Written answers

Wednesday, 20 September 2023

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • State Legal Services
      4. To ask the Taoiseach if the position of State Solicitor for west Cork has been advertised since a person (details supplied) retired in November 2022; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • EU Directives
      5. To ask the Taoiseach to detail the preparations being undertaken by his Department in advance of the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882); and the guidance that is being issued...
    • Departmental Strategies
      6. To ask the Taoiseach to provide details on the measures his Department has taken to implement specific action points (details supplied) of the action plan to support the National LGBTI+...
    • Departmental Reports
      7. To ask the Taoiseach to provide a list of all studies, research and reports commissioned by his Department that were outsourced, in each year since the formation of this Government, in tabular...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Overseas Development Aid
      8. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the breakdown of overseas aid given by the State directly to foreign governments for year ending 2022; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Ukraine War
      10. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will internationally condemn the announcement by the United States to send depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine; and if he will make...
    • Passport Services
      11. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade what specific efforts have been made to recruit customer service agents in the Passport Office who are fluent in languages other than...
    • EU Directives
      12. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to detail the preparations being undertaken by his Department in advance of the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882); the...
    • Middle East
      13. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he intends to publish his written statement to the International Court of Justice with regard to the Policies and Practices of Israel in...
    • Foreign Policy
      17. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking to assist the advancement of democracy, the upholding of the rule of law, and the protection of human rights in...
    • Northern Ireland
      18. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline the position of the Government on the current UK government legacy Bill; and if an international legal challenge will be mounted....
    • Departmental Funding
      20. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a report on the work of a project (details supplied), including the financial and human resources provided by his...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      21. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update in relation to the ongoing situation in Artsakh, Nagorno-Karabak; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Passport Services
      22. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on a first-time passport application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39802/23]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      23. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline the position regarding a foreign birth registration application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      24. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for Foreign Affairs if he has spoken with the Turkish Ambassador to Ireland to date in 2023. [40121/23]
    • Diplomatic Representation
      25. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are plans to appoint a cultural officer to the Embassy in Canberra, Australia. [40122/23]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      26. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a decision will be made on an application for a foreign birth registration (details supplied); the reason for the delay in the...
    • Passport Services
      28. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will be issued for a child (details supplied). [40204/23]
    • Departmental Strategies
      29. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide details on the measures his Department has taken to implement specific action points (details supplied) of the action plan to...
    • Departmental Reports
      30. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a list of all studies, research and reports commissioned by his Department that were outsourced, in each year since the formation...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      31. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade what measures his Department is undertaking to ensure that budgetary proposals this year relating to overseas development assistance and...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      33. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of an application to the foreign birth register (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40595/23]
    • Passport Services
      35. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish passports issued to applicants providing principal place of residence addresses in the United Kingdom, specifically...
    • Human Rights
      36. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which any assistance is being offered in the case of a person (details supplied); if all possible resources can be made...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • National Broadband Plan
      37. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the National Broadband Plan rollout for Bantry, County Cork; the measures he is taking to increase the...
    • Illegal Dumping
      38. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has received draft guidelines for the use of CCTV to catch illegal dumping and littering; and if not, when he...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      39. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that an area (details supplied) is underserviced for broadband; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      40. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the increase in pensions and deferred pensions for members of the An Post superannuation...
    • EU Directives
      42. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to detail the preparations being undertaken by his Department in advance of the European Accessibility Act (Directive...
    • Environmental Schemes
      44. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures that are being taken to improve the waiting times for those availing of works under the free energy upgrade...
    • Departmental Reports
      45. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has received the 2022 Annual Report from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland; and if so, when same will be...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      46. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the adequacy of resources committed to advancing the sustainable development goals in his Department...
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for clarity on whether legislation or guidance exists requiring telephone boxes in city areas. [40019/23]
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      48. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what national commitments he will seek to make at the Sustainable Development Goals Summit; and to detail how civil...
