Written answers

Tuesday, 30 May 2023

  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      45. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline and next steps for the excavation of human remains at the burial site at Tuam, County Galway,...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      46. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the programme for Government commitment to establish an agency, Childcare Ireland, to...
    • Community Development Projects
      48. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagement he has had with Carlow County Council on the provision of a community hub in Carlow on the Tullow...
    • Child Protection
      49. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children reported to his Department as being at risk or under threat of becoming at risk depending...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      50. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his Department’s plans to address waiting lists for assessments for children with special needs; and if he...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      51. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details on the national childcare scheme, NCS; the number of providers that are signed up to...
    • Disability Services
      52. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth he steps he taking to increase the number of full-time residential places available to persons with intellectual...
    • Rights of the Child
      53. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will respond to the fact that the Office of the Ombudsman for Children has stated that Ireland is falling...
    • Disability Services
      54. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to address staffing shortages on children’s disability network teams in CHO 4....
    • International Protection
      55. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he anticipates being able to provide suitable accommodation for all refugees and asylum seekers; and if he...
    • Childcare Services
      56. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to further reduce childcare costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25995/23]
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      57. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of his engagements with survivor and relative groups concerning potential...
    • Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children
      58. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of unaccompanied minors currently in State care; the number of unaccompanied minors who have gone...
    • Disability Services
      59. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to provide respite services for disabled people and children and their families in County...
    • International Protection
      62. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports that are available for people currently seeking international protection who are unaccommodated...
    • Disability Services
      63. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures being taken to alleviate the high rates of vacancy across children's disability services which is...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      65. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on whether local authorities and public servants delivering services should be required to put the...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      66. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children in CHO 9, Dublin currently awaiting an appointment for treatment and therapies; and if he...
    • Departmental Schemes
      67. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on the roll out of the baby bundle pilot scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      68. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the issues regarding a pre-school (details supplied); if any supports will be...
    • Disability Services
      69. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures that are being taken to address the shortage of respite services for adults and children in Cork;...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      70. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports that are being put in place to assist the childcare sector, which is struggling to recruit and...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      71. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the efforts being made by his Department to tackle the huge waiting lists for needs...
    • Human Trafficking
      72. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps his Department is taking to reduce instances of child trafficking in the State; and if he will make a...
    • Direct Provision System
      73. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 27 of 30 March 2023, the status of the review of the projected timelines...
    • International Protection
      74. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a detailed briefing on plans to provide floating accommodation for international protection...
    • Disability Services
      76. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the services for speech and language therapy; the current waiting list figures...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      77. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the likely priorities for the national development plan capital budget for childcare. [25581/23]
    • International Protection
      78. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps his Department is taking to provide timely information to communities that are accommodating Ukrainian...
    • Disability Services
      79. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current WTE staffing levels in each of the children's disability network teams in CHO 4, in tabular form....
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      80. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports that are in place for working parents who cannot source placements in childcare facilities for their...
    • Departmental Functions
      81. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the now-completed integration of the disability portfolio from the Department of...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      82. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagement he has had with the HSE in order to facilitate private operators carrying out assessments for...
    • Disability Services
      83. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the status of the provision of community neuro-rehabilitation teams across the...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      84. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the roles which the new childcare development will play; and if it is intended that the...
    • International Protection
      85. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the cost to accommodate individuals at the IPAS centre at Richmond Street, Dublin 1 from November 2022 to date;...
    • Disability Services
      86. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has plans to improve access to personal assistant hours; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • International Protection
      89. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details on the current total number of refugees in accommodation provided by the State; the...
    • Disability Services
      90. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the efforts being made by his Department to ensure improvements to assessments and access to...
    • Child Detention Centres
      93. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures that can be taken to ensure that there is adequate provision of a safe and secure environment for...
    • Youth Services
      94. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures that his Department is planning to take to address the extent of social and economic challenges...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      95. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the progress being made to reduce the cost of childcare since budget 2023; and if...
    • Disability Services
      96. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to ensure there are adequate respite services available to persons with intellectual...
    • Legislative Process
      97. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1179 of 18 April 2023, if the scoping exercise to identify outstanding...
    • Disability Services
      98. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to address the additional transport costs associated with disability; and if he will make a...
    • Childcare Services
      100. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps that are being taken to increase the number of childcare providers in areas such as Kinsale where...
    • Disability Services
      101. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to meet with organisations (details supplied) to discuss their concerns regarding the operation of...
    • International Protection
      104. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an inventory of buildings currently being used in County Clare for the provision of...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Data Protection
      107. To ask the Taoiseach if mobile and software applications from a company (details supplied) will be banned from Government devices to protect users’ data from being passed to state...
    • Citizens' Assembly
      108. To ask the Taoiseach the timeline for the establishment of the citizens’ assembly on the future of education; if he will report on progress and developing the terms of reference for...
    • Departmental Staff
      109. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department assists with, or makes a financial contribution to, the sourcing or provision of childcare or crèche facilities for the children of staff members...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      110. To ask the Taoiseach the amount paid by his Department to external legal teams, HR specialists, accountancy firms and consultants in 2022. [26240/23]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Foreign Policy
      111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a person (details supplied) will receive payment and expenses in their role as chair of the consultative forum on international security...
    • Passport Services
      112. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to expedite a passport application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25602/23]
    • Northern Ireland
      114. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has contacted the British Government to request the opening of a new inquiry into the abduction and murder of a person (details...
    • Passport Services
      116. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the status of a passport application (details supplied), as the applicant's travel date is imminent and all...
    • Departmental Functions
      118. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the wedding abroad certificate application will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Consular Services
      119. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Irish Consulate General to Los Angeles has spoken formally with the Governor of New Mexico in the past 12 months. [25858/23]
    • Childcare Services
      121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department assists with, or makes a financial contribution to, the sourcing or provision of childcare or crèche facilities for...
    • Consular Services
      122. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a breakdown in tabular form for each of the past five years the total cost and expenditure for operating each Irish Embassy...
    • Passport Services
      123. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue to a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay in issuing said passport; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      126. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount paid by his Department to external legal teams, HR specialists, accountancy firms, and consultants in 2022; and if he will make a...
    • Consular Services
      127. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken directly with the Irish Consul General in Sydney in the past three months. [26345/23]
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • State Bodies
      128. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the parliamentary oversight processes for the collection and allocation of revenue from dividends from commercial State...
    • Building Energy Rating
      130. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the average cost to retrofit a dwelling to a building energy rating of B2 or higher under the better energy homes...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      134. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the EPA’s emissions data will provide a breakdown of emissions by income decile to highlight the relationship...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline the next steps in the process for awarding the 2% increase in the An Post pension, agreed on 1 January 2022,...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems
      137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 5 of 19 March 2023, if the Local Government Management Agency has yet submitted...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will make the solar PV panel grants available to new-build houses; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Waste Management
      139. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will move to ban hard styrofoam p6 plastic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25733/23]
    • Inland Fisheries
      140. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the development of the new policy statement for inland fisheries in Ireland; if he will...
    • Energy Conservation
      141. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the supports available for apartment complexes in terms of energy-efficiency upgrades, or access to the installation of...
    • Tax Yield
      143. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of revenue that was raised by the carbon-revenue levy from the Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Carbon...
    • Local Authorities
      144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of climate action coordinators, community climate officers, and climate action officers hired by each local...
    • Energy Prices
      147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he received data on the number of application for the hardship fund in 2022 and to date in 2023 made to energy...
