Written answers

Tuesday, 20 June 2023

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Climate Action Plan
      28. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the first progress report for Q1 2023 of the Climate Action Plan. [25770/23]
    • Cabinet Committees
      38. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Economy and Investment will next meet. [26400/23]
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      52. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the meeting of the European Political Community on 1 June 2023. [26401/23]
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces
      76. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on a complaint made by Defence Forces representatives over the failure to pay proper overtime to their members; and if he will make a...
    • Common Security and Defence Policy
      77. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans for Ireland's participation in the European Union Common Security and Defence policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Fisheries Protection
      78. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for a report on the role of the Naval Service in fisheries protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28117/23]
    • Naval Service
      80. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the deployment of the LÉ William Butler Yeats to the coast of Libya; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29557/23]
    • Defence Forces
      81. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department plans to offer healthcare benefits to members of the Defence Forces and their families; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • European Union
      86. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will outline how European defence policy has evolved since the start of the war in Ukraine. [29561/23]
    • Naval Service
      87. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of times that sailings by the Naval Service have been cancelled due to staffing issues to date in 2023. [29553/23]
    • Defence Forces
      88. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the proposed timeframe for the application of the Working Time Directive within the Defence Forces. [29527/23]
    • Naval Service
      95. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when it is expected that two vessels acquired from the Royal New Zealand Navy will be brought into the service; the total crew complement...
    • Defence Forces
      96. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of applications currently being processed by the Defence Forces as a result of the most recent recruitment campaign; and if he will...
    • Military Neutrality
      97. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the Consultative Forum on International Security Policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28291/23]
    • Defence Forces
      98. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if additional funding will be allocated in Budget 2024 in order to implement the recommendations of the Commission on Defence in relation to...
    • Ukraine War
      102. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will outline the implications of the ongoing war in Ukraine for Ireland’s security and defence. [29560/23]
    • Housing Provision
      103. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the engagement he or his Department has had with the Land Development Agency and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage with...
    • Defence Forces
      104. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which the Defence Forces monitor the presence of naval vessels from other countries in Ireland's waters; and if he will make a...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      115. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the progress there has been in plans for the protection of critical State infrastructure in the coming months and years including against cyber...
    • Defence Forces
      120. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the strength of the reserve Defence Force as of 1 June 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28296/23]
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Energy Usage
      121. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details on the CSO release on Data Centres Metered Electricity Consumption 2022; to outline how the CSO accounted for the failure of ESB Networks to...
    • Departmental Data
      122. To ask the Taoiseach the number of people with disabilities in Ireland who were deemed to be self-employed in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022; the number who had employees; and the number...
    • State Bodies
      123. To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline the implementation of circular 25/2016 by each State body under the aegis of his Department; and if he will provide, in tabular form, by State agency,...
    • Departmental Policies
      124. To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline the principles of the mission statement of his Department, with particular reference to the full range of responsibilities; and if a reduction or...
    • Departmental Bodies
      125. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the establishment of a child poverty unit in his Department. [29727/23]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      126. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he could provide an update on an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29138/23]
    • International Relations
      127. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the last time discussions were held to promote strengthen ties between the EU and Singapore; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Passport Services
      128. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that the renewal of a passport for a child (details supplied) will be processed urgently by his Department; and if he will...
    • Departmental Data
      130. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of embassies and consulates operated by his Department; the total WTE and cost of each, by state; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Funding
      132. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the financial allocation provided to an organisation (details supplied) in each of the years 2017 to date; and if he will make a statement...
    • Public Sector Staff
      133. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the WTE within the passport service in each of the years 2019 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29248/23]
    • Overseas Development Aid
      134. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Government targets regarding the allocation of Exchequer funds to overseas development aid; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Passport Services
      137. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that the renewal of a passport for a child (details supplied) will be processed urgently by his Department; and if he will...
    • Consular Services
      140. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number and percentage of staff based at either the Irish Embassy in New Delhi or Consulate General Office in Mumbai, who are fluent in...
    • Passport Services
      141. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will be issued to a person (details supplied). [29439/23]
    • State Bodies
      142. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the implementation of circular 25/2016 by each State body under the aegis of his Department; and if he will provide, in...
    • Passport Services
      143. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a child passport submitted in April 2023 will process in time for travel on 21 June 2023 to a family wedding abroad (details supplied);...
    • Consular Services
      146. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in relation to a case (details supplied), if he will request confirmation as to why the Irish Consulate are suggesting that this person...
    • Passport Services
      147. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will expand the current Passport Service and open a number of regional passport offices to cover the different counties outside Dublin...
    • Departmental Data
      148. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 134 and 137 of 13 June 2023, in which he indicated that "the contribution by the Department of...
    • Military Neutrality
      149. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason he has established a consultative forum to discuss future Irish foreign policy instead of proposing the establishment of a...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Motor Fuels
      150. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide information on the provision of policy advice for projects related to the development of green hydrogen...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      151. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his Department’s role in policy making on the provision of cybersecurity and data protection; the measures he is...
    • Inland Fisheries
      152. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline his engagement with Inland Fisheries Ireland conceding the impacts of the Bandon Fish Pass on the flow of...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      153. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to attend the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in July 2023, where Ireland will...
    • Departmental Budgets
      155. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a breakdown of the current and capital budget allocations for each programme under each subhead of the...
    • Departmental Data
      156. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline all the occasions on which a direction was given under section 40M subsection 2 of the Electricity...
    • International Agreements
      157. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the cost of the subscription to the Energy Charter Treaty for 2023. [29193/23]
    • Waste Management
      158. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the current status of the waste reduction levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29215/23]
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      159. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has read the recent report by an organisation (details supplied) which calls for urgent political leadership from...
    • National Broadband Plan
      160. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 216 of 21 March 2023, to outline if his Department has reclassified a premises...
    • Environmental Policy
      161. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the timeline for completion of a policy on geothermal energy; and if he will make a...
    • State Bodies
      163. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the powers he used to direct the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities to use the 2009 special dividend from the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      165. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to remove the registration fee per product under the deposit return scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Inland Fisheries
      167. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason no Angling Consultative Council of Ireland meetings were held under the auspices of the Inland Fisheries...
    • Pension Provisions
      169. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will indicate a date on which former workers at An Post can expect to receive an increase to their pensions,...
    • Compulsory Purchase Orders
      170. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the prospective compulsory purchase order of a facility (details supplied) in Donegal; and if he will...