    • Departmental Strategies
      49. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide details on the measures his Department has taken to implement specific action points (details supplied) of...
    • Environmental Schemes
      50. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of pending applications and the current average waiting time for works to commence in County Wexford under...
    • Departmental Reports
      51. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a list of all studies, research and reports commissioned by his Department that were outsourced, in each year...
    • Climate Change Policy
      52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has spoken with the United States special climate envoy to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • EU Regulations
      53. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether his attention has been drawn to an upcoming vote on the Critical Raw Materials Act in the European Parliament;...
    • Bord na Móna
      54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 82 of 11 September 2023 and the subsequent response received from Bord na...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of the €1.2 billion relating to pensions that is included in the 2022 Annual Report of An Post as...
    • State Bodies
      56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 83 of 11 September 2023 and the table provided, if he will seek a detailed...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      57. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will ensure that National Broadband Ireland re-investigates the provision of fibre broadband to a property...
  • Department of Defence
    • EU Directives
      58. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to detail the preparations being undertaken by his Department in advance of the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882); the...
    • Defence Forces
      59. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of his commitment to provide medical cover to all enlisted personnel; his proposed timeline for the development and implementation of...
    • Departmental Strategies
      60. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide details on the measures his Department has taken to implement specific action points (details supplied) of the action plan to support...
    • Defence Forces
      61. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of serving military doctors who have been arrested, by either the military police or by An Garda Síochána; the number of...
    • Air Corps
      62. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason civilian aeroplane Beechcraft Model 18 tail number G-BSZC overnighted in No2 hangar in Baldonnell in 2004; the precise date of the...
    • Departmental Properties
      63. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he is aware that lands gifted by his Department to Ballincollig AFC more than twenty years ago at the former Murphy Barracks site in...
    • Departmental Reports
      64. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide a list of all studies, research and reports commissioned by his Department that were outsourced, in each year since the formation of...
    • Defence Forces
      65. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will detail the number of full-time civilian vacancies that are currently ongoing at Defence Forces facilities. [40408/23]
    • Naval Service
      67. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of females who applied during the most recent Naval Service cadetship competition. [40684/23]
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Traffic Offences
      68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what percentage of drivers disqualified in court have surrendered their licence to the RSA, as required by law, in each of the past ten...
    • Public Transport
      69. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passengers who have used their Leap card on the Mallow-Cork train service since the Leap card fares were introduced on that...
    • Greenways Provision
      70. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding allocated for a project (details supplied); and the status of that project. [39494/23]
    • Bus Services
      72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to determine a date for a bus shelter (details supplied) to be installed. [39496/23]
    • School Transport
      73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expected Exchequer spending for the Safe Routes to School Programme in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39523/23]
    • Transport Costs
      74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will seek defined timelines on when the new distance-based fare structures announced in April 2023 will be implemented by the NTA...
    • Driver Test
      75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driver testers currently employed by the RSA and the number of vacant posts and onboarding broken down by test centre. [39545/23]
    • Road Safety
      77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider introducing curve warning signs with recommended speed limits, as used in New Zealand (details supplied), for Irish...
    • Coast Guard Service
      78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will ensure that the terms and conditions of current workers will be protected following the recently awarded ten-year...
    • Bus Services
      79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the decision of the NTA not to fund the Local Link service for Knocksedan and Rivermeade, Swords, County Dublin; the...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      80. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to detail the research conducted, and stakeholders consulted, ahead of the proposal to reduce speed limits; if there will be any...
    • Driver Test
      81. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driver theory test applications per week in Galway; the number of cancellations per week in Galway due to NDLS reasons, not...
    • Departmental Meetings
      82. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport how often the Joint Interdepartmental Justice and Transport Road Safety Committee met since July 2020; and if he will outline the...
    • EU Directives
      83. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to detail the preparations being undertaken by his Department in advance of the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882); the...
