    • Rail Network
      212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to ensure that people can pay by cash when purchasing food and drinks from the catering trolley on the trains between Killarney and...
    • Electric Vehicles
      213. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will carry out a review of an electric charger grant application by a person (details supplied). [24546/23]
    • Pension Provisions
      214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he can clarify (details supplied) in relation to the pension provision of CIÉ workers; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Transport
      215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in light of the apparent delays in introducing contactless next gen ticketing on public transport, if he will examine a QR Style scan...
    • Cycling Facilities
      216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to set out, in tabular form, the amounts invested nationally in each year from 2013 to 2022 in developing cycling infrastructure across...
    • Cycling Policy
      217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the measures his Department has introduced or plans to introduce during the lifetime of the current Government to increase the...
    • Cycling Facilities
      220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the total number of kilometres of dedicated cycle lanes available across Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rail Network
      221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there will be time for the Government to ensure that the Western rail corridor is added to the TEN-T network following the publication...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Yield
      223. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected revenue yield from an increase in the vacant homes tax to 25% in a full year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24057/23]
    • Tax Code
      224. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will abolish the deposit interest retention tax on children's saving accounts. [24066/23]
    • Housing Schemes
      225. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is a clause in the enhanced help-to-buy scheme which allows separated or divorced people who are not first-time buyers to avail of the scheme; and if...
    • Budget Process
      226. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected net effect of carryover measures for Budget 2024 as a result of Budget 2023 measures; the way in which it is accounted for in the budgetary...
    • Tax Yield
      227. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected revenue yield from an increase in excise on diesel of five cents per litre; the expected cost of using the diesel rebate scheme to offset such an...
    • Departmental Data
      228. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of new car sales based on car body type in each VRT band for 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023 [24123/23]
    • Interest Rates
      230. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in light of a recent decision by Tullamore Circuit Court to instruct a vulture fund to offer fixed interest rates, he will engage with vulture funds...
    • Tax Code
      231. To ask the Minister for Finance if owners of zoned residential lands will be liable for the RZLT while the landowner is in the process of applying for planning permission and is awaiting the...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      232. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department and public bodies/agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install artificial structures that provide shelter and...
    • Legislative Process
      233. To ask the Minister for Finance when we can expect the Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2020 to complete all stages in Dáil Éireann and be enacted. [24312/23]
    • Business Supports
      234. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update in tabular form on a county basis the number of businesses in each county that have successfully applied for inclusion under the...
    • Tax Reliefs
      235. To ask the Minister for Finance the specific tax reliefs available to farmers which are due to expire in 2023/2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24421/23]
    • Revenue Commissioners
      236. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of and value of motor vehicles seized by the Revenue Commissioners over the past five years to date; the amount of VRT recovered in respect of the...
    • Tax Reliefs
      237. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline, in tabular form, how much has been spent on the bike-to-work scheme for each year to date since its introduction; and if he will make a statement...
    • Housing Schemes
      238. To ask the Minister for Finance why the help-to-buy (HTB) scheme does not apply to second-hand homes; if he will consider extending the HTB scheme to second-hand homes; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Credits
      239. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of restoring the regional uplift of 5% to the film tax credit. [24744/23]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      240. To ask the Minister for Finance when it is expected the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal will be formed and be in a position to hear appeals again. [24755/23]
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      242. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking in response to rising mortgage repayments on family homes as a result of the ECB increasing interest rates; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Public Sector Pay
      243. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated full-year cost of ensuring that every public sector worker is paid a minimum of €15 per hour; and if he will make a...
    • Courts Service
      246. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the engagements he has had with the Department of Justice in relation to the restoration of barrister fees under the criminal legal aid...
    • Departmental Policies
      247. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the engagements he has had with the Department of Health and the HSE in relation to funding proposals...
    • Office of Public Works
      248. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will ascertain from the OPW when a matter (details supplied) will be progressed and finalised; and if he will make a statement on...
    • International Protection
      249. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of modular units ordered through an organisation (details supplied) to date for refugees/asylum seekers; if he will provide a...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      250. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department and public bodies/agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install artificial structures that...
    • Departmental Reports
      251. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the OECD report: Strengthening Environmental Considerations in Public Investment Management in Ireland, will be completed and...
    • Departmental Reviews
      252. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he anticipates the review intended to update the shadow pricing related to the climate targets in the Public Spending Code; and if...
    • Departmental Budgets
      253. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the variance from profile to date of each Ministerial Vote Group, in tabular form. [24504/23]
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      254. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he and or his officials and or the IDA in the context of their support of an organisation (details supplied) conducted due...
    • Work Permits
      255. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline the situation with respect to the issuing of employment permits for dairy farm assistants; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Data
      256. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated full-year cost of introducing three new bank holidays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24035/23]
    • Business Supports
      257. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports available to businesses which were established under the last 12 months and therefore, do not qualify for the temporary...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      258. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department and public bodies/agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install artificial structures...
    • Regulatory Bodies
      259. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a schedule of the amount of fees under each heading that the CRO has received in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in...
    • Employment Rights
      260. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware that a business (details supplied) dismissed four mechanical workers as fitters and welders in Limerick, simply...
    • Enterprise Policy
      261. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on actions to address Recommendation 1.2 in the Report of the SME Taskforce: National SME and...
    • Employment Rights
      262. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the recourse an employee has when their employer does not pay sick pay and they did not make a claim to the Department of Social...
    • Company Law
      263. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking in response to large retailers offering the same products at different prices depending on whether a consumer...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Staff
      264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on funding for current educational psychologists (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24832/23]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of reducing the pupil-teacher ratio to 1:15 across primary and post-primary levels; and if she will make a statement...
    • Education Costs
      266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of making primary and post-primary education totally free, i.e., abolishing all charges (including voluntary...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of psychologists currently employed by NEPS; the number of sanctioned psychologist posts in NEPS; the average full-year cost of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of SNAs currently employed by her Department; the number of sanctioned SNA posts; the average full-year cost of employing these SNAs;...
    • School Funding
      270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing capitation grants to primary and post-primary schools by 50%. [24109/23]
    • School Staff
      271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions her Department intends on taking in terms of restoring the ex-quota position for guidance counsellors in schools and improving the...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the DEIS+ Cluster proposals that have been put forward by a group of principals in schools across Dublin, with a view to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will be given approval to proceed to construction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24156/23]
    • Departmental Data
      275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of licence agreements held by a pre-school for the use of space within primary schools buildings across the country. [24210/23]
    • State Examinations
      278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline in tabular form the number of students who have received braille exam papers for both the junior and leaving certificate examinations...
