Written answers
Thursday, 6 July 2023
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Housing Provision
6. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number currently on the social housing waiting list in Cavan; the current wait time for social housing applications; and if...
- Housing Schemes
15. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the new pilot scheme that offers grants to ready vacant farmhouses for refurbishment; and if he will make...
- Housing Provision
16. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how the social housing waiting list in Cork County Council now compares with that in 2019; and if he will make a statement on...
- Water Services
17. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the completion of the single utility for water services and to outline what additional funding his Department...
- Housing Policy
18. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in response to my Leader’s Question on Part V segregation the Minister made statements (details supplied); is it...
- Housing Schemes
19. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the local authority home loan scheme which enables successful applicants to borrow up to 90% of...
- Housing Provision
20. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how the Land Development Agency is providing new homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33186/23]
- Housing Policy
21. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to ensure that older working people who do not own their own home and are currently above social housing limits will...
- Wastewater Treatment
23. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he is taking to improve sewage schemes for small towns and villages; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Housing Provision
24. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the review by his Department of public homes in the pipeline; and the number of these that have been stalled...
- Housing Policy
26. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he intends to set affordable housing targets for each local authority without official targets; and if he will make a...
- Water Services
27. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are provisions in planning law to ensure that communities have critical water and wastewater infrastructure (details...
- Housing Provision
28. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how the social housing waiting list in Offaly now compares with that in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Defective Building Materials
30. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the regulations of the new defective concrete blocks scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Housing Provision
31. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has any data as to how many new build homes are being purchased by first-time buyers; and if he will make a statement on...
- Fire Safety
32. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the Public Consultation on the Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of the Building Regulations; if there is a...
- Housing Provision
33. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on social housing provision in Longford from 2020 to 2022; the target in place for same in 2023; and if he will...
- Homeless Accommodation
34. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will direct all local authorities to record all presentations from homeless individuals and families; and if he will make...
- Housing Provision
35. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm the number of housing completions in Cork in 2022; the projected number for 2023; and if he will make a statement on...
- Defective Building Materials
36. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will agree to homeowner amendments to the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act,...
- Emergency Accommodation
37. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail the number of people in Limerick currently residing in State supported emergency accommodation including hotels,...
- Housing Schemes
38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures put in place by his Department to ensure that those families that are not eligible for the cost-rental...
- Rental Sector
39. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to ensure all landlords are registered with the Residential Tenancies Board; and if he will make a...
- Housing Schemes
40. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses purchased by local authority tenants each year since 2016 under the tenant purchase incremental scheme...
- National Planning Framework
41. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the Revision Process for the National Planning Framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Housing Provision
43. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on social housing provision in Offaly from 2020 to 2022; the target in place for same in 2023; and if he will...
- Traveller Accommodation
45. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out in tabular form an update on the progress to date in the implementation of all 32 recommendations from the report...
- Housing Provision
46. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the provision of social housing at Kildonan Lands, Church of the Annunciation and Berryfield in Dublin...
- Housing Schemes
48. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the progress of the tenant-in-situ and the cost-rental tenant-in-situ schemes, including a timeline on...
- Water Services
49. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans for a scheme to compensate businesses that have lost revenue due to water outages (details supplied); and if...
- Housing Policy
50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities have any role in overholding cases when the tenant is a HAP recipient; and if he will make a statement on...
- Housing Provision
51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many of the promised 1,850 cost rental homes with State-backed rent of at least 25% below what they would be on in the...
- Housing Policy
52. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to change the requirement for applicants for social housing to have medical certificates signed by two practitioners as this is...
- Housing Provision
53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on social housing provision in Cork County Council from 2020 to 2022; the target in place for same in 2023; and...
- Housing Policy
54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has any plans to review the threshold for housing adaptation grants for older people and people with a disability; and if...
- Housing Provision
55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department might seek quotations from builders/developers for the provision of a specific number of public authority...
- Defective Building Materials
58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the dismay caused to hundreds of homeowners in defective block homes in Donegal, who have had their...
- Housing Policy
59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will update the Dáil Éireann on the level of home purchases by first-time-buyers; and the progress of...
- Housing Provision
60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on number of housing commencements to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33116/23]
- Emergency Accommodation
61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if any additional emergency accommodation has been put in place in Mayo since the lifting of the eviction ban; and if he will...
- Housing Provision
62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to report on the local authority housing stock retrofitting programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33206/23]
- Construction Industry
63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to reduce the cost of construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32919/23]
- Housing Schemes
64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will make changes to the HAP scheme so that there is not a cliff edge if people go over the social housing income limits...