    • Childcare Services
      148. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department assists with, or makes a financial contribution to, the sourcing or provision of childcare or...
    • Energy Prices
      149. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment why the cost of domestic ESB is now higher than commercial, as this was never the case before; and if he will make a...
    • Mining Industry
      150. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding any prospecting licences issued with respect to lithium extraction in an area (details...
    • Invasive Species Policy
      151. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he and his Department support the conservation of invasive coarse fish and invasive pike at a location (details...
    • Inland Fisheries
      152. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he and his Department will support Inland Fisheries Ireland by all means in improving the ecological status of a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      153. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has considered extending the warmer homes scheme to persons living in Ireland who are in receipt of the fuel...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      154. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount paid by his Department to external legal teams, HR specialists, accountancy firms, and consultants in 2022;...
    • Energy Conservation
      155. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the target number of retrofits under each scheme for 2022 and for 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Budgets
      167. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a breakdown of the budget allocations for each programme for each of the subheads will be provided, beyond what was...
    • State Bodies
      168. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the staffing levels in the Commision for Regulation of Utilities, and their salaries, in tabular...
  • Department of Defence
    • Foreign Policy
      170. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a person (details supplied) will receive payment and expenses in their role as chair of the consultative forum on international security...
    • Defence Forces
      171. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the missions and-or exercises that he intended the Defence Forces to participate in which were precluded by the triple lock; and if he will make...
    • Foreign Policy
      172. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he plans to appoint a chair to the consultative forum on international security policy; if so, if he will outline a timeline for same; and if...
    • Childcare Services
      173. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department assists with, or makes a financial contribution to, the sourcing or provision of childcare or crèche facilities for the...
    • Military Honours
      174. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on the implementation of recommendations of the independent review group established to examine and report on...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      175. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount paid by his Department to external legal teams, HR specialists, accountancy firms and consultants in 2022; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Properties
      176. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence on whose authority have community groups in Columb Barracks, Mullingar had the locks on the units they have utilised for many years changed with...
    • Defence Forces
      177. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the Defence Forces personnel who went to the UK for speciality military training by the Royal Air Force or the UK navy in the years of 2021,...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • State Bodies
      178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the parliamentary oversight processes for the collection and allocation of revenue from dividends from commercial State bodies such as...
    • Fuel Oil Specifications
      179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a fuel (details supplied) will be made available for small engine power tools and classic and vintage vehicles, similar to that...
    • Driver Licences
      180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport where a category has been removed from a person’s licence, how they can have the category reinstated; the reason the NDLS only...
    • Rail Network
      182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the proportion of bookings on each Iarnród Éireann intercity service allocated for reservation online without a fee for free...
    • Road Safety
      183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any rules, regulations, guidelines or studies around the safe transporting of children on bicycles and on cargo bikes; and...
    • Parking Provision
      184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make it a traffic offence for petrol and diesel cars parking in an electric vehicle charging bay; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details on the causes of the capital underspend of 42% or €144 million below profile as outlined in the April...
    • Road Safety
      186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify the guidelines or regulations, if any, that are issued by his Department or the National Transport Authority when...
    • EU Meetings
      187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the next EU Transport meeting is likely to happen. [25872/23]
    • Legislative Process
      188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the stakeholder consultation process has been completed in relation to the horse-drawn carriages Bill; and when this Bill will be...
    • Childcare Services
      189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department assists with, or makes a financial contribution to, the sourcing or provision of childcare or crèche facilities...
    • Taxi Regulations
      190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on proposals from industry bodies on enabling bus lanes on the north and south quays of the River Liffey in Dublin to operate...
    • National Car Test
      191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on reports that NCT certificates are issued with the date of test rather than the date of application, meaning some people are...
    • Road Network
      192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 55 of 19 January 2023, if the review of the draft Strategic Assessment Report for the R624 access...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount paid by his Department to external legal teams, HR specialists, accountancy firms and consultants in 2022; and if he will make...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to provide funding to the 1951 CIÉ superannuation pension scheme in order that members can receive an increase in...
    • Bus Services
      195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rationale for the National Transport Authority proceeding to make an application to An Bord Pleanála for the proposed Templeogue...
    • Road Projects
      197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in which quarter of which year he expects the new Shannon crossing to be opened. [26279/23]
    • Greenways Provision
      198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in what quarter of which year he expects the south Kerry greenway to be fully completed. [26280/23]
    • Public Transport
      199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to ensure that the public transport network is accessible for persons with disabilities and to eliminate the requirement to...
    • Electric Vehicles
      200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of electric vehicle grants provided for vehicles in 2022 in the price ranges of €30,000 to €40,000,...
    • Road Network
      201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Government has any plans for the development and installation of motion sensor street lighting on Irish streets and roads. [26356/23]
    • National Car Test
      202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of cars currently awaiting NCT tests in Kildare; the availability of timely appointments; the earliest appointment available...
  • Department of Finance
    • Financial Services
      203. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is concerned with lifetime loan products being provided to older people by companies (details supplied) where such loans end up in default, resulting in...
    • Tax Exemptions
      204. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will sanction a derogation regarding a registration requirement (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25608/23]
    • EU Budgets
      205. To ask the Minister for Finance what Ireland’s contribution to the EU budget is expected to be in 2023; the expected funding Ireland will receive in EU grants and supports this year;...
    • National Treasury Management Agency
      206. To ask the Minister for Finance if Exchequer notes held in the National Reserve Fund are counted by the NTMA as cash and other financial assets when calculating gross national debt; and if...
    • Exchequer Payments
      207. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount of Exchequer notes held within the general government sector, either through the NRF, NTF or SIF or other vehicle, in each year since 2016,...
    • Tax Collection
      209. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide an update on the level of compliance with the local property tax this year compared with previous years, including figures and percentages. [25735/23]
    • Revenue Commissioners
      214. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the number of seizures of cannabinoids (cannabis edibles) products by the Revenue Commissioners for each of the years 2018...
    • Tax Reliefs
      215. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on extending the small cider producer excise relief scheme to include mead as a premium Irish product; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Energy Conservation
      216. To ask the Minister for Finance the take-up, by county, of the deduction for retrofitting expenditure incentive for small-scale landlords who undertake retrofitting work while the tenant...
    • Rental Sector
      217. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of renters who have claimed the rent tax credit this year, by county, in tabular form. [25912/23]
    • Insurance Industry
      219. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on rising insurance costs (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25945/23]
    • Childcare Services
      220. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department assists with, or makes a financial contribution to, the sourcing or provision of childcare or crèche facilities for the children of...
    • Exchequer Returns
      221. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the underlying deficit of approximately €4 billion being recorded on a 12-month rolling sum basis to the end of April this year, and...
    • Tax Exemptions
      222. To ask the Minister for Finance if the recent announcement to make solar panels VAT-exempt will be applied so as to refund the VAT portion to those who placed orders prior to the...
    • Tax Code
      223. To ask the Minister for Finance the position in respect of calls by a charity (details supplied) to see 0% VAT applied on sunscreen products to encourage use and decrease overall risk of...
    • Tax Yield
      224. To ask the Minister for Finance the value to the Exchequer of VAT returns on the assistive technology scheme for children in primary schools. [26197/23]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      226. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount paid by his Department to external legal teams, HR specialists, accountancy firms and consultants in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Financial Services
      227. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures and-or plans that he or the Government have in place, or intend to introduce, to assist the many struggling mortgage holders who find themselves...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Brexit Supports
      229. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of the BAR fund that has been allocated and drawn down to date; and if he is confident that all funds will be utilised before...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      230. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when retired OPW staff will receive a raise in their pension and arrears in relation to recent pension increases; and if he will make a...