    • School Accommodation
      279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on an additional accommodation application for a school (details supplied) in County Mayo in view of the space...
    • Education Policy
      280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department requires primary schools to have an anti-discrimination policy; if so, the reason a school (details supplied) does not appear...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit have policies in place to install artificial structures that...
    • Education Schemes
      282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full year cost of running the Covid Learning and Support Scheme, CLASS, 2021-2022; and the total number of beneficiaries. [24284/23]
    • School Transport
      283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement that has taken place between her Department, Bus Éireann and a school (details supplied) in respect of a number of concerns...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the opportunity will arise again for schools to be considered for DEIS status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24297/23]
    • School Transport
      285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans that are in place to replace a bus service (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24307/23]
    • State Examinations
      286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide additional supports, specifically extra time, for students with dyslexia undertaking the junior and leaving certificate examinations...
    • School Funding
      287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding will be provided in respect of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24316/23]
    • Educational Disadvantage
      288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been brought to a number of schools and principals who are advocating for increased services in DEIS schools; if she will...
    • School Transport
      289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown by county of the number of pupils travelling to secondary school on private buses and not covered by the school...
    • Special Educational Needs
      290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children waiting for a placement in an autism spectrum disorder, ASD, class in County Tipperary for September 2023; and if she will...
    • School Accommodation
      291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the status of a two-classroom autism spectrum disorder, ASD, unit build at a school (details supplied), given...
    • Schools Building Projects
      292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the opening of a new school (details supplied) planned for this September; if she will reaffirm her commitment...
    • School Staff
      293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to consider a review of the pilot voluntary redeployment scheme in consultation with teachers that takes into consideration the current...
    • Schools Building Projects
      294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have been built between 2011 and 2022, in tabular form, by year, per county; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will agree to the establishment of a DEIS+ band within the DEIS programme. [24396/23]
    • School Admissions
      296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if further progress has been made in securing a school place for the son of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Scéimeanna Tacaíochta Gaeilge
      297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad é an meastachán ar chostais a bhainfeadh leis an Deontas Caipitíochta do na Colaistí Samhraidh Gaeltachta a thabhairt ar...
    • Departmental Reports
      298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will publish the KOSI report which her Department funded Donegal Education Centre to commission; the amount the report cost; if the...
    • School Transport
      299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to ensure that the criteria of a transport service (details supplied) is amended to enable more children avail of it; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will agree to meet the management of a school (details supplied) to discuss their concerns in respect of the proposals for the badly...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a teacher (details required) is registered with the Teaching Council of Ireland without further delay; and if she will...
    • Education Schemes
      302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated additional cost of expanding the Creative Schools programme to every secondary school in the State. [24571/23]
    • School Staff
      304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the insufficient allocation of English as an Additional Language support hours for a school (details supplied) to teach and...
    • Education Policy
      305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown of the primary and secondary schools in County Mayo that have been sanctioned for additional education supports...
    • Departmental Data
      306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown of additional children enrolled into mainstream primary and secondary schools under international protection and...
    • School Staff
      307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider significantly increasing the hours for the secretarial post/grant for a school (details supplied) whose workload has...
    • School Funding
      309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when primary and post-primary schools will receive their ICT grants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24718/23]
    • School Transport
      311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make changes to the school bus route servicing an area (details supplied) [24750/23]
    • State Examinations
      313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will instruct the State Examinations Commission to introduce access to extra time for dyslexic students in Junior Cycle and Leaving...
    • School Transport
      316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 27 April 2023, if she will confirm whether Bus Éireann has reviewed the school transport...
    • School Accommodation
      317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the status of an application for a retrofit grant for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new build for a school (details supplied). [24783/23]
    • State Examinations
      319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support the call by an organisation (details supplied) to introduce extra time for dyslexic students in Junior Cycle and Leaving...
    • School Transport
      320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify the eligibility of students to access the school transport for post-primary students when their nearest school does not have a school...
    • Education Policy
      321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to establish a Gaelcholáiste serving the Dublin 2, 4, 6 and 8 areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Transport
      322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school transport service could be provided on a route (details supplied) considering the number of students currently travelling the route...
    • School Textbooks
      323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if private schools such as a school (details supplied) can avail of Ireland’s first national primary school book scheme; and if she will...
    • School Admissions
      324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the school place for a pupil (details supplied). [24839/23]
    • School Facilities
      325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on Government plans to provide solar photovoltaic panels as part of the summer works scheme; how schools can apply...
    • School Transport
      326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she expects school transport to be provided to a child (details supplied) in County Leitrim, as recommended by the local SENO; and if she...
    • School Accommodation
      328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the appointment of the design team for the additional classrooms for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • School Staff
      329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take into account the wishes of career guidance and counsellor teachers in Cork city and not move their counselling supervision...
    • Special Educational Needs
      330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support the efforts of a school (details supplied) to open an ASD unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25009/23]
    • School Transport
      331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will facilitate a school bus in order that students can continue their education through Irish (details supplied); and if she...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Arts Policy
      332. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the estimated full-year cost of doubling the current spending on the arts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24028/23]
    • Wildlife Conservation
      335. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department and public bodies/agencies that operate under her remit have policies in place to install artificial structures...
    • Swimming Pools
      336. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to the great success of a pop-up pool in Ardee, County Louth, which finished on 12 May, if there is any consideration...
    • Museum Projects
      337. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the IMMA satellite museum initiative in Ballina, County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Contracts
      338. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a list of all external assurance process reviews tendered for to date; the value of the contract; and the name...
    • Údarás na Gaeltachta
      339. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé mhéad maoiniú caipitil a caitheadh trí Údarás na Gaeltachta in aghaidh gach bliana ó 2003....
    • Pleanáil Teanga
      342. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cad é an tuarastal bliantúil d'oifigeach pleanála teanga, agus cé mhéad maoiniú anuas air sin...
    • Foras na Gaeilge
      343. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé mhéad maoiniú reatha a caitheadh ar na ceanneagraíochtaí faoi scáth Fhoras na Gaeilge in aghaidh...
    • Údarás na Gaeltachta
      347. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cad é an meastachán ar chostais a bhainfeadh le maoiniú caipitil Údarás na Gaeltachta a mhéadú...
