Written answers

Monday, 11 September 2023

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Office of the Attorney General
      1. To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 7 of 25 July 2023 (details supplied), how many records relating to this matter have been withheld in total; how many by year; and...
    • Child Poverty
      2. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the work of the child poverty unit in his Department, including the dates of meetings the unit has held since its establishment and any memos, reports or...
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      4. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his visit to Ukraine in July 2023, including his meeting with President Zelensky, and when this meeting was planned. [37528/23]
    • Census of Population
      5. To ask the Taoiseach the reasoning for the 100-year rule for releasing census data; and if it has been considered to reduce the 100-year rule for genealogy purposes. [37651/23]
    • Central Statistics Office
      10. To ask the Taoiseach to confirm if the CSO is considering switching to a different way of measuring Ireland's economic performance and industrial output (details supplied); if so, what...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      11. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) within his Department; if any section of his Department currently makes use of...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Ukraine War
      12. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of any engagement he has had with his counterparts in the United States with regard to the provision of cluster munitions by the...
    • Consular Services
      13. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 790 of 26 April 2022, for an update on what actions he has taken with the Togolese government to press...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      14. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to examine a delay with a foreign birth registration (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37259/23]
    • Passport Services
      15. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications from County Carlow that are currently outstanding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37360/23]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      19. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware that there does not appear to be a way for Members of the Oireachtas to contact the foreign births register section to make...
    • Security Clearance
      20. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade how a non-governmental person can obtain personal security clearance in Ireland, which is required to undertake work in areas including the...
    • Military Aircraft
      21. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his role in authorising the transit of military aircraft through Irish airspace, including the use of airports/fields; the role he has with...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      22. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the engagements he had with his European counterparts regarding the blockade of the Lachin corridor; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Passport Services
      23. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether the Passport Office ever facilitates walk-ins to the passport appointment service; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Irish Aid
      24. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will state from which departmental budget was the announcement of the allocation of an additional €5 million in funding to...
    • Passport Services
      27. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in relation to passport applications for individuals under the age of 18 years if a sole guardian affidavit is required to be submitted in...
    • Consular Services
      31. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of persons who applied for the recent post of housekeeper at the Irish Consulate General in New York; and if he will provide a...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      32. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to look favourably on a foreign birth registry application in order that a person (details supplied) can fly home to Ireland with their baby;...
    • Passport Services
      33. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade given the ongoing delays in the processing of passports, some of which is caused by the delays in managing to get confirmation of signatures...
    • International Sanctions
      36. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the sanctions that have been imposed by the EU on North Korea following on from North Korea's involvement in the war with...
    • Consular Services
      37. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Irish Consul General or Vice Consulate based in Atlanta in the United States has spoken formally with the Governor of North Carolina...
    • Official Languages
      38. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will support the request from the Spanish government for Basque, Catalan and Galician to be recognised as official languages of...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      39. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a person (details supplied) who applied to the foreign birth register will have their application processed; and if he will make a...
    • Official Engagements
      40. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the engagements he has had with his UK counterparts in relation to the proposed development of the Rosebank oilfield in the North Sea; if he...
    • Brexit Issues
      41. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress that has beenmade since the signing of the Windsor Framework between the EU and the UK to facilitate the use by Irish exporters...
    • Consular Services
      43. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are plans to open a new Irish Consulate General Office in Gothenburg, Sweden. [38248/23]
    • Human Rights
      44. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of reports of the killing by Saudi Arabian border guards of migrants and asylum seekers largely of Ethiopian background of the...
    • Consular Services
      46. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has plans to fill the Honorary Consul role in Malaga. [38428/23]
    • Information and Communications Technology
      48. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) within his Department; if any section of his...
    • Passport Services
      49. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the passport service will initiate a review of the handling of a passport express application by a person (details supplied) that has...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      52. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the foreign birth registration of a person (details supplied) will be processed. [38740/23]
    • Election Monitoring Missions
      54. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of members of the current roster of election monitors, which is due to end in December 2023; the number of short-term observers...
    • Official Engagements
      55. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he spoke formally with his Italian counterpart at the most recent EU Foreign Affairs council meeting. [38847/23]
    • Foreign Policy
      56. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on Irish-United Arab Emirates relations. [38848/23]
    • Diplomatic Representation
      58. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if construction works have commenced on new Ireland Houses in Singapore, Chicago and Shanghai. [38956/23]
    • Official Engagements
      59. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the plans the Government has to participate in the 25th anniversary of the official opening of the Island of Ireland Peace Park on 11...
    • Passport Services
      62. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a person (details supplied) has a current valid passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39195/23]
    • International Relations
      63. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the full final cost of the Consultative Forum on International Security Policy, in tabular form, to include all costs, and associated costs,...
    • Climate Change Policy
      65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount allocated to climate finance in each of the years 2020 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Northern Ireland
      66. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the outcome of his most recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and the Foreign Secretary concerning legacy...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Íocaíochtaí Deontas
      69. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment an n-aontaíonn sé gur chóir go mbeadh saoránach in ann iarratas trí Ghaeilge a dhéanamh ar...
    • Energy Policy
      70. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are any plans on the future use of hydrogen as an alternative fuel in Ireland (details supplied). [37204/23]
    • National Broadband Plan
      71. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on broadband and mobile connectivity in Brideswell, Athlone; if he will advise what...
    • Just Transition
      72. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for a progress update on the establishment of a just transition commission; the timeline for its delivery; and if he...
    • Climate Change Policy
      73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for a progress report on the establishment of a climate delivery taskforce, as outlined in CAP23; the timeline for its...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      74. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide details of the number of homes that have a smart meter installed on a county-by-county basis; the number of...
    • Energy Conservation
      75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes upgraded to BER B2 under SEAI retrofitting schemes to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement...
    • Waste Management
      79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he receives reports on the extent to which the pricing structure of bin collections incentivise reduce and recycle...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to address the situation such as the one set out (details supplied) where one neighbour in an area is receiving 1000mbs...
    • Energy Prices
      81. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the basis for the standing charge for a person that owns the physical mater attached to a residential property on which...
    • Bord na Móna
      82. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will seek a detailed breakdown on the €64,000 payment under the taxable benefits included in the 2022 Bord...
    • State Bodies
      83. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 57 of 5 July 2023, to which there was an inadequate response, if he will ensure...
    • Protected Disclosures
      84. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to confirm if any protected disclosures have been received by him or his Department in respect of Bord Na Móna...
    • Bord na Móna
      85. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will pursue the purchase by the State of the former briquette factory at Derrinlough and to allow for a full...
    • Energy Policy
      89. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to consider, given that as the country in general will be spending so much more going into the future on gas, a proposal...
    • Bord na Móna
      90. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is in agreement with calls to immediately halt the sale of the former Bord na Móna briquette factory and its...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      91. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the effects of lightning on wind turbines has been investigated; if in particular sulphur hexafluoride can escape...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      92. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he is in a position to sign off on an agreement (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Data Centres
      93. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department have considered introducing an obligation on existing data centres to use the excess heat produced for...
    • Waste Management
      96. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he can clarify who is responsible for waste management in apartment complexes; the minimum requirements for apartment...
    • Recycling Policy
      97. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the proposed workings of the new bottle and can deposit return initiative; where vending machines will be situated to...
    • Departmental Advertising
      99. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to report on the cost of joint advertising with a national supermarket chain (details supplied); if his Department had...
    • Energy Prices
      101. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will comment on the fact that no equitable process has been agreed by which full-time residents in mobile homes...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      102. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the policy of his Department to ensure that Irish-based businesses and SMEs, in particular, are not prevented from...
    • Departmental Schemes
      103. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he intends to reopen a scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37908/23]
    • Wind Energy Generation
      104. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide detail on how the NISA wind turbine project will be affected by the newly established SPA for birds in the...
    • Energy Policy
      106. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the Irish reserves of oil and gas; the locations and way in which they are held; if there are plans to...
    • Energy Conservation
      107. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are any circumstances SEAI grant supports are available for households which have had solar panels installed...
    • Departmental Contracts
      109. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the brief given to a firm (details supplied) to advise on Climate Action Plan 2023; how much the firm was paid for its...
    • Departmental Reports
      110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide in tabular form the external research or reports commissioned by his Department in 2021, 2022 and to date in...
    • Energy Policy
      112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to respond to concerns raised (details supplied) in respect of energy companies purporting to use 100% renewable...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      113. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide an update on his Department's work with the Department of Education to arrange a scheme for the 2023 budget...
    • National Broadband Plan
      115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he finds it satisfactory that the NBI is unable to give an indictive timeframe for when works will be completed to...
    • Energy Conservation
      116. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of retrofits completed per scheme by post BER standard to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make...
    • Air Quality
      121. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will confirm the sources of ammonia emissions that are calculated in the State; if land spreading is calculated...
    • Environmental Policy
      122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will advise the engagement his Department has had on its role in revitalising the Irish wool industry; if he has...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      123. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the breakdown in the use of biomass for electricity generation. [38272/23]
    • Climate Change Policy
      132. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a list of the projects that have received funding from the Climate Action Fund in 2022 and to date...
    • Post Office Network
      133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he last spoke formally with the CEO of An Post; and when he is next scheduled to speak with the CEO. [38303/23]
    • Climate Change Policy
      134. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount currently in the Climate Action Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38306/23]
    • Energy Prices
      135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what actions he will implement to ensure that the substantial windfall earnings of energy companies throughout 2022 are...
    • Energy Conservation
      138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on a SEAI application (details supplied); and if he will provide the details of same. [38499/23]
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      139. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how much was drawn from the support scheme for renewable heat in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; how many businesses...
    • Energy Conservation
      140. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how many grants were provided for energy audits as part of the support scheme for renewable heat in 2021, 2022 and to...
    • Energy Prices
      143. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what measures the Government will take to support individuals with the cost of energy going forward; and if he will...
    • Bord na Móna
      144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will investigate if Bord na Móna is in compliance with the shareholder letter of expectation issued to the...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      145. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) within his Department; if...
    • Energy Prices
      148. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether the trend in electricity prices have been tracked to ensure that customers are not being unfairly charged in...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      149. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he can confirm whether or not his Department ever made a submission or application for funding for a grant aid...
    • Energy Conservation
      150. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 141, 142, 145, 154 and 156 of 13 July 2023, to provide an update on the...
    • Climate Change Policy
      151. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the next meeting of the National Climate Stakeholder Forum will take place; how participants in the Stakeholder...
    • Fuel Poverty
      152. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are plans to include NGOs/civil society organisations working in the sphere of poverty/energy poverty on the...
    • Energy Policy
      155. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide and update on how the temporary solidarity contribution will be spent; how it will provide relief to...
    • Proposed Legislation
      156. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the legislation for the cap on market revenues will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Energy Policy
      157. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide an update on how the cap on market revenues will be spent; how it will provide relief to households facing...
    • Environmental Policy
      161. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide an update on efforts to reduce construction and demolition waste; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Energy Conservation
      162. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether he is aware that a person (details supplied) has had construction ongoing in their home since June under the...
    • Energy Prices
      163. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what actions his Department will be taking to assist families to cope with the increased energy prices; if he is...
    • Radon Gas Levels
      165. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to ensure that the next phase of the National Radon Control Strategy (2024) includes designated...
    • Energy Policy
      168. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the biomass strategy, if any, the Government has as part of its effort to achieve net-zero; and if he will make a...
    • Energy Conservation
      170. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he would consider the replacement of a single-glaze window for stand-alone grant aid in the case of stone houses,...
    • Energy Policy
      171. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how it makes sense financially and environmentally for Edenderry power station to be used on a 24-7 basis, consuming a...
    • Public Sector Staff
      172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if public servants of semi-State or commercial semi-State companies, and other hybrid public service organisations...
    • Departmental Budgets
      173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount carried over by his Department's allocation in each of the years 2020 to 2022, inclusive, in tabular form....
    • Energy Conservation
      174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the circumstances which led to the deregistration of an SEAI contractor (details supplied) will be re-examined; and...
    • Energy Prices
      175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated revenue that would be generated in the specified period 1 July to 31 December 2023 if the cap on market...
    • Energy Policy
      179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated revenue that would be generated in 2024 if the temporary solidarity contribution were applied from 1...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      190. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost in 2024 if the capital budget allocation for the non-domestic microgeneration scheme were doubled....
    • Genetically Modified Organisms
      191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how many GMO products use licensed premises in the State; the location of each; the class of licence use issued to...
    • Departmental Budgets
      193. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount allocated to climate finance in each of the years 2020 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Energy Conservation
      198. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of live applications for the better energy warmer homes scheme currently; the average waiting time for an...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      199. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of solar PV upgrades undertaken on an annual basis from 2020; the cost of those grants on an annual basis;...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces
      200. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to report on the role of the Defence Forces in the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force on the Golan Heights; whether the decision to...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      206. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason for capital expenditure running €27 million behind profile, as outlined in the Mid-Year Expenditure Report; and if he will...
    • Defence Forces
      207. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the review of the conciliation and arbitration scheme for the PDF; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37484/23]
    • Naval Service
      212. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if, with the addition of the two new inshore vessels recently purchased with the purpose of patrolling the State’s east coast, there are...
    • Ukraine War
      214. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to report on the military training of Ukrainian troops in areas such as marksmanship, which is outside the scope of the mandate for the mission...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      215. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the discussions he has had with the French, British and United States of America authorities in relation to any military intervention into Niger...
    • Defence Forces
      216. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of serving soldiers in social or AHB accommodation, by county, as of 1 May 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38351/23]
    • Naval Service
      217. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department has considered engaging with the Irish fishing industry to examine whether some of those who have recently been forced to...
    • Defence Forces
      218. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for a breakdown, in tabular form, of the number of applications made to join either the general service or cadet ranks of the Army, Naval...
    • Naval Service
      220. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of marine engineer vacancies that were actually filled in the Naval Service in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [38438/23]
    • Military Neutrality
      221. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when he anticipates he will receive the report of the Consultative Forum on International Security Policy from the forum's chair; and if he will...
    • Air Corps
      222. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he plans to put out a new tender before the end of the year to replace Learjet 45 aircraft within the Air Corps. [38556/23]
    • Information and Communications Technology
      223. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence, AI, within his Department; if any section of his Department...
    • Defence Forces
      224. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the nature of refurbishment works that were carried out at Stephens Barracks, Kilkenny, in 2022 and to date in 2023; and if each refurbishment...
    • Air Corps
      225. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when the second C-295 maritime patrol aircraft will come into the Air Corps fleet. [38941/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      227. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the funding allocated to veterans' associations in the years 2020 to date; in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39280/23]
    • Defence Forces
      229. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has commenced the exercise of recording working times within the Defence Forces required in advance of introducing legislation to remove...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Rail Network
      234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passengers carried by Iarnród Éireann on the Ennis-Limerick-Ennis and Ennis-Galway-Ennis services during 2019,...
    • Air Services
      235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of air passengers at Shannon, Cork and Dublin Airports in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 and during the first six months of 2023,...
    • Bus Éireann
      236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what plans are in place to introduce real-time signage at Bus Éireann stops in Dublin city; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Bus Services
      237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to ask the NTA to install real-time signage at its bus stop at Beresford Place, Dublin 1; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Parking Provision
      238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the decision to withdraw a disabled parking permit from a person (details supplied) will be reviewed given that the person’s...
    • Bus Services
      239. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a bus service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37217/23]
    • Driver Test
      240. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a driving test for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37222/23]
    • Bus Éireann
      241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to investigate an incident on board a Bus Éireann service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37226/23]
    • Road Projects
      242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a roads project (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37228/23]
    • National Car Test
      244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if serious consideration will be given to opening a new NCT testing centre (details supplied) in east Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Taxi Licences
      245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on taxi plates being rented in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37248/23]
    • Bus Éireann
      246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide the number of cancellations on the Bus Éireann route from Donegal to Dublin over the past six months; and the reason for...
    • Transport Policy
      247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the programme for Government commitment to phase out the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030; and if he will make...
    • Road Projects
      248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any works are planned to be carried out in an area (details supplied). [37284/23]
    • Bus Services
      249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the A spine of the Dublin BusConnects programme will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37289/23]
    • Driver Test
      250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long for a driving test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37307/23]
    • Bus Services
      251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a Local Link service will be offered to residents who are living in the rural areas of Beaufort, Killarney (details supplied); and if...
    • Rail Network
      252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the refurbishment of Kishogue train station, County Dublin; when it will be in operation; the reason for the delay; and...
    • Driver Test
      253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason or reasons for the high driving test waiting time (details supplied) in Killarney, County Kerry; what plans have been put in...
    • Public Transport
      254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding public transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37384/23]
    • Motor Fuels
      255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when hydrotreated vegetable oil will be accessible by the general public in service stations; if he has plans to implement this in order...
    • Military Aircraft
      256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has ever authorised an aircraft carrying cluster munitions to transit through Irish airspace; and if he will make a...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for capital expenditure running €212 million behind profile, as outlined in the Mid-Year Expenditure Report; and if he...
    • Driver Test
      258. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if NDLS forms will be made available in Irish as well as English at all NDLS centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Transport Policy
      259. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding noise level limits for car exhausts; if the WHO recommendations on limiting them (details supplied) are being...
    • Road Safety
      261. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the plans to introduce average speed camera systems fitted with automatic number plate recognition, such as those...
    • Grant Payments
      262. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to review the grant scheme for taxi operators to buy EVs, as the current scheme is unworkable for many due to their inability to access...
    • Bus Services
      263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on a Bus Éireann matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37597/23]
    • Driver Test
      265. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37599/23]
    • Taxi Licences
      270. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is possible to attain a SPSV licence to work in County Donegal while residing in the jurisdiction in the North; and if he will make...
    • Driver Test
      271. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current waiting times for driving tests and theory tests in County Cork; the number of people on each waiting list; and to detail the...
    • Ambulance Service
      272. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a mandatory number of hours an ambulance driver is legally allowed to drive, similar to tachographed articulated truck...
    • Public Transport
      273. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the lack of taxis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37717/23]
    • Rail Network
      274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to the publication of the All Island Strategic Rail Review, if he will seek an urgent update on the feasibility and long-term...
    • Driver Test
      276. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking regarding waiting times for driving tests (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Greenways Provision
      277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an updated timeline in respect of the date on which the construction of the greenway section of the Royal Canal...
    • Rail Network
      278. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which the renovation of the forecourt area of Bray rail station will commence; the budget allocated for the delivery of same;...
    • Military Aircraft
      279. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport how many exemptions have been asked for under the Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) Orders 1973...
    • Departmental Funding
      281. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the balance that will be funded by his Department for the non-national road element of the R407 Sallins Bypass and Osberstown Interchange...
    • Bus Services
      282. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 23 March 2023, if the procurement plan for both an operator and associated bus stop...
    • Cycling Facilities
      283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to report on contact he or his officials have had with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage with his officials...
    • Driver Licences
      284. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons who lost their driving license on medical grounds in each of the years 2018 to 2022; the number who lost their...
    • Driver Test
      285. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current number and wait times for a driving test, per test centre; the number of driving testers for each test centre; his plans to...
    • Rail Network
      291. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the additional delay in the tender process for the redevelopment of Kishogue train station has added to the cost of works; the total...
    • Bus Services
      292. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider an extension of the 20% fare discount to private operators to not only boost the numbers using buses but also to...
    • Driver Test
      293. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the waiting times for driving tests at each of the driving test centres in Cork and Kerry; the number of driving test slots that have...
    • Departmental Budgets
      295. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the net underspend after carryover surrendered by his Department to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan...
    • Public Transport
      297. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of extending the 20% reduction in public transport fares until 31 December 2024. [37929/23]
    • Departmental Staff
      298. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of WTE ship surveyors employed by his Department in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [37930/23]
    • Coast Guard Service
      299. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the release of rescue helicopter footage (details supplied); if footage from rescue operations under...