    • Public Sector Staff
      231. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he can clarify in relation to a public sector worker (details supplied) who has suffered a critical illness and having returned to...
    • Brexit Supports
      232. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a breakdown of allocations to date under the Brexit adjustment fund; the total amount allocated to Ireland; if he...
    • EU Funding
      233. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a breakdown of allocations to date under the Recovery and Resilience Facility NextGenerationEU fund; the total...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      234. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the changes, if any, that have been made to capital allocations to Departments and agencies in 2023 to account for construction...
    • Legal Aid
      235. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his position on the reinstatement of criminal legal aid fees to pre-2008 levels. [25673/23]
    • Public Spending Code
      237. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 233 of 18 May 2023, if he will publish the analysis of the approaches to governance of major...
    • Departmental Budgets
      238. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 23 May 2023, if he will provide further details on the causes of the underspend of 9.1% or...
    • Office of Government Procurement
      239. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the names of external security companies currently on the Office of Government Procurement supplier framework to provide security...
    • Public Appointments Service
      240. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the due diligence and background checking that was undertaken by the Public Appointments Service in respect of the...
    • Childcare Services
      241. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department assists with, or makes a financial contribution to, the sourcing or provision of childcare or crèche facilities...
    • Office of Public Works
      242. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of professional archaeologists currently in the employ of the Office of Public Works. [26024/23]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      249. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount paid by his Department to external legal teams, HR specialists, accountancy firms and consultants in 2022; and if he will...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Environmental Policy
      250. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action his Department is taking to improve indoor environmental quality standards. [26040/23]
    • Disability Services
      251. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he received correspondence from the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media in relation to concerns raised...
    • Departmental Funding
      252. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the new regional enterprise fund will be open to applications; and if criteria have been drawn up yet. [25928/23]
    • Childcare Services
      253. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department assists with, or makes a financial contribution to, the sourcing or provision of childcare or crèche...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      254. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the German Government’s decision to make awards of public procurement contracts conditional on collective...
    • Employment Rights
      255. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on proposals of an organisation (details supplied) in respect of employee experiences of technological surveillance. [26145/23]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      256. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount paid by his Department to external legal teams, HR specialists, accountancy firms and consultants in 2022; and if he will...
    • Legislative Programme
      257. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current status of the proposed companies (corporate governance enforcement and regulatory provisions) Bill 2023. [26351/23]
    • National Minimum Wage
      258. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has considered the request from trade unions (details supplied) to increase the minimum wage by €2 in...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Accommodation
      259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure there is adequate accommodation on-site ahead of the school year 2023-24 at a location (details supplied); if she will also...
    • School Staff
      260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on correspondence to her on behalf of a person (details supplied). [25571/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will advise on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding ASD placement in Dundalk; if the family situation will be...
    • Schools Complaints Procedures
      262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify whether procedures for the use of section 28 of the Education Act 1998 have been issued; if there are plans to issue them;...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a request from a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25601/23]
    • Teacher Training
      264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure the 21 education centres in Ireland publish their annual and audited accounts on their websites, from this point forward; and...
    • Schools Building Projects
      265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the development of a new school (details supplied); if she will provide details on the timeline for completion...
    • School Funding
      267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the funding for the free schoolbooks scheme will be distributed to primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25655/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a detailed timeline for a project (details supplied), including an estimated completion date; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the future of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25675/23]
    • School Transport
      271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications made for school transport for the 2023/2024 school year, broken down by county, and deemed eligible and non-eligible,...
    • Irish Sign Language
      273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm with reference to the newly established Irish sign language supports, how many in-class support vacancies have been...
    • School Staff
      274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm with reference to the newly established “advisor roles”, how many vacancies have been advertised and how many...
    • School Funding
      275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the spending per funding heading in national and primary schools, per county, for 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [25708/23]
    • School Curriculum
      276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment uses a child development model; and if so, if she will name the specific model or models....
    • State Examinations
      277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene to ensure that a leaving certificate candidate (details supplied) gets access to the appropriate examination requirements;...
    • Special Educational Needs
      278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that are in place for a family with a child with a condition (details supplied) who is currently in a mainstream school and then...
    • School Admissions
      279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the options available to the family of child (details supplied) regarding securing a school place for September; and if she...
    • Special Educational Needs
      280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide additional early intervention classes in pre-schools (details supplied) due to increased demand; and if she will make a...
    • Gender Recognition
      282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25894/23]
    • Childcare Services
      283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department assists with, or makes a financial contribution to, the sourcing or provision of childcare or crèche facilities for the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the new primary school for Hollywoodrath, Dublin 15; if planning permission has been granted; if there is a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the case of a pupil (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26052/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be open for students at the beginning of the 2023-24 academic year; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Data
      289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average class size for primary schools in each county in the 2020-2021, 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 school years, in tabular form; and if she...
    • Education Schemes
      291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of digital devices provided to primary schools under the assistive technology scheme in 2023, 2022 and 2021; and the cost per year of...
    • Departmental Data
      295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and post-primary schools that utilise personal digital devices such as laptops or tablets purchased directly by the parent...
    • School Transport
      296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing capacity on the school transport scheme by 10%, 25%, 30% and 50%, in tabular form. [26202/23]
    • School Facilities
      297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and the cost of school halls for primary schools delivered in 2023, 2022 and 2021, in tabular form. [26203/23]
    • School Staff
      299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023. [26205/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost per annum of providing behaviour analysts with direct employment contracts. [26207/23]
    • School Patronage
      303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schools in which reconfiguration/transfer of patronage of a school is being considered or implemented, by county, in tabular form. [26209/23]
    • School Admissions
      305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will implement a State-wide uniform admission process in terms of preference of allocation of school places by individual schools, that...
    • School Funding
      306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when schools will be able to start applying to her Department for funding for their solar panels; if she will outline the process for schools...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount paid by her Department to external legal teams, HR specialists, accountancy firms and consultants in 2022; and if she will make a...
    • School Accommodation
      308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date position with the provision of a new school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Admissions
      309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current and up-to-date position with the provision of secondary school places in the Newbridge/Kildare town area for September 2023; the...
    • School Accommodation
      310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date position with the provision of an extension to a primary school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Properties
      313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the buildings under her Department's remit that are rented or leased; and the full-year annual cost of same, per county, in tabular form. [26263/23]
    • Irish Language
      314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are different categories of Gaelscoil at primary level; which subjects are taught through Irish, which subjects are taught through...
    • School Management
      315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, and to what extent, a school, its patron and/or the Minister is responsible for ensuring compliance with the current primary and secondary...
    • School Inspections
      317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a whole-school evaluation was last carried out in a Gaelscoil (details supplied); and if she will provide a copy of all relevant...
    • Irish Language
      320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans she has to ensure children attending Gaelscoileanna at primary level have the opportunity to continue their learning through Irish at...
    • Schools Administration
      323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in which quarter of which year she expects a new school (details supplied) in Roscrea to be opened. [26281/23]
    • Departmental Records
      324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the request for historical employment records by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) are expected to move to tender stage of works. [26338/23]
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Departmental Schemes
      332. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of participants in the basic income for the arts scheme who have dropped out since accepting a place on the scheme; and...