    • Scéimeanna Tacaíochta Gaeilge
      349. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cad é an meastachán ar chostais a bhainfeadh leis an Deontas Caipitíochta do na Coláistí Samhraidh...
    • Caiteachas Ranna
      351. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé mhéad a d'íoc an Roinn le brúnna a thacaíonn le coláistí samhraidh Gaeltachta in aghaidh an...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      353. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the capital funding spent on arts centres, concert halls, theatres, galleries or artistic spaces every year from 2003; and a...
    • Culture Ireland
      357. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding spent on Culture Ireland every year since 2005; and a breakdown by current and capital spending. [24565/23]
    • Departmental Programmes
      359. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding spent on the Creative Ireland programme every year since 2017; and a breakdown by current and capital spending. [24567/23]
    • National Cultural Institutions
      363. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for a breakdown in tabular form of the funding spent on each national cultural institution every year since 2003; and a breakdown...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      365. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding spent on Fís Éireann every year since 2003; and a breakdown by current and capital spending. [24579/23]
    • Departmental Policies
      372. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider working with other Government Departments to establish a funding scheme to assist event organisers in meeting...
    • Film Industry
      373. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht how she proposes to ensure effective enforcement of the rights afforded to film directors in the Irish film industry under SI...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Waterways Issues
      374. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of boats removed from rivers, canals and inland waterways in Ireland from January 2022 to April 2023, by month in...
    • Housing Provision
      375. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated number of housing units which were not commenced or completed during the period of Covid-19 restrictions which...
    • Defective Building Materials
      386. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm whether a Senior Counsel was appointed to pursue accountability from suppliers of defective concrete...
    • Housing Policy
      387. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expected revenue yield from an increase in the derelict site levy to 20% in a full year; and if he will make a statement...
    • Local Authorities
      388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the targets set out in Appendix 1 of the Laying the Foundations: Housing Action Report produced in 2016 by the then...
    • Housing Provision
      389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the 35 AHB housing units approved for construction (details supplied) have finished construction; if so, their completion...
    • Housing Policy
      390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress of the development on right-sizing; if he has engaged with participating local authorities regarding the uptake...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied). [24072/23]
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      392. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he has taken to ensure full, public visibility of the "available data" that the NPWS is using in order to inform...
    • Housing Provision
      393. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the situation regarding a number of vacant units owned by a corporation (details supplied); and if there is a...
    • Housing Schemes
      394. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm that the regulations and mechanisms are now in place to allow builders to build residential accommodation...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      397. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide any independent peer-reviewed scientific and/or industry-based evidence as to how the installation of a...
    • Defective Building Materials
      398. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update as to where the new scheme for homes impacted by defective blocks and pyrite is currently at...
    • Tax Code
      399. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify a matter relating to the residential zoned land tax (details supplied). [24195/23]
    • Grant Payments
      400. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are grants available for private, not-for-profit organisations to install or renovate publicly accessible toilets on...
    • Local Authorities
      401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the specific plans and timelines he has received from a local authority on a project (details supplied). [24205/23]
    • Tax Code
      403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when we can expect to see the residential zoned land tax imposed. [24235/23]
    • Departmental Budgets
      405. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details on how the capital carryover from the 2022 housing budget has been allocated for 2023; and if he...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      406. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department and public bodies/agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install artificial...
    • Housing Policy
      407. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if any consideration has been given to reducing the rent differential assessment in households of very low income, where the...
    • Departmental Reports
      409. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he intends to publish the report into planning matters in County Donegal; and if his intention is not to publish, to set...
    • Urban Development
      411. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that has been made to date regarding URDF in Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24338/23]
    • Housing Provision
      412. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of any plans for the regeneration of St. Andrew's Court, Dublin 2; and if he will make a statement...
    • Vacant Sites
      415. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of sites placed on the vacant sites register of each local authority during 2021 and 2022, in tabular form; and if...
    • Housing Policy
      418. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will introduce a scheme to enable local authority tenants to apply for inter-county transfers [24401/23]
    • Departmental Licences
      420. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the number of hunting licences issued over the past ten years, broken down by type of licence and district...
    • Housing Schemes
      421. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the Government schemes and grants that are available to support companies that wish to refurbish multiple derelict or vacant...
    • Defective Building Materials
      422. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider including houses built as part of multi-unit developments that are currently included in the defective...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      423. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funds or grants available to housing estates that wish to upgrade their sewerage treatment plant or percolation area; and...
    • Energy Conservation
      424. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many local authority homes were retrofitted in 2022, and in Q1 2023, by area, in tabular form. [24491/23]
    • Departmental Data
      427. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of all external assurance process reviews tendered for to date; the value of the contract; and the...
    • Housing Provision
      428. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the 25 AHB housing units under Respond, approved for construction in (details supplied) have finished construction; if so,...
    • Housing Schemes
      431. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there have been any applications or approvals to the new home scheme in Kerry, Limerick or Tipperary since the scheme was...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      432. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding spent on An Chomhairle Oidhreachta every year since 2003; and a breakdown by current and capital spending. [24575/23]
    • Heritage Sites
      434. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of purchasing each of the remaining houses on the terrace of the historic Moore Street battle site at the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      435. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding spent by his Department on Traveller Culture, Heritage and Identity annually in 2022 and 2023; and a breakdown by...
    • Planning Issues
      437. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will seek details from each individual local authority in respect of the percentage of rural one-off housing...
    • Housing Schemes
      438. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify whether the fresh-start principal under the local authority home loan scheme is available to those who...
    • Departmental Budgets
      439. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount in the capital budget as set out in table 13 of the Stability Programme Update 2023 that is designated for building...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      440. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of providing family hubs for the 1,639 families currently accessing emergency homeless accommodation; and...
    • Domestic Violence
      442. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department has issued guidance on assessing credit time for an applicant for social housing, who may have, in...
    • Housing Schemes
      443. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homebuyers in each county who have now been approved under the first-home shared equity scheme, in tabular form;...
    • Local Authorities
      444. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will intervene in a dispute between a local authority (details supplied). [24956/23]
    • Housing Policy
      445. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration has been given to including self-builds which commenced prior to the announcement of the waiver connection...
    • Fire Service
      446. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps being taken by him and his Department to avert the threatened strike by retained firefighters around the country;...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Gender Recognition
      447. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of genders currently recognised by her Department; if the expression transgender has been defined in Irish law;...