  • Department of Defence
    • Naval Service
      171. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a new cadetship recruitment campaign for the Naval Service will be launched in the third quarter this year; and if he will make a statement...
    • Defence Forces
      172. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of vacant dentists, physiotherapists, nurses and doctors currently in the Defence Forces Medical Corps as of 12 June 2023; when these...
    • Military Honours
      173. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he is aware of the bravery of a person (details supplied) who displayed selfless and exceptional bravery on 31 May 1999 at Post 6-42 in South...
    • State Bodies
      174. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will outline the implementation of circular 25/2016 by each State body under the aegis of his Department; and if he will provide, in...
    • Defence Forces
      175. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if there has been an increase to the budgetary figure for meals for personnel within the Defence Forces; if he could provide the figure for...
    • Departmental Data
      176. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to his statement on 13 June 2023 to Parliamentary Question Nos. 134 and 137 of 13 June 2023, namely, that "Costs related to the Forum...
    • Defence Forces
      177. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason a role (details supplied) in the Army is less remunerated that the same role in the Naval Service, where the qualifications and...
    • Commemorative Medals
      179. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will consider the awarding of a commemorative medal to Defence Forces personnel involved in the Decade of Centenaries commemorations; and...
    • Defence Forces
      180. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if we will outline the actions taken to date to procure a primary radar capability for the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      181. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will set out the progress made to date in establishing a Joint Cyber Defence Command; the number of additional cyber specialists recruited...
    • Defence Forces
      182. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will outline the progress made since the publication of the Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces on the development of...
    • Departmental Budgets
      195. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which the budget available to his Department remains sufficient to meet requirements in the course of the coming year; and if he...
    • Emergency Services
      196. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to indicate the extent to which the Air Corps and the Naval Service continue to cooperate in air-sea rescue missions; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Departmental Reviews
      197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update in respect of the all-island strategic rail review, and the costs incurred to date in respect of the...
    • Road Safety
      198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the feasibility and options report to assess potential measure for the N5-R320 junction, Swinford bypass,...
    • Road Tolls
      199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with toll companies regarding the upcoming toll increases; if he will consider extending the timeframe of the reduced...
    • National Car Test
      200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views and advice in relation to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29140/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the grant funding provided to each of the four Dublin local authorities for road maintenance in each of the past ten years to date; how...
    • Electric Vehicles
      202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of electric vehicle charging points at each Irish Rail train station car park nationwide; if this number will be further...
    • Rail Network
      203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any plans to link Portlaoise and Carlow on a more direct basis on the rail network; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Electric Vehicles
      204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport why there has been an increase from €5 to €20 in the credit that needs to be on an EV deposit card before charging; and if...
    • Bus Services
      205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a service (details supplied) is being withdrawn; and if this decision will be reversed. [29225/23]
    • Ports Policy
      206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport how much of the 40.8 ha of port lands described in appendix 1 of the Dublin Port Company's franchise policy, published in May 2014, as...
    • Driver Test
      207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29355/23]
    • Rail Network
      209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the frequency with which the help and emergency push-button system on train stations' platforms are tested to ensure that the help or...
    • Coast Guard Service
      211. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to confirm whether employees will be protected under European worker's rights legislation and whether TUPE will apply to the employees of...
    • Transport Policy
      212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the pathfinder projects for Limerick city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29453/23]
    • Road Tolls
      213. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will stop toll increases due on 1 July 2023 (details supplied) given that there has not been an increase in toll charges for cars...
    • State Bodies
      214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the implementation of circular 25/2016 by each State body under the aegis of his Department; and if he will provide,...
    • Bus Services
      215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the E spine of BusConnects Dublin will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29495/23]
    • Motor Fuels
      219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will support measures to promote the establishment of hydrotreated vegetable oil fuel as a viable alternative to diesel, given the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the alternatively-fuelled heavy-duty vehicle purchase grant scheme introduced in March 2021; the current status...
    • Motor Fuels
      222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport following the roll-out of the compressed natural gas, CNG, fuelling network, if he will provide an update on the progress made in...
    • Road Tolls
      224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if matters (details supplied) in relation to toll charges will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29575/23]
    • Park-and-Ride Facilities
      225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any requests for additional park-and-rides for specific festivals in an area have been received by the National Transport Authority,...
    • Bus Services
      226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he would consider asking Bus Éireann to make a small amendment to its timetable for the Sligo and Galway buses to facilitate...
    • Road Projects
      227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the M20 redevelopment timeline; and how it will work logistically in order that there are no more delays. [29650/23]
    • Electric Vehicles
      228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport about electric charging points (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29666/23]
    • Grant Payments
      229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the delay in processing an application (details supplied) under the wheelchair accessible vehicle grant scheme; the steps...
    • Public Transport
      230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress of the implementation of the Connecting Ireland Rural Mobility Plan for Kerry, and in particular routes 2A from Skibbereen...
    • Taxi Licences
      231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the effect of an increase in taxi fares, implemented since September 2022, on the number of taxi drivers; the number of new...
    • Airport Policy
      232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding provided to Ireland West Airport Knock under the various schemes and investment programmes for our regional...
    • Air Services
      233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has concluded his consideration of the Derry City Airport’s economic assessment and supporting materials for a Dublin/Derry...
    • Park-and-Ride Facilities
      234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NTA or TII have considered a park-and-ride-style model of transport to run from Youghal, County Cork, to the train station in...
  • Department of Finance
    • Departmental Schemes
      235. To ask the Minister for Finance what his Department is doing to improve the eligibility criteria for the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme; how many people receive support from...
    • Tax Credits
      236. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to the Exchequer of increasing the incapacitated child credit from €3,300 to €3,500 per year; and if he will make a statement...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      237. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the specifics of how Ireland 'positively influences' the IMF in the context of overseas aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Communications
      240. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has spoken with his Australian counterpart to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29147/23]
    • Motor Industry
      241. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the number of cars sold with an open market selling price above €70,000 and above €100,000, for the years 2021-2023 year to date, in...
    • Tax Code
      242. To ask the Minister for Finance the up-to-date position in relation to the residential zoned land tax; when it is expected that changes will be made to the tax; when the changes will be...
    • Tax Data
      244. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected revenue raised in first-year (2024) and full-year terms from the scheduled increase in carbon tax on 1 May 2024 and 9 October 2024, respectively...
    • Tax Code
      245. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the items of which the reduced VAT rate of 5% have been applied in the Irish context to date; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • State Bodies
      250. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the implementation of circular 25/2016 by each State body under the aegis of his Department; and if he will provide, in tabular form, by...