    • Disability Services
      334. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she fulfilled her commitments given to a campaign (details supplied) in a meeting in September 2022 to write to the Minister...
    • Departmental Schemes
      335. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the frequency with which her Department has contacted participants on the basic income for the arts scheme since its commencement;...
    • Disability Services
      337. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department intends to establish a disability consultative committee; and if so, when a committee is expected to be...
    • Sports Funding
      339. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding schemes available through Sport Ireland in 2023; and the amount allocated to each scheme. [25810/23]
    • Official Engagements
      340. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the dates in 2023 on which she met the chairperson of the Abbey Theatre, in tabular form; and when she is next scheduled to meet...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      341. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht how the €5 million allocation in 2022 under the Winter in Dublin programme was spent; and the budget allocation for this...
    • Sports Funding
      342. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount expended under the large-scale sport infrastructure fund to date; the amount made available and spent under each...
    • Childcare Services
      343. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department assists with, or makes a financial contribution to, the sourcing or provision of childcare or crèche...
    • National Cultural Institutions
      344. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of professional archaeologists currently in the employ of the National Museum of Ireland. [26022/23]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      348. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount paid by her Department to external legal teams, HR specialists, accountancy firms and consultants in 2022; and if she...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Domestic Violence
      349. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated capital expenditure cost of providing one staffed additional family refuge space; and if he will make a...
    • Energy Prices
      350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the concerns of local authority tenants on the cost of air-to-water systems being installed in their homes...
    • Housing Provision
      351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which his Department continues to endeavour to ensure the availability of suitable accommodation for families,...
    • Fire Service
      352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the actions he has taken to date arising from the report that he directed the management board of the NDFEM...
    • EU Regulations
      353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the impact assessments that are being carried out in relation to the proposed EU Nature Restoration Regulation concerning the...
    • Rental Sector
      354. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a certain area (details supplied) is within a rent pressure zone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25554/23]
    • Departmental Reports
      355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline his response to the Health Service Board report into deaths among people who were homeless at time of death...
    • Departmental Budgets
      356. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will detail what funding heads A14 and A18 within his Department's annual voted expenditure related to; and if he will...
    • Housing Provision
      357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the construction costs and the all-in development costs per square meter, for social housing projects...
    • Fire Service
      358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps his Department has taken to address the challenges of retaining part-time firefighters; when he will address the...
    • Housing Provision
      361. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will indicate for each local authority, the number of expressions of interest to his Department; the number of...
    • Housing Schemes
      366. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that many successful applicants for the croí cónaithe fund schemes are unable to draw down the grant...
    • State Bodies
      367. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the staffing levels for the National Building Control Office since 2020; if he will detail all requests for additional staff...
    • Local Authorities
      368. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of money, both allocated and spent, on housing maintenance by each respective local authority for the years 2020,...
    • Planning Issues
      371. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to amend paragraph 6 subsection (a) of Section 254, Planning and Development Act 2000 to include a requirement, in...
    • Veterinary Services
      372. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of vacancies within local authority veterinary services; his proposals to ensure an adequate service across all...
    • Property Registration
      375. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the WTE-staff compliment of the Property Registration Authority, by grade; the number of vacancies at the...
    • Planning Issues
      376. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position, in general terms, when an application is under review with An Bord Pleanála, in terms of whether any...
    • Housing Schemes
      377. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to concerns related to the croí cónaithe grant funding creating additional legal...
    • Planning Issues
      378. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps that can be taken to expedite the decision-making powers of An Bord Pleanála, where decisions that were due a...
    • House Prices
      379. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of building a one-bedroom apartment. [25811/23]
    • Departmental Schemes
      380. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if private health contribution payments, private pension contribution payments and membership fees paid to trades union can be...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      381. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide further details on the causes of the underspend of 32.5% or €141 million below profile, as outlined...
    • Housing Schemes
      382. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the criteria for which a local authority can refuse to purchase a property under the tenant-in-situ scheme;...
    • Departmental Strategies
      383. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position on the Marine Strategy Framework Directive Common Implementation Strategy on Seabed Integrity; if he agrees with...
    • Housing Schemes
      384. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the operation of ‘home for life’ in the mortgage-to-rent scheme. [25852/23]
    • Flood Risk Management
      386. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when works (details supplied) will actually be carried out, given that the case has been prioritised for some time; if an...
    • Housing Schemes
      387. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications for funding of social housing developments/acquisitions/turnkey/leases applied for by Tipperary...
    • Quarrying Sector
      391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm from when Irish quarries and concrete producers had to comply with I.S. EN 12620 (details supplied). [25890/23]
    • National Monuments
      392. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of prosecutions made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 in the past ten years; and the number of...
    • Fire Service
      393. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a copy of the 2009 report by the Expert Advisory Group on Monuments and Archaeological Heritage which...
    • Allotments Provision
      394. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if approval will be given for a review of the current conditions of retained firefighters; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Childcare Services
      395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the proposed policy to help protect and provide more allotments and community gardens in...
    • Heritage Council
      396. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department assists with, or makes a financial contribution to, the sourcing or provision of childcare or crèche...
    • Environmental Policy
      401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action his Department is taking to improve the indoor environmental quality standards of Ireland’s homes. [26039/23]
    • Urban Development
      402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason responsibility for the collaborative town centre health check scheme was transferred to the LGMA from the Heritage...
    • Domestic Violence
      403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total estimated cost to build a ten-room domestic violence refuge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26055/23]
    • Rental Sector
      404. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of determinations by the Residential Tenancies Board which have been appealed to both the Residential Tenancies...
    • Departmental Schemes
      409. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who has not been refunded money taken by...
    • Housing Schemes
      410. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications that have been made by people in Donegal wishing to avail of the cost rental tenant-in-situ scheme;...
    • Rental Sector
      414. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm whether changes have been made to guidance for dealing with HAP tenants in arrears in their differential...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      415. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount paid by his Department to external legal teams, HR specialists, accountancy firms and consultants in 2022; and if...
    • Legislative Process
      416. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of a campaign in Drogheda (details supplied); if he will outline the legislative process or current...
    • Housing Provision
      417. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the up-to-date position with the provision of social housing at a site (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will...
    • Waterways Issues
      419. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the up-to-date position with the provision of infrastructure (details supplied) in County Kildare; the current status of it;...
    • State Bodies
      420. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to address staff shortages in the National Building Control and Market Surveillance Office. [26284/23]
    • Planning Issues
      421. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the rate of fees payable for persons who wish to submit planning observations; and his views on whether the rate...
    • Departmental Strategies
      422. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the modelling his Department maintains on future building capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26286/23]
    • Water Safety
      423. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the shortage of beach lifeguards in Fingal; if he will raise the rate of pay for beach lifeguards; if his...
    • Housing Provision
      424. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the 17 local authority housing units approved for construction at a location (details supplied) have finished construction;...
    • State Bodies
      427. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the staffing levels in the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority; the appointments to date and their...
    • Local Authorities
      429. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the local authority biodiversity officer programme. [26331/23]
    • Water Supply
      433. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the terms of access to any or all grants for the provision for private wells for private housing who have a connection to...
    • Housing Provision
      434. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he or the Government have plans or intentions, given our increasing ageing population, to establish a distinct unit to...
    • Housing Schemes
      436. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures, if any, in place, to assist persons to purchase houses which were previously owned, i.e. not new builds, and not...