    • Legislative Measures
      448. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 391 of 9 May 2023, the steps which have taken place from November 2019 to date in...
    • School Meals Programme
      449. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide details on the tendering process for the provision of meals for pupils at a school (details supplied)....
    • State Pensions
      450. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused an old age pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      453. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect a decision on their social welfare appeal. [24126/23]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      454. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) did not receive the €200 cost-of-living payment. [24128/23]
    • Construction Industry
      455. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of support that the Government will give to the construction industry that brings in workers from abroad (details...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      456. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if full carer's allowance will be approved for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Community Welfare Services
      457. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of community welfare officers allocated to County Tipperary; and the number of vacant posts, broken down on a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      458. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if partial capacity benefit will be approved immediately for a person (details supplied). [24196/23]
    • State Pensions
      460. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection with regard to a person who has modified PRSI contributions before paying A class contributions, if the effective date of...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      461. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department and public bodies or agencies that operate under her remit have policies in place to install artificial...
    • Social Welfare Code
      462. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify whether returning review letters for child benefit can still be sent by freepost, or if individuals are...
    • State Pensions
      463. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will improve the State pension (contributory) for foster carers by extending the number of homecaring periods that a...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      465. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal by a person (details supplied) has been registered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24361/23]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      466. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of the disability allowance application for a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made; and...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      467. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the rate of disability being paid to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be re-examined; and if she will make...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      468. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to review carer's allowance in the context of budget 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Pensions
      469. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware that the contribution history records currently being used by her Department do not show home making and home...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      470. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the decision to disallow a fuel allowance application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be reviewed; and...
    • State Pensions
      474. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the State pension can be increased to 34% of average earnings in the near future; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Policies
      475. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Government has any plans to recognise Covid-19 as an occupational disease for front-line healthcare workers; and if...
    • Social Welfare Code
      476. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the percentage increase she prescribed by which the preserved benefit of occupational pension schemes should have been...
    • State Pensions
      477. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she can outline the reason a person (details supplied) in receipt of an old age (contributory) pension as a qualified...
    • Direct Provision System
      478. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of each €1 per week increase in payments to international protection applicants living in direct...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      479. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of successful applicants for fuel allowance in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24551/23]
    • Food Poverty
      481. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the pilot food poverty programme announced in budget 2023; the timeline for implementation...
    • Cost of Living Issues
      483. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware that people dependent on disability benefit are living significantly below the poverty line; the measures she...
    • Social Welfare Code
      484. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware that the automatic enrolment pension system being proposed by the Government could be provided at a lower...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      485. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to award foster carers' entitlements to PRSI credits to recognise their contribution as carers of...
    • Legislative Measures
      488. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the proposed legislation to bring forward changes to the child maintenance system; and if she will...
    • Cost of Living Issues
      489. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on increasing the household benefits package to match the rising cost of living; and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      490. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the reason the adult dependant was excluded from the recent additional payment of €200 that was issued to...
    • Citizens Information Services
      491. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide information regarding the reasoning behind the decision by the Citizens Information Board that volunteer...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      492. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection why the spring cost-of-living bonus has not yet issued to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      493. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are any circumstances in which carer's benefit can be issued to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      494. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine a case where a person (details supplied) has waited six months for a decision relating to a paternity...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      495. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider including qualified adult payment recipients in the Christmas bonus double payment and any such double...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      498. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in the light of the changing shape of the Irish family, her Department has plans to review the eligibility criteria for...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      499. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of cases referred to appeal in respect of all means-tested payments; the extent to which such cases are...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      500. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applicants whose applications for the State pension have been deemed unsuccessful in the past three years on...
    • State Pensions
      501. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she continues to examine the situation whereby women who left full-time employment to care for a relative...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      503. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of appeals currently in hand in respect of means-tested social welfare payments; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      504. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for various health-related payments that have been refused in the past three years on the basis of...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      506. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of persons currently employed on community employment schemes; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      507. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of persons currently in receipt of carer's allowance in respect of family members and non-family members;...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      508. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of applications for exceptional needs payments in the past three years to date; the numbers pending, refused...
    • Departmental Schemes
      511. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the annual budget for the JobPath scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25014/23]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent on funeral costs under the supplementary welfare allowance for the years 2016 to 2022 and to date in 2023,...
    • Public Services Card
      514. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for a public services card in 2022 and to date in 2023. [25019/23]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people incorrectly awarded the spring bonus; and the estimated cost of recouping that. [25022/23]
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Family Reunification
      517. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process to be followed by a person (details supplied) who wishes to have her children join her in this jurisdiction; and if...
    • Student Visas
      518. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he can outline the rationale as to why persons who are in the State on student visas are allowed to work on a casual or...
    • Citizenship Applications
      519. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on an application for Irish citizenship (details supplied); and if he will expedite same. [24762/23]
    • International Protection
      520. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he is taking to support forcibly displaced Sudanese citizens with family members in Ireland; and if he will make a...
    • Ukraine War
      521. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 436 of 9 May 2023, if Ukrainian applicants for temporary protection are requested to...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      522. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1061 of 21 March 2023 and 163 of 9 March 2022, when a decision will be made in the...
    • International Protection
      524. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of refugee and international protection applications that have been made for each of the past five years; the number...
    • Deportation Orders
      525. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deportation orders that have been made to date for each of the past five years; the number of people who have...
    • Control of Firearms
      526. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has met with the representatives of gun clubs and hunters regarding their concerns over the expert firearms committee...
    • Legislative Measures
      528. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of his plans to bring forward a general scheme of a criminal legal aid Bill; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Courts Service
      529. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for the restoration of fees, arising from the FEMPI cuts, for barristers under the criminal legal aid scheme; and if...
    • An Garda Síochána
      530. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members and staff of An Garda Síochána, per grade, that resigned or were dismissed in each of the years...
    • Immigration Policy
      535. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No 234 of 11 May 2023, if he will clarify, of the "450 approvals for beneficiaries", the...
    • Family Law Cases
      536. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details of any analysis carried out or commissioned by his Department, or bodies under the aegis of his...
    • An Garda Síochána
      539. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications received for the 2023 Garda recruitment campaign; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Wildlife Conservation
      540. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department and public bodies or agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install artificial...