- Defective Building Materials
65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will comment on the significant delays with the opening of the online application process for the enhanced grant scheme...
- Housing Schemes
66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide additional resources to the local authority to deal with and manage the demand for the vacant property...
- Fire Safety
67. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the provision of interim funding for fire safety defects in apartments; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Housing Policy
68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the provision of emergency funding for homeowners with fire safety and other structural defects to address...
- Housing Schemes
69. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm the amount of people who availed of the help-to-buy-scheme, local authority affordable purchase scheme, first-home...
- Constitutional Amendments
70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is any update on when the referendum on the Right to Housing will take place. [32359/23]
- Housing Policy
71. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a report on the cost-rental scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33187/23]
- Foreshore Issues
73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 100 of 21 June 2023, if Ministerial consent in accordance with the EC (Birds...
- Housing Provision
74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to comment on the record number of commencement notifications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32908/23]
- Housing Schemes
75. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the cost-rental tenant-in-situ scheme, including the number of such properties purchased to date; the number...
- Hare Coursing
76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will refuse 2023-2024 licences for cruel hare coursing as there appears to be uncertainty over the number of...
- Housing Provision
77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many social housing applicants had their files/cases closed due to them exceeding the income threshold for the years 2022...
- Emergency Accommodation
78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can detail the number of people currently in emergency accommodation; the numbers who have been there for over 12 months;...
- Housing Provision
79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the number of housing commencements in Carlow to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Housing Policy
80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he has set a target date for ending homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33182/23]
- Housing Provision
81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the delivery of affordable housing in Cork city. [33088/23]
- Housing Schemes
83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline what alternatives are open to people in County Louth who need a housing adaptation grant but who cannot...
- Regeneration Projects
84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans with respect for continued funding for the Limerick Regeneration Economic and Social Intervention Fund 2023 to be...
- Housing Provision
85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the delivery of affordable, social and cost rental housing in Dublin 9 and 11; and if he will make a...
- Housing Policy
86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress on the commitment in Housing for All to implement a minimum building energy rating requirement for rental...
- Defective Building Materials
88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on measures to address issues impacting on homeowners effected by pyrite issues. [33136/23]
- Housing Provision
89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on Housing For All delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32204/23]
- Housing Schemes
90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can detail the number of purchases of properties by local authorities and approved housing bodies under the...
- Housing Policy
92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if some consideration can be given to the development of a subsidised sites scheme on public or private lands with a view to...
- Housing Provision
93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the provision of both social and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33117/23]
- Defective Building Materials
94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if interim funding has been decided on for those who are currently facing defective issues in their dwellings. [32358/23]
- Housing Policy
95. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the financial support to replace lead pipes in homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32915/23]
- Housing Schemes
97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the roll-out of the tenant-in-situ scheme; if local authorities have resourced additional staff to manage the...
- Housing Policy
98. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to increase home ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33140/23]
- Defective Building Materials
99. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has concerns that the MICA defective block scheme does not cover 100% redress for affected homeowners and that many...
- Housing Schemes
100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what changes he intends to make to the cost-rental rules so that those eligible on income grounds are not ineligible on...
- Rental Sector
101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider making County Cavan a rent pressure zone due to the rapid increase in rents; and if he will make a...
- Legislative Measures
102. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress of the legislation to allow for directly elected mayor with executive powers for Limerick; and if he will make a...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Departmental Reports
109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to address the findings of the Cost of Disability in Ireland – Research Report. [32538/23]
- Home Care Packages
112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what engagement she has had with the Minister for Health on homecare packages and the financial impact of those families in...
- Social Welfare Schemes
116. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports that are in place for older working people who do not own their own home, are above social housing assistance...
- Social Welfare Benefits
118. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether her Department has produced a report on the unpaid carers identified in Census 2022; and whether she intends to...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for a review of the current payment under the hearing aid grant with the rising costs of hearing aids; and if she will make a...
- State Pensions
122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she might review applicants previously refused for the State pension (contributory) on the basis of...
- Social Welfare Code
123. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has plans to introduce tiered disability payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32982/23]
- Social Welfare Payments
124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total amounts paid out in jobseeker’s allowance and jobseeker's benefit in each of the past ten years and to date...
- Legislative Measures
125. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she intends to introduce legislation underpinning the provision of pensions to carers. [33004/23]
- Raidió Teilifís Éireann
126. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection through investigations by her Department and a firm (details supplied) how many RTÉ workers were found to be on bogus...