    • Housing Provision
      437. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social and affordable homes delivered in Cork in 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on...
    • EU Directives
      438. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details on the planned economic impact assessment around the proposed nature restoration law; and if he...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • School Meals Programme
      439. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of students at primary and post-primary who were provided with free school meals in 2022, 2021 and to date in...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      441. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Government has plans to review the criteria for home care workers' entitlement to DSP payments (details supplied); and...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      444. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of the working family payment for a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made; and if she...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      445. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider reducing the qualifying period for community employment schemes from 12 months on the live register to...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      446. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she can detail the supports that are available for a public sector employee diagnosed with a serious illness (details...
    • State Pensions
      447. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 229 of 11 May 2023, whether a decision to refuse a State pension takes into account...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      448. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of a carer's allowance application for a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made; and if...
    • Employment Schemes
      449. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reasons for the delay in completing the reasonable accommodation fund review and consultation, due to be completed by the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      450. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider increasing the back-to-work enterprise allowance to those aged 18 to 24 years and not living...
    • State Pensions
      451. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if cognisance can be taken in the case of a person (details supplied); if the status quo in respect of their payment will be...
    • Social Insurance
      452. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when payment will issue to persons (details supplied) under the redundancy payment scheme from the Social Insurance Fund; and...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      453. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an unemployed person (details supplied) was not approved even a basic rate of social welfare considering that they...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      454. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for carers allowance will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
    • Disability Services
      456. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she received correspondence from the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media in relation to...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      457. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is not being paid disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      458. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of payments made under additional needs payments relating to energy bills in 2022 and to date in 2023, by month....
    • Departmental Staff
      459. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the due diligence and background checking that was undertaken in respect of the hiring of a person...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      460. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision on a review of a decision sought in relation to a carer's allowance refusal (details supplied) will issue;...
    • Childcare Services
      463. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department assists with, or makes a financial contribution to, the sourcing or provision of childcare or crèche...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      464. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue on the social welfare appeal (details supplied) registered in the social welfare appeals office on...
    • Employment Schemes
      466. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the review of the reasonable accommodation fund will be completed; if she will provide a breakdown of how the €1...
    • Disability Services
      467. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current number of advocates, per county, in the national advocacy services for persons with disabilities in each of the...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      469. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for an exceptional needs payment by a person (details supplied) in County...
    • State Pensions
      470. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is in receipt of the maximum contributory pension; if not, if her Department...
    • Domestic Violence
      471. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total annual number of victims of domestic violence who received rent supplement from 2020 to date, in tabular form; and...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      473. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is currently conducting a review of the continuing eligibility of recipients of carer's allowance; and if...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      474. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer’s allowance review initiated on 7 February 2023 for a person (details...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      475. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused a PPS number. [26152/23]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      476. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when arrears will be paid to a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      477. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of paying the living wage and the minimum wage to all workers on the CE scheme; and if she will...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      478. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid by her Department to external legal teams, HR specialists, accountancy firms, and consultants in 2022; and if...
    • Social Welfare Application Forms
      479. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the application process for jobseeker's benefit for educators and education support staff at all levels, who are making a...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      480. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is satisfied with the operation of her Department's central call centre when clients are seeking to make contact with...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Legislative Measures
      481. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the current situation regarding the spent convictions legislation committed to in the programme for...
    • Immigration Status
      482. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department can expedite the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25613/23]
    • Data Protection
      483. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on each specific recommendation outlined in the Oireachtas Committee on Justice report on GDPR...
    • An Garda Síochána
      484. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 467 of 9 May 2023, if he has received the necessary information from the Garda...
    • Prison Service
      493. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will strongly consider an organisation (details supplied) for State funding towards its operational managerial costs and...
    • Deportation Orders
      494. 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. [25705/23]
    • Visa Applications
      495. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if urgent clarification can be given as to the next steps to be followed in the case of a person (details supplied), who has a...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      496. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on a naturalisation application by a person (details supplied), where further information was...
    • Immigration Status
      497. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current and/or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      500. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown of the number of seizures of cannabinoids (cannabis edibles) products by An Garda...
    • Misuse of Drugs
      503. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are plans to bring forward legislation to control the sale and supply of illegal drugs or substances through social...
    • An Garda Síochána
      504. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people arrested for fraud offences in each county in the State in each of the past five years, in tabular form....
    • Control of Firearms
      505. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people arrested for firearm offences or possession of firearms in each county in the State in each of the past...
    • An Garda Síochána
      506. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people arrested for burglaries in each county in the State in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [25780/23]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      508. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 273 of 30 March 2023, if he will provide an update on the matter; and if he will make a...
    • Legislative Measures
      509. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has plans to update the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956. [25867/23]
    • Departmental Staff
      510. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of WTE immigration officials, by grade, employed by his Department working in Dublin Airport as of 23 May 2023; the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      511. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the capital budget allocation to An Garda Síochána in 2022; the amount of that capital budget allocation that was...
    • Immigration Status
      514. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the options available to a person (details supplied) to regularise their status given that they have been refused by the...
    • Childcare Services
      515. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department assists with, or makes a financial contribution to, the sourcing or provision of childcare or crèche...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      516. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total spend allocated to Tusla under the third Domestic, Sexual and Gender Based Violence Strategy for capital works; and...
    • Domestic Violence
      517. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staffed domestic violence refuge centres and the number of supported units open in each county, in tabular form;...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      520. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality Tusla's funding allocation for each of the years 2020 to 2023 inclusive for staffed refuges, domestic violence support...
    • Domestic Violence
      521. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of protection orders sought for each of the years 2016 to 2023 inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Immigration Status
      530. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in respect of an application for leave to remain in the case of a person (details supplied) who submitted...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      531. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process that has been established to roll-out a National Domestic Violence Accommodation (Refuge) Strategic Development...
    • Immigration Status
      532. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an EU treaty rights application in the case of a person (details supplied); and if...
    • An Garda Síochána
      533. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown of the number of complaints of assault made by taxi drivers while on duty for each of the years...
    • Office of Director of Public Prosecutions
      534. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown of the number of prosecutions for assault against taxi drivers while on duty for each of the...
    • Penal Policy Review Group
      535. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the Programme for Government commitment to establish a Penal Policy Consultative Council to...
    • Prison Service
      536. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the unpublished Dóchas prison reports by the Inspector of Prisons; when such reports will be published; and...
    • Penal Policy Review Group
      537. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the penal policy review from 2022; the status of the action plan; the achievements in relation...
    • An Garda Síochána
      538. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how his Department has addressed the practice of scammers block-booking appointments with the Garda National Immigration...
    • Domestic Violence
      539. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Advisory Group on the Study on Familicide and Domestic Homicide Review will report to his Department; and if he will...
    • Departmental Schemes
      541. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 535 of 23 May 2023, and in light of the fact that the scheme was limited to 500 people,...
    • An Garda Síochána
      542. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of suspected crimes reported to each Garda station in the Cork city area for 2020, 2021 and 2022; and if he will...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      543. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount paid by his Department to external legal teams, HR specialists, accountancy firms and consultants in 2022; and if he...
    • Departmental Data
      544. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to collate comprehensive data on deaths in custody. [26287/23]
    • Asylum Seekers
      545. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps taken by the Government to ascertain if an asylum seeker has purposefully lost their passport or travel documents; if...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Wildlife Protection
      547. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the members of the public that were involved in the survey in relation to the first major public consultation into...