    • Bus Services
      84. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39729/23]
    • Public Transport
      86. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the facilitation of autism support dogs on public transport services in the State; if he has any plans to review...
    • Rail Network
      87. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to explain the long delay in the completion and opening of the Kishogue train station in Clonburris, County Dublin; and to provide a date...
    • Military Aircraft
      89. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an aircraft (details supplied) which was on contract to the US military and which arrived at Shannon Airport at approximately 02.53 am...
    • Taxi Regulations
      90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to expand the national local hackney pilot to rural areas across County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Fuel Oil Specifications
      91. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to review correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39885/23]
    • Driver Test
      92. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if and when a driving test appointment will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      97. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the implications the reduction of the speed limits on national roads will have on drivers' hours for professional...
    • Road Projects
      98. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update, including a projected timetable on the completion of the M11 motorway from Oylegate to Rosslare; and if he will make...
    • Rail Network
      99. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if more carriages can be urgently added to the morning commuter trains from Celbridge/Hazelhatch to Grand Canal Dock (departing Celbridge...
    • Bus Services
      100. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to follow up with the NTA on correspondence (details supplied) which was sent to the NTA over two weeks ago; and if he will make a...
    • Transfer of Undertakings
      101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department and/or agencies under the aegis of his Department have ensured that EU transfer of undertakings (TUPE) requirements...
    • Departmental Funding
      102. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide funding, on a pilot basis or otherwise, to local authorities to implement noise mitigation action plans on major roads...
    • Coast Guard Service
      103. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current up-to-date position regarding a new coastguard building in Howth; and the amount that has been spent on this project to date....
    • Bus Services
      104. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of new bus drivers recruited by Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form....
    • Road Safety
      105. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding has been approved for school safety zone for schools (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40128/23]
    • Departmental Projects
      106. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding stream under which the Cork robot trees initiative was funded; whether this funding stream requires feedback on success of...
    • Driver Test
      109. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if priority will be given to securing driving test dates for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Bus Services
      110. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the Local Link 171 service does not accept school transport tickets; if there are plans in place to provide for school...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      113. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has met with or will meet with the IAA in relation to their decision to cease payment of increases in pensions, in contravention of...
    • Legislative Measures
      114. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide updated details regarding the timeframe for the implementation of legislation around e-scooters; their proposed...
    • Public Transport
      115. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of bike spaces made available to passengers on each rail line in Ireland; and if his Department is working to increase the...
    • Driver Test
      116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on driving test waiting times (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40213/23]
    • Public Transport
      119. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of Leap cards that have been used at least once in each month to date in 2023. [40222/23]
    • Transport Costs
      120. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of times the weekly fares cap has been applied to Leap card customers in 2023; and the number of times the monthly fares cap...
    • Road Projects
      121. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to increase the discretionary roads funding from his Department to local authorities to meet the increasing cost of inflation to enable...
    • Departmental Strategies
      122. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide details on the measures his Department has taken to implement specific action points (details supplied) of the action plan to...
    • Departmental Reports
      123. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether the RSA 2022 annual report has been provided to him; when it will be made available to the public; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      124. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to examine a request (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40274/23]
    • Driver Test
      125. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current waiting times for driving tests in County Donegal; the number of people on each waiting list, per centre, in tabular form;...
    • Road Network
      128. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there will be a new motorway going ahead on the N25 beside an address (details supplied). [40304/23]
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      129. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether the Road Safety Authority keeps a record or database of accidents, collisions and incident reports involving powered personal...
    • Departmental Reports
      130. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a list of all studies, research and reports commissioned by his Department that were outsourced, in each year since the...
    • Dublin Bus
      131. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of revenue generated through advertisement on the sides of the Dublin Bus fleet in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023; and...
    • Defibrillators Provision
      132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of defibrillators currently located in public areas of both terminals at Dublin Airport; and the number and percentage of DAA...
    • Bus Services
      133. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount that both Bus Éireann and the NTA will spend on refurbishment of Busáras station between now and the end of 2025;...