    • Bus Services
      300. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide details of existing and proposed bus services for Cahervagh, County Cork; if a route linking Cahervagh to Bantry and...
    • Rail Network
      301. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Western Rail Corridor from Athenry to Claremorris is included within the National Development Plan; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Data
      303. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of sustainable transport projects currently awaiting approval from An Bord Pleanála, by county, by project cost, by...
    • Rail Network
      304. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the opening of Kishoge train station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38009/23]
    • Bus Services
      305. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the new Dublin Bus routes that the NTA intend to include on a 24-hour services during 2024. [38031/23]
    • Public Transport
      306. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the investment in national rail services since 2021, including the number of kilometres of new track laid...
    • Driver Test
      307. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he intends on taking to address the 37-week wait in accessing a driving test in Cork city; and if he will make a statement...
    • Road Projects
      312. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline if any engagement has taken place between TII and Louth and or Meath County Councils in respect of the closure of the...
    • Bus Services
      313. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the local link bus could do a stop/pick-up at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38115/23]
    • National Car Test
      314. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to consider a proposal (details supplied) to relieve pressures on the NCT service. [38117/23]
    • Taxi Regulations
      315. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will allow the NTA to distinguish between a taxi and hackney in relation to rear windows being darkened; and if he will make a...
    • Coast Guard Service
      316. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a commitment that staff employed by a company (details supplied) who provide helicopter search and rescue cover to the Irish...
    • National Car Test
      317. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to reverse the decision of refusing cash payments for the NCT; if this change is breaching EU regulations that public entities that...
    • Road Projects
      319. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will respond regarding the actions that he and his Department have taken to date to offset the devastating impact the closure of...
    • Rail Network
      320. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if will provide an update on the status of the EU tender that was placed by Iarnród Éireann in February 2022 for new railway...
    • Bus Éireann
      326. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the top six Bus Éireann routes by passenger numbers in 2022 and the first seven months of 2023, in tabular form. [38239/23]
    • Driver Test
      327. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the waiting times for category C1 vehicle driving tests at testing centres in counties Cavan and Monaghan, in tabular form. [38240/23]
    • Cycling Facilities
      328. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when it is anticipated the cycleway from Leixlip to Galway will be completed; the phases completed to date; and if he will make a...
    • Bus Services
      329. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding bus lane enforcement cameras; if this is under review in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Motor Fuels
      330. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the breakdown in the use of biomethane for biofuels. [38272/23]
    • National Car Test
      333. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of any engagement with the RSA in relation to the decision to no longer accept cash in NCT centres in the coming months; the...
    • Rail Network
      334. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures that are being taken to review all Rail and Tram infrastructure to ensure transport hubs are adequately resourced and...
    • Taxi Regulations
      335. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of full-time taxi enforcement officers employed by the National Transport Authority in each of the years 2022 and to date in...
    • Departmental Contracts
      336. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport as the Minister is aware of the new national SAR contract awarded to a company (details supplied) in recent days, if he will confirm that...
    • Bus Services
      340. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the route a coach company (details supplied) is taking around Clare; if this is in contradiction to its NTA licence;...
    • Haulage Industry
      341. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider implementing a derogation for haulage drivers who are assisting in the haulage of grain (details supplied); and if he...
    • Bus Services
      342. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a bus route (details supplied) could be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38412/23]
    • Electric Vehicles
      343. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of abolishing grants for EVs over €60,000. [38413/23]
    • Road Tolls
      344. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of deferring further toll increases from January 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38414/23]
    • Public Transport
      345. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of a 30% fare reduction across all fare categories. [38415/23]
    • Bus Services
      347. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of extending a 30% fare reduction to private operators in rural areas. [38417/23]
    • Road Safety
      348. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of gritting an additional 50 secondary routes annually. [38420/23]
    • Rail Network
      352. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of extending the Short Hop Zone. [38425/23]
    • Haulage Industry
      353. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of providing supports for the scrappage of older lorries. [38426/23]
    • Rail Network
      354. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Iarnród Éireann plans to introduce new rapid security response hubs throughout 2024; if so, the locations of these new hubs;...
    • Road Projects
      355. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on when the N5 upgrade from Ballaghaderreen to Scramogue will commence construction; what the estimated cost...
    • National Car Test
      356. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, given that the RSA oversees bodies like the NCT centres and the National Driver Licence Service centres, he will provide a detailed...
    • Official Engagements
      359. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has spoken formally with his UK counterpart to date in 2023. [38477/23]
    • Public Transport
      360. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the continuation of the young adult card that provides 50% fare reductions was a temporary measure for 2023; if not, if this is...
    • Driver Test
      362. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that are being taken to reduce the waiting times for driving tests in two particular locations (details supplied) in view of...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      367. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) within his Department; if any section of his...
    • Driver Test
      368. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a driving test for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38578/23]
    • Public Transport
      369. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to bring together stakeholders in the context of establishing a forum for the purpose of establishing a standardised...
    • Bus Éireann
      370. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with Bus Éireann regarding concerns regarding a bus route (details supplied) in Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Bus Services
      371. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average installation cost of a sheltered bus stop. [38602/23]
    • An Garda Síochána
      375. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current position regarding commencement of the new Garda powers contained in the Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021; and if he will...
    • Departmental Contracts
      376. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in regard to a company (details supplied) being awarded the contract for the supply of the search and rescue helicopter and fixed wing...
    • Grant Payments
      377. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase the level of available funding for the wheelchair accessible vehicle grant scheme 2023, given the high level of...
    • Cycling Policy
      378. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on formally requesting that Moscow and Minsk be removed from the EuroVelo Route 2, which starts in Moscow and ends in Galway;...
    • Protected Disclosures
      379. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when his Department became aware of a protective disclosure made by a former member of the airport search unit at Dublin Airport; if...
    • Driver Test
      382. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, in light of the current shortage of accommodation for students attending third level colleges, consideration would be given to...
    • Transport Policy
      385. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce an offence to idle a car engine unnecessarily when stationary and/or to introduce a public awareness campaign to...
    • Driver Test
      386. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons on waiting lists for driving tests in counties Cavan, Monaghan and Meath and nationwide to date; the length of time...
    • Legislative Measures
      388. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the relevant part of the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023 will be enacted which allows gardaí to seize e-scooters. [38731/23]
    • Bus Services
      389. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it will be possible to install a bus shelter at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38732/23]
    • Electric Vehicles
      390. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he and his Department officials have assessed and compared the incentives for electric vehicle purchase in the USA to EU incentives;...
    • Departmental Data
      391. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on waiting times for driving tests in each testing centre; how many people are waiting for tests at each testing centre;...
    • Driver Test
      392. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if assistance will be provided in relation to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Rail Network
      394. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration can be made to include introducing a later train midweek between Dublin Heuston and Westport County Mayo to accommodate...
    • Bus Services
      395. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the increased investment being made on LocalLink services in Meath, including future plans for such extension. [38856/23]
    • Bus Éireann
      396. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to review an article regarding a new bus route (details supplied); if he will establish when official bus stops and timetables will be in...
    • Road Projects
      397. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether he plans to allocate additional finance to the N2 Ardee to South of Castleblayney bypass road scheme in 2023 in order to allow...
    • Driver Test
      401. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) will be facilitated with a driving test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38919/23]
    • Rail Network
      402. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will look at the viability of extending services to include passenger services along the existing Navan-Drogheda rail...
    • Public Transport
      403. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of extending the current young adult Leap card to 13-15-year-olds. [38928/23]
    • Road Safety
      404. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are planned safety measures to be carried out at the junction of the R569 and the N22 (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      405. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the concerns raised by members of the Dublin Airport Environmental Working Group at its recent meeting in...
    • Pension Provisions
      406. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has made provision for increasing the pensions of pensioners who worked for State bodies under his Department’s remit. [39057/23]
    • Departmental Budgets
      407. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide in tabular form, a breakdown of the €196 million non-core current and €27 million in non-core capital...
    • Driver Test
      408. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that those applying for or renewing their driving licences will be permitted to pay in cash at NDLS centres; and if he...
    • Park-and-Ride Facilities
      410. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 14 of 22 June and 246 of 25 July 2023, for an update on the roll-out of park-and-ride facilities...
    • Public Transport
      411. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 318 of 13 June 2023, which was referred to the National Transport Authority (NTA) for reply, if he...
    • Road Network
      412. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the commitment in the Programme for Government to maintain the existing road network to a high standard and fund safety...
    • Public Transport
      413. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that Kilcoole, County Wicklow train station is without adequate leap card infrastructure for customers, despite being in...
    • Coast Guard Service
      415. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the provision of a coastguard station at Greystones harbour; the timeline for the project to go to tender and for...
    • Public Transport
      416. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the criteria that needs to be met by LocalLink and local bus services to facilitate leap card usage; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Contracts
      418. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the tender process that took place resulting in a contract (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39353/23]
    • National Car Test
      419. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his view on the NCT service proposal to go cashless; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39359/23]
  • Department of Finance
    • Motor Industry
      420. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of cars sold with an open market selling price above €60,000, €80,000, €100,000, €120,000 and €140,000, for the...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      421. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the review of the regulations underpinning the primary medical certificate scheme arising from the Supreme Court challenge to the conflict...
    • Tax Code
      422. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to amend inheritance tax in Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37201/23]
    • Banking Sector
      431. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to serious concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in respect of the issues arising with a mortgage provider; if he will intervene...
    • Tax Code
      432. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the new requirements relating to non-resident landlord withholding tax; the rationale for placing the onus of managing the tax affairs of...
    • State Bodies
      433. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 297 of 25 July 2023, in respect of the NTMA, if he can seek clarity on the “Other” payment of...
    • Budget 2024
      435. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received the pre-Budget 2024 submission from an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37482/23]
    • Tax Code
      436. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale behind the decision not to allow tax relief for land rented to a close relative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37512/23]
    • Banking Sector
      437. To ask the Minister for Finance whether he issued any instructions or gave any directions to the special liquidator of IBRC, pursuant to section 9 of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation...
    • National Archives
      438. To ask the Minister for Finance if the file relating to a matter (details supplied) has been provided to the National Archives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37662/23]
    • Universal Social Charge
      440. To ask the Minister for Finance when USC will be abolished. [37679/23]
    • Tax Data
      441. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of workers in the State who pay taxes at the 40% tax bracket level. [37697/23]
    • Revenue Commissioners
      442. To ask the Minister for Finance if an issue with the Revenue Commissioners will be examined (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37781/23]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      443. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of appeals to the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal that are currently outstanding; if the nominated person who resigned in March 2023 has...
    • Banking Sector
      444. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to engage with Irish banks on passing on interest rate increases to savers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37828/23]
    • Tax Code
      445. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on introducing levies on concrete products (details supplied), which will have a detrimental effect for people and companies; and if he will make a...
    • Budget 2024
      446. To ask the Minister for Finance to address the issues the Coach Tourism and Transport Council, CTTC, has raised (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37878/23]
    • Tax Code
      447. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding excise duty on fuel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37918/23]
    • Banking Sector
      449. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on provision to assist type 1 diabetics in progressing with a mortgage given difficulties in securing mortgage protection insurance. [37969/23]
    • Interest Rates
      450. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered increasing the interest rate for Government saving bonds, which are remarkably low considering the current ECB rate; and if he will make...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      452. To ask the Minister for Finance when it is proposed to establish the disabled drivers medical board of appeal; when the criteria for this scheme will be amended in view of the widespread...
    • Tax Code
      453. To ask the Minister for Finance when the appropriate amendment will be made to the forthcoming finance Act to exempt R2 residential zoned land from the residential zoned land tax, given that...
    • Housing Policy
      455. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider allowing first-time home buyers to access a portion of their pension funds for use as a deposit on a home; and if he will make a statement...
    • Tax Data
      456. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount it would yield if the late registration fee of 0.1% was increased to 0.5% for each day over 30 days for which a vehicle remain unregistered for...
    • Tax Code
      457. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration has been given to extending benefit-in-kind measures beyond the current December 2024 deadline; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Interest Rates
      458. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in light of the ongoing refusal of Irish banks to pass on ECB interest rates to Irish customers, he will establish a State savings system (separate to the...
    • Tax Data
      459. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of abolishing stamp duty on first-time buyers of homes of less than €375,000. [38439/23]
    • State Bodies
      460. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide clarity on recent policy decisions regarding the acceptance of cash payments by State agencies and bodies; if there is a co-ordinated approach...
    • Tax Data
      465. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated additional revenue that would be generated from a 5% surcharge on all taxable income above €500,000. [38495/23]
    • Information and Communications Technology
      466. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) within his Department; if any section of his Department currently...
    • Departmental Data
      468. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide data of drug seizures at point of coastal importation in tabular form that includes individual drug type, weight of drugs seized, shipping company,...
    • Departmental Licences
      469. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year yield if the licence for amusement machines for up to three months increased from €38 to €70 based on 2022 figures; and...
    • Customs and Excise
      470. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of counterfeit tobacco products, counterfeit alcohol products, counterfeit clothing items and counterfeit prescription drugs and narcotics seized by...
    • Legislative Measures
      475. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to an anomaly (details supplied) in the approved retirement fund legislation whereby upon the death of an ARF holder, foster...
    • Tax Code
      476. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will support the abolition of the standard rate of 23% on sun cream and sun protection factor (SPF) 30+ products to introduce a 0% VAT rate; and if he...
    • Tax Reliefs
      477. To ask the Minister for Finance given the rent-a-room scheme promotes a mechanism of tax relief, the measures the Government will introduce to ensure that such relief is only made available...
    • Budget 2024
      479. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the IACP Pre-Budget Submission 2024; if he will ensure that their main demands as per (details supplied) are included in the upcoming...
    • Tax Data
      480. To ask the Minister for Finance the quantities of duty free alcohol and tobacco products brought into Ireland from the United States duty free zone in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular...
    • Prize Bonds
      481. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has any plans to amend the variable percentage rate offered for prize bonds set at 0.35% of the total value of prize bonds outstanding; and if he will...
    • Banking Sector
      482. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will examine the circumstances where a case is referred to the ombudsman in respect of cases where there are two names on a bank account and the case...
    • Tax Rebates
      483. To ask the Minister for Finance if the State is in line for a rebate on its contribution to the EU given the EU's reported higher-than-expected customs duties and VAT receipts; if so, the...
    • Budget 2024
      484. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in the context of Budget 2024, he has any plans to empower the charity sector to seek philanthropic support through a strong incentivisation of...
    • Tax Code
      485. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of concerns expressed by the Irish restaurant and hospitality and tourism sectors regarding the adverse impact of the re-introduction of the...
    • Banking Sector
      487. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will intervene to ensure that a bank (details supplied) shares its software with another bank as it takes over the operation of in-store ATMs in...
    • Tax Credits
      488. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are any plans to increase the tax credits available to persons who have coeliac disease in purchasing food in the context of the current...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      489. To ask the Minister for Finance to make inquiries on behalf of a person (details supplied) who has still not received payment for returns they made through Revenue/MyGov.ie; and if he will...
    • Housing Policy
      490. To ask the Minister for Finance following several inquiries from younger persons eager to access the property ladder, if he is considering measures such as individual savings accounts (ISAs)...
    • Financial Services
      491. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will advise, in relation to oversight and accountability of the FSPO, how a person can submit a complaint in relation to the FSPO; and who this office...
    • Tax Credits
      492. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year cost if the sea-going naval personnel tax credit were increased to €1,800. [39095/23]
    • Taxi Regulations
      494. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 269 of 18 April 2023, the penalty for a business which refuses card payment; the legislation concerned; and the penalty...
    • Departmental Schemes
      495. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update, in tabular form, on the number of businesses in each county that have successfully applied for inclusion under the temporary...
    • Departmental Policies
      496. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the review of the deemed disposable system relating to exchange traded funds (EFTs); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Exemptions
      497. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will increase the inheritance tax exemption, given that the value of property has increased significantly in recent times; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      498. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a submission (details supplied); if his Department can support this submission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39160/23]
    • Departmental Data
      499. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount allocated to climate finance in each of the years 2020 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39277/23]
    • Tax Data
      500. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of carbon tax accrued on a year-by-year basis since 2015; the amount of carbon tax revenues ring-fenced for climate action measures; and if he will...
    • Legislative Programme
      501. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make the necessary changes to an Act (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39361/23]
    • National Asset Management Agency
      502. To ask the Minister for Finance the full-year cost of running NAMA, including details of number of employees, the average earnings of a NAMA employee and the range of incomes of these...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Pension Provisions
      503. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry has established an entitlement to a public service pension from their service with the...
    • Flood Risk Management
      504. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will examine and address matters in relation to flooding in a location as in the case of the house of a person (details supplied);...
    • Departmental Schemes
      505. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the CFRAMS for Raphoe, County Donegal is on schedule for implementation; the current timeframe for the delivery of the scheme; and if...
    • Flood Risk Management
      510. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform what measures are being taken by the OPW to relocate persons (details supplied) due to flooding. [37336/23]
    • An Garda Síochána
      511. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when Leighlinbridge Garda station will be reopened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37357/23]
    • Office of Public Works
      512. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress of the Office of Public Works refurbishment of Carlow courthouse railings; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Sector Pay
      513. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the median salary WTE in the public sector for each year since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37409/23]
    • Departmental Communications
      515. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37415/23]
    • Ethics in Public Office
      516. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the implementation of the recommendations outlined by the Review of Ireland's Statutory Framework for Ethics in Public...
    • Public Sector Staff
      520. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for a breakdown of the number of secretariat staff provided, on either a full-time or part-time basis, to each of the different...
    • Public Appointments Service
      521. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the average time it takes for a recruitment process by the Commission for Public Service Appointments to be completed; and if he will...
    • Flood Risk Management
      522. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to the flooding that occurred in east Meath recently which destroyed many homes, if he will seek an urgent update on when...
    • Business Supports
      524. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the policy of his Department to ensure that Irish based businesses and SMEs, in particular, are not prevented from tendering for...
    • Public Parks
      525. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works plans to refurbish the vacant public toilets on Infirmary Road, Dublin 7 overlooking the children’s...
    • Departmental Meetings
      526. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on engagements he has had with the Department of Justice in relation to the restoration of barrister fees...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      527. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform who is responsible in paying the pensions of gardaí who joined An Garda Síochána on or after 6 April 1995; how it will be...
    • Public Parks
      528. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date on which the playground in the grounds of Kilkenny Castle will be fully useable; and the number of consecutive weeks it has not...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      530. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the proportion of public procurement contracts divided into smaller contracts in order to facilitate application of smaller providers;...
    • Public Appointments Service
      534. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Public Appointments Service will run a general civil service competition for person’s with fluency in Irish at Clerical...
    • Insurance Coverage
      535. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the arrangements that are in place for remedial works in an area (details supplied) to ensure people in the area affected can get...
    • An Garda Síochána
      536. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to correspondence from Wicklow County Council in relation to the need to upgrade the Greystones Garda...
    • Departmental Schemes
      537. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has taken into account that there are employees in the public sector for whom it is mandatory to pay into the compulsory spouses...
    • Heritage Projects
      538. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he can indicate the OPW conservational management plans that are in place for remedial works on Cairn T at the Loughcrew Cairns...
    • Flood Risk Management
      539. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there is funding available for flood defence doors for businesses in Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      540. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) within his Department; if any section of his...
    • An Garda Síochána
      541. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the proposed opening date for the Bailieborough District Garda Headquarters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38865/23]
    • Driver Test
      543. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the OPW's plans with regard to the driver testing centre currently located in a centre (details supplied) in Tipperary; and if he will...
    • Traffic Management
      544. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 213 of 20 October 2022, if he will provide an update as An Garda Síochána remains unable...