    • Seaweed Harvesting
      549. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the research project “A Socio-Economic Study of Seaweed Harvesting in Ireland to Support Marine Spatial...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      550. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork is not able to progress their BISS application due to DAFM online issues after...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      552. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to e-correspondence from this Deputy; and if he will provide an update on the suggestion contained in...
    • Organic Farming
      553. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is co-equivalence in organic certification standards between Ireland and Britain; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Forestry Sector
      556. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the forestry section of Teagasc will hold information meetings nationwide to assist forest owners impacted by ash dieback who have...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      561. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the introduction of a financial support scheme for farmers to meeting the costs of hiring professional contractors to...
    • Animal Welfare
      562. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to protect animal welfare issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25803/23]
    • Agriculture Industry
      563. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking in response to a differential that has opened up between Irish and UK steers prices in recent weeks; and if he...
    • Animal Passports
      564. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to remove barriers concerning pet dog, cat and ferret travel between Ireland and the UK; and if he will make a...
    • Pesticide Use
      565. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline his engagement with the Minister for Education concerning action 4c: Reduction of risk in Sensitive Areas in the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      566. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who participated in the beef environmental efficiency programme - suckler (BEEP-S), by county, in 2022, in...
    • Brexit Supports
      568. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 542 of 16 May 2023, if he will provide the metrics used by officials in his Department to...
    • Childcare Services
      569. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department assists with, or makes a financial contribution to, the sourcing or provision of childcare or crèche...
    • Agriculture Supports
      570. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the stage negotiations are at regarding the compensation for farmers as to the reduction of cow numbers in their herd; the proposed...
    • Horticulture Sector
      571. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the scheme of investment aid for development of the commercial horticulture section 2023 is due to open for this season; and if...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      572. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount paid by his Department to external legal teams, HR specialists, accountancy firms, and consultants in 2022; and if he will...
    • Horticulture Sector
      573. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has examined the possibility of seeking a rebate in carbon tax for growers in the horticulture sector given the high energy...
    • Harbours and Piers
      574. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an extension will be sought to the current planning permission for the construction of a deep water pier at Ros a'Mhíl,...
    • Parking Provision
      576. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a meeting, as requested by the Aran Islands co-operatives, will be organised with them to discuss the operation of parking...
    • Animal Welfare
      577. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons who were convicted of a €5,000 penalty under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 for 2020, 2021, 2022...
    • Brexit Issues
      582. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will advise on his engagement on the transfer of Brexit adjustment reserve funding to the REPower EU fund; if he has requested...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Special Educational Needs
      583. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the return of therapists to special schools; the number who have returned to...
    • Maternity Leave
      584. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position in respect of calls by a charity (details supplied) to ensure that new mothers with cancer can...
    • Home Care Packages
      585. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if additional home support hours can be provided to a person (details supplied) who suffers from spinal muscular...
    • Child and Family Agency
      586. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the potential costs to undertake a comprehensive review of staffing structures within Tusla; and if he will make...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      587. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of increasing capacity in early years providers for baby places 0-1 nationally by 10%. [25594/23]
    • Child and Family Agency
      588. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the budget allocated for Tusla under the NDP for ICT infrastructure; the budget allocated for Tusla by his...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      589. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will review the core funding model which is presently undermining the viability of sessional providers,...
    • International Protection
      590. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on payments due to a service provider (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Health Service Executive
      593. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the level of funding spent on providing training for clinicians in private clinics providing outsourced...
    • Disability Services
      594. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will confirm the number of vacant posts waiting to be filled in the Mid-West Disability Team providing...
    • International Protection
      595. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has any intention of housing refugees in a location (details supplied); if he will engage with...
    • Human Rights
      596. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he received correspondence from the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media in...
    • Disability Diagnoses
      597. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children and young persons on waiting lists for an assessment of need by CHO, age category and...
    • Ukraine War
      599. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on outstanding payments to an accommodation centre (details supplied) for Ukrainian...
    • Departmental Schemes
      600. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the uptake of applications for the Ireland against racism fund; if the number of applications to...
    • International Protection
      601. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details on the proposals to issue tenders for floating accommodation to house international...
    • Childcare Services
      602. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department assists with, or makes a financial contribution to, the sourcing or provision of childcare or...
    • Rights of People with Disabilities
      603. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of ratifying the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with...
    • Childcare Services
      604. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports he, in conjunction with the Department of Social Protection, will put in place to support parents...
    • Disability Services
      605. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding provided for residential respite for children's disability services in CHO 4 in each of the past...
    • Departmental Strategies
      607. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the Autism Innovation Oversight and Advisory Group; when the next public...
    • Disability Services
      608. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth that available therapeutic resource for children with special needs is properly allocated between completing...
    • Health Services
      609. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that community neuro-rehabilitation is a vital support for people living with neurological...
    • International Protection
      610. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will change policy to ensure that all refugees will in future be provided with accommodation; and if he...
    • Direct Provision System
      612. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current position in relation to the Programme for Government commitment to end the direct provision system;...
    • Disability Services
      613. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the eligibility criteria to access respite care for children with disabilities in counties Cavan and...
    • Health Services Staff
      614. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to increase the number of senior therapy staff within Children's Disability Network Teams to enable an...
    • Disability Services
      616. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on the high vacancy rates in CDNTs; if he will report on how unspent funds, which were...
    • International Protection
      617. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of refugees who have been settled in County Donegal, broken down by townlands and whether they have...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      618. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has any concerns that the current design of the National Childcare Strategy does not facilitate part-time...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      620. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount paid by his Department to external legal teams, HR specialists, accountancy firms and consultants in...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      621. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if early years educators in the public system can be paid throughout the school holidays in order that they do...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      622. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children awaiting their AON in CHO 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26316/23]
    • Disability Services
      624. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE speech and language therapists in the children's disability network teams in County Westmeath...
    • International Protection
      625. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the inspections, per county, conducted by his Department on sites being utilised for those seeking international...
    • Child Protection
      628. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he and his Department continue to monitor the needs of children, in the home, in care, or...
    • Disability Services
      630. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which children with special needs continue to receive the support of Tusla in all situations where...
    • Rights of the Child
      631. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he and his Department continue to monitor the needs of children who are refugees or in the...
    • Direct Provision System
      632. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of direct provision centres currently available and inhabited throughout the country; the...
    • International Protection
      633. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he and his Department have identified vacant buildings throughout the country which might be...
  • Department of Health
    • Mental Health Policy
      634. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on workforce planning for the mental health care sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26034/23]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      635. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting their initial appointment with CAMHS in CHO 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26318/23]
    • Health Services
      639. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he and his Department continue to accelerate the programme of assessment in the case of children with or without special needs who may be...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      641. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a child (details supplied); and when they concerned can expect an appointment. [25544/23]
    • Regulatory Bodies
      642. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to include athletic therapy in the CORU regulation process and in the provision of HSE care services; when this will happen; the rationale...
    • Medical Cards
      643. To ask the Minister for Health following the announced Investment of over €23 billion in budget 2023 in Ireland's health and social care services, when the proposed increase for...
    • Hospital Facilities
      644. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ascertain from the HSE exactly what recommendations were implemented at a hospital facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      645. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a six-year-old child (details supplied) has not yet been called for a much-needed tonsillectomy. [25588/23]
    • Medical Cards
      646. To ask the Minister for Health when the approved GP visit card extended in budget 2023 to children aged under seven years and approved from April 2023 is expected to be implemented, given...