    • Road Projects
      134. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the N6 Galway City Ring Road; when he expects An Bord Pleanála to make a decision on whether or not the...
    • Rail Network
      137. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of introducing light rail transport systems in the cities of Cork, Limerick, Waterford and Galway; and if he will make...
    • Transfer of Undertakings
      138. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the successful tender for the provision of Irish Coast Guard Aviation Service included an undertaking to comply fully with the...
    • National Car Test
      140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of appointments booked and paid for more than 30 days in advance of a NCT test, per test centre; and the amount of revenue...
    • Rail Network
      141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the likely timeframe for the resumption of onboard catering services on the remaining Intercity rail routes. [40678/23]
    • Road Projects
      142. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what financial assistance can be given in a particular case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40687/23]
  • Department of Finance
    • Customs and Excise
      143. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of counterfeit prescription drugs and narcotics seized by customs officials at privately owned and State airports and ports of entry and exit that...
    • Tax Code
      144. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the hike in the excise duty on fuel (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39508/23]
    • Real Estate Investment Trusts
      147. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide full details of the tax regime for REITs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39527/23]
    • Defective Building Materials
      148. To ask the Minister for Finance if he considered waiving VAT charges on households that decided to do repair works on their MICA affected home, but decided not to go through the mica redress...
    • Tax Code
      149. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider reducing the VAT rate for cartographers and map publishers to 0%, in line with newspapers, given the small number of cartographers and map...
    • Housing Provision
      150. To ask the Minister for Finance for a breakdown of Home Building Finance Ireland's funding support to developers for the construction of housing, by county, annually, since its...
    • Tax Data
      151. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of not proceeding with the legislated increase in carbon tax to take effect in October 2023, for 2023 and 2024, respectively, VAT...
    • Tax Code
      152. To ask the Minister for Finance if agricultural pre-cast concrete products will be included in a legislative amendment in the forthcoming Finance Bill to deal with how the concrete levy...
    • EU Directives
      153. To ask the Minister for Finance to detail the preparations being undertaken by his Department in advance of the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882); the guidance that is...
    • Housing Schemes
      154. To ask the Minister for Finance if the help-to-buy scheme will be extended to second-hand homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39748/23]
    • Tax Appeals Commission
      155. To ask the Minister for Finance for a breakdown by the Appeals Commissioner of the total number of determinations arrived at by the Tax Appeals Commission for the years 2020 to 2022; and if...
    • Tax Data
      156. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost in 2024 of reducing the 2% USC rate to persons earning between €12,012.01 and €22,920 to 1%, and for persons earning between...
    • Tax Credits
      157. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of renters who have availed of the renters' tax credit in 2023, providing a breakdown by county; the average amount claimed, by county; and the...
    • Business Regulation
      158. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the legal position in relation to businesses not accepting cash; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40159/23]
    • Legislative Measures
      159. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to introduce legislation pertaining to a cashless society; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40160/23]
    • Tax Code
      160. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 475 of 11 September 2023, if he will confirm the anomaly, which was acknowledged by him whereby foster children are...
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      161. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline any measures which will be included in budget 2024 to assist mortgage holders whose accounts are currently with vulture funds and who are...
    • Tax Code
      162. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 430 of 11 September 2023, if he will consider extending the application of a reduced VAT rate to non-alcoholic...
    • Departmental Strategies
      163. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide details on the measures his Department has taken to implement specific action points (details supplied) of the action plan to support the National...
    • Budget 2024
      164. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received and considered the INTO’s pre-budget submission; if he will ensure that its four main demands are included in the upcoming budget;...
    • Tax Credits
      165. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department can consider changes to the capital gains tax credit system to attach the credit to the landlords rather than the property (details...