- Social Welfare Code
129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what new measures she plans to adopt to ensure that people with disabilities are not at risk of poverty due to the cost of...
- School Meals Programme
130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of children who will receive a hot school meal in the new school term from September; and the number planned for...
- Social Welfare Code
131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will ensure that households that have accumulated significant debts, including arrears on bills and on...
- Social Welfare Payments
133. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has undertaken an assessment of the take-up of the working family dividend, and consulted with the Revenue...
- Social Welfare Code
134. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise on her Department's review of means testing for carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement...
- Social Welfare Payments
135. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on how many people received the carer’s support grant in 2023; the further supports that her...
- Social Welfare Benefits
136. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of successful applicants for fuel allowance in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32983/23]
- Energy Prices
139. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she aware that An Taoiseach has publicly commented that he anticipates energy prices are anticipated to remain high this...
- Social Welfare Benefits
140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of supports provided to Tara Mines workers to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33168/23]
- Social Welfare Code
141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 95 of 23 May 2023, the status of the promised straw-man proposal for the restructuring...
- Community Employment Schemes
142. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans, if any, to review the community employment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32981/23]
- Cost of Living Issues
143. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she aware of the CSO’s “estimated inflation by household characteristics March 2023” (details...
- Social Welfare Schemes
144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which the rent supplement scheme can be used to assist Ukrainian nationals who are living in Ireland under the EU...
- Social Welfare Benefits
146. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to increase supports available to homeless families and children given the rise in homelessness; and if she will...
- Legislative Measures
148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the work to progress legislation with regard to pension auto-enrolment; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Benefits
150. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the differentiated rates of jobseeker’s allowance for under 25s and consider bringing these in line...
- Social Welfare Payments
151. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase social welfare payments in the next Budget to ensure that everyone in the State has at least a minimum...
- Departmental Reports
153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to publish any research undertaken or commissioned by her Department on a cost of disability payment, including costings to...
- Legislative Measures
154. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the legislation to provide for the flexible pension age and a pension for carer’s will be published; and if she...
- Social Welfare Payments
156. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what studies have been done by her Department of the international experience of individual social welfare payments; whether...
- Social Welfare Code
160. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her proposals to amend the means limits for carers allowance applicants. [33003/23]
- Legislative Measures
161. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the proposed legislation to bring forward changes to the child maintenance system; and if she will...
- Cost of Living Issues
162. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of the Christmas Bonus who do not receive a Spring cost-of-living payment, in tabular form, by...
- State Pensions
164. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the Government is planning to implement the commitment to benchmark pensions in ‘A Roadmap for Pension’s...
- Social Welfare Benefits
165. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm whether her Department is investigating the possibility of linking the rate of maternity benefit to a...
- Social Welfare Payments
166. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the process under which her Department notifies people of their entitlement to a specific payment to avoid disruptions in...
- Departmental Contracts
167. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the tender for EmployAbility which was due to be published in April 2023; and if she will make a...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Departmental Websites
169. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to clarify whether at any point over the past ten years the SSL certificates for his Department’s websites expired for a period of...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Public Sector Pensions (1 comment)
170. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is in a position to sanction an increase in An Post pensions which have been signed off by the Trustees. [33421/23]
- Environmental Policy
171. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to promote the use of HVO as a diesel alternative. [33259/23]
- Departmental Websites
172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to clarify whether at any point over the past ten years the SSL certificates for his Department’s websites...
- Climate Change Policy
173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment to ensure that older people who are at greater risk of...
- Energy Conservation
174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline in tabular form, by county the number of completed retrofits to date since the introduction of the grant...
- Department of Defence
- Departmental Websites
175. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to clarify whether at any point over the past the SSL certificates for his Department’s websites expired for a period of time; if so, the...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Public Transport
176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a bus will stop at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33226/23]
- Road Tolls
177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the most recent cost to the State to buy out the operator of the M1 toll at Gormanstown; the number of years left to run in the contract...
- Departmental Websites
178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to clarify whether at any point over the past ten years the SSL certificates for his Department’s websites expired for a period of...
- Public Transport
179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will meet with the Shannon Airport Authority to discuss plans to improve public transport access to Shannon Airport,...
- Driver Test
180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driving test can be expedited for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Public Transport
181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason student tickets are not accepted on the 323 Bus Éireann route. [33346/23]
- Driver Licences
182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons waiting for a driving test that have been waiting two months, four months, six months and one year; and the steps...