    • Hospital Staff
      647. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the severe shortage of medical scientists working in acute hospitals; if he is aware of the impact this is having on...
    • Health Services Staff
      648. To ask the Minister for Health given the acute challenges facing public hospitals when it comes to recruiting medical scientists, if he will enact legislative change to allow CORU to broaden...
    • Hospital Staff
      649. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the implementation of the recommendations of the Expert Review Body on Nursing and Midwifery, and on implementation of the recommendation...
    • Health Services
      652. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an 83-year-old with haemochromatosis cannot have their blood taken as they are over 80 years of age; the reason for this decision by the HSE; and if...
    • General Practitioner Services
      653. To ask the Minister for Health when the GP clinic at the dispensary in the village of Murroe will be re-established (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25607/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      654. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that many healthcare workers who worked in care homes during the Covid pandemic and who were of the understanding that they would receive the...
    • Emergency Departments
      655. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to ease the continuing overcrowding issues at emergency departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25631/23]
    • Health Services
      656. To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the spending that a hospital made to a company (details supplied) for each month in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      658. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that staff functioning under the aegis of an organisation (details supplied) for essential front-line work done in the pandemic will be...
    • Medicinal Products
      659. To ask the Minister for Health if the working group that is to review governance arrangements to support HSE drug reimbursement process has been set up; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Ambulance Service
      660. To ask the Minister for Health if the visit by representatives of the National Ambulance Service to Israel was officially sanctioned; if so, by whom and for what reason; the cost associated...
    • Disability Services
      661. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 462 of 25 April 2023, when a response from the HSE will issue. [25667/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      662. To ask the Minister for Health the stage the look-back review into North Kerry CAMHS is at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25674/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      663. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the drug vyepti (details supplied), following its completion of the approval process; if he will acknowledge that there are many...
    • Departmental Funding
      665. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of new funding in 2023 for each of the HSE national clinical programmes (details supplied), in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      666. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to ensure that minimum care provision will be in place at LUH in light of two endocrinologists suddenly resigning and the current challenges...
    • Medical Cards
      667. To ask the Minister for Health when the increase in income limits for those under 70 years applying for a medical card will be applied. [25707/23]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      668. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect to receive appointment for an MRI scan in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a...
    • Mental Health Services
      669. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people waiting on primary care psychology services, by age and amount of time waiting, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Care Services
      671. To ask the Minister for Health if the appropriate level of care at the highest possible level can be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); if all appropriate avenues can be...
    • Health Services Staff
      672. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a person (details supplied) will be permitted to transfer from their current position to take up the offered post in the public nurse...
    • Substance Misuse
      673. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of hospitalisations related to the use of a substance such as hallucinogens, cannabinoids, cannabis, cocaine,...
    • Primary Care Centres
      674. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a newly planned facility (details supplied) in Cork east; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25762/23]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      675. To ask the Minister for Health the expenditure of the national treatment purchase fund in each year for which data is available; the amount of NTPF funding spent in public hospitals in each...
    • Health Services Staff
      676. To ask the Minister for Health the average salary of a community development worker. [25809/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      678. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided to Merchant’s Quay for the provision of a women’s facility to date in 2023. [25813/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      680. To ask the Minister for Health the cost, per dose, of each of the naloxone treatments. [25816/23]
    • Nursing Homes
      682. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a fair deal application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25818/23]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      683. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for speech and language therapy by CHO, age category and time waiting, in tabular form. [25820/23]
    • Home Care Packages
      693. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for homecare packages; the number of persons experiencing delayed discharge from hospital due to a delay in accessing...
    • General Practitioner Services
      694. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the strategic review of general practice; the date at which he expects the review group to submit its findings; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Service Executive
      695. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints made to the HSE in relation to breaches of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 which resulted in a person being found guilty of an...
    • Healthcare Policy
      696. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for excluding Mallow General Hospital from benefit under the appointment of community care consultant posts; the rationale for this decision...
    • Health Services Staff
      697. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE optometrists employed by the HSE working in primary care settings within CHO7 and CHO9 in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and...
    • Health Services
      700. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who presented at (details supplied) for each month in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [25864/23]
    • Nursing Homes
      701. To ask the Minister for Health if a reassessment of a fair deal scheme application is possible where a property valuation was undertaken without entry to the property due to Covid...
    • Departmental Schemes
      702. To ask the Minister for Health if a reassessment of value of property is required under the fair deal scheme when the family home is sold and a new property is purchased by a spouse or...
    • General Practitioner Services
      703. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a proposal from an organisation (details supplied) for a new model of GP service for disadvantaged urban areas which are...
    • Health Services Staff
      704. To ask the Minister for Health how a non-national physiotherapist (details supplied) can meet work placement requirements enforced by CORU for physiotherapy practice in Ireland, given that...
    • Health Services
      705. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adverse incidents that were recorded in the health service in total in 2022, and for each of the previous four years; the number of adverse...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      706. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork, who has been on a waiting list for plastic surgery since 2019, will be allocated an appointment for...
    • Health Services
      707. To ask the Minister for Health the reason elderly persons in County Wexford who do not have a full medical card are refused access to public health nurse services; if this decision can be...
    • Emergency Departments
      709. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown for each of the past five years, per emergency department nationally, of the number of times people were billed for attending an...
    • Hospital Services
      710. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on plans being considered to ensure the continuation of adult diabetes care and services at Letterkenny University Hospital,...
    • Health Services Staff
      711. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 265 of 11 May 2023, if the HSE has initiated a recruitment process to staff the primary care centre at Boot Road,...
    • Childcare Services
      712. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department assists with, or makes a financial contribution to, the sourcing or provision of childcare or crèche facilities for the children of...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      713. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) cannot get their appointment in Merlin Park Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25989/23]
    • Voluntary Sector
      715. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount of funding given to the voluntary and community mental health sector in the years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he...
    • Health Services Staff
      716. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of authorised officers in the HSE; the target number of authorised officers by quarter 4 of 2023; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services
      718. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on all the independent advocacy services available in mental health, for both inpatient and outpatient services, in 2021, 2022 and 2023, in...
    • Legislative Measures
      719. To ask the Minister for Health the projected costs of implementing the proposed reforms to the Mental Health Act 2001; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26014/23]
    • Health Service Executive
      720. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the costings of restructuring the HSE to regional health areas from 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26015/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      721. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on workforce planning for the mental healthcare sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26016/23]
    • Emergency Departments
      724. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency department presentations at the nine acute model 4 hospitals in the country for the month of April; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Strategies
      725. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the progress to date of the working group chaired by a person (details supplied) to consider the cost of medical claims; if he will provide...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      729. To ask the Minister for Health if all homeless services workers who worked throughout the pandemic in homeless support roles will be paid the pandemic payment; and if he will make a...
    • Abortion Services
      730. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm whether it is permissible for terminations of pregnancy based on sex-selection criteria to take place under the provisions of the Health...
    • Health Services Staff
      731. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of an issue with a systematic failure of a number of HSE payroll divisions to correctly calculate the pay of non-consultant hospital doctors...
    • Hospital Transfers
      732. To ask the Minister for Health when an urgent hospital transfer from Letterkenny University Hospital to Galway University Hospital will take place for a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      733. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork who was referred on 22 December 2022 will have a date for cataract surgery. [26075/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      734. To ask the Minister for Health the budget allocated to each hospital in the RCSI Hospital Group in each of the years 2019 to 2023, in tabular form. [26076/23]
    • Abortion Services
      735. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the establishment of the HSE implementation group to progress the operational recommendations raised in the review of the...