    • Tax Reliefs
      166. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding a review of the level of pension contributions that qualify for the higher rate of tax relief introduced in 2014; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Code
      167. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the residential zoned land tax; when it will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40339/23]
    • Tax Credits
      168. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of each tax credit which can be claimed; and his latest estimate of the numbers claiming them. [40359/23]
    • Departmental Reports
      170. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a list of all studies, research and reports commissioned by his Department that were outsourced, in each year since the formation of this...
    • European Investment Bank
      171. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has spoken with the President of the European Investment Bank to date in 2023. [40406/23]
    • Tax Clearance Certificates
      172. To ask the Minister for Finance the last time the threshold under which a person in receipt of a grant or grants from the State in a calendar year, was not required to produce a tax...
    • Tax Code
      173. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has any plans to review or revise the current deferred tax assets regime as it relates to large financial institutions with significant...
    • Tax Credits
      176. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department, as part of developing budgetary proposals, has examined the potential introduction of a tax credit for trade union fees; and if he will...
    • Tax Code
      178. To ask the Minister for Finance what mechanisms are being put in place to support farmers with having land that is actively being used for agricultural purposes and cannot be used for...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      179. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to waving VRT liability for adult disability services that specially adapt vehicles (not wheelchair adaption) for users with...
    • Tax Yield
      181. To ask the Minister for Finance how much revenue the Government has collected from the vacant property tax in 2022 and to date in 2023. [40646/23]
    • Tax Data
      183. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected cost of extending the reduced rate of VAT to electricity and gas to end-December 2023. [40706/23]
    • Tax Reliefs
      184. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider giving a tax concession to small-scale landlords in Budget 2024, in line with the tax concession that is currently been given to those who...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Public Sector Pensions
      187. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the long-awaited increase to pensions for former An Post workers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Office of Public Works
      188. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide the total office rental expenditure each year for the OPW since 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39571/23]
    • EU Directives
      193. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to detail the preparations being undertaken by his Department in advance of the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882);...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      195. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to detail the efforts made to reintroduce the native red squirrel to the Phoenix Park; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • National Parks
      196. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department will install pedestrian crossings, zebra or otherwise in the Phoenix Park, specifically at various points along...
    • Departmental Bodies
      199. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the appointment of all CEOs to bodies under the remit of his Department in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in...
    • Compulsory Purchase Orders
      202. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to use a compulsory purchase order in respect of lands at Castletown House in Celbridge County Kildare; if he has engaged with...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      204. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has received correspondence from a union (details supplied) concerning 7,000 An Post pensioners who are still awaiting agreed...
    • Flood Risk Management
      207. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the establishment and operation of the national flood warning system; what plans there are for the system to go live and...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      208. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to examine a pension issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40060/23]
    • Public Appointments Service
      209. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to detail in tabular form the number of formal reviews on PAS competition decisions, and the number that were overturned, in each of the...
    • State Properties
      210. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has a policy statement on the practice of naming State buildings after notable Irish people by the Office of Public...
    • Departmental Strategies
      211. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide details on the measures his Department has taken to implement specific action points (details supplied) of the action plan to...
    • Flood Risk Management
      212. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current status of works on the weir at Ballincollig Regional Park; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40259/23]
    • Office of Public Works
      213. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 290 of 16 May 2023, if he has received the OPW report on the inspection of the Oweynagat cave at...
    • Coastal Erosion
      214. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform The steps the OPW has taken to stop erosion at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40328/23]
    • Brexit Supports
      215. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the transfer of Brexit adjustment reserve funding to the RePower EU fund; and if he will make a...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      216. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether he has concerns that a local authority has issued a request for quotation with only eight days for receipt of quotation, less...
    • Departmental Reports
      217. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a list of all studies, research and reports commissioned by his Department that were outsourced, in each year since the...
    • Office of Public Works
      218. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW has had contracts with either of two organisations (details supplied) in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; the...
    • Coastal Protection
      219. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether the Office of Public Works has any plans to progress works on Courtown beach, specifically the installation of a breakwater to...