    • Tax Code
      251. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason stamp duty is 6.5% when buying farmland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29500/23]
    • Motor Fuels
      252. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has initiatives and plans to facilitate the adoption of alternative fuel source to transition to greener transportation options; if he can...
    • Financial Services
      253. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence regarding mortgage protection (details supplied); if the person applying for mortgage protection in...
    • Tax Code
      254. To ask the Minister for Finance if the deposit return scheme will be subject to VAT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29710/23]
    • Undefined
      255. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps that are being taken, domestically and at EU level, to ensure that public access to the register of beneficial is restored; and if he will make a...
    • Trade Missions
      256. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a report on the Ministerial Trade Visit to Money2020 Europe 2023 in Amsterdam; the way in which he supported the IDA and Enterprise Ireland to...
    • EU Bodies
      257. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on Ireland’s bid to host the new EU AML Authority; if Ireland having a strong AML, legal and administrative framework will assist in this...
    • Insurance Industry
      258. To ask the Minister for Finance to detail the progress of the Office to Promote Competition in the Insurance Market as it continues to work to help to attract new entrants into the Irish...
    • Financial Services
      259. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent of the domestic financial services and the international financial services sectors in Ireland in terms of the number of people employed and the...
    • Credit Unions
      260. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on credit union mortgage-lending in the State; the plans he has to assist credit unions in reaching an increased number of first-time home...
    • Insurance Industry
      262. To ask the Minister for Finance the impact that fraudulent claims are having on insurance premiums in the private motor, home and public liability insurance for businesses in Ireland; and if...
    • Gender Balance
      263. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with progress to date on the Women in Finance Charter, which was developed in partnership with several stakeholders (details supplied)...
    • Tax Code
      264. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the details of the flat-rate expense allowances for the building industry allowed by Revenue, to include an itemised list for all the sub...
    • Insurance Industry
      265. To ask the Minister for Finance the impact that ‘micro sectoring’ by the insurance industry in Ireland is having on the availability of insurance cover for niche markets, such...
    • Departmental Schemes
      266. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the driver and passenger must be related in order for an application to be made under the disabled drivers and passengers scheme; and if he will...
    • Legislative Measures
      267. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will replace all mentions of the Minister for Health with the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth with respect to S.I....
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Departmental Data
      268. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a year-by-year breakdown of how many dividends were paid under section 40M subsection 2 of the Electricity Regulation...
    • Office of Public Works
      269. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW made efforts to purchase lands in close proximity to Castletown House; and if the OPW has investigated whether the grounds...
    • Departmental Data
      270. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of approved but unfilled civil service positions, by grade and department; the number of qualified candidates in each panel...
    • Public Services Card
      271. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in light of the finding of the Data Protection Committee that the Department of Social Protection improperly gathered data through the...
    • Office of Public Works
      272. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will ask officials from the Office of Public Works to re-engage with a person (details supplied). [29374/23]
    • Departmental Data
      275. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a breakdown in tabular form of dividends disposed of for the benefit of the Exchequer in such manner as he or she may...
    • State Bodies
      276. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the implementation of circular 25/2016 by each State body under the aegis of his Department; and if he will provide,...
    • Departmental Reviews
      277. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he can provide clarification on the role and focus of the independent review panel for senior public service recruitment and pay...
    • Office of Public Works
      278. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied that the proposed development of the lands immediately surrounding Castletown House will not impact negatively on the...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Work Permits
      281. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how a person (details supplied) can receive a permit for employment without immigration status, which is required for their worker's...
    • Trade Data
      282. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the level of trade between Mexico and Ireland in 2022 and Quarter 1, 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29159/23]
    • Work Permits
      283. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will review the work visa application of a person (details supplied). [29228/23]
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      285. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an on access to work for people with a disability in the private and public sector (details supplied). [29412/23]
    • State Bodies
      286. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline the implementation of circular 25/2016 by each State body under the aegis of his Department; and if he will...
    • Food Prices
      287. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken to address rising rates of food prices, including his engagement with larger retailers and wholesalers; and if...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      288. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the Workplace Relations Commission intends to publish the Code of Practice on the ''Right to Request Remote Working"; and if he...
    • Corporate Governance
      289. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline the procedures, if any, that he intends to put in place to establish independent assurance services providers in Ireland...
    • Labour Court
      290. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of times in each of the years 2014 to 2022, and to date in 2023, that the Labour Court has used its powers under section...
    • EU Directives
      291. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will expand the remit of the review which is to be undertaken by the IP unit in his Department on outcomes from the...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on class sizes increasing by approximately 35% to 40% due to a reduction in the staff allocation at a school (details supplied); and if...
    • School Enrolments
      293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the data her Department considers when projecting second level school place requirements; how often this data is reviewed; if such...
    • School Transport
      294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of two children who live more than 3.2 km from their local school who have been turned down for school transport...
    • School Facilities
      295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the information her Department's planning and building unit has available regarding current Irish primary school outdoor spaces, including the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason it would take up to seven weeks in her Department's primary school payroll section to progress the paperwork on a jobseeker's...
    • Departmental Staff
      297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of WTE structural engineers working in her Department in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement...
    • State Examinations
      298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of concerns expressed about the challenging nature of Leaving Certificate 2023 maths paper 1; if she will ask the State...
    • Public Sector Pay
      300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the remuneration that will be provided to the link person referenced in the letter to principals on the Pilot Programme of Counselling Supports...
    • School Admissions
      301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that there are still children with no second level school place secured in east Cork ahead of the commencement of the 2023/2024...
    • State Examinations
      302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that many students have contacted my office and many other offices throughout the country in an...
    • Schools Building Projects
      303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29253/23]
    • School Funding
      307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the Digital Strategy for Schools to 2027; when ICT funding will become available again for schools at primary and post-primary...
    • School Transport
      309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will remove the distance criteria in the school transport scheme ahead of the 2023/2024 school year. [29406/23]
    • School Textbooks
      310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all public post-primary schools have an entitlement in relation to the parental support towards the cost of schoolbooks for post-primary...
    • Education Policy
      311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on developments around needs-based accommodations and support in education; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the long-awaited Celbridge schools’ project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29418/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school place will be offered in a Kildare ASD unit for the son of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Accommodation
      314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update regarding an additional school accommodation application for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of recruiting 35 additional WTE psychologists for the National Educational Psychological Service. [29424/23]
    • Teacher Training
      316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places in each teacher training college for initial teacher training for primary school teachers for the past three years,...