    • State Bodies
      737. To ask the Minister for Health if he could outline the roles and responsibilities of the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics as defined by statute; the reporting requirements it has to the...
    • Medicinal Products
      738. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the specific expenditure on new medicines and new uses of existing medicines in 2021 and 2022; if the information could be provided on an...
    • Health Service Executive
      739. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the details of the contract between the HSE and the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics that underpins pharmaceutical product applications...
    • Medicinal Products
      740. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medicines and the level of expenditure in 2022 on exempt medicinal products by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26091/23]
    • Disease Management
      743. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the development of a national strategy for hemochromatosis (details supplied) in which everyone has equal access to testing diagnosis,...
    • Primary Care Centres
      748. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the recruitment of staff for the new primary care centre on Boot Road in Clondalkin; the breakdown of the staff to be...
    • Hospital Staff
      749. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nursing staff who are missing for the rota for the emergency department in the Mater hospital; the number of positions within his Department that...
    • Dental Services
      750. To ask the Minister for Health whether a dentist can charge a medical card holder a fee for dental work due to the time elapsed since their last visit (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Hospital Services
      751. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to operate a weekend service for diagnostic scans in St. Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny and Waterford University Hospital, based on...
    • Medicinal Products
      752. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the cost of medication for inflammatory bowel disease, which is not covered by the long-term illness scheme, given that it...
    • Health Services Staff
      754. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); his views on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26149/23]
    • Pharmacy Services
      756. To ask the Minister for Health when he will commence negotiations with a union (details supplied) as part of the review of pharmacy dispensing fees under section 42 (14) of the Public...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      757. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) will be waiting three years or more for an operation on their knees despite the fact that their health and mobility has...
    • Community Care
      758. To ask the Minister for Health the additional community health services being provided in each county in CHO 5 since 2020, in tabular form. [26171/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      759. To ask the Minister for Health if TAVI heart surgery will be upgraded to the highest priority for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26179/23]
    • Vaccination Programme
      760. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the specific timeline which he and his Departmental officials have given to HIQA to complete its HTA regarding the provision of an enhanced...
    • Cancer Services
      763. To ask the Minister for Health his position in respect of calls by an organisation (details supplied) to see additional investment and resourcing of cancer services and the cancer workforce...
    • General Practitioner Services
      765. To ask the Minister for Health where private patients are to go to secure medical care on the retirement of their GP; and if he will advise in particular circumstances (details supplied)....
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      766. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on the waiting list to access a first appointment with gynaecology services in Tallaght University Hospital; the number waiting over one...
    • Health Services
      767. To ask the Minister for Health the other options open for a woman suffering from endometriosis, who was referred to a pain specialist (details supplied), but was told that they could be...
    • Healthcare Policy
      768. To ask the Minister for Health if, in light of his decision to introduce calorie information for alcohol products, he will implement a similar requirement for the hospitality sector on its...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      769. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid by his Department to external legal teams, HR specialists, accountancy firms and consultants in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Measures
      770. To ask the Minister for Health if the provisions of the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) (No. 2) regulations 2023 will extend to Irish citizens who are prescribed cannabis medicines; if his...
    • Departmental Policies
      771. To ask the Minister for Health the consideration given to those with eating disorders in the decision-making process to add calorie information to alcoholic products; and if he will make a...
    • Health Service Executive
      772. To ask the Minister for Health the practical steps the HSE is taking to reduce healthcare waste and improve waste segregation, following the new HSE action plan towards a more sustainable...
    • Legislative Measures
      774. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include athletic therapy in the CORU regulation process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26252/23]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      775. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position with the provision of a new healthcare facility (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      777. To ask the Minister for Health when the necessary motorised wheelchair will be delivered to a person (details supplied) who suffers from spinal muscular atrophy; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Facilities
      778. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the current status of the application for a new 97-bed ward block at Wexford General Hospital; and if he will make a statement...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      780. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1910 of 19 January 2022, the current number of applicants waiting for a primary medical certificate in County Clare; the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      781. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider streamlining the PCRS Reporting service for GPs to allow for longer timeframes for submission of claims due to the high demand on GPs and...
    • Departmental Data
      782. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing budget allocation for Mullingar Regional Hospital in the years of 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [26347/23]
    • Health Services
      783. To ask the Minister for Health when adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder services and support will be in place in County Longford. [26348/23]
    • Departmental Data
      784. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dementia advisors there are for each CHO area, for the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [26360/23]
    • Home Care Packages
      785. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 371 of 20 April 2023, the number of hours that were provided in 2022 on intensive home care packages; and if he will make...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      786. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently waiting for an eye-specialist/optician appointment for each CHO area, in tabular form; the reason there is a delay in such...
    • Mental Health Services
      787. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that are being taken to address the current delays with CAMHS services in Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25938/23]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Third Level Fees
      788. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing the HEA contribution towards graduate entry medicine tuition fees by €5,000 and €10,000 per...
    • Proposed Legislation
      790. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his intended timeline for the publication of the proposed students’ union Bill, as referred to in his speech relating to the Higher...
    • Departmental Funding
      791. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the investment that has been made by the Government into student mental-health services over the past three academic years, in tabular form; and...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      792. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine the apprenticeship process to allow students from Dublin to complete their apprenticeship in Dublin; and if he will make a...
    • Third Level Fees
      794. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of further reducing third-level student contribution charges to €1,000 in 2023-2024, and subsequently to abolish these...
    • Cúrsaí Gaeilge
      796. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad é an meastachán ar chostais ar an Stát a bhainfeadh le cúrsaí Gaeilge a chur ar fáil saor in aisce do dhaoine...
    • Third Level Education
      797. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposed new veterinary school at University Limerick (details supplied); whether he has fully reviewed the recommendations of...
    • Cost of Living Issues
      798. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the effect of inflation and shortage of accommodation on youth, and in particular the student population; and if he will make a...
    • Childcare Services
      799. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department assists with, or makes a financial contribution to, the sourcing or provision of childcare or crèche facilities for the...
    • Mental Health Services
      800. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of people receiving education and training to work in the mental healthcare sector in each of the years 2020 to date, in tabular form;...
    • Further and Higher Education
      801. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial supports available to Ukrainian students at higher level education who do not meet the three-year residency rule to qualify for a...
    • Third Level Education
      802. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who did not qualify for the free scheme in the current academic year; if he has plans to review the qualification...
    • Visa Applications
      803. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student (details supplied) with a stamp 3 visa status is entitled to progress from secondary school to a PLC; and if he will make a...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      804. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expedite the certification of solar photovoltaic, PV, installation add-on course requirement for an organisation (details supplied)...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      805. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount paid by his Department to external legal teams, HR specialists, accountancy firms, and consultants in 2022; and if he will make a...
    • Third Level Education
      806. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is increasing the number of occupational therapy places for entry in September 2023; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Rural Schemes
      810. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the outdoor recreation infrastructure scheme will open for applications in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Childcare Services
      811. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department assists with, or makes a financial contribution to, the sourcing or provision of childcare or crèche facilities...
    • Community Development Projects
      812. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the position regarding the €4 million regeneration funding for Youghal town; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Expenditure
      814. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount paid by her Department to external legal teams, HR specialists, accountancy firms and consultants in 2022; and if she will...

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