- Road Projects
183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if work will be carried out on the proposed new N22 Farranfore to Killarney route (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
- Transport Policy
184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Transport for Ireland branding logos are displayed solely in English on buses and other forms of public transport throughout...
- Irish Language
185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which his Department and agencies under the aegis of his Department facilitate persons seeking to access their services...
- Rail Network
186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any planned capital works to be carried out on the rail network in County Clare over the summer and autumn period; and if he...
- Department of Finance
- Insurance Industry
187. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that insurance companies are using the issue of the differential price walking as set out by the Central Bank as a reason to increase insurance...
- Budget Process
188. To ask the Minister for Finance if he can confirm whether he has received the pre-Budget 2024 submission from an organisation (details supplied); if the submission is receiving due...
- Departmental Websites
189. To ask the Minister for Finance to clarify whether at any point over the past ten years the SSL certificates for his Department’s websites expired for a period of time; if so, the...
- Departmental Policies
190. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the impact of the introduction of the concrete levy on the cost of house building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33202/23]
- Tax Data
191. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of earners that pay income tax at the top 40% rate, before tax credits are taken into account. [33342/23]
- Tax Credits
193. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of people who have benefitted from the increase in the home carers tax credit in Budget 2023. [33344/23]
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Defective Building Materials
196. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will respond to six individual queries concerning a building (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement...
- Coast Guard Service
197. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the status of the proposed new station at Kilmore Quay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33232/23]
- Departmental Websites
198. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to clarify whether at any point over the past ten years the SSL certificates for his Department’s websites expired for a period...
- An Garda Síochána
199. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, following an audit of all unoccupied properties previously used either to provide accommodation to members of An Garda...
- State Properties
200. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to set out in detail his Department’s future proposals for the building which was previously occupied as the main prison in Cork...
- State Bodies
201. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 55 of 28 June 2028, whether the Pension Authority is categorised as a non-commercial State agency;...
- Flood Risk Management
203. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will be taking any drainage works or works on historic sights in County Clare in the coming months; and if he will make a...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Departmental Meetings
204. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he and/or his officials have engaged with the Corporate Enforcement Agency in respect of RTÉ and/or its contractors and/or...
- Departmental Websites
205. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to clarify whether at any point over the past ten years the SSL certificates for his Department’s websites expired for a...
- Work Permits
206. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if consideration would be given to the addition of a bespoke seasonal employment permit scheme for foreign workers for fruit-picking...
- Enterprise Support Services
208. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the funding allocated to the establishment and implementation of the national cluster programme; and if he will make a statement on...
- Employment Rights
209. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position Ireland took at European Council level in discussions regarding the Council approach to the Platform Workers Directive;...
- Intellectual Property
210. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline if the working groups, the interdepartmental committee on the Unified Patent Court and the Enterprise Agencies Forum on...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Education Welfare Service
211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the staffing issues within the School Completion Programme in south Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33248/23]
- School Costs
216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) might qualify for assistance towards schoolbooks given that they are not currently in receipt of a payment; and if...
- School Staff
217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline if a review of the existing panel system for teaching positions has been or will be carried out by her Department; if consideration...
- School Accommodation
218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to ensure the temporary accommodation committed to for a school (details supplied) will be in place in advance of the new...
- Departmental Websites
219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify whether at any point over the past ten years the SSL certificates for her Department’s websites expired for a period of time;...
- School Accommodation
220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update in relation to the urgent emergency works application by a school (details supplied). [33304/23]
- Schools Building Projects
221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on school building works at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33340/23]
- School Transport
222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she and her officials will engage directly with a parent (details supplied) regarding their School Transport Scheme difficulties; and if she...
- Departmental Bodies
223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the band a school (details supplied) is on the Pobal HP deprivation index; what data was used to decide this; and if she will make a statement on...
- Departmental Data
224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of secondary schools have been given access to a full-time HSCL; if this has declined in recent years; and if she will make a...
- School Staff
226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for further information on the phase of work currently underway to explore the allocation of resources to schools in County Galway, including the...
- Departmental Data
228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for details, in tabular form, of all school building projects that are currently underway in County Clare at this time, including estimated...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Raidió Teilifís Éireann
229. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has engaged with either the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment and/or his officials and/or with the Corporate...
- Departmental Websites
230. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to clarify whether at any point over the past ten years the SSL certificates for her Department’s websites expired for a...
- Arts Policy
231. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will respond to matters raised in correspondence by an organisation (details supplied) in relation to community arts work;...