    • Civil Service
      545. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the status of the Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2018. [39136/23]
    • Fire Service
      546. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of WTE qualified fire engineers employed by the OPW as of 4 September 2023. [39189/23]
    • Coast Guard Service
      547. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an updated timeline for the delivery of the Greystones coastguard HQ considering the recent sale of the harbour site; and if he will...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Business Supports
      548. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total euro investment made by IDA companies in each county in the past five years; how many jobs were created in each county by...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      549. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total euro investment made by Enterprise Ireland companies in each county in the past five years; how many jobs were created in...
    • Trade Agreements
      551. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current status of full ratification of CETA. [37200/23]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      552. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason for current expenditure running €202 million behind profile, as outlined in the Mid-Year Expenditure Report; and if...
    • Labour Market
      553. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the Employment Regulation Order for security staff; and when he anticipates being able to implement same. [37485/23]
    • Consumer Protection
      554. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what steps are being considered to protect the rights of consumers who purchase tickets for concerts or sporting events and where...
    • Departmental Schemes
      555. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on previously announced plans to introduce a scheme for business users of LPG and kerosene given that these are...
    • Employment Rights
      556. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in recognition of the significant delays with the security ERO and the recent lifting of the High Court injunction, he will...
    • Departmental Schemes
      557. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will detail in tabular form, by county (or local authority), the number of businesses that have been approved for the new...
    • Business Supports
      560. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will detail in tabular form, by county (or local authority), the number of businesses that have been supported under the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      561. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will detail in tabular form, by county (or local authority), the number of businesses that have been supported under the...
    • Inflation Rate
      562. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will detail in tabular form, by county (or local authority), the number of businesses that have been supported under the...
    • Brexit Supports
      563. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will detail in tabular form, by county (or local authority), the number of businesses that made successful applications under...
    • Consumer Protection
      564. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has consulted with the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission around the issue of the de facto monopoly...
    • Employment Rights
      565. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he will honour the terms of the Employment Regulation Order for the security industry (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Trade Agreements
      566. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the level of trade between Argentina and Ireland in 2022 and for the first half of 2023. [37933/23]
    • Cúrsaí Gaeilge
      567. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment cén fáth nach bhfuil leagan Gaeilge, nó fiú Gaeilge ar bith, ar shuíomh gréasáin na...
    • Enterprise Policy
      568. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated amount in 2024 to recruit two additional WTE senior principal scientific officers and two extra full-time senior...
    • Official Engagements
      569. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans to visit the United States before the end of the year. [38093/23]
    • Brexit Issues
      570. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether there has been any increase in trade entering Irish ports from Britain and destined for Northern Ireland, and visa versa,...
    • Employment Rights
      571. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the provisions allowing for the right to request remote working will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      572. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will advise the engagement his Department has had in its role in revitalising the Irish wool industry; if he has engaged with...
    • Enterprise Policy
      573. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will review the position whereby many employees are obliged to retire from their employment at the age of 65 years even if they...
    • Departmental Communications
      574. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38543/23]
    • Business Regulation
      575. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made by the Companies Registration Office in implementing the Commission Implementing Regulation 2023/138 including...
    • Departmental Meetings
      576. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence, AI, within his Department; if any section of his...
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      577. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost in 2024 if the budget for the Workplace Relations Commission is increased by 10%. [38603/23]
    • Business Supports
      578. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the action being taken by the IDA and Enterprise Ireland to support new businesses and jobs to the Border counties...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      579. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how much of the €2 million capital funding allocation for the National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training has...
    • Enterprise Policy
      580. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how much of the €10 million capital funding allocation under Enterprise Ireland's open call for Brexit impacts has been spent...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      581. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the 2023 capital budget allocation for the future growth loans scheme. [38957/23]
    • Work Permits
      582. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to seek a review of the complicated employment permit case (details supplied) relating to a person and his hope to progress a career...
    • Departmental Data
      583. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide the data relating to the share of Government enterprise financial support, funding and investment (direct and indirect)...
    • Industrial Development
      587. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the progress of the strategic IDA land purchase in Castlebar, as well as the status of when planning...
    • Departmental Data
      588. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a detailed description and breakdown of the expenditure by an organisation (details supplied) under Section 8(A)...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Transport
      593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional seating will be provided on school transport for persons (details supplied). [37198/23]
    • Home Schooling
      594. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received correspondence from a school (details supplied); and if she is in a position to allocate resources for an adequate home...
    • National Council for Curriculum and Assessment
      595. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether “white people, Irish people and males” have a privileged status in Irish society, as is indicated in the new...
    • Teacher Training
      596. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, given the particular emphasis on continuing professional development (CCPD) and equality, consideration would be given to the entitlement of...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      597. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a teacher (details supplied) in County Clare who is on loan from one school to another will receive their Gaelscolaíochta allowance while...
    • Education Policy
      598. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether there is discretion within her Department to approve special leave with pay for a person who has had a child through surrogacy in the...
    • School Admissions
      599. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of a shortage of places for all Irish primary education in the Clontarf, Killester and Raheny catchment area; if she has any...
    • School Transport
      600. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school bus drivers that will have to retire this year on age grounds due to the rule that they do not allow Bus Éireann employ...
    • School Enrolments
      601. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she or her officials will meet the ‘D8 New School’ group of parents in relation to the provision of secondary education in...
    • School Transport
      603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a bus escort for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37422/23]
    • School Accommodation
      604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a response can issue to correspondence emailed to school property (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37430/23]
    • Teaching Qualifications
      605. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a teacher (details supplied) will be paid the correct honours degree allowance. [37446/23]
    • Departmental Circulars
      606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has issued a memo and or circular in respect of incumbent principals offering interview preparation and other services to teachers and...
    • Special Educational Needs
      607. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update in relation to commencement of the autism class in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Data
      608. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an itemised list of all capital works projects for schools, both primary and secondary, in the D6W/D8/D10/D12 areas, with a breakdown of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      609. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an itemised list of all autistic spectrum disorder units for schools, both primary and secondary, in the D6W/D8/D10/D12 areas, with a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      610. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update in relation to the current status and timeline for completion of the 'lot 6' school works; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      611. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the criteria used by Bus Éireann to calculate the distance from a student’s home to their prospective school for the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      614. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a clear and detailed timeline for the delivery of the long-awaited three-school campus in an area (details supplied). [37608/23]
    • Feidhmeanna Roinne
      616. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén fáth nach bhfuil múinteoir meán scoile (sonraí tugtha) ar an scála pá do mhuitnteoirí a thosaigh ag...
    • Schools Building Projects
      618. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) is in line/plans for a school extension utilising the available lands at the rear of the school which have been...
    • School Transport
      620. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the need for additional Bus Éireann resources to accommodate families from an area (details supplied) in County Louth;...
    • Schools Building Projects
      622. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of a school site in Celbridge which has been identified as a preferred new location for three schools (details supplied); the delays...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      623. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the OECD review of Ireland's Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS) resource allocation policy will be completed; and if she...
    • School Transport
      624. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport will be continued for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37868/23]
    • Child Abuse
      625. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that the victims of abuse in Protestant-ethos institutions are treated equally with victims of abuse in other schools in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      626. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost in 2024 if an additional 200 SNAs were recruited. [37940/23]
    • EU Meetings
      627. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the next EU Council of Education Ministers is scheduled to occur. [37941/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      628. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a new building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37926/23]
    • School Transport
      629. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail the number of secondary school bus concessionary ticket applications for the academic year 2023/2024 in County Wexford; the number of...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      639. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when ICT/digital grants will be paid to schools. [38048/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      640. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update and timeline for a school building project (details supplied); to confirm what stage the project is at; and if she will make...
    • School Accommodation
      641. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when additional temporary accommodation will be implemented for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Transport
      642. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school transport appeals registered by the date of this Parliamentary Question reply, by county, in tabular form. [38116/23]
    • Departmental Data
      643. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of reported assaults on secondary school teachers during the 2022/2023 school year; whether these assaults were committed by students,...
    • Education Schemes
      645. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the 2023 budget commitment for the provision of up to 6kW photovoltaic panels on all schools; when the scheme will be...
    • Schools Building Projects
      646. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the provision of a new school building (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38135/23]
    • School Transport
      647. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a pupil (details supplied) will be issued with a school bus ticket; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38153/23]
    • Departmental Policies
      650. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the initiatives under her Department to assist schools in supporting sustainable practices, including but not limited to the...
    • Departmental Projects
      651. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to include the expertise of play therapists in her Department’s pilot project on mental health in primary schools (details...
    • Departmental Data
      652. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff in her Department working on procurement services providing support to contracting authorities and their respective grades;...
    • Schools Building Projects
      654. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a detailed update with regard to completion works at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Teaching Qualifications
      655. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) who is an employee of an ETB is entitled to incremental credit in respect of teaching experience in the United...
    • School Admissions
      656. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all efforts are underway to ensure that the son of a person (details supplied) will have a secondary school place in September; and if she...
    • National Council for Special Education
      658. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will engage with the NCSE regarding supports for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38261/23]
    • Employment Rights
      659. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to primary and secondary school teachers who are not on fixed term or permanent contracts, if she is aware of the difficulty they...
    • Parental Leave
      660. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if parental leave is included in service history (details suppled); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38286/23]
    • School Admissions
      661. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all efforts are being made to accommodate a child (details supplied) in their local school, whose parents are making every effort to secure...
    • Irish Communities Abroad
      662. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to visit to United Arab Emirates in order to attract Irish-trained school teachers that are based there to return home and work in...
    • School Staff
      663. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual funding allocated and staffing levels in the City of Dublin Education and Training Board Psychological Service in 2022 and 2023, in...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      664. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to concerns raised in respect of the school scoping inquiry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      665. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport will be provided to siblings (details supplied) considering that this family has been availing of the school transport...
    • Child and Family Agency
      666. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Tusla has been receiving answers provided in State examinations to trigger investigations into individual families and children; if so, if the...
    • State Examinations
      667. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department and/or the State Examinations Commission is providing Tusla (Child and Family Agency) with details of students based on answers...
    • Special Educational Needs
      668. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when classrooms at a special school (details supplied) will be ready; what arrangements will be made in the interim to facilitate impacted...
    • State Examinations
      669. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department or the State Examinations Commission is providing Tusla (Child and Family Agency) with details of students to trigger...
    • Special Educational Needs
      670. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of SNA posts recruited for and filled to the end of the school year in 2023. [38406/23]
    • School Funding
      671. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated first- and full-year saving of removing the monetary subsidy given to private schools. [38409/23]
    • Departmental Reviews
      672. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she or her Department have carried out a risk assessment or an impact assessment on the new Junior Cycle SPHE curriculum; and if so, if she...
    • Schools Building Projects
      674. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the additional accommodation project for a school (details supplied); the current status of the project; when it...
    • Special Educational Needs
      675. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the child development model that was used in setting the criteria for the L2LP Numeracy Programme (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • School Transport
      676. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene to ensure a family (details supplied) can access school transport for the coming school year. [38486/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      677. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding progress on the development of a new permanent school building for a school (details supplied). [38497/23]
    • School Facilities
      678. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the transfer of a school (details supplied). [38498/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      679. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on plans for a new school building (details supplied); if she will give assurances in relation to the completion of...
    • Irish Sign Language
      680. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of posts offered for the role of ISL classroom support to date in 2023; the number of posts filled to date; and how many posts were...
    • School Accommodation
      681. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm the accommodation plan for a school (details supplied) for the school year 2024/2025 i.e. where the school will be located;...
    • School Transport
      682. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received an interim and or draft report in respect of the review of the school transport scheme; the date on which she expects to...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      683. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) within her Department; if any section of her...
    • School Transport
      684. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine an issue with a school bus ticket (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38586/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      685. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department will not give a school (details supplied) in County Mayo permission to proceed to construction for a modular classroom...
    • Special Educational Needs
      686. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to requests from school management (details supplied) regarding the SNA allocation for the school; if a timeline...
    • Official Engagements
      687. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has spoken formally with the United States Secretary for Education (details supplied) in the past 12 months. [38600/23]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      688. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) will be completed; and the estimated cost for these works. [38601/23]
    • Home Schooling
      689. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will request a review of a current home school community liaison scheme allocation (detail supplied); if this issue can be urgently...
    • School Admissions
      691. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) cannot get a school place to start school this year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38637/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      692. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine a staffing issue in a preschool for children (details supplied) with additional needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      694. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38650/23]
    • School Transport
      695. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can confirm receipt of a late application for school transport from a student (details supplied); if this application can be considered in...
    • Education Policy
      697. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of exemption from Irish studies applications approved by second-level schools in 2022, that were subsequently reversed or...
    • School Accommodation
      700. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures in place to provide temporary accommodation for students at a school (details supplied), in light of the delay in installing...
    • School Transport
      701. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the inability of some students with special educational needs at a school (details supplied) to secure school transportation; the...
    • School Funding
      702. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding provided to primary schools for the delivery of the physical education curriculum in each of the years 2018 to 2022 and to...
    • School Transport
      703. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the school transport provision to siblings (details supplied) could be extended; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38739/23]
    • Departmental Communications
      704. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of requests submitted by a school (details supplied) to put a traffic plan in place on the temporary site where the school is...
    • School Admissions
      705. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available to a person (details supplied) who has been unable to secure a school place in their locality or in their neighbouring...
    • School Transport
      706. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38754/23]
    • Ukraine War
      707. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a matter regarding Ukrainian pupils at a school (details supplied) will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38758/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      708. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of an application to build an extension to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38761/23]
    • School Transport
      709. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a student (details supplied) will be reviewed by Bus Éireann with a view to the issuing of bus tickets; and if she will make...
    • Special Educational Needs
      710. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will give approval to a submitted report for the building of an ASD suite in a school (details supplied), given it has been...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      711. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will give approval for the works to be carried out to a school (details supplied), given the appointed contractor cannot...
    • School Funding
      712. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has received written correspondence dated 18 August 2023 from a school (details supplied) regarding the need for additional...
    • Schools Building Projects
      713. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide clarification on the anticipated completion dates for the manufacturing of the modular classrooms for a school (details supplied) and...
    • Departmental Data
      716. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount paid to consultancy firms in each of the years 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in relation to the...
    • Education Policy
      724. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 367 of 13 July 2023 (details supplied), if she will provide the relevant maps for Dublin, Kildare, Meath...
    • Departmental Data
      725. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any of the 314 school planning area boundaries have changed since 2010; and if so, if she will provide maps of those SPAs before and after any...
    • School Facilities
      726. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the request by a school (details supplied) to modify its building plan to replace three proposed basketball courts with one...
    • School Transport
      727. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the provision of school transport for a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38836/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      728. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current position regarding building works at a school (details supplied); when these works will be complete; when the school will be opened;...
    • School Transport
      729. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a bus issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38841/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      731. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of all new-build and refurbishment projects, if any, in post-primary schools (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make...
    • School Transport
      734. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a secondary-school student (details supplied) has not been given a seat on the school transport bus, in view of the fact that...
    • Departmental Contracts
      737. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a construction contractor has been appointed for a permanent build project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      738. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can indicate the schedule of when a permanent build project (details supplied) will start construction; when it is scheduled for...
    • School Funding
      739. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the ICT grant promised to primary schools has not been paid; if the reason is linked with the new book grant scheme for primary...
    • School Transport
      740. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Bus Éireann needs to extend the 70-years-of-age limit for driving buses as many companies...
    • Education Schemes
      741. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans for those who previously opted out of the supervision and substitution scheme to opt back in; if it is the case that only...
    • School Transport
      742. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the bus route number D689 could be extended by approximately 167 metres to include to include four other households on this route (details...
    • School Facilities
      743. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which the boundary wall of a school was last surveyed in the context of its structural integrity at a location (details supplied);...
    • School Transport
      744. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, given that neither Local Link nor the NTA has age criteria for drivers, she will provide perspectives on how Bus Éireann policy for...
    • School Accommodation
      749. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the recent communications and application for additional accommodation by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Data
      750. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if raac lightweight building material, has been used in the construction of any Irish schools; if so, how many, by primary and post-primary, name...
    • Schools Building Projects
      751. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that the return school start date for students at school (details supplied) has been delayed due to a failure to finish building...
    • School Staff
      752. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide data on the current number of teacher vacancies by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Teaching Qualifications
      753. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason an application (details supplied) was rejected; the reason it is taking so long for a decision on the review; and if she will make a...
    • Education Schemes
      754. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the primary and special schoolbook scheme which has been introduced for recognised primary schools, including special schools can be extended...
    • Schools Building Projects
      755. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the permanent extension for a school (details supplied); if her Department is committed to delivering this project; the...
    • School Accommodation
      756. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of plans for additional accommodation for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39131/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      757. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for an extension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39132/23]
    • School Transport
      758. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any assistance can be given to pupils (details supplied) who need bus transport to school; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Funding
      759. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an organisation (details supplied) can apply for funding announced this year for counselling within DEIS schools; to outline the qualifying...
    • School Staff
      760. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline her plans to improve the pay and conditions for special needs assistants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39153/23]
    • School Admissions
      761. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will be able to provide the promised school place to a pupil; if there has been a teacher appointed; and if she...
    • School Transport
      762. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a child (details supplied) will be examined, who has not received a school bus ticket for the coming year and will miss out on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      763. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, given that Ireland is facing a huge surge in Covid cases due to new variants with high transmissibility, she will commit to ensuring that...
    • School Transport
      764. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 316 of 16 May 2023, regarding school transport for a pupil in County Cork (details supplied), if she will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      765. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has conducted any analysis of the impact of the removal of the special cleaning allowance made during Covid; if her Department...
    • Budget 2024
      766. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation, INTO budget 2024 campaign (details supplied) "Building a brighter future for every...
    • Departmental Policies
      767. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) can be allowed pay a substitute teacher where a fixed-term position is available but unfilled; and if she will...
    • School Transport
      769. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been brought to a situation regarding a school bus service (details supplied); what engagement she or her Department has had...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      770. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the “Guide to Potential Government Responses” booklet...
    • School Transport
      771. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department plans to allow people who are contracted by Bus Éireann to drive buses for children with additional needs to continue to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      777. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to include/continue the use of HEPA filters in school classrooms; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39318/23]
    • School Transport
      778. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the number of students that applied for a school transport ticket for 2023/2024 on a county basis, broken down into standard,...
    • Schools Building Projects
      780. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the new build for (details supplied); the timeline for the completion of a detailed design and for the submission of planning...
    • School Funding
      782. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details of schools that have been provided with funding to transport students to off-site facilities, such as PE facilities, when...
    • Schools Building Projects
      783. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the new build timeline for a school (details supplied); the acquisition of a site at Fassaroe, Bray; and if she will make...
    • School Transport
      784. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that are available to a school (details supplied) to enable students to access off-site PE facilities in a safe manner and which do...
    • Schools Building Projects
      785. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a project (details supplied) will proceed to the next stage, in view of the urgent need to provide this much-needed accommodation due to an...
    • School Transport
      786. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options that are available for school transport for a pupil (details supplied). [39423/23]
    • Departmental Programmes
      787. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proposals, if any, there are to expand the school completion programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39424/23]
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge
      788. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht a tuairimí maidir le méadú ar an deontas faoi Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí do Choláistí Gaeilge do...
    • Television Licence Fee
      789. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason Parliamentary Question Nos. 541 and 542 of 25 July 2023, which were due for response to this Deputy on 25 July 2023...
    • Departmental Data
      790. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of new TV licences issued and the number of TV licence renewals for week 4 of July 2023 versus the corresponding period...
    • Sports Funding
      791. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if, in relation to the sports capital funding programme, she agrees that funding would be best used for sport clubs that are...
    • Census of Population
      792. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the results of the 1926 census will be published; if she will consider relaxing the 100-year rule in respect of the...