    • School Staff
      317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive payment for working as an SNA; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Funding
      318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the ICT grant as part of the Digital Learning Plan will be paid to a school (details supplied) in 2023; and if she will make a statement on...
    • State Bodies
      319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the implementation of circular 25/2016 by each State body under the aegis of her Department; and if she will provide, in...
    • School Transport
      320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport will be provided in the case of each child from a household (details supplied) who have concessionary tickets; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) can expect to have their UP2CD forms to be returned to them by the primary payroll division of her Department;...
    • School Accommodation
      322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an announcement will be made regarding an extension to a primary school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 376 of 28 March 2023, the status of a school construction project (details supplied) in Thurles, County...
    • School Funding
      324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will restore the ICT grant for schools in respect of the provision of laptops, iPads and interactive whiteboards; and if she will make a...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the scheme for schools to obtain solar panels, as announced in Budget 2023, has commenced; if so, if she will outline the application process...
    • School Enrolments
      326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the figures on a waiting list (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29618/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding that will be provided for SNAs and autism training for teachers. [29644/23]
    • State Examinations
      328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the results of the Irish portion of the Leaving Certificate over the past five years; and the reason the results have changed...
    • School Funding
      329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason schools will not be receiving the ICT grant payments in June as expected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29668/23]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to reduce the pupil-teacher ratio; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29670/23]
    • School Accommodation
      332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding an overcrowded school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29671/23]
    • School Transport
      334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will advise on a specific issue regarding school transport routes for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Examinations
      335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to how difficult the higher level history Leaving Certificate paper was this year, compared to other years, even...
    • School Funding
      336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has made a decision on the allocation of ICT grants to schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29770/23]
    • State Examinations
      339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking in response to concerns regarding a Leaving Certificate examination paper (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Mental Health Policy
      340. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is considering the full roll-out of mental health supports for schools in Ireland; if the establishment of mental-health...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Departmental Budgets
      341. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a breakdown of vote 33 across programmes A, B and D subheads, including both current and capital expenditure...
    • State Bodies
      342. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will detail the way in which Fáilte Ireland select influencers for use on its promotional campaigns; the due diligence...
    • Departmental Surveys
      343. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht where the results of the National Swimming Strategy survey that was carried out in 2022 by the former Minister of State for Sport,...
    • Sports Funding
      344. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when details of the 2023 Sports Capital Programme will be announced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29291/23]
    • Broadcasting Sector
      345. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the financial assistance available for operating costs for community radio stations; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Commemorative Events
      347. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she can verify whether any funding for the commemoration of the 225th anniversary of the 1798 Rebellion was provided under the...
    • Official Engagements
      348. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she last met the CEO of Screen Ireland; the issues that were discussed; and when she is next scheduled to meet the CEO. [29423/23]
    • State Bodies
      349. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will outline the implementation of circular 25/2016 by each State body under the aegis of her Department; and if she will...
    • Sports Funding
      350. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if, given the 3,000-year historical and cultural impact of hurling, money will be provided to support the GAA in promoting the...
    • Irish Language
      351. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will support the funding of Irish-language programmes within the GAA, given that the Irish language is to be...
    • Sports Funding
      352. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 630 of 13 June 2023, the number of applications received from League of Ireland clubs (male...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Departmental Strategies
      353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date on which the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People Implementation Plan will be published; and if he will make...
    • Housing Provision
      355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if properties currently under construction at a location (details supplied) have been acquired by an approved housing...
    • Departmental Data
      356. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount of approved housing body and local authority borrowings for social and affordable housing that was drawn down...
    • Legislative Process
      357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of the Fire, Emergency, Management and Public Safety Bill; when this Bill will move to the next stage; and...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many new units of Traveller-specific accommodation were provided in 2022. [29164/23]
    • Departmental Schemes
      359. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of the Adaptation Grant for Older People and People with a Disability Scheme for private houses will be...
    • Heritage Schemes
      360. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the Céide Fields lost its place on UNESCO's tentative list for world heritage status, considering its...
    • Wildlife Regulations
      361. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the review of the game bird open seasons Order; if he will provide an update on the progress of...
    • Departmental Reviews
      363. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of the rental accommodation scheme will be published. [29211/23]
    • Wildlife Regulations
      364. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline clearly his Department's plans regarding the open seasons Order; to outline the reason a position paper and plans...
    • A Vision for Change
      368. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government why an application has been deemed ineligible for a scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Data
      369. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cost rental tenant-in-situ referrals to the Housing Agency to date; the number of cost rental tenant-in-situ...
    • Water Services
      370. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagements he has had with local authorities regarding the Framework Transformation Document of June 2022 relating to the...
    • Defective Building Materials
      371. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the provision of emergency funding for interim measures in buildings with construction defects; and...
    • Departmental Reports
      372. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Q1 2023 social housing output report will be published. [29305/23]
    • Housing Provision
      373. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will set out, in tabular form, the targets for affordable delivery for 2023 and 2024 under the affordable housing fund;...
    • Departmental Data
      374. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of part 8 derogation planning applications that have been initiated since the derogation was introduced; and if he...
    • Housing Provision
      375. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on plans to deliver 1,500 social homes using modular building technology, including a list of projects...
    • Housing Schemes
      376. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of tenant-in-situ applications and purchases, by local authority. [29309/23]
    • Legislative Programme
      377. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of all legislation including non-consequential amendments he intends to bring forward before the summer...
    • Grant Payments
      378. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost to the Exchequer of increasing the housing adaptation grant from €30,000 to €60,000; and if...
    • Housing Schemes
      379. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many people have applied for the cost rental tenant-in-situ scheme in County Donegal; what stage the applications are at;...
    • Departmental Schemes
      380. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the defective apartments and duplexes redress scheme will be enacted; if retrospective applications for redress will be...
    • Rental Sector
      382. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will investigate claims that the landlord was asking tenants for their HAP pin number - as per the email your office...
    • Heritage Sites
      383. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the Céide Fields no longer appear on Ireland’s UNESCO world heritage tentative list; and if an...
    • Parking Provision
      384. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if signs will be erected at Torc waterfall, Killarney (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29376/23]
    • Commemorative Coins
      385. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can confirm the specific funding scheme, under the auspices of his Department, that facilitated the allocation of...
    • State Bodies
      386. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the implementation of circular 25/2016 by each State body under the aegis of his Department; and if he will...
    • Departmental Schemes
      387. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the procedure to be followed by a person (details supplied); the status of the remediation scheme; and if he will...
