Written answers
Wednesday, 24 May 2023
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Business Supports
39. To ask the Taoiseach if he will seek urgent assistance and advice for a local company (details supplied) in respect of its time-sensitive funding issues, in particular to assess whether...
- Departmental Strategies
40. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on progress regarding policing reform and community safety, as identified in the strategy statement 2021-23 for his Department. [23214/23]
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Shannon Airport Facilities
41. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the circumstances (details supplied); if he is satisfied that all the proper protocols and legislation were followed; and...
- Passport Services
42. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide information regarding a passport application (details supplied) needing further clarification; and if he will make a...
- Legislative Programme
43. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he intends to bring forward the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 to Third Stage in Dáil Éireann;...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Cóid Phoist
45. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment cén dáta faoina bhfuil sé i gceist aige go mbeidh gach logainm nó sráidainm ar...
- Energy Conservation
46. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what is required from a contractor to be added to the list of approved contractors for work in energy efficiency, with...
- Renewable Energy Generation
49. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number and total value of solar photovoltaic grants provided in 2022; the average grant provided; and if he will...
- Energy Conservation
50. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will increase the funding for the sustainable energy communities programme; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Projects
51. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of projects in respect of the national trust transition fund; the nature of such projects; the total value of...
- Energy Conservation
52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if retrofitting grants will be available to persons with solid fuel central heating systems; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Bodies
53. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of staff working in the Commission for Regulation of Utilities; their cost; and if he will make a statement...
- Renewable Energy Generation
54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how the offshore wind delivery taskforce is resourced to complete its objectives and mandate. [25071/23]
- Waste Management
55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has met with waste management companies regarding their recent price increases; and if he will make a statement on...
- Energy Prices
56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has met with energy companies regarding the fall in wholesale energy prices; if these will be passed onto the...
- Climate Action Plan
57. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when it is expected that the just transition commission, as committed to in Climate Action Plan 2023, will be...
- Energy Policy
59. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the energy review report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25133/23]
- Inland Fisheries
60. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment If he has received the 2021 annual report from Inland Fisheries Ireland; if so, when same will be published. [25259/23]
- Departmental Schemes
61. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when works will be carried out for an elderly person (details supplied), given that the applicant has been waiting for...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces
62. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of vacancies, by rank, in the Defence Forces school of music as of 15 May 2023; and when these vacancies will be filled, in tabular...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Rail Network
63. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in respect of the Luas Finglas, the reason there is a five-year delay between the Enforceable Railway Order in 2024 and the enabling works...
- Dublin Airport Authority
64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to noise pollution being generated by flights landing and departing from Dublin Airport from 5 a.m....
- Rail Network
65. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the forecasted opening date for Kishogue railway station; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Greenways Provision
66. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the development of the Hazelhatch greenway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25103/23]
- Air Safety
67. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a complete breakdown of the cost incurred by drone disturbance in the past two years in Dublin Airport; the amount of...
- Driver Test
68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of individuals currently awaiting driving licence test appointments; the average length of time between booking a test and the...
- Official Engagements
69. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the dates in 2023 on which he spoke formally with the CEO and-or chairperson of each State agency under the remit of his Department, in...
- Driver Test
71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current number of bus driver and HGV testers in County Tipperary; and the current number of vacancies for bus driver and HGV testers...
- Bus Éireann
72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost to have all remaining buses in the Bus Éireann fleet fully wheelchair accessible. [25248/23]
- Department of Finance
- Tax Yield
73. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an outline of the process by which decisions will be made on how the projected windfall revenues from corporation tax will be spent; and if...
- Tax Rebates
75. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration has been given to putting in place a carbon tax rebate for horticulturists and growers who recycle carbon in greenhouses and tunnels; and if...
- Departmental Schemes
76. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the interest rate that will be charged on the balance of tax liabilities which were deferred under the debt warehousing scheme; and if he...
- Revenue Commissioners
79. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of vehicles seized by the Revenue Commissioners under Section 141 of the Finance Act 2001 in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form....
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Departmental Bodies
80. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of times the Procurement Reform Board has met in each year since 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Reviews
81. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the service improvement and reform plans to be prepared by each Government Department in conjunction with...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Insurance Coverage
82. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on actions to address an aspect of a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Housing Provision
83. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will give consideration to establishing a property technology fund to support property technology companies which aim to reduce...
- Departmental Funding
84. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if property technology companies can access the disruptive technology fund; if so, if he will initiate a specific funding call for...
- Business Supports
85. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a specific fund is available for disabled entrepreneurs. [25189/23]
- Trade Missions
86. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he met with the CEO of an organisation (details supplied) during his recent trade mission to New York and Boston. [25249/23]
- Workplace Relations Commission
87. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of WTE inspectors working in the Workplace Relations Commission in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Third Level Education
88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the offers of bursaries (details supplied) made to new incoming first-year psychology students can be made retrospectively to current second-...