    • Departmental Programmes
      541. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications that were received by his Department for the Immigrant Investor Programme (IIP) after the...
    • Visa Applications
      542. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on an application for a visa by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Data
      543. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there have been any instances in each of the past five years of there being no immigration officials present at Dublin Port...
    • Domestic Violence
      544. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that has been made to date regarding the provision of a women’s refuge in Carlow; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Strategies
      545. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on Action 1.7 of the Family Justice Strategy 2022-2025 to ‘Consider the outcomes of the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      546. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda graduates from Templemore in the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and the district they were...
    • Prison Service
      547. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in relation to the fact that the Irish prison population has confirmed overcrowding issues, if he will confirm whether...
    • Citizenship Applications
      548. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if citizenship applications are continuing to be processed in chronological order; the number of applications from 2021 and...
    • Control of Firearms
      549. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of firearms offences [seizures, discharging, possession or theft from a legal holder] over the past ten years,...
    • Departmental Data
      556. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details of the number of cases of violent disorder, as defined by Section 15 of the Criminal Justice (Public...
    • Domestic Violence
      557. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost of providing an additional 331 domestic abuse refuge spaces to meet Ireland’s obligations under the...
    • Prison Service
      558. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of protected disclosures he and-or the Irish Prison Service has received in respect of Dóchas centres in the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      559. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he can provide the policy framework from An Garda Síochána for its pricing structure for public events; and if he...
    • Departmental Reviews
      561. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will clarify when the familicide and domestic homicide review commissioned by the Government will be published; and if he...
    • Courts Service
      562. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the construction of the new family court facility at Hammond Lane, Dublin 7; and if he will make a...
    • Domestic Violence
      564. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide in tabular form a breakdown of the increased funding of €7 million for organisations funded by TUSLA to...
    • Citizenship Applications
      565. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); when a...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      566. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); and...
    • Citizenship Applications
      567. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if documentation, including declaration and police record, have been received in respect of the ongoing application for...
    • Deportation Orders
      569. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of students in the students of sanctuary programme who have been served with a deportation order during their...
    • Third Level Education
      570. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of students with legal status to remain in Ireland that have gone on to higher education in Ireland in the past two...
    • Missing Persons
      573. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality given there are currently 857 missing persons and 44 unidentified bodies in Ireland, if he will consider establishing an...
    • Official Engagements
      574. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he plans to invite the United States National Security Advisor to Ireland before year end. [24977/23]
    • An Garda Síochána
      575. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount spent on replacement of Garda public order equipment in 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form. [24978/23]
    • Employment Schemes
      577. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider changes to general employment permits to allow those coming to work as health care assistants to bring...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Agriculture Schemes
      578. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he expects to be in a position to make decisions on TAMS 3 applications for the installation of solar PV panels on farms; and if...
    • Tillage Sector
      579. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm targets for land use associated with the growing of crops for 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025; and his proposed measures...
    • Agriculture Industry
      580. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures his Department has put in place for the enforcement of the EIA (Agriculture) Regulations 2011. [24093/23]
    • Forestry Sector
      581. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will advise regarding a specific focus (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24101/23]
    • Food Safety
      584. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there have been changes to the Export Health Cert process; if he will advise specifically with regard to certification of poultry...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      585. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why is there an age restriction for women when applying for the TAMS grant, and not for men; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agriculture Supports
      586. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why is there an absence of grant aid for farmers with the traditional working horse (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      588. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department and public bodies/agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install artificial structures...
    • Forestry Sector
      589. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration would be given to the establishment of a targeted financial support scheme to safely manage the removal of infected...
    • Animal Diseases
      591. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current cost of the culling of each badger under the TB Eradication Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Programmes
      594. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether any geographical data is held on the current vaccinated microchipped badgers; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Agriculture Schemes
      597. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive payment under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme or TAMS II...
    • Greyhound Industry
      598. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine , further to Parliamentary Question No. 1895 of 26 April 2022, the current status of the 12,483 non-coursing greyhounds born in 2021...
    • Agriculture Supports
      605. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who received payments under the areas of natural constraint scheme in 2022 under each category and payment...
    • Animal Welfare
      610. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of ex gratia funding for animal welfare organisations allocated in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      611. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the target, by year, for the adoption of low emissions slurry spreading (LESS) technology; the intended allocation...
    • Nitrates Usage
      615. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers availing of the nitrates derogation; the total number of cattle in the herds of those farmers; the total...
    • Agriculture Industry
      616. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers thought to currently comprise the category known as the forgotten farmers; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      617. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of fodder, hay or silage produced under the fodder support scheme in 2022 and to date in 2023; the percentage of fodder...
    • Agriculture Supports
      619. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of recipients of CAP Pillar 1 funds, in bands and by county from 2021 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      620. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers participating in the beef environmental efficiency programme - sucklers in 2022 in which one-, two-, three- and...
    • Organic Farming
      622. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of organic farming scheme participants by county in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      624. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who participated in both the beef environmental efficiency programme - suckler and the beef data and genomics...
    • Greyhound Industry
      626. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a stud greyhound (details supplied) is registered accordingly in Greyhound Racing Ireland's RCETS traceability system; and if he...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      627. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when funding will be paid to a person (details supplied) in respect of the hen harrier programme 2022; and if he will make a...
    • Greyhound Industry
      628. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of trainers' licences granted annually from 2018 to 2022 inclusive under the Greyhound Trainers Regulations 1961, in...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      629. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will advise the measures that his Department have put in place to reduce administrative issues arising from the application...
    • Sports Funding
      634. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the horse and greyhound racing industries are grossly more funded than any other sports; if he agrees that there are many...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      635. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he had examined the range of crops included in the tillage incentive scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24912/23]
    • Veterinary Services
      636. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated full-year cost of recruiting one additional WTE senior superintending veterinary inspector and one additional WTE...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Nursing Homes
      637. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his Department's policy for people between 20-65 years of age currently in nursing homes to transition to...
    • Care Services
      638. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when respite care will be approved for a person (details supplied); when long-term residential care will be...
    • Health Services
      641. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expects the neurological rehabilitation team in CHO7 to be in place to deliver services; and if he will...
    • Disability Services
      642. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of residential places for people with a disability currently being provided as of 1 May 2023 or the...
    • Health Services Staff
      643. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff in community neuro-rehabilitation teams in each community healthcare organisation, in...