    • Housing Schemes
      388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of delays in land ownership that has seen successful applicants draw down and begin the process of repaying...
    • Departmental Data
      389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people on local authority housing lists who are wheelchair users or persons with disabilities requiring UD+ or...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of his Department's underspend for Q1 of 2023, including the capital carry over from 2022; and...
    • Heritage Sites
      391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that a site (details supplied) was not included on a new list as announced; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Building Regulations
      392. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on plans to amend Part M of the Building regulations to include UD++ Wheelchair liveable...
    • Grant Payments
      393. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the flexibility that local authorities have when it comes to introducing caps on amounts awarded under housing adaption grants...
    • Departmental Schemes
      394. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an apartment owner carries out remediation work on their apartment to correct a building defect, if that hinders them...
    • Water Supply
      395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the waiver for new Irish Water connections for new builds is also being extended to cover the charges for new builds...
    • Electoral Commission
      396. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects the new Electoral Commission to be fully functional and in a position to perform all of its functions...
    • Local Authorities
      397. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the penalties, if any, that apply to individuals or families on local authority housing lists who are offered social housing...
    • Housing Schemes
      398. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant and derelict homes brought back into use for each year from 2020 to 2023, in tabular form, under the...
    • Vacant Properties
      400. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details on how many void properties have been brought back into use to date in 2023, broken down by local...
    • Housing Policy
      401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the targets, per local authority, for each of the Housing For All initiatives targeting vacancy and...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      403. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he has any intention to make Covid-19 an occupational disease as has been done in other EU member states; and if she will...
    • Departmental Data
      404. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the Review of the Reasonable Accommodation Fund; when it will be published; and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      405. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to the Exchequer of introducing a cost-of-disability payment of €20, €25, €30,...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      407. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and...
    • Pension Provisions
      408. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the work undertaken by her Department to date to develop proposals to benchmark rates of pension payments...
    • Public Services Card
      409. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views in relation to the finding of the Data Protection Committee that her Department improperly gathered data through...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      410. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to a claim for carer’s allowance by a person (details supplied) considering...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      411. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider increasing the income means threshold for carer’s allowance given the cost-of-living increases;...
    • Data Protection
      412. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she agrees that the report from her Department given to the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee in December 2019, which...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      413. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person’s disability allowance payment (details supplied) will be increased following the reduction in his...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      414. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of extending the household benefits package to all cancer patients from the point of diagnosis to the...
    • State Pensions
      416. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal regarding a State pension review; the reason...
    • State Bodies
      417. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the implementation of circular 25/2016 by each State body under the aegis of her Department; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      418. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current average wait time for an additional/urgent needs payment in Cork city. [29614/23]
    • Social Welfare Code
      420. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to clarify if a social welfare claimant selected for participation in a programme (details supplied) is obliged to sign a...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      422. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she can clarify if Seetec have been awarded the contract for operating the JobPath programme; the costs of this award; the...
    • State Pensions
      423. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork is on a reduced rate of contributory pension. [29689/23]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      424. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of Defence Forces personnel that received family income supplement or working family payment in each of the years...
    • Departmental Data
      425. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department can provide any form of funding, one-off or reoccurring, to an organisation (details supplied); and if she...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      426. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on the review of a decision on an exceptional needs payment in respect of a person (details...
    • State Pensions
      427. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide her response to a campaign (details supplied) which is calling on the Government to honour its commitment to a...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Community Development Projects
      428. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when recipients under the latest community innovation funding call will be announced; when the fund will reopen to applicants;...
    • Immigration Status
      429. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how a person (details supplied) may gain immigration status given that their stamp 1G visa has expired and they wish to...
    • An Garda Síochána
      430. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of cash seized by gardaí on proceeds of crime legislation in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; the...
    • Immigration Policy
      432. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the full details of the EU General Agreement on Migration and Asylum reached recently; the obligations this...
    • Prison Service
      433. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners currently accommodated at the National Violence Reduction Unit operating in the Midlands Prison,...
    • Crime Prevention
      434. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline all steps currently being taken to tackle the abuse of older persons within society; and the specific...
    • Citizenship Applications
      435. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current and-or expected position in relation to an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied);...
    • Prison Service
      437. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a list of the recipients of the community fund put in place to benefit the community as a result of the building of...
    • Immigration Policy
      438. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the projects (details supplied) submitted under the IIP initiative; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      439. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda cars and vans that have been added to each Garda district within the DMR division to date in 2023, in...
    • Road Safety
      440. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of serious and fatal road-traffic collisions that gardaí attended between Junction 6 and Junction 15, in both...
    • An Garda Síochána
      441. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí, by rank, attached to the Dublin crime response team. [29431/23]
    • Departmental Staff
      443. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of WTE staff, by grade, working in her Department's Registration Office in Burgh Quay as of 13 June 2023, in tabular...
    • Sex Offenders Notification Requirements
      444. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is satisfied with the level of compliance by persons (details supplied) who are subject to the requirements of Part 2 of...
    • State Bodies
      445. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline the implementation of circular 25/2016 by each State body under the aegis of her Department; and if she...
    • An Garda Síochána
      446. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has discussed with the Garda Commissioner the ongoing blight of anti-social behaviour and assaults on Dublin city...
    • Immigration Policy
      448. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the review into the discontinued Immigrant Investor Programme will be completed and published. [29630/23]
    • Visa Applications
      456. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality is she aware of a charity (details supplied) in Kells, County Meath, which was a beneficiary of the Immigrant Investment...
    • Citizenship Applications
      457. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when it is expected to finalise the application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) who has been married...
    • An Garda Síochána
      458. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the telephone numbers that the public use in relation to An Garda Síochána that are freephone; the numbers that incur...
    • Immigration Status
      460. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29707/23]
    • Visa Applications
      461. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when decisions will be made in the applications for atypical visas by a nursing home (details supplied), which has applied for...
    • Citizenship Applications
      462. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department can consider a request (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29709/23]
    • Legislative Process
      463. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when it is expected the Sale of Alcohol Bill 2022 will progress; when it is expected to become law; if it is intended that...
    • Peace Commissioners
      464. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to list all Peace Commissioners appointed from 11 February 2022 to date and the areas to which they were appointed; and if she...
    • Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children
      465. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of unaccompanied or separated children whom her Department referred to the Tusla under section 14 of the...
    • Child Protection
      466. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to engage with a group (details supplied) regarding its concerns on parental alienation. [29844/23]
    • Peace Commissioners
      467. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a list of all peace commissioners, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Agriculture Industry
      469. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on requests previously made by an organisation (details supplied) that his Department create a national...