    • Sports Funding
      793. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether a club can make an application for a new sports capital grant in the upcoming scheme if the prior successful application...
    • Departmental Bodies
      794. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current members of Sport Ireland; and the Minister who appointed each member, in tabular form. [38028/23]
    • Food Promotion
      795. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if Fáilte Ireland has plans for a new food and drink strategy. [38029/23]
    • Tourist Accommodation
      797. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht what research has been carried out by her Department as to the financial and jobs impact on the tourism sector of the use of hotel...
    • Sports Funding
      798. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the large scale sports infrastructure grant scheme will open in 2023 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Sports Facilities
      799. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on the progress towards a centre of excellence in boxing in Cork. [38544/23]
    • Information and Communications Technology
      800. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence, AI, within her Department; if any section of...
    • Legislative Programme
      801. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when section 51 of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022 will come into effect. [38597/23]
    • Tourism Promotion
      802. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount that Fáilte Ireland has spent on projects under Ireland's Hidden Heartlands in 2022 and to date in 2023, in...
    • State Properties
      803. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has a policy statement on the practice of naming State buildings after notable Irish people. [38884/23]
    • Departmental Budgets
      804. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount carried over by her Department's allocation in each of the years 2020 to 2022 inclusive, in tabular form. [38949/23]
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      805. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht where the results of the national swimming strategy survey that was done in 2022 can be accessed; and if she will make a statement...
    • Sports Funding
      806. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a decision will be made on a sports capital application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Proposed Legislation
      807. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the registration of short-term tourist letting Bill 2022; the timeline for the establishment of a short-term tourist...
    • Na hOileáin amach ón gCósta
      809. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil i geist méadú substaintiúil a dhéanamh ar an íocaíocht a fhaigheann teaghlaigh atá ag...
    • Artists' Remuneration
      810. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the estimated full-year cost of extending the basic income for artists to all those working in the arts who would be eligible; and...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      811. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, in light of the judgment (details supplied), he will provide in tabular form a list of all the areas where the court found...
    • Rental Sector
      812. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm whether any new guidance has been issued by his Department to local authorities for the purposes of setting updated...
    • Departmental Data
      813. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding drawn down from the voids programme, by each local authority, in each of the past five years and to date...
    • Housing Provision
      815. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of acquisition of residential units (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37220/23]
    • Foreshore Issues
      816. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm that the foreshore licence (details supplied) is still active; to whom it applies; and to confirm the status of...
    • Departmental Schemes
      817. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether it is intended to amend the tenant purchase incremental scheme 2016 to allow where a child grows to adulthood as a...
    • Defective Building Materials
      819. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the recent statement by an organisation (details supplied) that many engineers encountered difficulties in...
    • Departmental Data
      820. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the names/company names of the engineer consultants that were on the original panel for the pyrite...
    • Planning Issues
      821. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to consider drafting a statutory scheme to provide a remedy for householders who are adversely impacted by vegetation from...
    • Derelict Sites
      822. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider amending the derelict sites levy in light of a recent High Court ruling (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Natural Heritage Areas
      823. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has any plans to repeal or amend S.I. No. 435/2005 or otherwise amend a designation (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Departmental Schemes
      824. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether the fire safety defects scheme will be expanded to include buildings constructed prior to 1991; what supports are...
    • Housing Schemes
      825. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding adaptation grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Turf Cutting
      826. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of recipients of compensation for the non-cutting of turf in Barrougher, SAC bog in County Galway and Moonveenlagh,...
    • Departmental Data
      827. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of raised bogs designated as SAC’s in the Republic of Ireland; if he will confirm if an application has been...
    • Fire Safety
      828. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, in light of the recently published Fire Safety Code of Practice for defective apartment developments, he will confirm if a...
    • Foreshore Issues
      830. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of foreshore licence applications for development of offshore wind farms in the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023....
    • Departmental Bodies
      831. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to seek an update on IT issues concerning the registration process of the Residential Tenancies Board (details supplied); and...
    • Urban Development
      832. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will seek details on the feasibility of introducing a metropolitan area plan for the ever-growing Drogheda and east...
    • Departmental Functions
      833. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether there should be penalties introduced for political parties that do not submit annual accounts; if so, how...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      836. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for capital expenditure running €233 million behind profile, as outlined in the Mid-Year Expenditure Report;...
    • Hare Coursing
      837. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will appoint an independent body to gather data in relation to hare coursing as currently data that is gathered in...
    • Departmental Data
      838. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what percentage of An Bord Pleanála cases are successfully defended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37487/23]
    • Departmental Bodies
      839. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can advise on eligibility for reimbursement of water connection fees (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      840. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Approved Housing Bodies have obligations to answer representations from public representatives regarding issues their...
    • Departmental Policies
      842. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a recommended cap on the number of social houses a county council can purchase in a private turnkey development;...
    • Departmental Data
      844. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide, in tabular form, the number of buy-and-renew homes delivered by each local authority in the past 12 months; and...
    • Departmental Schemes
      845. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how a person in a situation (details supplied) can qualify for a local authority disability grant for the adaptation of their...
    • Local Authorities
      846. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update and reasons why interior repair works promised since 2020 for a social housing tenant (details supplied)...
    • Departmental Schemes
      847. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what schemes are available for shared equity scheme for self builds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37589/23]
    • Departmental Data
      849. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times the car park of Glenveagh National Park has been full in each year since 2021; if any plans are in place...
    • Departmental Priorities
      850. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to report on the potential acquiring of the Connor Pass and its development as a national park; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Policy
      851. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, in the context of the record high numbers of homeless, he will reinstate the eviction ban without delay; and if he will...
    • Rental Sector
      852. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 613 of 25 July 2023, if he will instruct Fingal County Council to engage with the...
    • Housing Policy
      855. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is prepared to take steps to establish a system of compulsory purchase of residential properties from corporate...
    • Heritage Sites
      856. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he and/or the NPWS is considering purchasing the Conor Pass site (details supplied) for the purposes of transforming it...
    • Rental Sector
      857. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 628 of 25 July 2023, the steps he will take before 24 August 2023 to make sure that the...
    • Housing Schemes
      858. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason in relation to the local authority home loan income earned only in the Republic and in the North of Ireland is...
    • Heritage Sites
      859. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans, if any, he has in relation to safeguarding and preserving the built heritage of Aldborough House on Portland Row;...
    • Fire Stations
      862. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the long-awaited new fire station for Dunleer, County Louth; the location and details of the...
    • Environmental Schemes
      863. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail all the funding that is available for the cleaning and dredging of rivers here. [37735/23]
    • Housing Schemes
      864. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail the allocation of the Affordable Housing Fund (AHF) to each county to date, in tabular form. [37736/23]
    • Heritage Sites
      865. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if her Department has or will consider the purchase of the old Parliament from the Bank of Ireland for use as a civic and/or...
    • Housing Schemes
      866. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm that local authorities contribute 10% to the capital cost of all new build social housing (construction and...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      867. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of investigations of homeless hostels carried out by local authorities, by county, by month, in tabular form; and...
    • Housing Policy
      868. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the Finnish model of ending homelessness; if he plans to implement a similar model here; and if he will make a...
    • Vacant Properties
      869. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider creating additional positions within each of the local authorities' vacant homes office teams; and if he...
    • Housing Schemes
      870. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount each local authority has received from the croí cónaithe towns fund, by month and by county, in tabular...
    • Vacant Properties
      873. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant sites on the local authorities vacant site register for each of the past five years, in tabular form; and...
    • Derelict Sites
      875. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of derelict sites on the local authorities derelict site register for each of the past five years, in tabular form;...
    • Compulsory Purchase Orders
      877. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 709 of 18 April 2023, if he will provide an update on the CPO Activation Programme; if...
    • Rental Sector
      881. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government that the landlord guarantee where a HAP tenant falls into differential rent arrears only applies where the tenant and HAP...
    • Planning Issues
      882. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a breakdown in tabular form of the number of staff, and their grade currently, employed within An Bord Pleanála,...
    • Local Authorities
      884. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding that was sought and awarded to Wicklow County Council for retrofitting works for local authority homes...
    • Housing Schemes
      885. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Homebond or a similar cover will be in place for purchasers of new affordable housing schemes through the local authority...
    • Planning Issues
      887. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will make legislative amendments to allow for bicycle storage facilities in front gardens and driveways of terraced...
    • Local Authorities
      890. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the number of applicants who have been removed from all local authority housing lists in the past 12...
    • Housing Schemes
      891. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of any disqualifications for applicants under the local authority mortgage protection insurance group scheme...
    • Seanad Elections
      894. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to reform the Seanad Éireann electoral system to allow all university graduates to vote; and if he will make a...
    • Fire Service
      895. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the number of retained firefighters and staff in each fire station in counties Carlow and...
    • Vacant Properties
      896. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered shortening the period of vacancy necessary to trigger the vacant home grant; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Policy
      897. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review upwards the €126,000 limit imposed by clause 80(1)(k) of S.I. No. 600/2001 - Planning and Development...
    • Local Authorities
      900. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total procurement spend of each local authority in 2022, in tabular form. [38168/23]
    • Housing Schemes
      903. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the options open to a person (details supplied) when the first home scheme will be extended to self-builds; and if he will...
    • Fire Stations
      904. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when capital funding for the development of the fire station at Clara, County Offaly, will be allocated; if he will expedite...
    • Coastal Protection
      905. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the National Coastal Change Management Strategy steering group will report on its initial findings and recommendations...
    • Vacant Properties
      906. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider expanding the vacant property refurbishment grant to include vacant properties that cannot be refurbished...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      907. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of money spent by his Department, and agencies under the auspices of his Department, on legal firms for the...
    • Referendum Campaigns
      908. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the proposed referendum on the right to housing will take place in 2023. [38371/23]
    • Waterways Issues
      909. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify the process after the consultation period for draft by-laws for inland waterways by Waterways Ireland closes on 2...
    • Local Authorities
      910. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm whether Mayo County Council has submitted a request to progress sub-projects (details supplied)...
    • Urban Development
      912. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the mechanisms in place to assist local authorities, including Mayo County Council, in preparing a detailed...
    • Development Contributions
      915. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the specific developmental contribution fee for class 1 residential units which are starting construction on a new...
    • Urban Development
      916. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the application submitted by Mayo County Council under the urban regeneration development fund...
    • Water Supply
      917. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason group water schemes, including the Cadamstown group water scheme, are finding it extremely difficult to access...
    • Insurance Coverage
      919. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38519/23]
    • Departmental Data
      920. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of 18-25-year-olds that are registered for social housing on local authority waiting lists, provided by local...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      922. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence, AI, within his Department; if any section...
    • Departmental Data
      923. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of heat pump systems (HPS) with corresponding heat-recovery ventilation (HRV) systems installed in local authority...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      926. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the scientific rationale for the removal of four duck species from the Wildlife (Wild Birds) (Open Seasons) Orders; the...
    • Defective Building Materials
      928. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clearly define 'Principle Private Residence' with regards to the Mica Redress Scheme (V2); if he will disclose the legal...
    • Housing Schemes
      929. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of possible issues regarding payments under the croí cónaithe (towns) fund scheme (details supplied);...
    • Water Services
      930. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the loans which Uisce Éireann has taken out since its launch as Irish Water; the interest rate of those loans;...
    • Housing Schemes
      931. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has any plans to alter/amend the rule for those who have gone through insolvency to be able to access the Rebuilding...
    • Housing Provision
      933. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of social housing units delivered in each local authority area; the number provided in each local authority...
    • Planning Issues
      934. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of change of use planning applications for short-term lets received by each local authority since the beginning of...
    • Rental Sector
      936. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government given the rent-a-room scheme has been extended to include social houses to avail of the €14,000 tax free benefit, if he...
    • Housing Policy
      940. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has given any consideration in supporting a new Home Market Tech Fund (details supplied) to broaden the scope of...
    • State Properties
      941. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has a policy statement on the practice of naming state buildings after notable Irish people. [38885/23]
    • Septic Tanks
      943. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the current septic tank inspection regime; and if there are any plans to open the grant up to more people or review...
    • Housing Schemes
      944. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will extend the 13-month timeline, from approval to the completion of works, under the croí cónaithe towns...
    • Wildlife Regulations
      945. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will resend S1 421 of 2023 in order to allow for sufficient dialogue with an organisation (details supplied); and if he...
    • Departmental Schemes
      946. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what grant supports are available to facilitate the construction of an extension to a family home; and if he will make a...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      947. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he is satisfied that local authorities currently have enough resources to prevent homelessness and accommodate those...
    • Commercial Rates
      948. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if modifications can be made in the legislation underpinning local rates, so that concessions could be made to businesses...
    • Housing Schemes
      949. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the numbers who accessed the mortgage allowance scheme in each of the years 2012 to 2022, by local...
    • Departmental Staff
      950. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of WTE qualified archaeologists employed by his Department in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular...
    • EU Regulations
      951. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38997/23]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      954. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has received the concerns of persons (details supplied); if a response will issue in due course; and if he will make a...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      955. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that Government funded approved housing bodies are now competing with potential owner occupiers to buy houses,...
    • Housing Provision
      956. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the annual projected breakdown of the € billion per year expenditure for Housing for All, including the...
    • Housing Schemes
      957. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are any developments under Housing For All on rightsizing and incentives for those wanting to make these moves; and...
    • Gaeltacht Policy
      959. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 384 of 4 July 2023, for an update on the work of the Interdepartmental Group on planning...
    • Housing Provision
      961. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people on the social housing waiting list in Galway City; the number of same who have been on the list for more...
    • Housing Policy
      963. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 383 of 7 July 2023, the timeline for the publication of the revised guidelines for rural...
    • Housing Provision
      964. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 5 of 6 July 2023, the status of his review of the report from the Chair of the Galway...
    • Water Supply
      965. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider introducing a financial support package for households that use a private water source and must use an...
    • Offshore Islands
      966. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when human remains removed from an island off the coast (details supplied) will be returned for burial on the island; the...
    • State Bodies
      968. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the full cost of setting up the LDA in year 1 and the estimated full year cost to the exchequer in 2024 of the LDA;...
    • Energy Conservation
      970. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes retrofitted on an annual basis from 2020 under the local authorities energy efficiency retrofit programme;...
    • Housing Provision
      972. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on plans (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39354/23]
    • State Bodies
      974. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the full-year cost of running the LDA, including details of number of employees, the average earnings of an LDA employee and...
    • Local Authorities
      975. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the full-year running costs of the local authorities, including details of number of employees, the average earnings of an LA...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      976. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the farm assist scheme to ascertain if changes are needed to the criteria, given that there are only...
    • State Pensions
      977. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review the pension case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37225/23]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      978. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37270/23]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      981. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the child benefit payment to parents who have 18-year-old children and older and who are in full-time...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      982. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37326/23]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      983. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on the provision for wigs for those who have lost their hair due to medical reasons that are not...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      984. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine a case where an applicant (details supplied) is only slightly over the means test threshold; if this application...
    • Employment Schemes
      985. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the options that her Department supports to assist persons on disability allowance to make useful...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      986. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine a case where a person (details supplied) is not eligible for optical benefit, despite having worked in Ireland for...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      987. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be approved for the carer’s grant. [37444/23]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      988. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be approved for carer’s allowance. [37445/23]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      989. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for expenditure running €319 million ahead of profile, as outlined in the Mid-Year Expenditure Report; and...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      990. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether the travel pass for carers of children with special needs can be altered to enable it to be shared by parents who...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      991. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to respond to proposals raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in respect of expanding the children's...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      994. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to explore the possibility of extending the free travel scheme to people who are not in receipt of an eligible payment but...
    • State Pensions
      997. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the non-contributory pension investigation for a person (details supplied); when a decision will issue; and if...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      998. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there could be consideration for a fuel allowance to be paid to polio survivors (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      999. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an application for the fuel allowance was not granted in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1000. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider amending the treatment benefit scheme for hearing aids in order that people would be eligible for...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1001. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for the disability allowance in the case of a person (details...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1002. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider increasing the maximum hours those in receipt of carer's allowance are allowed to work each week; and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1004. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the financial assistance available, if any, to a person (details supplied) to continue with their studies; and if she will...
    • Business Supports
      1005. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the policy of her Department to ensure that Irish-based businesses, SMEs in particular, are not prevented from tendering for...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1006. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive a decision in regard to a disability allowance appeal in respect of...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1008. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost in 2024 if the telephone support allowance were doubled. [37931/23]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1010. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update in respect of an appeal for a carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1011. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of a disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she...
    • Pensions Reform
      1012. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what steps have been taken to ensure that the Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection recommendation that the new...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1014. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost in 2024 if the maximum rate of disability allowance and the State pension (contributory)...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1015. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in relation to applications for carer's allowance, if she will consider abolishing the means test for carers or,...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1016. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who were in receipt of living alone allowance and subjected to a review by her Department in 2022 and...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1017. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the issues relating to the PPSN issued to a person (details supplied) have now been resolved; if she is aware that the...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1019. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider increasing the weekly income criteria allowed for carers (details supplied). [38136/23]
    • Social Insurance
      1020. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number yield in 2024 if the employer PRSI rate of 11.05% increased to 13% on the portion of wages in excess of...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1021. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding an invalidity pension application by a person (details supplied); if all contributions regarding...
    • State Pensions
      1022. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a pension review for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38179/23]
    • Departmental Policies
      1023. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether she has assessed the level of non-payment to single mothers of maintenance due, and the hardship it causes; if her...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1024. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for carer’s allowance (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1027. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is on the appropriate rate of disability allowance, given the fact that they...
    • State Pensions
      1028. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current position of employees who are obliged to retire from their employment at the age of 65 years as regards...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1030. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of extending the free travel scheme from five years to ten years for those returning to work having previously...
    • Community Welfare Services
      1032. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of full-time community welfare officers employed in Meath in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [38437/23]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1033. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a carer's allowance appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1034. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the fuel allowance threshold in particular for people who live alone; her plans to increase the fuel...
    • Pension Provisions
      1035. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a UK social insurance record has been received to complete the review of an invalidity pension application in respect of...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      1036. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost in 2024 if the living alone allowance was increased by €5 per week. [38557/23]
    • Information and Communications Technology
      1037. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) within her Department; if any...
    • Pensions Reform
      1038. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the transition to a Total Contributions Approach (TCA) model and phasing out of the yearly average approach will be...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1040. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a benefit claim (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38662/23]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1042. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase the fuel allowance threshold for people who live alone in Budget 2024, considering that it costs the...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1043. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason applications under the exceptional needs scheme are not being processed locally; if she agrees that this scheme...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1046. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38792/23]
    • Pension Provisions
      1048. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether an individual in receipt of carer's allowance or carer's benefit can have them considered towards the contributions...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1049. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that an individual (details supplied) is having money deducted from their pay which they did not agree to; if she...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1050. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38910/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      1053. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount carried over by her Department's allocation in each of the years 2020 to 2022 inclusive, in tabular form. [38951/23]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1054. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a disability allowance payment (details supplied) will be restored to the claimant's bank account rather than in-person...
    • Pensions Reform
      1055. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on progress to implement the respective recommendations of the Special Joint Oireachtas Committee on...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1056. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to provide public transport financial relief to carers. [39121/23]
    • Parental Leave
      1058. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of extending parental leave and benefit by 19 weeks for mothers and 43 weeks for fathers to...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1059. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a submission (details supplied); if her Department can support this submission; and if she will make a...
    • Pension Provisions
      1060. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has such a low rate of invalidity pension; the reason this pension is...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1061. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware of the difficulty experienced by a person (details supplied); if she will assist in getting this claim...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1062. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made to date with the review taking place in her Department on means testing of social welfare schemes; when it...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1063. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on extending the fuel allowance to households in receipt of the working family payment; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1064. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her view on a proposal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39357/23]
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • An Garda Síochána
      1065. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many drink driving arrests were made in each county or by Garda division in the country over the past ten years; how many...