- School Accommodation
89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update regarding an additional school accommodation application for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- School Staff
90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 271 of 9 May 2023, if she can provide a breakdown by county of where the 160 additional NSCE staff, 686...
- Schools Building Projects
91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, following correspondence from a school (details supplied), if she will take into consideration the erection of a permanent structure on site...
- School Staff
92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills is she will provide the number of special needs assistants in each county in the school years 2020/2021, 2021/22 and 2022/23, by county, in...
- Departmental Reports
93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will publish the report which her Department commissioned into the governance of education centres (details supplied); the cost of the...
- School Curriculum
94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the educational experts and-or groups that she consulted with before reaching her recent decision to reduce time on the primary school curriculum...
- School Accommodation
95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 552 of 18 April 2023, if she will confirm whether the assessment process for a school's (details supplied)...
- School Curriculum
96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give consideration to a proposal (details supplied) to overhaul how the Irish language is taught in schools; and if she will make a...
- School Transport
97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update as to where the ongoing review of the school transport scheme is at; when the results are expected to be published;...
- Departmental Records
99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department would consider developing a mechanism for sharing historic employment records for the purposes of pension eligibility with the...
- Oideachas trí Ghaeilge
101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil aon phleananna aici chun leasú a dhéanamh ar bpolasaí cuimsitheach oideachais trí mheán na Gaeilge mar...
- School Staff
102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average salary of a guidance counsellor. [25275/23]
- School Accommodation
104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department is going to make a decision on the application for a temporary classroom structure for a school (details supplied)...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Caiteachas Ranna
105. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé mhéad a d’íoc an Roinn le Comhchoiste Náisiúnta na gColáistí Samhraidh in aghaidh...
- Scoláireachtaí Gaeltachta
106. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an ndéanfaidh sí tábla a sholáthar lena ndéantar briseadh síos ar líon na ndaltaí scoile...
- Scéimeanna Tacaíochta Gaeilge
108. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cad é an meastachán ar chostais a bhainfeadh le Clár na Leabhar Gaeilge a thabhairt ar ais de réir an...
- Caiteachas Ranna
109. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht conas a dhéantar maoiniú ar an Áisíneacht Dáileacháin Leabhar (ÁIS), agus cé mhéad...
- Forbairt na Gaeilge
113. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cad é an meastachán ar chostais a bhainfeadh le plean straitéiseach Thaibhdhearc na Gaillimhe a foilsíodh...
- Cúrsaí Gaeilge
115. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht uasdátú a thabhairt ar fheidhmiú agus líon foirne an Choiste Logainmneacha ó bunaíodh go...
- Cóid Phoist
116. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé na háiseanna a theastódh ón gCoiste Logainmneacha chun a chinntiú go bhfuil gach logainm ar...
- Caiteachas Ranna
117. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé mhéad maoiniú a caitheadh ar Chnuasach Bhéaloideas Éireann agus Dúchas.ie in aghaidh gach bliana...
- Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga
118. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé mhéad maoiniú a caitheadh ar Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga in aghaidh gach bliana ó 2003, agus an...
- Legislative Programme
119. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will outline the progress of the short-term tourist letting Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25135/23]
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Cúrsaí Gaeilge
120. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government cad é an meastachán ar chostais bhreise a bhainfeadh le hoifigeach Gaeilge nó Oifigeach Forbartha Gaeilge a...
- Departmental Bodies
121. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff working in the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority; their cost; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Fire Service
127. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to meet his Department’s commitment to address the recruitment and retention crisis in the...
- National Monuments
128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if any Ministerial consent exists for works on listed buildings on Moore Street, given that the last Ministerial consent in...
- Legislative Programme
129. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill 2023, announced as legislation for priority publication this session,...
- Wastewater Treatment
130. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government with reference to the new funding scheme announced on 28 April 2022, and targeting the wastewater collection and treatment...
- Fire Service
131. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures that he is taking to address the recruitment and retention crisis in retained firefighter services; and if he...
- Departmental Bodies
132. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of trebling the existing number of staff on each grade currently employed in An Bord Pleanála's marine...
- Disability Services
133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if fencing in cases such as one (details supplied), can be deemed within the bounds of the housing adaptation grant. [25078/23]
- Planning Issues
134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of the mandate, statutory standing of the Designated Areas Appeals Advisory Board with regard to...
- Departmental Bodies
135. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of the current membership of the Designated Areas Appeals Advisory Board; if he will provide...
- Oifigí Roinne
137. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte Uimh. 22 den 17 Samhain 2022, stádas an ghrúpa idir-rannach atá ag obair chun...