    • Food Industry
      470. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the tonnage of meat imported into Ireland to date in 2023, by month and meat product that is, beef, sheep and pig meat, in tabular...
    • Departmental Meetings
      472. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagement his Department has had with a premises; the plans, if any, his Department has to meet with a person (details...
    • Hen Harriers
      473. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, given there is a strong view among the environmentalist community that different stages of afforestation in a particular area are...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      474. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with reference to his Department's PV panel installers registration form, and with further reference to the requirement to have...
    • Departmental Schemes
      475. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if applications for the native woodland conservation scheme in situations pertaining to the conversion of existing conifer forest to...
    • Health Promotion
      476. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will be sending a representative to the Global Congress on Implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk...
    • Agriculture Industry
      477. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his response to the data on future needs relating to total job openings (details supplied), by occupation, in Ireland in 2022 to...
    • Agriculture Supports
      478. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will introduce grants to assist non-organic farmers to install rainwater harvesting systems; and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      479. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide progress and a timeline for the announcement and implementation of the replacement scheme for BEEP; if measures...
    • State Bodies
      483. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the implementation of Circular 25/2016 by each State body under the aegis of his Department; if he will provide,...
    • Forestry Sector
      484. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will, given the historical treatment of our forests, invest more money in protecting our forests and planting more trees. [29648/23]
    • Water Pollution
      485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide information on his Department’s key policies around manure management and relevant publications on this...
    • Departmental Funding
      486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department can provide any form of funding, one-off or recurring, to an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Data
      487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the decommissioning scheme being operated by his Department; how many applications have been approved; the stage...
    • Fishing Industry
      488. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Ireland decided not to implement the EMFF 2014-2020 and EMFAF 2021-2027 making crisis support available for the operators...
    • Live Exports
      489. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will advise on the continued implementation and monitoring of regulations around live exports; if he will advise with regard to...
    • Food Industry
      490. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking in response to CSO figures showing that 14,119 tonnes of beef was imported into Ireland in the first three...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Disabilities Assessments
      491. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of assessments of need that have been outsourced by the HSE to private providers in CHO 4 in 2022 and...
    • Disability Services
      497. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the HSE will establish a community neuro-rehabilitation team in the CHO 8 area; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      499. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the additional staff and resources that have been provided through secondment or otherwise to the Minister for...
    • Disability Services
      500. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that a child (details supplied) receives speech and language, occupational therapy and...
    • International Protection
      501. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the contractual requirements on suppliers of accommodation to international protection residents to provide...
    • Disability Services
      502. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when appropriate supports will be provided to the son of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      503. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has plans to implement a formal agreement to address the pay disparity of Section 39...
    • Rights of People with Disabilities
      504. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he agrees that all Government information must have a version that is accessible for people who may be...
    • Residential Institutions
      505. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if money granted by Caranua to a survivor of an institution that was to be used only for household goods, but...
    • Disability Services
      506. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of available children's residential places across CHO5 at present; the number of those that are...
    • Health Services Staff
      509. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of vacant roles in occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, physiotherapy and psychology...
    • Housing Policy
      518. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will instruct his Department to investigate the situation with 21 Harrington Street; if he will ensure...
    • Disability Services
      519. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of assessment of need assessments that have been outsourced by the HSE to private providers in CHO1...
    • Referendum Campaigns
      522. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the work undertaken by the Inter-Departmental Committee concerning the Referendums on Family, Care and Equality;...
    • Children in Care
      523. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children who are currently in temporary (bridging) foster placements and/or using emergency...
    • Health Service Executive
      524. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm that as part of the Personalised Budgets Demonstration Projects Pilot that when PAS funding is...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      525. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether a public consultation will form part of the stakeholder engagement process during his...
    • Nursing Homes
      526. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the new guidelines around the use of vacant or closed nursing homes for housing refugees; and...
    • State Bodies
      527. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the implementation of circular 25/2016 by each State body under the aegis of his Department;...
    • Disability Services
      528. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of assessment of need applications received by CHO in each of the last five years, in tabular form....
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      531. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of the analysis carried out concerning the cost of providing State-funded early-years...
    • International Protection
      532. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a breakdown by county and, in Dublin, by post code of the total number of people in International Protection...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      535. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will examine the case of a child (details supplied). [29613/23]
    • Disability Services
      536. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current staffing position of CDNT1 in Brú Caoimhín, Dublin 8, and CDNT 3 at Armagh Road, Dublin...
    • Residential Institutions
      537. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will clarify the persons that reviewed cases on foot of a recommendation from a report (details supplied)....
    • Childcare Services
      538. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to address the issue of a shortage of childcare places and extensive waiting lists for same in Dublin,...
    • Disability Services
      539. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the date at which the Disability Capacity Review Action Plan will be published; and if he will make a statement...
    • Child and Family Agency
      550. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of new children that have started working in special care units in each month in the past 24 months....
    • Health Services Staff
      552. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of new of total whole-time equivalent staffing posts in special care units broken down by grade and...
    • Grant Payments
      554. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if Pobal will provide details on the reasons a grant application was refused for a child care facility (details...
    • Child Protection
      555. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of unaccompanied or separated children on behalf of whom Tusla has made an application for...
    • Ukraine War
      556. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to ensure a refugee family (details supplied) is facilitated to stay in accommodation as they have already...
    • Disability Services
      557. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 140 of 31 May 2023, to publish the findings of the Joint Review...
    • Departmental Reviews
      558. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update with respect to the review currently being undertaken into the primary medical...
  • Department of Health
    • Pharmacy Services
      559. To ask the Minister for Health what additional services he and his Department are looking for pharmacists to be involved in as part of negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      560. To ask the Minister for Health the approximate estimate cost to upgrade Ennis Hospital to Model Three status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29851/23]
    • Data Protection
      561. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 468 of 5 November 2019, if he will provide an update in respect of bloodspot screening cards that were retained without...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      562. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who is awaiting an operation at Croom Orthopaedic Hospital, Limerick and has not received an appointment...
    • Hospital Services
      563. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 604 of 16 May 2023, the reason for the removal of the service; if there is an intention to replace the service; if not,...
    • Healthcare Policy
      564. To ask the Minister for Health if he will work with the EU to extend the EU Cross-Border Health Directive (2014) to all residents of Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Care Services
      565. To ask the Minister for Health if targeted international recruitment with an agreed relocation allowance is taking place to fill vacant therapist roles in primary care services; if not, if...