    • Statutory Instruments
      1070. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if S.I. No. 17/2014 - District Court (Civil Procedure) Rules 2014 has been implemented; the reason for the delay of its...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1071. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if new citizenship application processes have meant applications have been processed in non-chronological order; and if she...
    • Human Trafficking
      1072. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons arrested, prosecuted and convicted of human trafficking in the State in each of the past ten years and...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1076. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in County Wicklow; the stations in which they have been located in each of the years 2021, 2022 and...
    • Residency Permits
      1079. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an explanation for the lack of review and adjustment of the IRP card fee since 2012, despite the considerable...
    • Courts Service
      1082. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on pre-trial hearings as established under the Criminal Procedure Act 2021, their functions, how often they have...
    • Domestic Violence
      1083. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to report on the interdepartmental group with responsibility for refuge provision in the State; if she can provide an update...
    • Work Permits
      1084. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to examine a delay in a person (details supplied) receiving an employment permit; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Visa Applications
      1085. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37393/23]
    • Legal Aid
      1086. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality with regard to the withdrawal of professional service by criminal barristers which with occur on 23 October 2023 (details...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1087. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a breakdown, in tabular form, of the number of Garda vetting applications which solely return convictions more than 30...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      1088. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the review of procedures in relation to the sharing of collision data as referenced in Parliamentary Question No. 229 of...
    • Student Visas
      1089. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason foreign language students in Ireland on six-month courses are limited to working a maximum of 20 hours per week as...
    • Visa Applications
      1090. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the targeted processing time for visas; the average processing time in the years 2019 to 2022 and to date in 2023; the number...
    • Departmental Records
      1091. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1107 of 21 March 2023, if her Departmental files relating to the High Court, Supreme...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1092. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for capital expenditure running €34 million behind profile, as outlined in the Mid-Year Expenditure Report;...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1093. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has consulted with or has been engaged by the Garda Commissioner in respect of plans by an organisation (details...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1097. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an itemised breakdown of the allocation and spending to date for the year 2023 of the Youth Justice funding; and if she...
    • Prison Service
      1099. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the number of the 100 proposed additional prison officers who have been hired for the Irish Prison Service;...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1100. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a breakdown, in tabular form, for the past ten years, of the total number of community gardaí; where they were...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1101. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the allocations of the 2023 community safety innovation fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      1102. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the breakdown, in tabular form over the past ten years, by county, of safe refuge accommodation places for...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      1107. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the breakdown, in tabular form, over the past ten years by Garda station and division, of the number of road...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1109. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the breakdown, in tabular form, over the past ten years, of the number of speed vans operated by a company...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      1111. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the breakdown, in tabular form, over the past ten years, by Garda station and division, for the number of...
    • Prison Service
      1112. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the latest status of the unpublished Dóchas prison reports by the Inspector of Prisons; when such reports will be...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1113. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he and or his Department have ever developed a green paper in respect of amending the upper age threshold for a Garda...
    • Visa Applications
      1114. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on a person (details supplied) and their application to remain in Ireland as the spouse of an Irish national;...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she and or her officials and or the Garda Commissioner have engaged with officials in Northern Ireland in respect of a...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1117. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the naturalisation application by a person (details supplied); and the timeframe in which they are...
    • Visa Applications
      1118. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of outstanding visa applications with the embassy in Abu Dhabi; the number from those leaving Sudan; the average...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1119. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many fully-trained specialist interviewers there are within An Garda Síochána at present, in the context of the...
    • Child Protection
      1122. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the strategic plan for joint training and implementation of the section 16 interview process by both agencies to...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1123. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 785 of 25 July 2023, if she is aware the family member of EU/EEA/Swiss citizen section...
    • Legislative Process
      1124. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has any intention to review the legislation underpinning the advertising of the sale and purchase of property,...
    • Civil Service
      1125. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in relation to the civil servants within An Garda Síochána who do not want to lose their status as civil servants,...
    • Visa Applications
      1126. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of the appeals for visas in the case of the family of a person (details supplied);...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for permission to remain in the State on the basis of parentage of...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1129. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current number of members of the Garda Reserve. [37917/23]
    • Departmental Staff
      1133. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if additional staff will be put in place in order to deal with the backlog in processing applications under the atypical...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1134. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the policy directive relating to the handling of covert human intelligence sources published on 9 June 2022 has been...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1135. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if anyone has ever been convicted under section 8 of the Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Act 2018, relating to...
    • Departmental Data
      1136. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vehicles that were seized by Criminal Assets Bureau and are still under the remit of CAB. [38033/23]
    • An Garda Síochána
      1137. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the projected cost of every twenty additional community gardaí; the estimated cost of every additional dedicated...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1144. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1145. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of the age profile of the Garda vehicle fleet in the Carlow-Kilkenny division. [38139/23]
    • Departmental Functions
      1146. 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. [38174/23]
    • Citizenship Applications
      1147. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for the undocumented scheme; if their case will be examined...
    • Antisocial Behaviour
      1148. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the engagements she has had with the Garda Commissioner regarding the escalating antisocial and violent behaviour in Dublin;...
    • Gambling Sector
      1149. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to respond to concerns raised by a person (details supplied ) in respect of the potential impact the Gambling Regulation Bill...
    • Family Law Cases
      1150. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to what extent the rights of children and parents are likely to be protected in any future family law legislation; whether...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1151. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí who have resigned from An Garda Síochána, by county, per month in 2023, in tabular form;...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1153. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current situation regarding an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied); if, in light of the over two...
    • Crime Prevention
      1154. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 911 of 13 June 2023, if she has received the necessary information from the Garda...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1155. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda divisions currently without a crime prevention officer, in tabular form. [38242/23]
    • Probation and Welfare Service
      1157. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of probation officers currently working in each prison in the State; and the number of current vacancies and the...
    • Visa Applications
      1158. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current status of a visa application for a person (details supplied). [38312/23]
    • An Garda Síochána
      1160. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the six strategic objectives outlined in the Garda Reserve Strategy 2021-2025; the progress made to date on...
    • Crime Prevention
      1161. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on Dublin city centre community safety partnership plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38320/23]
    • Departmental Strategies
      1162. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the Youth Justice Strategy 2021-2027-2027; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38321/23]
    • Crime Prevention
      1164. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the 12 Youth Diversion Projects in the greater Dublin area; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Funding
      1165. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will increase the funding available to the Youth Diversion Projects programme given the increase of criminal incidents...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1166. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on Operation Citizen; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38326/23]
    • Court Judgments
      1168. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the increasing number of short-term prison sentences being imposed by Judges given research has shown short-term...
    • Departmental Reports
      1169. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the progress report in relation to the mental health and addiction challenges of people interacting with the...
    • Prison Service
      1170. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a breakdown by prison, in tabular form, for the number and grade of psychologists currently working within the Irish...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1173. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a weekly breakdown, in tabular form, since the beginning of the 2023, outlining the number of patrols carried out by...
    • Oireachtas Committees
      1174. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the 22 recommendations outlined in the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice report entitled “An...
    • Crime Prevention
      1175. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the rates of recidivism; her plans to tackle this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38336/23]
    • An Garda Síochána
      1176. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a breakdown, in tabular form, of the projected number of gardaí retirements for the years 2023-2028. [38344/23]
    • Citizenship Applications
      1177. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a citizenship application made by (details supplied) which was submitted on 10 July 2023 is being processed, considering...
    • Missing Persons
      1178. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will seek a response to concerns raised by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • An Garda Síochána
      1179. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of gardaí currently staffing the stations at Ballyfermot, Crumlin, Sundrive Road, Kilmainham, Terenure,...
    • Crime Prevention
      1181. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide clarity around the installation process and approval of CCTV in the public realm the legality of it and...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1183. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of scramblers and quad bikes seized by gardaí to date in 2023. [38430/23]
    • Family Law Cases
      1186. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will commission a review of the operation of court ordered maintenance payments to assess if the current system is fit...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1187. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will waive the citizenship application fee in respect of a person (details supplied). [38492/23]
    • An Garda Síochána
      1188. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of training Garda recruits for the year 2023, including projected and actual figures, in tabular form. [38520/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      1189. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide in tabular form the total amount of moneys allocated by her Department to Muintír Na Tíre over the past...
    • Visa Applications
      1192. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of visa applications processed in each overseas visa offices in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [38553/23]
    • An Garda Síochána
      1193. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of unmarked vans assigned to the Garda collision forensic investigation unit as of 22 August 2023 and 1 June 2022,...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      1194. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) within her Department; if any...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1195. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update to date on the status in relation to the processing of a citizenship application on behalf of a person...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1196. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of horsebox vehicles currently assigned to the Garda mounted unit; and if she will provide the same figures as of...
    • Humanitarian Access
      1197. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has responded to a plea for compassionate and humanitarian support addressed to her from a Sudanese refugee who is now...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1198. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) can expect to hear back on their citizen application; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Sex Offenders Notification Requirements
      1199. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 444 which states that there are currently 1793 people recorded at the Sex Offenders...
    • Prison Service
      1201. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of days education and training workshops in the Irish Prison Service were closed due to the unavailability of...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1203. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of incidents the Garda air support unit was requested to attend in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1205. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38730/23]
    • Visa Applications
      1206. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a visa application by a person (details supplied). [38762/23]
    • Immigration Status
      1207. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on an application with INIS (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38766/23]
    • An Garda Síochána
      1208. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of each category of firearms training courses provided to armed Garda personnel in 2022 and to-date in 2023, in...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1209. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for Irish citizenship received by INIS in each month from January 2019 to August 2023 inclusive, in...
    • Crime Prevention
      1210. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cameras used in the Dublin City Council area that are capable of identifying drivers breaking red lights; and if...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1211. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of cash that was seized by gardaí on suspicion of being the proceeds of crime and was returned to the...
    • Passport Services
      1222. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a passport application by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed and expedited; and if she will make a statement on...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1223. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons arrested and charged with dangerous driving within the Kildare Garda division in 2022 and to date in...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1229. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) whose...
    • Visa Applications
      1230. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the case of a person (details supplied) who has applied to have their spouse and child to join them in...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1231. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount spent by An Garda Síochána on replacement of ballistic shields in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in...
    • Visa Applications
      1233. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current situation regarding a visa appeal/application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • An Garda Síochána
      1234. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of go-safe vehicles in the fleet as of 1 September 2023; the number of hours per day each van is actively in use...
    • Immigration Status
      1235. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an application submitted to the IIP section by a club (details supplied) will be completed; and if she will make a...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1236. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether she has given consideration to permitting Irish citizens who are working in police forces in other jurisdictions to be...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1237. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the rollout of the crisis de-escalation team in Limerick; when this will be in operation; to provide details...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1238. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide, in tabular form, the number of professional youth workers currently employed in each county, as funded under the...
    • Drug Dealing
      1243. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if additional measures will be introduced to deal with the scourge of drugs throughout the country, impacting on every...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Beef Sector
      1244. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is part of the Government policy that Teagasc are suggesting that the suckler herd will have to be reduced by 29% by 2030; and...
    • Forestry Sector
      1245. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason bonds are so high for person's (details supplied) looking to install a forestry road; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Fishing Industry
      1246. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his Department's role in the funding of a newly recognised organisation under the fishery producer organisation scheme as provided...
    • Forestry Sector
      1247. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress on the commencement of 2023-2027 forestry programme; and to address the continuing delays in obtaining forestry...
    • Agriculture Supports
      1248. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what measures his Department and relevant agencies intend to put in place to support farmers and rural communities which have...
    • Beef Sector
      1249. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if force majeure (details supplied) is taken into consideration in determining whether an applicant for the suckler carbon...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1250. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagement he has had with the British Government and their Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) regarding...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1251. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm the status of farm payments in the name of a person (details supplied); if there are payments due to the herd...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1252. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for capital expenditure running €84 million behind profile, as outlined in the Mid-Year Expenditure Report; and if...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1253. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if information technology issues are preventing the targeted agriculture modernisation schemes (TAMS) 3 applications from being...
    • Agriculture Supports
      1254. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will publish the intended allocations for the new €9.5 million support package from the European Commission; if he...
    • Departmental Policies
      1255. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on discussions around designated herd owners; if consideration has been given to allowing an additional...
    • Forestry Sector
      1256. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of permanent full-time equivalent staff in the forestry division within his Department, by grade, role and function; and...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1264. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37678/23]
    • Animal Welfare
      1266. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has received reports of cruelty to hares during the month of August 2023 (details supplied); the steps that were...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1267. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the full-year cost of expanding the straw incorporation measure to include an additional 100 participants in 2024. [37747/23]
    • Teagasc Activities
      1270. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding provided to the Teagasc Signpost Advisory Programme; the funding provided for the AgNav platform and required resources...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1271. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applicants to the 2023 Scheme of Investment Aid for the Development of the Commercial Horticulture Sector; and if he...
    • Greyhound Industry
      1272. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1895 of 26 April 2022, for an update on the Irish Coursing Club's traceability system for...
    • Animal Breeding
      1273. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on the number of sellers and suppliers of pets and animals who have registered with his Department in 2021,...
    • Forestry Sector
      1275. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a landowner intends to plant an area greater than 0.10 ha and less than 1.00 ha without relying on any form of State aid, the...
    • Animal Slaughtering
      1278. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in relation to (details supplied) to confirm how Irish thoroughbreds are being slaughtered in the UK; if he will provide details of...
    • Forestry Sector
      1279. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons in the Forest Service of his Department who are employed to deliver/process licences; and if he will make a...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      1281. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the policy of his Department to ensure that Irish based businesses and SMEs, in particular, are not prevented from tendering for...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1282. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason woodland on a farm is not recognised in the new acres scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37912/23]
    • Beef Sector
      1283. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address the case of a person (details supplied) regarding the suckler carbon efficiency programme; and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1286. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an application by a person (details supplied) under the national liming programme 2023 will be decided upon; when successful...
    • Departmental Funding
      1287. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm receipt of correspondence from a team (details supplied); the way the team can avail of Government funding to...
    • Forestry Sector
      1288. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to move away from large-scale monoculture of fast-growing species such as sitka spruce towards mixed, diverse forestry,...
    • Agriculture Supports
      1289. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if will consider an emergency support package for the tillage sector (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Funding
      1290. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the necessary funding to purchase additional food detection dogs to be deployed at airports, ports, etc., as...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      1291. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons that attended each day of the recent Galway horse racing festival; and if he will provide the same figures for...
    • Forestry Sector
      1292. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the plans, if any, to reform the Forestry Act 1988 and the remit of Coillte; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1294. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what funding was in place for the 2022 BISS scheme; what funding is in place for the 2023 scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Brexit Issues
      1296. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the changes brought about by the Windsor Framework to the handling of SPS goods entering Irish ports from Britain and destined...
    • Agriculture Supports
      1297. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to clarify if supports exist for farmers who wish to purchase and install an anaerobic digester; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1298. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will advise the engagement his Department has had with other Government Departments on revitalising the Irish wool industry;...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      1299. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current level of biomass activity. [38269/23]
    • Greyhound Industry
      1302. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the names of external companies that provide hospitality staff and security staff at Shelbourne Park greyhound track; the amount...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1303. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are capital funding streams available for the development of classrooms at a college (details supplied); if his Department...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1304. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider extending TAMS 3 to include grants for digger equipment for the cutting and trimming of hedges; and if he will...
    • Animal Welfare
      1305. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the investigation launched into the alleged breaches in animal welfare regulations at cattle marts...
    • Health and Safety
      1306. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will support the application of an organisation (details supplied) for a working time derogation with respect to the haulage...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1308. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of delayed payments payable to farmers such as BISS and ANC; the reason for the delays; the date such payments will be...
    • Fishery Harbour Centres
      1309. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the dates to date in 2023 that he has visited each fishery harbour centre under the remit of his Department; the purpose of each...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1310. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the capital works projects within his Department that received EU funding in 2022 and to-date in 2023; and the amount of EU funding...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1311. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the timeframe for approval for applications under TAMS 3 which closed on 30 June 2023; if there are delays in the approval process;...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      1313. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) within his Department; if any section of...
    • Forestry Sector
      1314. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a forest owner who fells an ash plantation that has been affected by ash dieback will have to return his forestry payments; and...
    • Departmental Funding
      1315. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he can confirm whether or not his Department ever made a submission or application for funding for a grant aid scheme for...
    • Greyhound Industry
      1316. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether he has concerns about Greyhound Racing Ireland partnering with a company (details supplied), considering the public funding...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1317. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he and other Ministers visited a farm (details supplied), considering allegations; if he will investigate these...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1319. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm receipt of a valid application from a person (details supplied) in County Cork under the TAMS grant scheme; when...
    • Agriculture Supports
      1320. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the new fodder support scheme will open for new applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38726/23]
    • Agriculture Industry
      1322. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on the work of the Wool Council; to outline its terms of reference; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Fishing Industry
      1324. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on three queries (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38883/23]
    • Agriculture Supports
      1325. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered the awarding of compensation to those unable to avail of afforestation grants, owing to their participation in...
    • Pension Provisions
      1326. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 570 of 13 July 2023, if an update can be provided; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      1327. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of WTE qualified archaeologists employed by his Department in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form....
    • Greyhound Industry
      1328. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has received a new Strategic Plan from Greyhound Racing Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Funding
      1329. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if funding is available for a specific project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39067/23]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1330. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a TB compensation payment will issue to a farmer (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Nitrates Usage
      1331. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to respond to concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39093/23]
    • Greyhound Industry
      1332. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons that attended the recent quarter finals, semi-finals and finals in the Irish Greyhound Derby Finals at...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1333. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when approval letters will issue in relation to TAMS Tranche 3; if he is aware of the stress that the delay in issuing TAMS...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1335. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount allocated to climate finance in the years 2020 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Forestry Sector
      1336. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether his Department is satisfied with a proposal from an applicant for a felling licence (details supplied) to replant 90% of the...
    • Land Issues
      1337. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a letter will issue from the Land Commission to a solicitor (details supplied) confirming whether or not land specified was...
    • Forestry Sector
      1338. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of decisions made by the forestry appeals committee which set back the decision of the Minister based on errors; whether...
    • Animal Welfare
      1343. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of dogs euthanised in registered animal rescue centres on an annual basis since 2015; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Disability Services
      1346. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 630 of 13 July 2023, if the six regional assessment hubs have been...
    • Departmental Funding
      1348. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the investment per child by his Department for each county in Ireland for the past five years. [37178/23]
    • Disability Services
      1349. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans in place to deal with the lack of physiotherapy and occupational therapy services for children in an...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1350. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if will provide details on the recruitment or where a person can express interest in joining the Tuam mother...
    • Human Trafficking
      1351. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if Tusla have conducted any internal review into the prevalence of human trafficking among children in care; if...
    • Departmental Funding
      1353. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the source of, and the reasons for, the State funding paid to an organisation (details supplied) in 2018 and...
    • Disability Services
      1354. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail the types of services available for adults with cerebral palsy here; the location where these...
    • Children in Care
      1355. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of companies under contract to provide residential care for children in the State care system to...
    • Ministerial Communications
      1356. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will list the dates upon which he has corresponded with or met with the CEO of Tusla to date in 2023....
    • Child and Family Agency
      1361. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will request that Tusla respond to this Deputy on Parliamentary Questions which were referred to it for...
    • Children in Care
      1362. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of special emergency accommodation companies that have been set up, or contracted, by Tusla in...
    • International Protection
      1365. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of all contracts to businesses and individuals who hold contracts to house both refugees and...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      1367. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a detailed breakdown of the costs and works of the proposed development of the modular homes...