    • Disability Services
      644. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people with disabilities in receipt of home support hours in each LHO area as of 1 May 2023 or the...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      647. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children as of 1 May 2023 or the latest date available that were awaiting a first assessment from...
    • Disability Services
      649. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has explored the possibility of providing funding for the installation of communication boards in...
    • Care Services
      650. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider, as a matter of priority, an increase in the weekly allowance paid to foster carers, which...
    • International Protection
      651. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth where phase two of the resettlement programme in Carlow aims to resettle the refugee population and how many...
    • Childcare Services
      652. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated full-year cost of increasing the spending on childcare to 1% of GDP. [24081/23]
    • International Protection
      656. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a breakdown of the number of refugees and international protection applicants that are...
    • Transport Policy
      658. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress in devising the transport support scheme which is to replace the motorised transport grant scheme...
    • International Protection
      659. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the criteria his Department uses for identifying suitable properties for international protection applications;...
    • Departmental Funding
      660. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will investigate the case of a company (details supplied) regarding delayed payments from his Department's...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      661. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated full-year cost of ensuring that the timelines for assessment of needs, outlined in the Disability...
    • Departmental Funding
      662. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a service provider (details supplied) will receive payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Wildlife Conservation
      663. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department and public bodies/agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install...
    • Health Services
      664. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the case (details supplied); if it could be reviewed as a matter of urgency; and if he will...
    • International Protection
      665. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth which agency or body approved the use of Magowna House to accommodate applicants for international protection;...
    • Departmental Staff
      668. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of officials by grade in his Department that are assigned to assisting persons seeking international...
    • Community Development Projects
      670. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress that has been made to date regarding the provision of a community centre for young people at Tullow...
    • Children in Care
      671. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will increase the foster care allowance payment rates to meet the rising cost of living; and if he will...
    • Education Schemes
      673. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of the new ASD diagnostic team being developed in south Tipperary; the details of the...
    • Child and Family Agency
      674. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 483 of 25 April 2023, to outline how many children are in Tusla's care,...
    • Ukraine War
      676. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of unaccompanied Ukrainian minors that are currently in Ireland arising from the Temporary Protection...
    • Children in Care
      681. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of increasing the foster carer's basic payment by 25%. [24423/23]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      682. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of early childhood care and education only providers, that is, providers that do not offer a service...
    • Departmental Budgets
      684. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of funding that was allocated in 2022 to the national childcare scheme; and the amount of this...
    • Childcare Services
      687. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of community creches who rely solely on State funding. [24429/23]
    • Social Workers Register
      691. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of social care workers that have been promoted to social worker level in the previous five...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      692. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total percentage of State spending and parental spending in 2021 and 2022 on early learning, care and...
    • Childcare Services
      693. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the percentage of childcare agencies' income that is made up of fees. [24435/23]
    • Departmental Properties
      695. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what he intends to do with the abandoned former Tusla facility at a location (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      696. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if, given the skills shortage in areas such as construction, healthcare, teaching, farming, and caring, there...
    • Departmental Properties
      697. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if, in light of the shortage of IPAT accommodation and instances of refugees sleeping rough, if his Department...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      698. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding spent by his Department on Traveller Culture, Heritage and Identity annually in 2022 and 2023; and a...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      700. 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 Accommodation...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      701. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when an assessment of need will be undertaken in the case of a child (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Regional Development
      702. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide his response to a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24790/23]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      703. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details of all the current and planned capital projects being funded by his Department or State...
    • Guardian Status
      704. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on reviewing guardianship laws (details supplied) to reflect larger societal changes; and if he will...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      705. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24825/23]
    • Child and Family Agency
      706. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total spend allocated to Tusla under the third Domestic, Sexual and Gender Based Violence Strategy for...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      707. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total estimated cost to build a ten room domestic violence refuge; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      708. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the complaints process for parents of children who are refused a place in the early childhood care...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      709. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of a one-off payment of €10,000, €15,000 or €20,000 to the approximately...
    • Family Resource Centres
      711. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of raising funding by 20% across the State to family resource centres. [24955/23]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      712. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated first- and full-year cost of increasing the ECCE capitation grant by 10%; and if he will make a...
    • Childcare Services
      713. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated first- and full-year cost of increasing the affordable childcare subsidy for children under three...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      714. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when payment for accommodation will issue to a provider (details supplied) given that it is several months...
    • School Staff
      715. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on an occupational therapist assigned to a school (details supplied) who was...
  • Department of Health
    • Emergency Accommodation
      716. To ask the Minister for Health if there are impediments to former nursing homes which are no longer in use being considered for emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Services
      717. To ask the Minister for Health when respite services at a hospital (details supplied) will be fully opened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24014/23]
    • Home Care Packages
      720. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the tender for the home care sector; and if there is a timeframe available as to when the process will be completed. [24020/23]
    • Freedom of Information
      721. To ask the Minister for Health if he will assist a person (details supplied) to access their medical files at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin. [24027/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      722. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24064/23]
    • Hospital Services
      723. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE has not implemented recommendations (details supplied) in a hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24070/23]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      724. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the progress of funding proposals for the new HSE Home Support Tender 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      725. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24100/23]
    • Health Strategies
      728. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department is considering a national screening programme for haemochromatosis. [24125/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      729. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a group of workers (details supplied) who, although eligible for the pandemic bonus payment, have yet to receive...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      730. To ask the Minister for Health if he has made a response to a request (details supplied) for an urgent meeting with relevant Government Ministers to agree funding for a new rate on Tender...
    • Medical Cards
      731. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for a medical card in the name of a person (details supplied) will be expedited and approved. [24168/23]
    • Departmental Data
      732. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of providing and staffing ten additional acute beds in a public hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24179/23]
    • Hospital Services
      743. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of hospitals not accepting referrals for patients who availed of the cross-border initiative for treatment, despite HSE guidelines which assure...
    • Primary Care Centres
      744. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the proposed delivery of a primary healthcare centre in Sixmilebridge, County Clare; the services that will be delivered at the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      745. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied), will have an ENT appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24209/23]
    • Home Care Packages
      746. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on waiting lists for home support carers and funding in each month of 2022 and to date in 2023 for each LHO and CHO, in tabular form; and...