    • Pharmacy Services
      566. To ask the Minister for Health under the Public Service Pay and Pension Act 2017, if he will engage with an organisation (details supplied) as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      567. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29091/23]
    • Pharmacy Services
      569. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure that the restoration of community pharmacists pay is in line with public service pay agreements, prior to FEMPI; and if he...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      573. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment. [29097/23]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      574. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a psychology appointment in CHO1; the breakdown of the time they have been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Services Staff
      610. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric ophthalmologists attached to both CHI Crumlin and CHI Temple Street in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in...
    • Hospital Staff
      612. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE cardiac physiologists attached to University Hospital Waterford in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Health Services
      613. To ask the Minister for Health the number of addiction rehabilitation, detox and stabilisation beds opened in CHO5 in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      614. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29166/23]
    • Pharmacy Services
      616. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a shortage of supply of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) products in Ireland; his plans to ensure a regular supply of these products; and if...
    • Health Services Staff
      617. To ask the Minister for Health the consideration that is being given to addressing the pay disparity between Section 38 and Section 39 workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Pharmacy Services
      620. To ask the Minister for Health the representative bodies he and his Department have engaged with as part of the review of community pharmacies services, the representative bodies that remain...
    • Healthcare Policy
      623. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish the HSE Amyloidosis Working Group report, a new model of care and national guidelines, which was submitted in August 2020, approved in...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      625. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people that are currently on the waiting list to attend a weight management clinic (details supplied) by CHO, in tabular form broken down by...
    • Health Services
      626. To ask the Minister for Health how many people are currently attending a weight management clinic (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29185/23]
    • Health Promotion
      628. To ask the Minister for Health if he is in favour of a ban on all e-cigarette product flavours, barring tobacco flavour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29187/23]
    • Hospital Admissions
      630. To ask the Minister for Health if a long-term bed will be offered to a person (details supplied) in the Killarney or Kenmare area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29202/23]
    • Medical Cards
      631. To ask the Minister for Health about the case of a person (details supplied), who despite being a medical card holder has been charged for blood tests despite these being necessary as part...
    • Health Services Staff
      632. To ask the Minister for Health how the number of primary care therapists eg physiotherapists, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists etc employed in each CHO area is...
    • Medical Cards
      634. To ask the Minister for Health for an update plan for changes to the GP visit card eligibility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29217/23]
    • Hospital Services
      635. To ask the Minister for Health why Tipperary University Hospital is being grouped with hospitals from Dublin and the South East as part of the realignment process, rather than with hospitals...
    • Health Services
      636. To ask the Minister for Health the current eye care services available to children aged eight years and over in CHO9. [29240/23]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      638. To ask the Minister for Health the current average wait time for an appointment with HSE eye clinics for children in the CHO9 area. [29242/23]
    • Health Services
      640. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to provide a standardised eye-care programme for children aged eight years and over; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29244/23]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      642. To ask the Minister for Health to list the project expenditure and total annual quantum of capital expenditure with associated and relevant capital project name and reference details under...
    • Mental Health Services
      643. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department’s look-back review into Kerry CAMHS should go back further than July 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29276/23]
    • Hospital Transfers
      644. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a hospital issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29281/23]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      645. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29282/23]
    • Hospital Procedures
      646. To ask the Minister for Health the reason only one consultant is carrying out paediatric ENT surgeries on patients in CHU (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Promotion
      647. To ask the Minister for Health if he will be sending a representative to the Global Congress on Implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes in Geneva....
    • Cancer Services
      648. To ask the Minister for Health to list the hospitals with the National Acute Oncology Nursing Service to assist patients undergoing active cancer treatment in avoiding attending the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      650. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the HSE to assist a woman (details supplied) to find a new GP surgery to attend as a matter of urgency. [29313/23]
    • Health Service Executive
      651. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times the HSE’s Chief Clinical Officer has been briefed on the NCPE’s ongoing activity; what reporting requirements are in place...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      652. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be expedited for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29317/23]
    • Nursing Homes
      653. 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. [29318/23]
    • Cancer Services
      655. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of expanding the bowel screening programme to people aged 55 to 74 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29340/23]
    • Hospital Charges
      657. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of abolishing parking charges at public hospitals for cancer patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29342/23]
    • Medical Cards
      658. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing medical cards to all cancer patients upon diagnosis to cessation of treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Prescriptions Charges
      659. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of abolishing prescription charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29344/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      660. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of reducing the threshold of the drugs payment scheme to a maximum of €72 per patient per month; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Public Sector Pay
      661. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the public service record of a person (details supplied) is not being considered on entry point level given they have a pervious service record; and...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      662. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 599 of 25 April 2023 and 622 of 16 May 2023, if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the change of scope of works to...
    • Health Services Staff
      664. To ask the Minister for Health the number of grievance and dignity at work cases submitted by HSE employees to management and recorded by employee relations in each CHO in 2022 and to date...
    • Mental Health Services
      666. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the number of inpatient beds for CAMHS; if he will explain the difference between the numbers cited in Parliamentary Question No. 626 of 31 May...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      667. To ask the Minister for Health if there are national standards for assessing ADHD; if so, if these are applied in each CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29381/23]
    • Disability Services
      668. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the work carried out by the Changing Lives Initiative to date; the plans that are in place for the further roll-out of the Changing Lives...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      669. To ask the Minister for Health the number of young people on CAMHS waiting lists who are waiting on an ADHD assessment, by CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29383/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      670. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on CAMHS waiting lists by CHO and length of wait for May 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29384/23]
    • Health Services
      672. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to analysis conducted (details supplied) which shows that Ireland is slipping down the rankings when it comes to the number of...
    • Medicinal Products
      674. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE has plans to fund the drug, dupilumab which is used to treat a form of asthma, under the reimbursement scheme; if so, when; and if...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      676. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for a hip replacement surgery for a person (details supplied) through the national treatment purchase fund. [29422/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      677. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE emergency nurses working in each of the three children's emergency departments within Dublin in the years of 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in...
    • Hospital Procedures
      679. To ask the Minister for Health the number of laparoscopic gastric bypass surgeries performed at St. Vincent's University Hospital in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [29436/23]
    • Hospital Closures
      680. To ask the Minister for Health to outline how donors to St. Brigid's District Hospital Carrick-on-Suir can claim their money back after the hospital was closed in 2020. [29444/23]
    • Health Services
      681. To ask the Minister for Health how much each section 38 and 39 organisation receives from the HSE per hour to fund personal assistant services; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Bodies
      684. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the implementation of circular 25/2016 by each State body under the aegis of his Department; and if he will provide, in tabular form, by...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      685. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assessments of need performed by each CHO in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [29492/23]
    • Nursing Homes
      686. To ask the Minister for Health regarding the funding allocation for public nursing homes under the HSE's jurisdiction, if there has been an increase in funding per resident in 2023 for...