    • Childcare Services
      1368. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1025 of 25 July 2023, what is defined as vacancy in the table provided...
    • Disability Diagnoses
      1369. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on any research that is being, has been or continues to be undertaken in relation to the...
    • Children in Care
      1370. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the percentage of children of the 90 per cent in foster care that are fostered through private companies and...
    • Disability Services
      1371. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1467 of 19 January 2021, to provide an update on the status of and...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1372. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to quantify how many private assessments with occupational therapists have been funded through the AON process,...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1373. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children participating in ECCE; if he will provide a breakdown of the number of children who are...
    • Childcare Services
      1374. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of early childhood care and education-only providers, that is, providers that do not offer a service...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1375. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of funding provided to Tusla in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1377. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for capital expenditure running €23 million behind profile, as outlined in the Mid-Year...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1378. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for current expenditure running €458 million ahead of profile, as outlined in the Mid-Year...
    • Budget 2024
      1379. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has received the pre-Budget 2024 submission from an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1380. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is planning to reform the system under which some AIM workers with children have to sign on for...
    • Disability Services
      1381. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what funding is available for a centre (details supplied) based in the North, but which offers services to...
    • After-School Support Services
      1382. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the closure of an afterschool service (details supplied); and if any funding options are...
    • Childcare Services
      1383. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will detail in tabular form on a county by county basis the number of children in each county that...
    • Disability Services
      1384. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason no alternative speech and language therapy cover has been provided for the speech and language...
    • International Protection
      1387. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 214 of 12 July 2023, the additional funding, resources and services that...
    • Care Services
      1388. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 634 of 13 July 2023, the location of each respite centre that was created...
    • Departmental Data
      1389. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the alternate care expenditure for 2020, 2021 and 2022 as per, the...
    • Child Protection
      1390. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many section 16 interviews took place in 2022; how many were conducted jointly by members of An Garda...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1391. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many fully-trained specialist interviewers there are within Tusla at present, in the context of the...
    • Child Protection
      1392. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many specialist interviewers have been trained through An Garda Síochána’s training...
    • Court Orders
      1394. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a company (details supplied) will be paid under the beneficiaries of the temporary protection order; and...
    • Disability Services
      1395. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of speech and language therapy for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Children in Care
      1397. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the huge financial burden placed on those using a service (details supplied) for supervised...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      1398. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the policy of his Department to ensure that Irish based businesses and SMEs, in particular, are not prevented...
    • International Protection
      1399. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a proposal (details supplied) has been approved; if not, when it will be approved; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Data
      1400. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of foster carers registered in Ireland from 2018 to date, in tabular form. [37951/23]
    • Children in Care
      1401. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he would consider raising the foster carer’s allowance to adequately cover expenses for foster...
    • Pension Provisions
      1402. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he would consider providing a pension scheme for foster carers; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Services
      1403. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider allocating additional funds to an organisation (details supplied) to support an urgently...
    • Care Services
      1405. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if transport to respite care will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Childcare Services
      1406. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the deadline 20 August 2023 for registration for the national childcare scheme will be extended, given...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1407. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount that TUSLA spends on external trauma specialists in 2022 and to-date in 2023; and the name of those...
    • Disability Services
      1408. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of funding for a long-term residential bed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • International Protection
      1409. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when outstanding invoices will be paid to a provider (details supplied) of accommodation for Ukrainian...
    • Industrial Relations
      1410. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding pay deals; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Services
      1411. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the full range of services recommended in reports provided by a clinic (details supplied) relative to persons...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1412. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost to increase the standard and higher capitation rate for the ECCE scheme by increments of...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1413. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the disability capacity review will be published before Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1414. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to quantify how many private assessments with occupational therapists have been funded through the AON process;...
    • International Protection
      1415. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm if international protection applicants or beneficiaries of temporary protection are to be...
    • Disability Services
      1417. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of children on the CDNT waiting list, by length of time, in tabular form. [38140/23]
    • Departmental Offices
      1418. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he intends to set up the office in Tuam of the director in charge of the exhuming of the site in Tuam in...
    • Student Accommodation
      1419. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the outcome of the engagement between officials from his Department and officials from the Department of...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1420. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will include childcare as an appropriate career for an apprenticeship; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1421. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost in 2024 if the budget for the local youth club grant scheme increased by 15%. [38249/23]
    • Disability Services
      1422. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the procedure for applying to the HSE for an accessory for a HSE allocated wheelchair; and the procedure for...
    • Departmental Budgets
      1424. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the capital budget allocation to his Department in 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [38302/23]
    • Departmental Data
      1425. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applications from counties Cavan and Monaghan for the building blocks improvement grant; and the...
    • Constitutional Amendments
      1428. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the interdepartmental group will publish its proposed referenda wording in relation to Article 40.1,...
    • Disability Services
      1429. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the parents of a child in Donegal (details supplied) can expect to receive services and support for their...
    • Disability Diagnoses
      1430. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children aged between 0-8 years old who were diagnosed with autism in 2022 and to date in 2023,...
    • Disability Services
      1431. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE speech and language therapists and occupational therapists in Dunshaughlin and Navan...
    • Child Protection
      1432. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the concerns of a parent (details supplied) will be communicated to the HSE and ensure that assistance is...
    • Childcare Services
      1433. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will increase core funding for childcare considering that year 2 of core funding falls short of...
    • International Protection
      1434. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will arrange for the relocation on humanitarian grounds of two Ukrainian citizens in State-funded...
    • Asylum Seekers
      1435. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the proposals by an organisation (details supplied); his views in relation to same; and if he...
    • Direct Provision System
      1436. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is considering the measures proposed by an organisation (details supplied) with regard to direct...
    • Disability Services
      1439. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the breakdown of CHO7 funding by local team level for disability services. [38555/23]
    • Information and Communications Technology
      1440. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) within his...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1441. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth given that a number of early years service and creche closures is due to retirement, if he will commission a...
    • Disability Services
      1442. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of speech and language therapists that are currently in place in CHO6, Wicklow under the Children's...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1443. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a detailed breakdown by county, those operating privately and through community structures, the...
    • Disability Services
      1446. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown per county on the current number of placements available for children with a disability...
    • Childcare Services
      1447. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the level of funding that has been allocated to the AIM programme and the way he is ensuring that...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1448. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the new Tusla regulations that have been introduced for childminders and the supports that will be...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1449. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide the rationale and background with his Departments €69 capitation per head per week...
    • Childcare Services
      1450. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the reason Childcare service providers are not allowed to increase their fees, even though...
    • Legislative Reviews
      1451. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will examine a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38618/23]
    • Departmental Projects
      1452. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current situation with the personalised disability budgets pilot project; the number of people currently...
    • Health Service Executive
      1453. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if urgent assistance will be provided in relation to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Children in Care
      1454. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on and any plans relevant to a request (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Asylum Seekers
      1455. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the poor conditions of the temporary housing of asylum seekers on the grounds of the Central...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1456. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has received written correspondence dated 14 July 2023 from a school (details supplied) with...
    • International Protection
      1457. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of an application (details supplied); when the applicant will receive a decision; and if he will...
    • Departmental Funding
      1459. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when funding will issue to an organisation (details supplied);; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Childcare Services
      1460. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will give consideration, in consultation with Pobal, to a publicly funded community childcare facility in...
    • Children in Care
      1462. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that foster carers are seeking an increase in their allowance...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1463. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will list the names of the companies who have been used by Tusla for the purposes of providing special...
    • Children in Care
      1465. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a detailed description of the vetting process and qualification requirements for staff...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1466. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will furnish this Deputy with copies of the supporting reports referenced one to five in a person's...
    • Children in Care
      1467. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will furnish this Deputy with a copy of the plan to increase capacity across residential care settings...
    • Youth Services
      1470. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to consider the National Youth Council of Ireland's proposal of an additional investment of €9.4 million...
    • Disability Services
      1471. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the hydrotherapy pool in a facility (details supplied) in Tralee, County Kerry, is not in use; and...
    • International Protection
      1472. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline, in relation to the International Protection Accommodation System, on what grounds a...
    • Departmental Data
      1473. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children under the age of 16 years on the disability database in CHO1; and if he will make a...
    • Childcare Services
      1482. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to ensure the provision of additional crèche and childcare facilities in...
    • Disability Services
      1483. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the return of therapists to special schools; the number that have returned to...
    • International Protection
      1484. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline his Department’s engagement with a hotel (details supplied) and the IPAS and BOTP...
    • Childcare Services
      1485. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated full year cost of abolishing childcare fees for parents through increasing the universal...
    • Departmental Funding
      1488. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will give urgent consideration to the issues raised by a national organisation (details supplied); if he...
    • International Protection
      1490. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39202/23]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1491. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to respond to matters raised in correspondence from an organisation (details supplied); if he will meet with...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1492. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the mother and baby institution redress scheme will be open for applications; the timeline for when...
    • Youth Services
      1494. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide, in tabular form, the number of professional youth workers currently employed in each county, as...
    • International Protection
      1495. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if buildings associated with the former St. Conleth's Reformatory School in Daingean, County Offaly are being...
    • Childcare Services
      1496. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will amend the conditions applicable to the core funding programme for childcare services to enable...
    • Departmental Records
      1497. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of residential places for people with a disability currently being provided as of 1 September 2023...
    • Disability Services
      1499. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail in tabular form the number of people with disabilities in receipt of home support hours in each LHO...
    • Disability Diagnoses
      1501. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will detail, in tabular form, for each LHO area, the number of children as of 1 September 2023 or latest...
  • Department of Health
    • Mental Health Services
      1502. To ask the Minister for Health the investment per child in mental health services in each county in Ireland for the past five years; and what the investment per person is in mental health...
    • Hospital Services
      1503. To ask the Minister for Health if a child will be referred to a hospital (details supplied) in the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37193/23]
    • Health Services
      1504. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 224 of 22 March 2023, for an update on the case of a person (details supplied); if progress is being made on their...
    • Health Promotion
      1506. To ask the Minister for Health whether consideration can be given to running a public information campaign warning persons about the consequences and dangers of illegal drugs and the impact...
    • Health Services
      1507. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans in place to return/reopen the HSE orthodontic clinic to Mullingar due to the continuous growth and expansion of the town (details...
    • Pharmacy Services
      1508. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 14 June 2023, if he will provide an update on the review of fees that pharmacies receive from the State for the...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1509. To ask the Minister for Health whether he has received correspondence from community cancer support centres requesting sustainable funding at Government level to permit them to continue to...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1510. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be allocated for the building of the rehabilitation unit at Bantry General Hospital; whether failure to award funding this year would...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1511. To ask the Minister for Health the official policy position in relation to State supported IVF treatment; the criteria for access to IVF support funding; the range and breadth of the...
    • Hospital Services
      1512. To ask the Minister for Health In a recent visit to University Hospital Waterford if he will give a public commitment to seven days x 12 hours per day accessibility for emergency procedures...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      1513. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an explanation of a procurement process (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37238/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1515. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37251/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      1516. To ask the Minister for Health what measures are being taken to address the shortage of ADHD medications in Ireland, particularly medications such as tyvense; and if he will make a...
    • Proposed Legislation
      1517. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list, in tabular form, of all informal and formal meetings or engagements held by him or his Department since his appointment with the group...
    • EU Directives
      1518. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is to receive a reimbursement of funds under the HSE's Cross Border Directive. [37263/23]
    • Health Services
      1519. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to concerns raised in a press release (details suppled) in respect of a case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37264/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1520. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the appropriate staff complement has been authorised or is in place to provide the required level of cover over the proposed seven day...
    • Mental Health Services
      1524. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting on CAMHS waiting lists, per county or region, in tabular form. [37290/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1529. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be given to a person (details supplied) for surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37309/23]
    • Health Services
      1531. To ask the Minister for Health what assistance can be given in a particular case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37321/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1532. To ask the Minister for Health if he can put a framework in place along the lines of those in other progressive EU member states, in order that recovering health workers could have...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1533. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive an urgent orthopaedic appointment. [37339/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      1535. To ask the Minister for Health to set out in a tabular form the funding provided by his Department and the HSE to each of the local drugs and alcohol task forces in 2019, 2020, 2021 and...
    • Health Strategies
      1536. To ask the Minister for Health what plans his Department has to establish a national register of patients with cardiac conditions to allow better analysis of heart and stroke incidences and...
    • Medical Cards
      1537. To ask the Minister for Health to adapt the medical card scheme to ensure the qualification of heart failure patients by virtue of diagnosis, given the financial burden these patients face...
    • Health Strategies
      1538. To ask the Minister for Health to improve and extend cardiac psychological services across the country, given the very limited services currently available to heart failure patients...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1541. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a primary care facility in Tullow and Borris, County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37355/23]
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      1542. To ask the Minister for Health to examine a delay in reimbursement of a patient on the cross-border scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37366/23]
    • Medical Cards
      1543. To ask the Minister for Health the reason patients with medical cards are continuing to be charged for services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37375/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1544. To ask the Minister for Health if he will deliver on the promise in the programme for Government to support clinical genetic services at CHI, Crumlin by appointing six genomic resource...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1545. To ask the Minister for Health when the Covid bonus of €1,000 will be paid to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37382/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1547. 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. [37404/23]
    • Nursing Education
      1548. To ask the Minister for Health if the changes recommended on foot of the McHugh report on student nurses have been implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37405/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      1549. To ask the Minister for Health the total budget allocation to section 38 organisation in 2021 and 2022; the share of the allocation used for pay; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Reports
      1551. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to report recommendations (details supplied) and indicate projected timelines for the HSE to adequately address the main concerns raised in the...
    • Mental Health Services
      1553. To ask the Minister for Health when the parent of a child (details supplied) will receive an appointment for CAMHS in Donegal town, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      1554. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be considered for a long-term-stay bed in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37435/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1555. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long on an appointment in the Rotunda Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37449/23]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1556. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for capital expenditure running €77 million behind profile, as outlined in the Mid-Year Expenditure Report; and if he will make a statement...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1557. To ask the Minister for Health if a person should have received the Covid recognition payment in circumstances (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37494/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1558. To ask the Minister for Health to list in tabular form the number of speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and physiotherapists who have retired and who have resigned from...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1559. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork, who was referred on 12 August 2022, will have a date for urgent cataract surgery assigned to her. [37508/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1561. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to calls from Mental Health Reform urgently advocating for the reinstatement of a national director for mental health, reporting directly to the...
    • Proposed Legislation
      1562. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the progression of the draft Bill to reform the Mental Health Act 2001; if this will be added to priority legislation for 2023; and if...
    • National Children's Hospital
      1563. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1288 of 25 July 2023, if he has been engaged with and-or consulted by Children's Health Ireland in respect of a branding...
    • Health Services Staff
      1564. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time permanent vacancies currently in speech and language therapy, physiotherapy and occupational therapy in each HSE community health...
    • Medicinal Products
      1568. To ask the Minister for Health when romosozumab (Evenity) osteoporosis medication will be approved by the HSE and other relevant bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37527/23]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1569. To ask the Minister for Health for an update in relation to the current status and timeline for completion of the Drimnagh primary health centre. [37535/23]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1570. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that Australia has banned the importation of non-prescription vaping products (details supplied); if he will outline his Department's plans for...
    • Mental Health Services
      1571. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the number of legal cases in progress, or pending, in relation to GDPR breaches with respect to the national CAMHS service; and if he will make a...
    • Nursing Homes
      1575. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commit to financially helping private nursing homes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37586/23]
    • Dental Services
      1577. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who is on the waiting list for wisdom teeth removal; and if he will make a statement...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1578. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) in respect of the exorbitant prices being charged for hearing aids, which in many countries...
    • Mental Health Services
      1580. To ask the Minister for Health for a pathway for two children (details supplied) from separate families with intellectual disabilities who are self-injuring to access psychiatric services...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1581. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to provide funding for the provision of the freestyle libre flash glucose monitoring system to people with diabetes over 21 years of age based...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1584. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37621/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      1585. To ask the Minister for Health the national protocols in place for the administration of psychotropic drugs to patients in nursing homes and other institutions in which persons are in care;...
    • Health Services Staff
      1586. To ask the Minister for Health to provide clarification on the reason neurology services were not granted an allocation of ANP posts in 2022 and 2023, considering the pressing issue of...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1587. To ask the Minister for Health if he can intervene and get a single wipe-down medical bed due to incontinence issues for a boy (details supplied) who has severe autism; and if he will make...
    • Health Services Staff
      1588. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the reason no allocation of advanced nurse practitioners were allocated to neurology services in 2022 and 2023; if there are plans to allocate...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1591. To ask the Minister for Health what measures are being taken to increase the numbers of children receiving diagnostic assessments from the primary care autism assessment team in Wexford,...
    • Pharmacy Services
      1593. To ask the Minister for Health to sanction the immediate recruitment of a chief pharmaceutical officer within his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37646/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1594. To ask the Minister for Health to request a review into the decision to exclude certain workers (details supplied) from the pandemic recognition payment despite the staff working in...
    • Health Services Staff
      1595. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide clarification on the reason neurology services were not included in the allocation of ANP posts in 2022 and 2023, considering the pressing...
    • Mental Health Services
      1596. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults waiting for primary care psychology services in Cork and Kerry for over 52 weeks, by number of years, in tabular form. [37656/23]
    • Home Care Packages
      1599. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently review the decision by the HSE to recommend that home care givers (details supplied) cease taking clients for much-needed walks as part of the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1600. To ask the Minister for Health when a staff nurse (details supplied) who was employed in a healthcare facility during the pandemic and had to go on sick leave for a breast cancer diagnosis...
    • Dental Services
      1601. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the actions taken by his Department to try to reach a resolution for orthodontic patients at a practice (details supplied) in...
    • Cancer Services
      1602. To ask the Minister for Health the number of radiographers required to ensure BreastCheck screenings take place every two years for those who are eligible; how many radiographers currently...
    • Hospital Staff
      1608. To ask the Minister for Health the number of filled genetic counsellor posts in the cancer genetics department in St. James's Hospital; how this compares with international standards;...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1609. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the current grants being paid to medical card holders for wigs and hairpieces, broken down by local authority; and if he will make a...
    • Abortion Services
      1611. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has established an implementation group to progress the operational recommendations made in the Report of the Independent...
    • Health Services
      1613. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and rectify the lack of ambulance and GP services in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37684/23]
    • Climate Action Plan
      1614. To ask the Minister for Health how he will ensure the HSE delivers on its commitment in line with Climate Action Plan 2023 and legally binding commitments under the Climate Action and Low...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1615. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting on a hospital appointment in the Mater hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37693/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      1618. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the anomaly (details supplied) in the regulations capping expenditure on outpatient medication; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Dental Services
      1619. To ask the Minister for Health how many dentists in County Laois will take medical card payments in view of the fact many people, especially children and elderly people, do not have access...
    • Mental Health Services
      1620. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who following a referral to the child and adolescent mental health service, CAMHS, in Limerick, has yet...
    • Departmental Reports
      1622. To ask the Minister for Health if he will seek a full update from the HSE in respect of all of the health-related recommendations made in the Drogheda Implementation Plan which have been...
    • Disability Services
      1623. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a person (details supplied) receiving a placement in a special school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37731/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1624. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37732/23]
    • Medical Qualifications
      1625. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1436 on 25 July 2023, the engagements between his Department and the Department of Health both North and South, Queen's...
    • Health Services Staff
      1626. To ask the Minister for Health the optimal level of staffing required for medical scientists to fully staff HSE laboratories nationwide; and the current number of medical scientists...
    • Dental Services
      1627. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 773 of 13 July 2023, the number of staff working in the HSE orthodontic service in counties Cavan and Monaghan; the...