    • Work Permits
      758. To ask the Minister for Health the number of non-EU carers who have taken up work permits to work in the care industry in Ireland; the total number of permits available; the reasons for the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      759. To ask the Minister for Health when a new GP will be appointed to a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24242/23]
    • Undefined
      760. To ask the Minister for Health when Tender 2023 will be resolved (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24245/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      761. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the promised return of nursing staff to Curlew Road health centre; if he will clarify whether staffing levels have increased;...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      762. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and public bodies/agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install artificial structures that provide shelter and...
    • Mortality Rates
      763. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the level of excess deaths currently being experienced in Ireland; if his Department has carried out an investigation into the trends and causes...
    • Health Services Staff
      764. To ask the Minister for Health the number of radiographers in each hospital that have left their positions to transfer to the NHS from 1 September 2022 to 16 May 2023, in tabular form; and...
    • Health Services
      765. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a timeline for the rolling out of post cataract care by the HSE to its primary eye care clinics; if these clinics have the required...
    • Primary Care Services
      766. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm whether privately owned community optical practices will be included in the rollout of post-cataract care by the HSE to its primary eye care...
    • Dental Services
      767. To ask the Minister for Health the dentists in Clare registered to provide services under the dental treatment services scheme, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      771. To ask the Minister for Health if all Section 38 workers who were entitled to the pandemic payment should have received it by now; the remedy mechanism there is for those who have not...
    • Mental Health Services
      772. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the case of a person (details supplied). [24311/23]
    • Hospital Procedures
      773. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for a procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24315/23]
    • Registration of Deaths
      774. To ask the Minister for Health the number of sudden deaths reported in 2021, 2022 and quarter 1 of 2023; the number of strokes and heart attacks reported in the same periods; and if he will...
    • Hospital Facilities
      775. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the National Children’s Hospital; when the project is due to be completed; the current cost of the project; the estimated final...
    • Ambulance Service
      776. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to date regarding the provision of an ambulance base in Carlow; the date on which the National Ambulance Service requested HSE...
    • Health Services
      777. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to have an injury clinic in Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24336/23]
    • Disability Services
      778. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to date regarding the provision of a new fit-for-purpose building for Holy Angels Day Care Service for Children with Special...
    • Care of the Elderly
      779. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the home support tender 2023 process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24348/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      780. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking in response to the increasing cost of thyroid medication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24349/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      781. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that all employees of an organisation (details supplied) who worked on the front line during the pandemic will receive the pandemic special...
    • Health Services
      782. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to improve the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24351/23]
    • Health Service Executive
      783. To ask the Minister for Health the number of charities or individuals in the direct employment of charities registered in Ireland that are subject to tax withholding arrangements by the HSE;...
    • Hospital Charges
      784. To ask the Minister for Health the current timeframe for turnaround of reimbursement applications under the Cross Border Directive; if there is a reason for the delays experienced by some...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      785. To ask the Minister for Health if a process will be put in place for staff (details supplied) to be provided with special additional financial recognition by his Department based on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      786. 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. [24371/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      787. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for managed access protocols, MAPs, medicines that have been approved or rejected in the past 24 months; how Ireland compares with...
    • Departmental Reviews
      790. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish the review of cardiac services in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24387/23]
    • Primary Care Centres
      791. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the issue of nursing staff being removed from a health centre (details supplied); and to provide clarity as to whether nurses will be...
    • Health Services Staff
      792. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the call from Home and Community Care Ireland, HCCI, to ensure that the new home care tender 2023 is not delayed again; if he will fulfil the...
    • Medicinal Products
      793. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the short-term measures in place to address the shortages of Ozempic; the reason for the ongoing shortages; the long-term solutions being put in...
    • Healthcare Policy
      796. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide information on the financial supports being made annually to support breastfeeding in hospitals; if he will provide information on the...
    • Disability Services
      798. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, CAMHS, mental health intellectual disability teams that are currently in operation; the staffing...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      799. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of all external assurance process reviews tendered for to date; the value of the contract; and the name of the successful company, in...
    • Health Services Staff
      800. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set out in tabular form the number of full-time posts and the number of part-time posts currently funded and staffed for non-clinical data...
    • Disease Management
      801. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the current dedicated funding to support clinical leads in European Reference Networks on Rare Diseases in their engagement with European...
    • Health Service Executive
      802. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount spent by the HSE on legal fees in each of the years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 involving the defence of Grievance and or Dignity At Work cases...
    • General Practitioner Services
      804. To ask the Minister for Health if he will announce the launch date for the income limit for the GP visit card to be increased to include people on or below the median income original date...
    • EU Regulations
      805. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that no sickness insurance scheme provided for by law or regulation exists in Ireland within the meaning of Regulation No 31 (EEC), 11 (EAEC),...
    • Home Care Packages
      806. To ask the Minister for Health the number of homecare support hours for older people provided in each LHO area in 2020, 2021 and 2022; the allocation in each LHO for 2023; and if he will...
    • Health Services
      807. To ask the Minister for Health the names of all residential drug rehabilitation centres to which the HSE awards core funding; and the amount of funds they receive, in tabular form. [24591/23]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      809. To ask the Minister for Health if he will appoint a dedicated full-time project management team to implement the plan to develop a Model 4 Hospital at University Hospital Galway, including...
    • Disease Management
      810. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the WHO proposal for an international treaty to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response; to outline the engagement he has had...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      811. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be given a date to have their rescheduled operation. [24616/23]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      812. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that are waiting for a knee replacement in Galway; the average wait time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24715/23]
    • Home Care Packages
      814. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide figures on HSE spending on private companies providing home care services in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form by year; and if he...
    • Hospital Procedures
      815. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting on a cataract operation. [24724/23]
    • Hospital Equipment
      816. To ask the Minister for Health when an issue at University Hospital Limerick will be resolved (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24747/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      817. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm when all those who have not yet received the pandemic recognition payment but are entitled to it will receive the payment; and if he will...
    • Health Strategies
      818. To ask the Minister for Health if a national strategy for haemochromatosis is currently under consideration, where everyone has equal access to testing, diagnosis, treatment and quality of...
    • Pension Provisions
      819. To ask the Minister for Health when a pension and lump sum will be paid in the case of a person (details supplied), who recently retired as a clinical nurse manager on 31 March 2023, who has...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      820. To ask the Minister for Health the powers the public authorities had in dealing with private nursing homes which were failing to comply with public health guidelines during phase 1 of the...