- House Sales
138. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the sale of private properties with structural defects at a location (details supplied); if he is concerned...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- State Pensions
139. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline her plans to bring the State pension (contributory) up to 34% of the average industrial wage index...
- Social Welfare Appeals
140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); when...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a person who is in receipt of a payment under the occupational injuries scheme and is paying their PRSI...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
142. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to recognise Covid-19 as an occupational illness for healthcare workers; if so, the timeline she is working...
- Social Welfare Code
143. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has plans to publish an updated proposal following the recent public consultation on pay-related jobseeker’s...
- Community Welfare Services
144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider the complaints from charities and public representatives regarding the difficulties that people are...
- Social Welfare Appeals
146. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expedite a carer’s allowance appeal on behalf of a person (details supplied) and ensure an oral hearing is...
- Agriculture Schemes
147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will include new agricultural schemes as eligible payments for farm assist, given that a significant number of schemes...
- Social Welfare Benefits
149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for partial capacity benefit by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Citizenship Applications
150. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a citizenship certificate will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- International Protection
151. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25047/23]
- Immigration Policy
152. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 234 of 11 May 2023, if data is collected on the number of arrivals to Ireland under the...
- Control of Firearms
153. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will ensure an adequate consultation process with the relevant representative groups following the publication of the...
- Legislative Measures
154. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration is being given to changing the existing coercive control legislation to allow it to relate to people in...
- Coroners Service
155. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the date and year from which FEMPI reductions were applied to the remuneration of a sector (details supplied) in Ireland; and...
- Departmental Policies
156. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide his response to a UN report on parental alienation (details supplied) and its implications for government...
- Child Abuse
157. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reports of child sex abuse made to An Garda Síochána for each of the years 2015 to 2022 and to date in...
- Citizenship Applications
160. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update in respect of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he...
- An Garda Síochána
161. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update in respect of his Department's plans to increase and improve community safety, in particular the...
- Family Reunification
162. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if general employment permit holders, their agencies and employers have been made aware of recent amendments to the salary...
- Alcohol Sales
163. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of revenue generated through the issuing of special exemption orders in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in...
- Official Engagements
164. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he met with the Metropolitan Police Commissioner during his recent visit to London. [25261/23]
- An Garda Síochána
165. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 518 of 7 March 2023, if he has received the necessary information from the Garda...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Seaweed Harvesting
169. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of any work being carried out or commissioned by his Department with regard to the development of strategies for the wild...
- Fisheries Protection
170. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of any measures planned for the protection of the sprat fishery which is concentrated inside the 6...
- Grant Payments
171. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a GLAS payment will be made to a farmer (details supplied) and the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Forestry Sector
172. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify the reason that only five afforestation licences have been granted to date in 2023; the number of afforestation...
- Horse Racing Industry
173. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, in light of recent developments pertaining to the withdrawal of several racecourses from an organisation's (details supplied)...
- Legislative Measures
174. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will amend the Horse and Greyhound Racing Act 2001 to introduce an appeals mechanism, in order to provide for independent...
- Farm Safety
175. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the latest statistics available on farm accidents and fatalities; the steps being taken to reduce these incidents; and...
- Trade Missions
176. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will detail the key points made during his trade mission to China in respect of food systems and food security; and if he will...
- Agriculture Industry
177. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the difficulties that Irish farmers are facing as a result of having to meet climate targets; and if he will make a...
- Greyhound Industry
179. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of non-coursing greyhounds microchipped and entered (details supplied) between 1 January 2022 and 30 April 2023, that were...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Disabilities Assessments
181. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure an assessment of needs is provided urgently for a four-year-old child (details supplied), who...
- Legislative Measures
182. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the progress of promised legislation on the banning of conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ persons;...
- Gender Recognition
183. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the process of tendering for research that has been commissioned to outline the mechanisms in...
- Health Services Waiting Lists
184. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the current waiting lists for the community neurorehabilitation team in CHO 3, which are up to...
- Disability Services
185. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure an adequate level of services in a disability service (details supplied); and if he will make...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
186. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the appeal of the decision to exclude certain workers in an organisation (details supplied)...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
187. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the outcome of an appeal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25219/23]
- International Protection
189. 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...
- Children in Care
190. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if TUSLA has contracted private companies to conduct inspections of private residential care homes for children...
- Department of Health
- Forensic Science Ireland
191. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify how long forensic evidence collected in relation to the reporting of sexual assault is stored to enable the survivor to proceed with a...
- General Practitioner Services
192. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give positive consideration to the building identified by the local community in Newmarket-on-Fergus (details supplied) as a replacement venue for...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
193. To ask the Minister for Health the plans, if any, to extend the special leave with pay for Covid-19 scheme, with particular reference to front-line healthcare workers who are still suffering...