    • Medical Cards
      1628. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider providing polio survivors with a discretionary medical card (details supplied). [37753/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1629. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the plea from persons with disabilities in relation to section 39 organisations providing services to people with disabilities, namely, that...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1630. To ask the Minister for Health to report on his response to the latest wave of Covid-19; if he will support a renewal of the vaccine programme and PCR testing; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1631. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an urgent request by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37798/23]
    • Hospital Admissions
      1632. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital bed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37799/23]
    • Legislative Measures
      1633. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the patient safety (licensing) Bill; if this Bill will introduce a licensing requirement for individuals practising aesthetic medicine in...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1634. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding grants and funding for people who have purchased a mobility scooter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1635. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting on their operation in Cavan General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37806/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      1636. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department is currently considering including Saxenda (which is now recognised as a valuable medication in the treatment of obesity) to the drugs...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1637. To ask the Minister for Health given the complications and risks of aesthetic medicine, the steps he will take to establish a regulatory framework for aesthetic medicine practitioners that...
    • Health Strategies
      1639. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the development of an implementation plan to deliver on the objectives of tackling loneliness and isolation; when this will be published; if...
    • Mental Health Services
      1640. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dedicated acute mental health beds for older people per CHO; the staffing levels of mental health services for older people for the previous...
    • Departmental Data
      1641. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women who were estimated to have developed gestational diabetes during pregnancy each year from 2018 to 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular...
    • Medical Records
      1642. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that can be taken to help two persons (details supplied) obtain their medical records. [37857/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1643. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting for an appointment in the Mater hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37858/23]
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      1644. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify following the roll-out of the pilot medical cannabis access programme the number of patients who have gained access to medical cannabis...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      1645. To ask the Minister for Health the policy of his Department to ensure Irish-based businesses, and SMEs in particular, are not prevented from tendering for Government and State business; the...
    • Health Service Executive
      1646. To ask the Minister for Health to outline Government policy with respect to the management and-or disposal of HSE property that is surplus to requirements; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1647. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37910/23]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1648. To ask the Minister for Health the current situation with respect to the regulation of the athletic therapy profession in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37919/23]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1649. To ask the Minister for Health if the primary care centre at Boot Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22 is still on course for delivery in quarter 3 of 2023; and if he will indicate a date for the...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1650. To ask the Minister for Health the number of orthopantomography X-rays carried out in the maxillofacial unit in St. James's Hospital in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in...
    • Emergency Departments
      1651. To ask the Minister for Health the number of treatment bays in the accident and emergency department in both CHI Temple Street and CHI Crumlin. [37936/23]
    • Health Services
      1652. To ask the Minister for Health the current state of feeding eating-drinking-swallowing impairments pathways for assessment and treatment in CHO 7 and CHO 9. [37937/23]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1653. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the annual funding for aids and appliances for persons who are blind or vision impaired in CHO 7 in 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [37938/23]
    • Emergency Departments
      1654. To ask the Minister for Health the current average wait time for the emergency department at St. Vincent's University Hospital. [37939/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1655. To ask the Minister for Health the number of healthcare professionals currently on panels in CHO 4, by grade and occupation, in tabular form. [37955/23]
    • Nursing Homes
      1658. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the concerns of the private and voluntary nursing home sector with respect to the payments available to them to cover staff and operational...
    • Abortion Services
      1660. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the total number of first initial consultations for a termination of pregnancy made in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37965/23]
    • Emergency Departments
      1661. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who presented at the accident and emergency department at South Tipperary General Hospital in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1662. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ophthalmology surgeries carried out at Galway University Hospital in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [37971/23]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1663. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of all primary care centres within CHO 4, specifying whether a general practitioner is operating out of the centre, in tabular form....
    • Emergency Departments
      1664. To ask the Minister for Health the number of treatment bays in the accident and emergency department of Cork University Hospital. [37973/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1665. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE orthopaedic registrars working in Wexford General Hospital in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [37975/23]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1666. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults with special needs who are currently waiting for dental treatment under anaesthesia at University Hospital Waterford; and the number of...
    • Hospital Staff
      1667. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultants in emergency medicine who are based in Tullamore Regional Hospital in 2022 and to date in 2023; and if there are plans to...
    • Hospital Charges
      1669. To ask the Minister for Health the number of private insurance patient forms that were completed on admission to Sligo University Hospital in each of the years 2020 to 2023; and the number...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1670. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE dentists employed by the HSE working in primary care centres within CHO 3 in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [37980/23]
    • Primary Care Services
      1671. To ask the Minister for Health what governance procedures are in place between the HSE and D-Doc service and its subsidiaries in respect of any financial transfers between the HSE and D-Doc...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1672. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for bone density scans for patients at each hospital in the Saolta University Health Care Group. [37982/23]
    • Emergency Departments
      1673. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of patients attending each of the emergency departments in 2022 and the first seven months of 2023, in tabular form. [37983/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1674. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultants in emergency medicine at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [37984/23]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1676. To ask the Minister for Health the number of throat surgeries performed at Galway University Hospital in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [37986/23]
    • Care Services
      1677. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds provided in public residential centres and also contracted by the HSE in private nursing homes designated for respite care in each of the...
    • Hospital Charges
      1679. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take steps to ensure no public hospital engages debt collectors to collect outstanding fees from patients; if he will outline the policy in...
    • Dental Services
      1680. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to amend the Dentists Act 1985 to allow dental hygienists to work independently rather than under the prescription of a dentist by eliminating the...
    • Emergency Departments
      1681. To ask the Minister for Health the number of resuscitation bays in the accident and emergency departments at Beaumont, the Mater and St. James's hospitals, in tabular form. [38020/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1682. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE radiographers working in the urgent care centre at CHI Blanchardstown in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if this number...
    • Health Services
      1683. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for the development of the community model for eye care, which covers cataract assessment, paediatric and macular disease. [38022/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1684. To ask the Minister for Health the number of recruitment campaigns that the HSE took part in either in person or virtually to attract Irish trained nurses, physiotherapists and doctors...
    • Dental Services
      1685. To ask the Minister for Health the current wait time for an orthodontic procedure at the Dublin Dental Hospital. [38024/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1686. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for the recruitment of an additional WTE consultant neurosurgeon at Beaumont Hospital. [38025/23]
    • Hospital Services
      1687. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who have attended genetic counselling services in St. James's Hospital for each of the years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1691. To ask the Minister for Health the current approach for notifying those with the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation when they are due an annual MRI scan; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1693. To ask the Minister for Health if he can advise (details supplied) regarding the pandemic recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38052/23]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1694. To ask the Minister for Health if he can advise regarding (details supplied) in relation to the shingles vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38054/23]
    • Health Services
      1695. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details on the measures in place to ensure the health service can fully access treatment for those with dementia or Alzheimer's disease, including...
    • Departmental Data
      1697. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the latest figures on the number of people affected by dementia and Alzheimer's disease and their breakdown according to age groups and severity;...
    • Legislative Measures
      1698. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the Adult Safeguarding Bill 2017, which was supported by not just agencies involved in the protection of older people but by politicians...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1699. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38066/23]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1701. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric neurosurgeries carried out at Cork University Hospital in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [38083/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1702. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of a 20% increase in clinical training places for initial specialist training, higher specialist training and clinical psychology; and the number of...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1703. To ask the Minister for Health the details of capital funding made available by the HSE to all maternity hospitals in the past three years, in tabular form. [38085/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1704. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for the recruitment of additional WTE consultant dermatologists with a special interest in skin fragility for University Hospital...
    • Health Services Staff
      1705. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE senior dental surgeons for special needs in CHOs 3 and 5 in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [38087/23]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1706. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in completing assessment for ADHD in the case of the son of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Staff
      1707. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include section 39 healthcare workers in HSE general public sector pay agreements, recognising the shortage in workers in the industry and the need...
    • Dental Services
      1708. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider opening an extra facility for dental treatment to relieve the backlog at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1709. To ask the Minister for Health the reason social care workers working in a residential facility (details supplied) in Cork city who were employees of a company have not been deemed eligible...
    • Nursing Homes
      1710. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE is not providing dressings to all patients in nursing homes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38123/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1711. To ask the Minister for Health when ongoing funding will be provided for a post (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38126/23]
    • Hospital Admissions
      1712. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay (details supplied) in the admission of a young patient following a complex brain surgery who requires much-needed rehabilitation to...
    • Hospital Staff
      1713. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE pharmacists and senior pharmacists working in the pharmacy department of St. Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny, in 2022 and to date in 2023,...
    • Eating Disorders
      1714. To ask the Minister for Health the current level of mental health supports available for persons with eating disorders in County Carlow. [38142/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1715. To ask the Minister for Health the number of stroke units, by location, that are operating below the recommended nurse or staffing levels; and the estimated cost of putting the recommended...
    • Hospital Staff
      1716. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE theatre nurses attached to each hospital that is part of Ireland East Hospital Group in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form....
    • Healthcare Policy
      1717. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to concerns raised (details supplied) in respect of parental rights for same-sex couples; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38146/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1718. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38149/23]
    • Medical Inquiries
      1719. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the systemic reviews or investigations that have been undertaken for each of the following: people who have died of adverse incidents in...
    • Hospital Services
      1720. To ask the Minister for Health whether there should be a 24-hour pharmacy at St. Vincent's hospital accident and emergency department in order that patients leaving late at night can access...
    • Medical Cards
      1721. To ask the Minister for Health to give consideration to an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38183/23]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      1722. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff in the HSE working on procurement services providing support to contracting authorities and their respective grades; and if he will make a...
    • Abortion Services
      1724. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a copy of the map produced by Tailte Éireann in collaboration with the Department of Health covering healthcare facilities, acute hospitals...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1725. To ask the Minister for Health the reason GPs are refusing to do blood tests requested for individuals supported by CAMHS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38216/23]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1726. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a detailed update on the construction of the Ballyhaunis primary care centre; when works will recommence and the expected completion time;...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1727. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital bed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38232/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1728. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be paid the pandemic payment bonus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38233/23]
    • Health Services
      1729. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times the adult diabetes clinic takes place in the RCSI Hospitals Group; and the number of speciality diabetes clinics, such as young adult...
    • Hospital Staff
      1730. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultants in paediatric intensive care at CHI Temple Street in each of the years 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [38245/23]
    • Hospital Admissions
      1732. To ask the Minister for Health the average patient experience time from admission to discharge in July 2023, by location, in tabular form. [38247/23]
    • Dental Services
      1733. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) waiting for orthodontic treatment since assessment on 8 June 2018 will be removed from the treatment waiting list and placed...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1734. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be urgently treated for cataract removal; the likely waiting time for such a procedure; and if he will make a statement...
    • Dental Services
      1735. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of persons under 18 years of age who are currently waiting to commence orthodontic treatment in County Wexford; and if he will make a...
    • Health Strategies
      1739. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the family support aspect of the national drugs strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38323/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1741. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown in tabular form of the number of staff employed by each drug and alcohol task force; the number at each staff level; the number of vacant...
    • Substance Misuse
      1742. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the work of the HSE-led initiative to reduce the health-related harms from cocaine and ‘crack’ cocaine; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      1743. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE senior physiotherapists in elective orthopaedics based at University Hospital Kerry in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [38345/23]
    • Health Service Executive
      1746. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money spent by the HSE on legal cases, by year, from 2018 to date; the amount spent on covering legal fees of plaintiffs in the cases the HSE...
    • Medical Research and Training
      1748. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to work with Trinity College with the intent of reinstating its specialist MSc in children’s mental health; to outline how the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1749. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38361/23]
    • Dental Services
      1750. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to implement the motion approved by Dáil Éireann on dental services on 19 January 2023; the steps being taken to ensure that...
    • Medicinal Products
      1752. To ask the Minister for Health when adjuvant abemaciclib will be approved to reduce the risk of breast cancer for patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38364/23]
    • Dental Services
      1753. To ask the Minister for Health what services are available under the dental treatment services scheme in County Roscommon; what action is being taken to ensure that medical card holders can...
    • Health Services Staff
      1754. To ask the Minister for Health to take action to ensure an occupational therapist is recruited in Laois for the elderly, and also to provide a service to three nursing units in the county....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1755. To ask the Minister for Health if and when an urgent appointment with the urology department of Tallaght Hospital is likely to be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1756. To ask the Minister for Health if a new wheelchair will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38394/23]
    • Alcohol Advertising
      1757. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend the provisions of the Public Health Alcohol Act 2018 to prohibit marketing of zero-alcohol products that share the same branding, logos...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1758. To ask the Minister for Health when the special recognition pandemic payment will issue to a person in County Mayo (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38399/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1759. To ask the Minister for Health to indicate the availability of suitable and appropriate mental health treatment in the case of the daughter of a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1760. To ask the Minister for Health when the special recognition pandemic payment will issue to a person in County Mayo (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38403/23]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1761. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for routine and urgent appointments, respectively, referred to the breast clinic at Our Lady Of Lourdes Hospital in Navan. [38432/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1762. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time senior physiotherapists in neonatology at the National Maternity Hospital in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1763. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for a new walk-in warfarin clinic in County Meath. [38434/23]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1764. To ask the Minister for Health the difference between a model 2 and model 2S hospital; and the measures required to upgrade a standard model 2 to a model 2S hospital. [38435/23]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1765. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 678 of 25 October 2022, when the review of the current eligibility framework, including the basis for existing hospital...
    • Departmental Funding
      1766. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown on the allocation of €330,000 of funding within CHO 2 for each community and voluntary organisations in counties Mayo,...
    • Emergency Departments
      1767. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on progress with the new emergency department at Mayo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38454/23]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      1768. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be considered under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38472/23]
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      1769. To ask the Minister for Health if it is a condition that charitable voluntary groups must first be in compliance with the company law requirements to file annual audited accounts before...
    • Dental Services
      1770. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults currently on the HSE dental and orthodontic waiting list, in CHOs 3 and 5. [38481/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1771. To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals located outside Dublin that currently have eye clinic liaison officer positions in ophthalmology clinics, in tabular form. [38482/23]
    • Sexually Transmitted Infections
      1772. To ask the Minister for Health the availability of STI testing kits in CHOs 3 and 5. [38483/23]
    • Pharmacy Services
      1773. To ask the Minister for Health the number of pharmacies operating in Dublin on a 24-hour basis, extended hours and standard hours, in tabular form; if pharmacies providing a service outside...
    • Nursing Homes
      1774. To ask the Minister for Health for his advice on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38500/23]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1775. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a building (details supplied); if it will be sold to the committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38513/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1776. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has plans to introduce a single point of entry triage system for referrals to children's mental health services; how this would operate; and if he...
    • Nursing Homes
      1777. To ask the Minister for Health how a property which has pyrite or other deleterious materials is treated for fair deal purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38518/23]
    • Medical Qualifications
      1778. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the HSE is requesting final transcripts of a student's final degree undertaken in Northern Ireland earlier than is possible for the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1779. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive an appointment for a laparoscopy surgical procedure for a chronic health issue that has existed for...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1780. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to include Hashimoto's Thyroiditis on the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38531/23]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1781. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the HSE's position with regard to the development of a primary medical care centre in Caherciveen; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Charges
      1782. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of revenue generated through parking charges within the public car park at Tallaght University Hospital in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular...
    • Dental Services
      1783. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultants in restorative dentistry and consultants in special care dentistry employed by the HSE in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular...
    • Health Services Staff
      1784. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant paediatric nephrologists working in the public health service; his plans to expand this number; and the international recommended...
    • Dental Services
      1785. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE specialist periodontists and implant dentists employed by the HSE in CHO 9 in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [38552/23]
    • Information and Communications Technology
      1786. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence, AI, within his Department; if any section of his Department currently...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1787. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the proposal to develop a 'surgical hub' in Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38585/23]
    • Home Help Service
      1789. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a standard list of work for those working as home helps that should be carried out in the care of the person they are caring for; if so, if this...
    • Hospital Charges
      1790. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of revenue generated through parking charges at Cavan General Hospital in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form of the money generated; and how...
    • Hospital Staff
      1791. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant cardiologists and cardiology registrars attached to Cavan General Hospital in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form....
    • Medicinal Products
      1792. To ask the Minister for Health the steps taken to ensure batches of botulinum toxin products destined for either non-medical use (i.e. aesthetic purposes) or medical use are identified as...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1793. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 701 of 11 July 2023, if he will advise how the HSPC is monitoring community transmission of Covid-19, the defined...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1794. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 701 of 11 July 2023, if he will elaborate on his Department's statement that masks in healthcare settings were being...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1796. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the payment of the Covid pandemic recognition payment to employees of private hospitals (details supplied) who were working with patients...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1797. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1179 of 8 September 2022, if an appointment will be arranged immediately at Waterford University Hospital for a person...
    • Health Services Staff
      1798. To ask the Minister for Health when shift leaders will be appointed to a facility (details supplied), in line with the HSE national clinic programme for adult critical care; and if he will...
    • Hospital Staff
      1799. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the number of shift leads in ICU, both day and night, in listed hospitals (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38658/23]
    • Prison Service
      1800. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prisoners awaiting transfer to the Central Mental Hospital from each prison, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Cancer Services
      1802. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the implementation of the hereditary cancer model of care for individuals with BRCA gene alterations; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1803. To ask the Minister for Health the total estimated cost of repairs and replacements following flood damage at University Hospital Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Medical Research and Training
      1804. To ask the Minister for Health if a proportion of the 200 undergraduate places for Republic of Ireland students in Northern Ireland (details supplied) are set aside for candidates with DARE...
    • EU Directives
      1807. To ask the Minister for Health to outline if the Delegated Directive [EU 2022-2100] has been transposed into Irish law; if not, the current status of the Directive, due to the fact that...
    • Cancer Services
      1808. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will fund car-T cell treatment for a person (details supplied) who has been told that the Government will not fund this life-saving...
    • Hospital Investigations
      1809. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the significant delay in the completion of the external review from the South/Southwest Hospital Group about the maternal death of a person...
    • Dental Services
      1810. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding dental services for an elderly man (details supplied) in Dublin 11; if a clear response can be provided addressing the concerns...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1811. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on an application for the pandemic bonus payment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38714/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1812. To ask the Minister for Health if Kilkenny CAMHS teams currently use telepsychiatry; and, if so, if he will provide feedback on its use to date. [38715/23]
    • Mental Health Policy
      1813. To ask the Minister for Health if there are future plans to roll out dialectical behaviour therapy in County Carlow. [38719/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1814. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant WTE staff, by job title, in the accident and emergency department at St. Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny, as of 29 August 2023; and...
    • Dental Services
      1817. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the dental hospital theatre list at CUH was suspended on 7 April 2023; if the reasons that caused the suspension have now been resolved to the...
    • Health Services
      1818. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will fund urgent ongoing treatment for the loss of eyesight for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38748/23]
    • Mental Health Commission
      1819. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline future staff and funding priorities and plans for the Mental Health Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38764/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1820. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive an appointment for a surgical procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38767/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1821. To ask the Minister for Health the number of advanced nurse practitioners currently working in a speciality (details supplied), in tabular form, by CHO. [38776/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1823. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the reason supply of PPE that private and voluntary nursing homes have been receiving through the HSE since the start of the pandemic to support...
    • Health Promotion
      1824. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support the allocation of more funding towards targeted QUIT campaigns and support initiatives towards populations most likely to smoke; and if he...
    • Cancer Services
      1827. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure the full financial resourcing and implementation of the National Cancer Strategy 2017-2026 recommendations around genetic...
    • Industrial Disputes
      1829. To ask the Minister for Health regarding the upcoming industrial strike that will be carried out by a union (details supplied) representing the allied health professionals working within...