    • Flood Risk Management
      220. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are plans to update Arterial Drainage Act 1945. [40682/23]
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Food Industry
      221. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what measures his Department is taking to assist the food sector in meeting reduction targets, as set out in the Climate Action Plan;...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      222. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will continue to pursue pro-enterprise and pro-competitive policies to ensure the survival of hospitality SMEs in the tourism...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      223. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses in each county or local authority that made successful applications under the Covid-19 credit guarantee...
    • Redundancy Payments
      224. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to strengthen enforcement mechanisms within existing redundancy laws to ensure they are adhered to by employers; and if he...
    • Employment Rights
      226. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to increase the minimum length of notice a person is entitled to under the Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Acts...
    • Redundancy Payments
      227. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to increase the period of consecutive days, which is currently 30 days, during which making redundant the relevant number...
    • Work Permits
      228. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will add motor mechanics to the critical skills list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39636/23]
    • EU Directives
      229. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to detail the preparations being undertaken by his Department in advance of the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882);...
    • Work Permits
      230. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider the inclusion of automobile engineering in his Department's critical skills occupations list, in view of the...
    • Vacant Properties
      231. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what strategies he will employ with respect to reducing the commercial vacancy rate in a town (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Redundancy Payments
      233. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of reports within the tech industry whereby employers have continued to make 29 roles redundant each month across...
    • Business Regulation
      234. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of an online retail site (details supplied), accessed via private agent filters that undercuts retail prices on...
    • Departmental Strategies
      235. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how he intends to resource a plan (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40049/23]
    • Departmental Bodies
      236. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 161 of 23 May 2023, the number of vacancies across Enterprise Ireland and the IDA. [40135/23]
    • Employment Rights
      237. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to detail the arrangements around the new Employment Regulation Order for PSA operatives, including the commencement date and...
    • Dental Services
      238. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 1601 of 11 September 2023, if, given that the Minister for Health has confirmed that under...
    • Departmental Strategies
      239. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide details on the measures his Department has taken to implement specific action points (details supplied) of the action plan...
    • National Standards Authority of Ireland
      240. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to confirm whether the NSAI has lost or recently lost any of its international credit actions; if so, to explain the reasons; and if...
    • Work Permits
      241. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on a work permit and visa application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Reports
      242. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a list of all studies, research and reports commissioned by his Department that were outsourced, in each year since the...
    • Departmental Bodies
      243. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of WTE staff vacancies, by job title, currently in the Corporate Enforcement Agency; and when these vacancies will be...
    • Departmental Meetings
      244. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagements that he or any representative of his Department, or associated State agencies, have had with management of a factory...
    • Business Supports
      245. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports his Department has in place to assist businesses in decarbonisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Curriculum
      246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of second-level education institutions aided by her Department, in tabular form, that did not provide either physics or physics...
    • School Transport
      247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to the Exchequer to provide free school transport to all primary and post-primary school students in 2024; and if she will...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to the Exchequer of a National Educational Psychological Service psychologist. [39519/23]
    • School Staff
      249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that it is not possible to pay a substitute teacher where a fixed-term or permanent position remains vacant following an advertisement...
    • School Transport
      250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport will be provided to a student (details supplied), considering their circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Admissions
      251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all efforts are being made to ensure the daughter of a person (details supplied) has a school place for this academic year; the action likely...
    • Special Educational Needs
      252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Government plans to fund SNA teachers for primary school-aged children who attend Montessori schools; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Schools Building Projects
      253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the building application submitted by a school (details supplied); when a decision will be made in respect of the application; when...
    • Special Educational Needs
      254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what planning has taken place to secure new special classes in primary schools in Dublin 15 for September 2024 (details supplied); and if she...
    • School Accommodation
      255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 98 of 5 July 2023, if she can provide an update (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of the total number of applications for school transport for the 2022 and 2023 school years, by county, in tabular form;...