- Arts Council
232. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding she provides to An Comhairle Ealaíona to deliver for communities through its creative places initiative; and if...
- Raidió Teilifís Éireann
233. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware of the source of the funds in the barter account set up by RTÉ, as revealed in Oireachtas Committee meetings...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Traveller Accommodation
248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason there is such a delay in supplying Dublin City Council with the funds to complete the upgrade work that is so...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Appeals
265. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she can confirm the duration it takes to receive a decision from the Appeals Office regarding applications for carer's...
- Social Welfare Benefits
266. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update in respect of a carer's allowance payment in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will...
- Departmental Websites
272. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to clarify whether at any point over the past ten years the SSL certificates for her Department’s websites expired for...
- Enterprise Support Services
273. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if any additional supports will be provided to employees of rehab enterprises, many of whom have disabilities if they lose...
- Social Welfare Payments
274. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which oral hearings in respect of appeals against disallowance for various payments are up to date; the number...
- State Pensions
275. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which self-employed or other contributions in respect of State pension applications to her Department have been...
- Social Welfare Payments
276. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the waiting time for decision in respect of applications for various social welfare payments has been...
- Cost of Living Issues
277. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which it continues to be possible to address particularly sensitive issues in respect of family income and the...
- Family Support Services
278. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which exceptional needs’ payments are available in cases where family income is insufficient to meet...
- State Pensions
279. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of applications for the State pension (contributory) received in each of the past five years to date; the...
- Care Services
280. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the carer's allowance has been improved to meet requirements of more persons; and if she will make a...
- Family Support Services
281. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the return of the funeral bereavement grant may be envisaged other than by way of an exceptional needs payment; and if...
- Social Welfare Payments
282. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the degree to which she and her office continue to ensure the making of a basic payment to applicants of social welfare...
- Social Welfare Benefits
285. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which satisfactory provision continues to be made for those retiring at 65 years of age; the extent of any...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Women's Resource Centres
287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will clarify if any of the 98 further women's refuge centres announced in priority locations by 2025 will be located in...
- Departmental Websites
288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to clarify whether at any point over the past ten years the SSL certificates for her Department’s websites expired for a...
- Visa Applications
289. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) might be granted a temporary visa to assist with their mother’s obsequies; and if she...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Aquaculture Industry
292. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33264/23]
- Departmental Websites
293. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to clarify whether at any point over the past to date the SSL certificates for his Department’s websites expired for a period...
- Departmental Policies
294. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what action his Department is taking to address increased concerns in the tillage sector with regards to the current tillage targets...
- Forestry Sector
297. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline in tabular form the number of tree-falling licences issued from 1 January 2022 to 31 May 2022; the number issued during...
- Animal Diseases
301. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current status of the application for the animal remedies merchants licence for a company (details supplied); when it will be...
- Agriculture Industry
302. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a deed of transfer will be processed for persons in County Mayo (details supplied), in view of the inordinate amount of time it...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Disability Services
303. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider funding for a community neurorehabilitation team in CHO5, given that no funding has been...
- Parental Leave
304. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to extend parental leave to parents of teenagers during their children’s teenage years due to...
- Disability Services
305. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the funding for community neurorehabilitation teams in each CHO; when they can expect to be in...
- Departmental Legal Cases
309. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the cost to the State in legal fees since late 2018 in defending the 115 court cases brought by parents whose...
- Constitutional Amendments
310. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress made in fulfilling the Programme for Government commitment to holding a referendum on Article 41.2...
- Departmental Websites
311. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to clarify whether at any point over the past ten years the SSL certificates for his Department’s...
- Department of Health
- Budget Process
312. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the Budget 2024 ask of an organisation (details supplied); if this can be considered under budgetary negotiations; and if he...
- Health Service Executive
313. To ask the Minister for Health when planning permission will be granted to an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33214/23]
- Health Services Waiting Lists
314. To ask the Minister for Health if the target four-month waiting time for scoliosis surgery still applies; if so, the plans and timeline for achieving that target maximum waiting time; and if...
- Health Services
315. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the unacceptably long waiting times for scoliosis surgery which many children have to endure, if he will make a special allocation for mental health...
- EU Directives
316. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the progress being made by his Department to implement the EU Directive 2021/2282 on health technology assessment (HTAR); and how this will...
- State Bodies
317. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medicines assessments carried out by the NCPE that have been subject to external review or audit; the extent to which NCPE activity has been...