    • Dental Services
      1830. To ask the Minister for Health when the Dental Council will approve a Ukrainian dentist (details supplied) to start the process of registration; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Policy
      1831. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has received the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy's pre-budget submission for budget 2024; his views on the specific...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1832. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long to get their hip replacement in Cappagh Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1833. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive occupational therapy and speech and language supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38832/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1834. To ask the Minister for Health to examine an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38833/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1835. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce an out-of-hours CAMHS service for children in counties Cavan and Monaghan. [38843/23]
    • Hospital Admissions
      1836. To ask the Minister for Health the number of attendances to the MIU on Mondays, in tabular form, from January 2019 to date per month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38845/23]
    • Eating Disorders
      1837. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE staff, by job title, that would be required to fully resource a specialist eating disorder team, in tabular form. [38852/23]
    • Departmental Data
      1838. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of Irish patients suffering from sleep apnoea in the State, by HSE CHO, in tabular form. [38853/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1839. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE clinical specialist physiotherapists in pelvic health at the Coombe Maternity Hospital in each of the years 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023,...
    • Emergency Departments
      1840. To ask the Minister for Health the number of resuscitation suites in the accident and emergency department of Beaumont Hospital. [38855/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1841. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of all CAMHS teams that are operational on a seven days a week basis; and the availability of staff in each discipline. [38858/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1843. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38881/23]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1844. To ask the Minister for Health his views on commemorating the contributions of Noel Browne and Kathleen Lynn, respectively; and his plans to name healthcare infrastructure after notable...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1845. To ask the Minister for Health if statutory guidelines will be issued in relation to foetal alcohol spectrum disorder and training for professionals working in adult mental health services....
    • Mental Health Services
      1846. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide dedicated mental health supports for the 4.75% of persons in Ireland with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder. [38889/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      1848. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the delays in processing the claim for a person (details supplied); the efforts being made to reduce the time for reimbursement under the...
    • Mental Health Services
      1849. To ask the Minister for Health how a clinical decision was taken to take some children who were adversely affected off the support fund that the HSE had them on originally, with regard to...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1850. To ask the Minister for Health for a progress report on the provision of a primary care centre in Sixmilebridge, County Clare. [38901/23]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1851. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38903/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1852. To ask the Minister for Health the number of clinical specialist physiotherapists in vestibular rehabilitation at Waterford University Hospital in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form....
    • Ambulance Service
      1853. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE ambulances, rapid response vehicles and HSE ambulances available for emergency calls on a 24-7 basis in each HSE ambulance base within...
    • Hospital Staff
      1854. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE clinical nurse specialists in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at University Hospital Limerick in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1855. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38908/23]
    • Mortality Rates
      1856. To ask the Minister for Health if he will seek advice or seek the details on the broad causation of deaths among the population of Ireland over the six years between 2017 and 2022,...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1857. To ask the Minister for Health for an explanation regarding the lack of GP services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38916/23]
    • Hospital Services
      1858. To ask the Minister for Health the number of pregnant mothers who have used a scan in Cavan General Hospital, per month, since its introduction to date in 2023; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      1859. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the funding provided for section 38 and 39 organisations; the funding provided for these organisations, by year, from 2020 to date; if this...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1860. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that a person (details supplied) has still not been paid the pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38931/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1861. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and when the person concerned can expect an appointment in the National Rehabilitation Hospital,...
    • Mental Health Services
      1862. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38938/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1863. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant ophthalmic surgeons attached to each hospital of the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular...
    • Mental Health Services
      1867. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE psychiatrists allocated to CAMHS in CHO 7 in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [38958/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      1868. To ask the Minister for Health since the establishment of the rare diseases technology review committee (RDTRC) in 2018, the specific drugs that have been considered by the RDTRC and their...
    • Disability Services
      1869. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a specific adult ADHD clinic available to adults living in CHO 9; if not, the reason; and if he will commit to establishing an adult ADHD clinic...
    • Cost of Living Issues
      1871. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to increase the supports available to persons who have coeliac disease in purchasing food in the context of the current cost-of-living...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1872. To ask the Minister for Health the average size by square metre of floor space of primary care centres. [39035/23]
    • Mortality Rates
      1876. To ask the Minister for Health the level of excess deaths for each of the past 12 months; the research he and his Department have undertaken into the cause of these excess deaths; the cause...
    • Hospital Staff
      1877. To ask the Minister for Health when the appointment of six shift leads will be made to a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39072/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1878. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a child (details supplied) is waiting on an appointment in CHI at Temple Street; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39075/23]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1879. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39087/23]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1880. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will fund the purchase of an AED device for a person diagnosed with long-QT syndrome which will be located in the person’s home; and if he...
    • Hospital Charges
      1881. To ask the Minister for Health if the national finance division within the HSE can provide the expected 2023 budget for private maintenance charges in public hospitals. [39090/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1882. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a date for a procedure in Sligo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1883. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to have a shingles vaccine available to everyone aged over 65 years. [39101/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1884. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant cardiologists with a special interest in catheter ablation at University Hospital Waterford in 2022 and to date in 2023, in...
    • Hospital Services
      1885. To ask the Minister for Health the number of polysomnography sleep studies carried out in CHI Temple Street to date in 2023. [39103/23]
    • Building Regulations
      1886. To ask the Minister for Health if raac lightweight building material has been used in the construction of any healthcare facilities; if so, how many, by name and location, in tabular form;...
    • Mental Health Services
      1888. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a CAMHS review for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39116/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1889. To ask the Minister for Health if national guidelines are in place for resettlement supports for immigrant healthcare workers; and his plans to ensure that resettlement procedures are in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1890. To ask the Minister for Health the status of outstanding Covid recognition payments to employees of a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39130/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1893. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the service level agreement between an organisation (details supplied) and CHO 7; what is causing the delay; when it is expected to be...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1894. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary care centres that are neurodivergent-friendly; the policies in place to ensure that they are; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services
      1896. To ask the Minister for Health the number of pharmacists that work in CAMHS, per CHO area; if there are plans to increase these numbers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39140/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1903. To ask the Minister for Health if creative art therapists will be considered on the upcoming CORU registration under psychotherapy and psychology; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1904. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital beds currently provided in each public and voluntary hospital as of end-August 2023 or the latest date available, in tabular form; and...
    • Hospital Staff
      1905. To ask the Minister for Health the number employed in wholetime-equivalent terms in each category in each individual public and voluntary hospital in August 2023 or the latest date...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1906. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE's plans for a centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39155/23]
    • Hospice Services
      1907. To ask the Minister for Health if a satellite palliative care unit (details supplied) will be provided in the new Killarney Community Hospital as part of its services; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1908. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) ahead of budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39164/23]
    • Nursing Homes
      1909. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 680 of 27 June 2023, if there is any further development in the provision of a pathway for a person to claim...
    • Emergency Departments
      1910. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency department presentations for cannabis use for each year from 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39172/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1911. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the roll-out of dual diagnosis services within CAMHS; the training that will be offered to staff in both mental health and addiction...
    • Substance Misuse
      1913. To ask the Minister for Health the number of pregnant people with hyperemesis associated with cannabis use; the number of this occurring from 2013 to date; if there are HSE information...
    • Mental Health Services
      1915. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided by HSE CHO areas 6 and 7 to an organisation (details supplied) and the services that are provided by the organisation in these areas; if...
    • Hospital Staff
      1916. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant cardiothoracic surgeons with a special interest in beating heart coronary artery bypass at the Mater Hospital in 2022 and to date...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1917. To ask the Minister for Health the number of blepharoplasty surgeries carried out at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [39191/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1918. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting on a procedure at Cavan General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39203/23]
    • Legislative Measures
      1919. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the commencement of all sections of the Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Act 2023; and if he will make a statement...
    • Mental Health Services
      1920. To ask the Minister for Health further to the Sharing the Vision implementation plan 2022-2024, the status of the gap analysis of advocacy support needs; the status of the development of...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1921. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 36 of 1 June 2023 and 1374 of 25 July 2023, for an update on the development of the new elective hospital in Merlin...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1922. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 1570 of 18 April 2023 and 1376 of 25 July 2023, the status of the proposed primary care centre for Galway City west;...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1923. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the closure of the 16-bed sub-acute unit at St. James’s Hospital psychiatric unit in August; if this decision was taken as a result of...
    • Care Services
      1924. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the implementation of all 16 recommendations from the report of the strategic workforce advisory group on home carers and nursing home...
    • Home Care Packages
      1925. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for home care packages, by CHO and LHO, in tabular form; and the number of persons experiencing delayed discharge from...
    • Site Acquisitions
      1926. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the site identification process for the elective hospital in Dublin; the timeline he is working towards for completing this process and seeking...
    • Eating Disorders
      1927. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the provision of the adult and child and adolescent mental health service eating disorder teams in Northwood Business Park, Santry, Dublin 9;...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1931. To ask the Minister for Health the progress on the refurbishment in Mount Carmel, including any additional costs; the reasons for the delay in opening; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Eating Disorders
      1932. To ask the Minister for Health when a review of the model of care for eating disorders will be carried out; what has caused a delay in this review being carried out; and if he will make a...
    • Health Service Executive
      1933. To ask the Minister for Health for a comprehensive report on vacant buildings that are owned by the HSE, per CHO; how many are being repurposed for other services; and if he will make a...
    • Health Strategies
      1934. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Digital Health and Social Care Strategic Framework 2023-2030; the timeline he is working towards for publication; if an implementation plan...
    • Hospital Charges
      1935. To ask the Minister for Health if he will honour the programme for Government commitment to introduce a cap on car parking charges at all public hospitals and introduce flexible passes; the...
    • Health Strategies
      1936. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to provide €20 million in annual development funding for the National Cancer Strategy to ensure that it is implemented by its expiration...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1938. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Immunisation Advisory Committee is considering the inclusion of the shingles vaccine in the national immunisation programme; his views on the...
    • Dental Services
      1939. To ask the Minister for Health his view on correspondence from an organisation (details supplied); his views on the legislative amendments proposed by the association which would allow...
    • Medical Qualifications
      1940. To ask the Minister for Health the number of eligible applicants to the GP training programme in the years 2021, 2022 and 2023; the number accepted into the programme in each of those...
    • Mental Health Services
      1941. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on a CAMHS social care worker staffing panel in each CHO; the number of job offers from these panels in each of the years since 2020, by...
    • Health Strategies
      1942. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the recommendations of the Report on Addressing Vitamin D Deficiency as a Public Health Measure in Ireland by the Joint Oireachtas Committee in...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1943. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on plans to introduce a statutory right to home care, as outlined in the programme for Government; the current status of this overdue...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1944. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on establishing a plan for tackling loneliness and isolation, as set out in the programme for Government; when this will be published; what...
    • Health Services
      1945. To ask the Minister for Health what services and funding are available to individuals who hoard objects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39261/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1946. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on funding for an organisation (details supplied); if consideration will be given for current funding by Tusla to be matched by the HSE; if this...
    • Medical Qualifications
      1947. To ask the Minister for Health for an update from the expert group established by CORU for the regulation of psychology; what recommendations it has made; when individuals within these...
    • Medical Research and Training
      1949. To ask the Minister for Health for a comprehensive breakdown of funding for trainee counselling psychology positions at Trinity College Dublin; what options are available to students in...
    • Mental Health Services
      1950. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the establishment of the national psychology placement office; the funding for this establishment, including staff costs; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Funding
      1951. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of funding provided to the National Council for the Blind Ireland, by year, from 2018 to date; if there are plans to increase this funding;...
    • Health Services
      1953. To ask the Minister for Health if awareness campaigns are being developed by the HSE in relation to perinatal health; for an update on perinatal services available in each CHO; and if he...
    • Medicinal Products
      1956. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the HSE review of access to Cariban for people suffering from hyperemesis; when it will be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1957. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of GMS-registered GPs, on a county basis, for the years 2015 to 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39329/23]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1958. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with scoliosis on the operation waiting list, by hospital; the number of those who have complex needs; the average waiting times for...
    • Dental Services
      1961. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GMS-registered dentists, on a county basis, for the years 2015 to 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39333/23]
    • Cancer Services
      1962. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a schedule of financial support for cancer patients on a CHO basis, including the amount available for wigs, underwear, etc.; and if he will make a...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1963. To ask the Minister for Health for an update and timeline for the recruitment process to fill the position left by a person (details supplied); the contingency plan that will be put in...
    • Hospital Services
      1964. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the issues regarding access to the MRI for patients in St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Mental Health Services
      1965. To ask the Minister for Health his view on a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39355/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1966. To ask the Minister for Health if he will comment on the significant level of vacancies within the UL Hospitals Group; what aggressive recruitment measures are taking place; and if he will...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1967. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people waiting, as of 1 September 2023 or the nearest available date, for an MRI scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group for the following...
    • Hospital Services
      2015. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the menopause outreach clinic in Cavan General Hospital; when he expects this clinic to open; the reasons for the delays in the...
    • Health Services
      2016. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that an existing healthcare service is not reduced (details supplied), in view of its importance to a large area and population; and if he...
    • Mental Health Services
      2017. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the National Mental Health Clinical Programme for Adults with ADHD; the timeline for the full implementation; and if he...
    • Nursing Homes
      2019. To ask the Minister for Health if he proposes to introduce additional financial support for private nursing home providers, in view of increased costs over recent years and the financial...
    • Mental Health Services
      2020. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated number of people with ADHD in the Irish population; the number of adults with ADHD; the number of children with ADHD; the supports that are in...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      2026. To ask the Minister for Health if he would detail in tabular form for each LHO area as of 1 September 2023 or latest date available, the number of people on the physiotherapy waiting list...
    • Home Care Packages
      2038. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours currently being provided in each LHO area as of 1 September 2023 or the latest date available; ow that compares with the...
    • Nursing Homes
      2039. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme as of 1 September 2023 or latest date available; the average waiting time; if he will...
    • Health Services
      2040. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to establish a centre of excellence for ADHD; the cost of these plans; the services it would provide; when it would be operational; and if...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Technological Universities
      2041. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the Technological University Development Fund; the proposed successor to the Technological University Transformation...
    • Public Sector Pay
      2042. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a response to the Labour Court recommendation with regard to aligning adult education tutors in the ETB sector to a pay...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      2043. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for current expenditure running €231 million behind profile, as outlined in the Mid-Year Expenditure Report; and if he will...
    • Third Level Education
      2044. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider providing support for student physiotherapists studying in Lithuania due to the shortage of physiotherapists in this country...
    • Third Level Fees
      2045. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Government has any plans to address the fees that must be paid for graduate medicine courses and the absence of a loan facility for these...
    • Grant Payments
      2046. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the criteria for the special rate SUSI payment exclude families who are not receiving a long-term social welfare payment, even if...
    • Third Level Costs
      2047. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding support options, if any, available to students who wish to study medicine via the graduate entry pathway. [37801/23]
    • Third Level Fees
      2049. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is considering the continuation of the €1,000 State financial support towards the student contribution fee for the upcoming...
    • Third Level Costs
      2050. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has plans to reduce the substantial financial burden on graduate entry medical students as part of his proposals in the context of budget...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      2051. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average wait time for an apprentice to enter each of the taught phases, by county, in tabular form. [38004/23]
    • Public Sector Pay
      2054. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views regarding pay rises for teachers on a tutor contract (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38062/23]
    • Third Level Education
      2055. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a DARE application for admission to third level education can be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      2056. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprentices, by phase, in County Tipperary, in tabular form. [38077/23]
    • Further and Higher Education
      2057. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what supports are available to a person (details supplied) to attend further education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38176/23]
    • Education and Training Provision
      2058. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will advise the engagement his Department has had on its role in revitalising the Irish wool industry; if he has engaged with the Minister...
    • Third Level Education
      2059. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to work with Trinity College with the intent of reinstating its specialist MSc in children’s mental health; to identify the...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      2060. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding is available to a college (details supplied) for capital works to develop new classrooms at its campus, considering it is a...
    • Student Accommodation
      2061. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when refunds will issue to students who vacated Milligan Court, Sligo (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38389/23]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      2062. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the major capital building projects that are being part funded by the Higher Education Authority and-or his Department to date in 2023; the...
    • Third Level Education
      2063. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will engage with (details supplied) in order to ensure that students of the final year of the film and television production can complete...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      2064. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence, AI, within his Department; if any section of his Department...
    • Third Level Fees
      2065. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the one-off payment of €1,000 towards the student contribution will be made available to a student (details supplied) who did Year 1...
    • Student Accommodation
      2066. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures his Department has put in place to address the student accommodation crisis; and if he will provide a roadmap for dealing with the...
    • Grant Payments
      2067. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will include illness benefit as an eligible long-term payment for the special rate of maintenance grant (where held for more than 24...
    • Third Level Admissions
      2068. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process for a student who has received the required QQI module qualifications through a PLC to enter into university; whether there is a...
    • Departmental Funding
      2070. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding allocated to the 'Climate Ready Programme: Talent for Ireland's Green Economy' in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023,...
    • Technological Universities
      2072. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify the rationale behind the decision by the HEA to reduce funding for Atlantic Technological University by abolishing the TUFT funding,...
    • Further and Higher Education
      2076. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for clarification on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39166/23]
    • Student Accommodation
      2077. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39207/23]
    • Third Level Education
      2078. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the increases to third level mental health spending introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic will be considered to be made permanent; what...
    • Further and Higher Education
      2080. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for clarification on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39312/23]
    • Third Level Fees
      2081. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that additional financial support will be provided to reduce undergraduate student contribution fees for this academic year;...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Library Services
      2083. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the current progress and eventual timeline for the provision of grant support for Carlow library; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Community Development Projects
      2084. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the plans for the provision of a community hub in Carlow on the Tullow Road; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37359/23]
    • Regulatory Bodies
      2086. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the operation of the Charities Regulatory Authority; the number of applicants awaiting registration; the average length...
    • Community Development Projects
      2087. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of valid applications received for assistance under the new facilities grant for new, large community facilities; when...
    • Departmental Funding
      2088. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide a breakdown in tabular form of the distribution of funds under the town and village renewal scheme for the past five...
    • Rural Schemes
      2089. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she is considering a review of the amount of LEADER funding allocated to County Galway, with a view to increasing the allocation...
    • Departmental Funding
      2090. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the streams of finance (if any) for capital works available to a college (details supplied) which is a registered charity but...
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      2091. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 656 of 25 April 2023, if he will provide an update on the figures provided previously; the...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      2093. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence, AI, within her Department; if any section of her...
    • Community Development Projects
      2094. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of each individual project approved under measures 1, 2 and 3 of the outdoor recreation infrastructure scheme in County...
    • Departmental Schemes
      2095. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of each individual project approved under the town and village renewal scheme in County Westmeath in 2022; and the grant...
    • Public Participation Networks
      2096. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to outline the role of public participation networks in climate action; if there are plans to increase the number of PPN staff in...
    • Departmental Funding
      2097. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she is planning to launch a further community recognition fund round; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38967/23]
    • Rural Recreation Policy
      2098. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if horse trail riding recreation infrastructure development will be supported under the outdoor recreation infrastructure scheme; if...
    • Rural Schemes
      2099. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when walks scheme payments will start issuing to landowners in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Men's Sheds
      2100. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will give urgent consideration to the request of a national representative organisation (details supplied) for assistance...
    • Community Development Projects
      2101. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of applications received for the 2023 community centres investment fund; the details of all successful projects; her plans...
    • Rural Schemes
      2103. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 100 of 13 June 2023, the status of the Building Acquisition Measure 2023; the details of the...
    • Island Communities
      2104. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 1393 of 13 June 2023, the status of the development of the pier on Inis Oírr; and if she...
    • Cuanta agus Céanna
      2106. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development cén uair a dhéanfar cinneadh ar iarratas atá curtha chuig an Roinn le tamall anuas ag Comhairle Contae na Gaillimhe...
    • Urban Development
      2107. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for a breakdown of spending, in tabular form from, for 2016 to 2023, listed under the Dublin's North East Inner City Initiative...

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