    • Health Services Staff
      687. To ask the Minister for Health how many of the 22 neurologist speciality nurse positions that were announced have been filled to date; if he will list the areas that still have vacancies in...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      689. To ask the Minister for Health the major capital works that were carried out at Our Lady's Hospital, Navan in 2022 and to date in 2023; the nature of these works; and the additional capital...
    • Health Services Staff
      690. To ask the Minister for Health the full-year cost to recruit one additional WTE genetic consultant and one extra WTE genetic counsellor, in tabular form. [29579/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      691. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultants in emergency medicine based at Portiuncula University Hospital in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [29580/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      692. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE orthodontists employed by the HSE in CHO5 in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [29581/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      693. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE clinical specialist physiotherapists in musculoskeletal triage at St. Vincent's University Hospital in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in...
    • Health Services Staff
      694. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE vacancies, by job title, at the HSE National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics; and the estimated full-year cost of filling these vacancies, in...
    • Mental Health Services
      695. To ask the Minister for Health the early intervention psychosis services currently available within CHO8. [29584/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      696. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE plastic surgeon registrars working in the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [29585/23]
    • Hospital Procedures
      697. To ask the Minister for Health the number of heart transplant procedures carried out to date in 2023, in tabular form. [29586/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      698. To ask the Minister for Health the WTE number of dietitians employed by Naas General Hospital; and the specific services in which these dietitians are employed, in tabular form. [29587/23]
    • Vaccination Programme
      699. To ask the Minister for Health the origins of emails sent by clerical staff of the Cork HSE mental health services on 7 January 2021 offering the possibility of priority Covid vaccines to...
    • Nursing Homes
      700. To ask the Minister for Health the current situation in relation to a nursing home (details supplied); the role the HSE plays in the management and functioning of the facility; if the HSE...
    • Medicinal Products
      701. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug, sativex, will be made available for people diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29595/23]
    • Health Services
      702. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who were assessed by addiction rehabilitation, detox and stabilisation facilities in 2022, in tabular form. [29596/23]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      703. To ask the Minister for Health if he can confirm that the Health Service Executive is planning a new cancer unit and public health care centre for its site on Davitt Road; if the primary...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      704. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to extend special leave with pay for sufferers of long-Covid beyond 30 June 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29610/23]
    • Bus Services
      706. To ask the Minister for Health about a bus route being added for patients from Killarney to Kenmare Hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29622/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      707. To ask the Minister for Health whether his Department is considering funding medications and therapies for persons with early onset Parkinson's (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      708. To ask the Minister for Health whether the decision to exclude Section 39 workers from the Covid recognition payment who provided essential front-line work in homeless services throughout...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      709. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the CORU accreditation application for social care courses in MTU Cork. [29651/23]
    • Health Services
      711. To ask the Minister for Health the average annual cost of an addiction stepdown bed. [29653/23]
    • Hospital Admissions
      714. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite the admission of a person (details supplied) to the National Rehabilitation Hospital. [29662/23]
    • Abortion Services
      715. To ask the Minister for Health when he will introduce the safe access zone legislation in order that women availing of legal services can do so in peace; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Strategies
      717. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been brought to a campaign by an organisation (details supplied) calling for a national strategy for haemochromatosis to be developed in...
    • Departmental Investigations
      718. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1312 of 13 June 2023 and as per original question, if he will answer the question on whether "this clear neglect of a...
    • Housing Provision
      721. To ask the Minister for Health what his plans are for a disused building that could be potentially made available for homeless/family/refugee housing (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Medicinal Products
      722. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the application for pricing and reimbursement of (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29728/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      724. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department can provide any form of funding, one-off or recurring, to an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Nursing Homes
      725. To ask the Minister for Health the number of facilities that have closed and ceased operations, by name and location, since the payments were awarded, of the recent TAPS payments of nearly...
    • Health Service Executive
      727. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public representatives who applied to HSE management for consent to make political videos on the grounds of HSE health settings in CHO4 for the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      728. To ask the Minister for Health if SouthDoc services will remain unchanged in the Kerry area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29813/23]
    • Health Services
      729. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a review of the community ophthalmic services medical treatment scheme; if he will request this process to be expedited in view of...
    • Healthcare Policy
      731. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on how and when public funding for IVF treatment will be distributed; when funding for treatment through the public hospital system...
    • Health Services
      732. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure an individual is supported in seeking specialist care in the UK (details supplied). [29841/23]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      734. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that all equipment and aids, including specialist chairs, provided to individuals are non-flammable; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      735. To ask the Minister for Health if the significant vacancy in the post of paediatric neurology consultant at UHL has been filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29850/23]
    • Dental Services
      736. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the situation when a member of the public is unable to secure their own dentist; what he will do for them; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Technological Universities
      737. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update with regard to the Technological University Development Fund, the proposed successor to the Technological University...
    • Third Level Education
      738. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to end the current restrictions on recruitment in the higher education sector imposed under the Employment Control Framework; and if he...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      740. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of first-year apprentices in the system on 1 January 2023, broken down thematically across the individual wet trades; the total...
    • State Bodies
      741. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the implementation of circular 25/2016 by each State body under the aegis of his Department; and if he will provide, in...
    • Student Accommodation
      742. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what he plans to do to deal with the student accommodation crisis facing hundreds of students due to student accommodation being repurposed to...
    • Further and Higher Education
      743. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to develop and support further and higher education in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29672/23]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      744. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any work has been done to analyse whether young people are opting to forgo apprenticeships to go straight to labour work, given current...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      745. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to bring forward a new broadband connection point programme; and if she will consider Mount Temple hall, County Westmeath for...
    • State Bodies
      746. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will outline the implementation of circular 25/2016 by each State body under the aegis of her Department; and if she will...
    • Grant Payments
      747. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on community enhancement grants for County Westmeath. [29691/23]
    • Rural Schemes
      748. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the contact her Department has had in the past six months with the owners of land on a mountain (details supplied) which is part of...
    • Ferry Services
      749. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development whether it is intended to tender for one or two ferry contracts to an island (details supplied) later in 2023; the consultation that...
    • Community Development Projects
      751. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the Community Recognition Fund will next reopen to new applicants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29830/23]

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