    • Special Educational Needs
      264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is considering the development of a special school for children with disabilities in County Monaghan; the status of any such plans; and if...
    • Schools Building Projects
      265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will indicate her plans to open a school (details supplied) which has not yet opened as anticipated. [39658/23]
    • EU Directives
      266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail the preparations being undertaken by her Department in advance of the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882); the...
    • School Staff
      267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she is taking to bring about an increase in the number of teachers taking up positions in primary and post-primary schools; and if...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the qualifications needed to take up primary and post-primary teaching; if she will consider, in particular, the case of...
    • Teacher Training
      270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether modules in special education have become a mandatory element in teacher training; and if not, if she would consider such a change since...
    • School Funding
      271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the pathfinder energy retrofit project for a school (details supplied); if she will provide a timeline for the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the delay in the planned opening of a school (details supplied); if she will indicate how this came about; and whether the...
    • School Transport
      273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who have applied for a school transport but are left without transport this September; the urgent steps she is taking to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for a new school building for a school (details suppled); when it is proposed that this building will be complete; and if she will make...
    • School Staff
      275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a higher-than-usual number of full-time posts in schools which remain vacant this September; if she considers it appropriate that...
    • Site Acquisitions
      276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether a permanent site has been identified for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39709/23]
    • Education Policy
      277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department supports the principle that teachers at both primary and post-primary level should avoid engaging in politicised or personal...
    • School Curriculum
      278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to introduce additional measures through the school curriculum to deal with issues in relation to minors who gamble (details...
    • Schools Building Projects
      279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the building project at a school (details supplied) has been further delayed; if she will provide a date on which the project will...
    • School Transport
      280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will fund extra seats for a school bus (details supplied) in Rathcormac, County Cork). [39758/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all efforts can be made to ensure a school place in a local ASD unit can be provided in the case of the son of a person (details supplied);...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 674 of 11 September 2023, if she will ensure that parental leave is included in the calculation of...
    • School Transport
      283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the negative impact to families caused by cuts in school transport provided to children with additional needs; if she will...
    • Schools Building Projects
      284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on an application by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39789/23]
    • Public Sector Pensions
      285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined and a search carried out for their pension records; and if she will make a statement...
    • School Transport
      286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether she is aware of significant issues with school transport in Glenville; and her plan to address this. [39833/23]
    • Departmental Data
      288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the roll number and name of all new post-primary schools established since 2000, indicating the year the new roll number was issued and the...
    • Education Policy
      290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 303 of 2 February 2023 (details supplied), if she can give the policy document or legislation that...
    • Schools Building Projects
      291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the proposed school build project for a school (details supplied) is due to commence; and what the next steps are to provide a permanent...
    • Education Policy
      292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review a case (details supplied); if she can offer any advice on this case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39870/23]
    • Child Abuse
      293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on her Department’s scoping inquiry into abuse in religious institutions; if she will ensure that victims of abuse in...
    • School Transport
      294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a full review can be undertaken into the school transport application in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the development of a new primary school for Adamstown, Lucan; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Accommodation
      297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the progress and timelines for delivery of a new school accommodation for post-primary schools (details supplied); and if she will...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vacant WTE educational psychologists in the National Educational Psychological Service, by region; and when each of these vacancies...
    • School Staff
      300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if teachers can work on medically retirement pensions; if so, the number of hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39979/23]
    • Education Costs
      301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that a school (details supplied) is withholding homework journals from children whose parents cannot afford to pay the school...
    • School Transport
      302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when route B1762 to a school (details supplied) will recommence. [39993/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if and when an SNA exceptional review process will be concluded in the case of a school (details supplied) who now have eleven special needs...
    • School Transport
      304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently provide an update on a number of school transport queries (details supplied). [40003/23]
    • Site Acquisitions
      306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has had communication from Tipperary ETB in relation to a possible greenfield site for a new school (details supplied); and if she will...
    • School Transport
      307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when tickets for school transport will issue for two siblings (details supplied) who applied and paid for their annual school bus tickets; and if...