- Nursing Homes
194. To ask the Minister for Health if additional supports will be introduced for the private nursing home sector, particularly for smaller-scale providers; the proposals, if any, to introduce a...
- Health Services Staff
195. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise when a Parkinson's nurse specialist will be assigned to the Westmeath area; and if any submissions were made regarding recruitment for this...
- Health Services
196. To ask the Minister for Health if any financial support or HSE schemes are available to Irish citizens for a specific treatment which is available in the UK (details supplied); and if he...
- Departmental Bodies
197. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the discussions which have taken place to date in respect of the establishment of a national adult safeguarding authority; the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
198. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to extend the special scheme of paid leave for healthcare workers suffering from long Covid given that it is due to end on 30 June 2023; the...
- Health Services Staff
199. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 610 of 16 May 2022, the date on which the sign-off form and further information will be available to healthcare...
- Health Services
200. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding for national physiotherapy services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25105/23]
- Health Services Waiting Lists
201. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the waiting lists for endometriosis clinics in each CHO, including a breakdown of the amount of time individuals are waiting; and...
- Nursing Homes
204. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking in response to a care centre (details supplied) withdrawing from the fair deal scheme at the end of May unless the national treatment...
- Health Services
206. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on multiple sclerosis care investment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25126/23]
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
208. To ask the Minister for Health if the Covid recognition payment will be extended to the staff of an organisation (details supplied) who worked throughout the pandemic; and if he will make a...
- Dental Services
209. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm whether the HSE has written to all schools to advise to which primary care centre for dental services each school has been attached; and if...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
211. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the appeal of the decision to exclude certain workers in an organisation (details supplied) from the Covid recognition payment; if officials...
- Health Services Staff
212. To ask the Minister for Health if there are specific articles in the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 that prevent the title of psychologist being a protected title under the...
- Hospital Staff
214. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE ophthalmology registrars working in Cork University Hospital in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [25253/23]
- Primary Care Services
216. To ask the Minister for Health how the additional €8.8 million will be spent on primary care services during 2023. [25255/23]
- Hospital Staff
217. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE clinical nurse specialists in anticoagulation that are based in each hospital part of the South/SouthWest Hospital Group in the years of...
- Departmental Funding
220. To ask the Minister for Health the funding to each taskforce respectively in 2023, in tabular form. [25266/23]
- Health Services
221. To ask the Minister for Health the number of addiction rehabilitation, detox and stabilisation beds currently open, by facility, in tabular form. [25267/23]
- Health Services Staff
223. To ask the Minister for Health the WTE staffing level, by role and taskforce, in tabular form. [25269/23]
- Health Services
224. To ask the Minister for Health if mapping has been done on availability of addiction rehabilitation, detox and stabilisation across the State; and if so, if he will publish this. [25270/23]
- Mental Health Services
228. To ask the Minister for Health the average spend, per staff member in mental health services, on external supervision [25274/23]
- Health Services
229. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the pilot drug monitoring scheme at a music festival (details supplied) in 2022. [25277/23]
- Legislative Measures
236. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the implementation of each section of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018. [25284/23]
- Health Services
237. To ask the Minister for Health if plans can be made to distribute a special type of bread to PKU sufferers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25285/23]
- Health Services Staff
238. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time permanent speech therapist, occupational therapist and physiotherapist roles in Galway; the number of these that are vacant; and if he...
- Special Educational Needs
239. To ask the Minister for Health if it is his intention to organise work done by speech and language, OT and physio professionals who work with ASD classes around the class as a whole rather...
- Primary Care Centres
240. To ask the Minister for Health the stage plans are at for a primary care centre for Youghal (details supplied). [25289/23]
- Primary Care Services
241. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a matter (details supplied). [25293/23]
- Medical Cards
242. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1586 of 18 April 2023, if he can provide any further information as to the date on which he expects to expand eligibility...
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
243. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the current position within his Department and the HSE in respect of developing a rehabilitation facility in Cork, in particular in view of...
- Home Care Packages
244. To ask the Minister for Health if a home support application will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal to allow discharge from a hospital; and if he will make a...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Third Level Costs
245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student (details supplied) would be entitled to tax relief or any other financial benefits; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Horticulture Sector
246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to additional further education courses and/or apprenticeships in the area of horticulture; and if he will make a...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Departmental Funding
247. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the latest recipients of the community support fund will be announced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25101/23]
- Departmental Schemes
248. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the local improvement scheme; the number of applications that were received and approved, by county, in 2022 and to date...
- Departmental Funding
249. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of applications that have been received by her Department under CLÁR funding; the number of successful applications...
- Na hOileáin amach ón gCósta
250. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte Uimh. 106 an 25 Aibreán 2023, an ndéanfaidh sí soiléiriú a thabhairt faoi...