    • Nursing Homes
      822. To ask the Minister for Health how many people between 20 and 65 years of age are living in nursing homes in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24776/23]
    • Pension Provisions
      826. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24781/23]
    • Health Service Executive
      827. To ask the Minister for Health the financial supports that are available to patients who are required to carry Epinephrine Injections (EpiPens) on their person in case they experience severe...
    • Health Services
      828. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the announced funding for participants in a psychology training programme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      829. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that an out-of-hours GP service is open after 9 p.m. (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24797/23]
    • Health Services
      830. To ask the Minister for Health the amount in the capital budget as set out in table 13 of the Stability Programme Update 2023 that is designated for infrastructure to support Community...
    • General Practitioner Services
      837. To ask the Minister for Health the current status with getting a GP to take over the practice in Lettermacaward Health Centre, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      838. To ask the Minister for Health to provide in tabular form the full complement of therapists, public health nurses and so on that made up the complement of health staff in Curlew Road Health...
    • Cancer Services
      839. To ask the Minister for Health the counselling services available for individuals with inherited predispositions to cancer; the counselling services there are for individuals who test...
    • Nursing Homes
      840. To ask the Minister for Health if a resident in a nursing home is entitled to receive a pressure reducing mattress via HSE funding rather than paying out of their own pocket; and if he will...
    • Health Services
      841. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children admitted to adult mental health units to date in 2023. [24851/23]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      842. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public patients who have been removed from outpatient lists in 2023 as a result of a validation exercise, and not as a result of having an...
    • Health Services
      843. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards as of 1 May 2023; the number of general practitioner cards on the same date; and the number for each type of card issued on a...
    • Hospital Services
      844. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges for each public/voluntary hospital at the end of April 2023, in tabular form. [24854/23]
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      845. To ask the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost in each owing to delayed discharges for each public/voluntary hospital to date in 2023, in tabular form. [24855/23]
    • Emergency Departments
      846. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients aged 75 years or over who experienced an emergency department wait time of more than 24 hours between the beginning of January and end...
    • Ambulance Service
      847. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in April 2023, in tabular form; the number of such ambulances that waited longer...
    • Home Help Service
      848. To ask the Minister for Health if he will agree to meet urgently with representatives of an organisation (details supplied) in an effort to agree to funding for a new rate on the Homecare...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      849. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people waiting as of 1 May 2023 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group for various waiting periods, in...
    • Dental Services
      889. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive orthodontic treatment in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      890. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people waiting as of 1 May 2023 or the nearest available date for an MRI scan in the Saolta University Hospital Group for various waiting...
    • Departmental Strategies
      898. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the reason that the current governance model used in other CHO areas cannot be used in CHO7; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disease Management
      899. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to develop a specialist service for Huntington's disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24918/23]
    • Health Service Executive
      900. To ask the Minister for Health when the contract management support units will be fully in place to support the various service providers across the nine community healthcare organisations;...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      901. To ask the Minister for Health if he would detail in tabular form for each LHO area as of 1 May 2023 or the latest date available the number of people on the physiotherapy waiting list and...
    • Health Services
      903. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on speech and language therapy (details supplied). [24928/23]
    • Primary Care Services
      906. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in each local health office, LHO, area awaiting a podiatry appointment in primary care as of 1 May 2023 or the latest date available; the...
    • Home Help Service
      912. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in each Local Health Office area awaiting a child and adolescent mental health services appointment as of 1 May 2023 or the latest date...
    • Nursing Homes
      914. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme as of 1 May 2023 or the latest date available; the average waiting time; if he will...
    • Mental Health Services
      915. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on when funding plans for the training of counselling psychologists will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      916. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the HSE's insistence on treating a charity group (details supplied) differently from other charities providing medical services whereby the HSE...
    • Emergency Departments
      917. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the latest three-monthly numbers of emergency department presentations for the nine acute model 4 hospitals (details supplied); and if he...
    • Hospital Services
      918. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the nine model 4 acute hospitals in the country, if he will publish the latest quarter running/expenditure costs for each; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      919. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the average waiting time for first time patients referred to the endometriosis clinic in the Coombe Hospital; the number of persons...
    • Health Services
      920. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the delivery of two specialist endometriosis centres for complex care located at Cork University Maternity Hospital and...
    • General Practitioner Services
      922. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the development of an endometriosis quick reference guide to assist GPs in recognising endometriosis; and if he will make a...
    • European Union
      924. To ask the Minister for Health when Ireland will be making its official response to the European Commission on the pharmaceutical review; if he will provide an indicative timeframe; and the...
    • Hospital Services
      925. To ask the Minister for Health the number of days for each model 3 and model 4 hospital to date in 2023 that full capacity protocols have been active, in tabular form. [24968/23]
    • Emergency Accommodation
      926. To ask the Minister for Health if a review of policy to prohibit former nursing homes registered on 1 September 2022 converting to accommodation for Ukrainian refugees has been completed; if...
    • Hospital Procedures
      927. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cardiothoracic surgeries performed at the Mater Hospital in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [24981/23]
    • Health Services
      928. To ask the Minister for Health the services available within the State for children and adults suffering with anorexia nervosa. [24982/23]
    • Hospital Procedures
      929. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric neurosurgeons surgeries performed at CHI Temple Street in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [24983/23]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      931. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the long waiting lists for endometriosis clinics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25012/23]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Third Level Education
      933. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of ensuring all postgraduate research students receive a full-year €28,000 stipend; and if he will make a...
    • Education Costs
      944. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there has been any change in a figure (details supplied); if so, the current funding gap; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24155/23]
    • Third Level Fees
      945. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the first- and full-year cost of increasing the reckonable income threshold for SUSI by €5,000 under several categories, in tabular form...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      946. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department and public bodies/agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install artificial structures that provide...
    • Third Level Education
      947. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing the student maintenance grant by €1,000 for full-time students at third level. [24279/23]
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Community Development Projects
      958. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of the €50 million community recognition fund that has been spent to date; the projects on which it was spent; and...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      960. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department and public bodies/agencies that operate under her remit have policies in place to install artificial structures that...
    • Environmental Schemes
      961. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will outline her engagement with the Minister for the Environment, Communications, and Climate concerning the subsea cable to...
    • Agriculture Supports
      962. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the manner in which her Department supports agricultural shows; the individual shows supported; the allocation and expenditure from...
    • Rural Schemes
      963. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will consider working with other Government Departments to establish a funding scheme to assist event organisers in meeting the...

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