- Mental Health Services
318. To ask the Minister for Health if a child (details supplied) will be considered for an urgent assessment in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33225/23]
- Hospital Admissions
319. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be admitted to the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Waiting Lists
321. To ask the Minister for Health what measures he is taking to address the extensive waiting list in the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire; and if he will make a statement...
- Ambulance Service
322. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the specific measures taken to enhance ambulance services in advance of the opening of the new major trauma centres in line with the...
- Health Services
323. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to concerns raised by an organisation (details supplied), in particular the significant disparity between over-8s eye care policy in each individual...
- Health Services Staff
324. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that current trainee educational psychologists in Irish third-level institutions will receive the same renumeration and...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
325. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33265/23]
- Departmental Websites
326. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify whether at any point over the past ten years the SSL certificates for his Department’s websites expired for a period of time; if so, the...
- Nursing Homes
327. To ask the Minister for Health if any consideration has been given to the provision of a capitation grant or low-interest loan scheme for small- to medium-sized nursing homes to meet the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
329. To ask the Minister for Health to outline with respect and reference to the TAPS payments which issued to private nursing homes throughout Covid, whether any public nursing homes received...
- Care of the Elderly
330. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the progression and the timeline for the establishment of a commission on care for older people, establishment of a...
- Community Care
331. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the expansion of community-based care, bringing it closer to home, in line with the Sláintecare Implementation Plan, since the...
- Home Care Packages
332. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the expected timelines on the establishment of a new statutory home support scheme; how he plans to scope and plan for such a...
- Health Services
333. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a progress update on the expansion of community intervention teams to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and to support the timely discharge of...
- Departmental Records
334. To ask the Minister for Health to set out in tabular form the total number of people on HSE physiotherapy waiting lists in Cork from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022, and 1 January 2023 to...
- Health Services Staff
335. To ask the Minister for Health what action his Department is taking to address the current shortage of physiotherapists in the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33307/23]
- Departmental Records
336. To ask the Minister for Health to set out in tabular form the total number of trained physiotherapists from the United States who applied for international recognition through the CORU...
- Qualifications Recognition
339. To ask the Minister for Health what action his Department is taking to improve the application process for applicants in the CORU regulation process; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
340. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment on the target of community services assigning a case manager for older people with chronic...
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
342. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment on the development and targeted expansion and availability of step-down facilities across each...
- Health Services
343. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment to develop and support eHealth and the increased use of assistive technologies, supporting...
- Mental Health Services
345. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment to develop and increase access to talk therapies and improve access to specialist expertise,...
- Social Isolation
346. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment to develop a plan aimed at tackling loneliness and isolation, particularly among older people,...
- Nursing Homes
347. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment to further support the Nursing Homes Support Scheme (The Fair Deal) to provide assistance when...
- Hospice Services
350. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment to Increase the number of specialist palliative care beds countrywide over the five years of...
- Home Care Packages
353. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the total budget for homecare provision over the years 2020 to date, in tabular form, by CHO, county, number of hours requested by homecare...
- Dental Services
354. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the services that are available under the dental treatment services scheme in counties Laois and Offaly; the action being taken to ensure that...
- Departmental Funding
356. To ask the Minister for Health how the additional €3.5 million announced in Budget 2023 for community and voluntary providers of drug and alcohol services is to be spent; the amount...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
357. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on outstanding recognition payments for front-line staff who worked at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a...
- General Practitioner Services
358. To ask the Minister for Health if SouthDoc management is committed to providing a long-term service in Fermoy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33400/23]
- Capital Expenditure Programme
360. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on any capital works being carried out by his Department at this time in County Clare. [33412/23]
- Health Service Executive
361. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received a report from the HSE about waiting lists in Dublin for physiotherapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33422/23]
- Home Help Service
362. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for home help support can be approved for a person (details supplied). [33426/23]
- Department of Education and Skills
- Apprenticeship Programmes
363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in relation the scaffolding construction training programme he launched in July 2022, he can confirm whether this course is currently...
- Departmental Websites
364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify whether at any point over the past ten years the SSL certificates for his Department’s websites expired for a period of time;...
- Third Level Education
365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the concerns of an organisation (details supplied) regarding the Government’s recently published review of the PhDs in...
- Third Level Reform
372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a defined criteria for selection in terms of his new Research and Innovation Policy Advisory Forum (details supplied); and if he will...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Departmental Websites
374. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to clarify whether at any point over the past ten years the SSL certificates for her Department’s websites expired for a period...