    • Schools Building Projects
      309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the current status of a project for a school (details supplied); when it is envisaged a planning application will be submitted;...
    • School Transport
      310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when tickets for school transport will issue to a child (details supplied) who has no other means of getting to school, and who applied and paid...
    • School Staff
      312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vacant teaching posts across the primary school education system in County Wexford; the number of vacant posts across the secondary...
    • School Transport
      313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when tickets for school transport will issue to a child (details supplied) who is now entering 5th year in secondary school, has always had a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a detailed response to an issue (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40052/23]
    • School Transport
      315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether two siblings (details supplied) can travel together on wheelchair-accessible transport, where one child has been approved this service...
    • School Funding
      317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 689 of 11 September 2023, if she will request a review of the current HSCL allocation to a school (details...
    • School Transport
      318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when tickets for school transport will issue to a child, (details supplied) who has no other means of getting to school, and who applied and paid...
    • School Funding
      319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what grants are available for primary schools for IT; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40071/23]
    • School Admissions
      320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason (details supplied) cannot get a school place to start school this year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40076/23]
    • School Funding
      321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on funding for a security system for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40077/23]
    • School Transport
      322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a school transport matter in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40103/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a new school building (details supplied); how updates are being communicated to school management; and if she will make a...
    • School Transport
      325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a school transport matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40112/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a new school building for a school (details supplied); how updates are being communicated to school management; and if she...
    • School Accommodation
      327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding for a school (details supplied) will be approved. [40129/23]
    • School Transport
      328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will advise on the case of a child (details supplied) regarding a school transport pickup point; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Administration
      333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a school (details supplied) has been brought to her attention; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40166/23]
    • Capitation Grants
      334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any increase in the capitation grants to primary and/or post-primary is contained in the expenditure base or existing levels of service; and...
    • School Curriculum
      335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to ensure that schools-based gambling education and awareness remains free from the influence of the gambling industry;...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a project worker will be approved for a school (details supplied) so that the school can benefit from being included in the expansion of...
    • Schools Building Projects
      337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for delays with regard to the new building works at a special education school in County Tipperary; the immediate efforts she will...
    • School Transport
      338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an update will be issued to a school to ensure that a pupil (details supplied) will have an escort as part of their already-approved school...
    • Departmental Strategies
      340. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details on the measures her Department has taken to implement specific action points (details supplied) of the action plan to support...
    • Budget 2024
      341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received and considered the INTO’s pre-budget submission; to outline the nature of discussions, if any, with the Minister for...
    • Schools Building Projects
      342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of delays to building of a SEN unit at a school (details supplied); if she will instruct her Department to approve the Stage 2B...
    • State Examinations
      344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether she has considered initiating, along with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, a national...
    • School Transport
      345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school transport will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40285/23]
    • School Facilities
      346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the Government’s commitment to install solar panels on every school; how this will be funded; if it is...
    • State Examinations
      347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a circular will issue with respect to adjustments to the 2024 leaving certificate examinations; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      348. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that school transport tickets are issued in a case (details supplied). [40295/23]
    • School Staff
      350. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school caretakers will be paid by her Department (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40313/23]
    • School Funding
      351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a secondary school will receive its ICT grant as it is in a position to purchase new equipment but cannot commit, due to the uncertainty of...
    • School Curriculum
      352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she and/or her Department will meet with a person (details supplied) to discuss the new RSE curriculum. [40316/23]
    • School Transport
      353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when tickets for school transport will issue to four families (details supplied) who have no other means of getting to school; and if she will...
    • School Admissions
      354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all possible assistance can be given to finding a school place for the daughter of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grounds on which the son of a person (details supplied) was refused assistance by the assistive technology grant, but which was deemed...
    • School Transport
      356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a person (details supplied) cannot get a bus ticket for their children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40331/23]
    • School Staff
      359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of resource teachers employed at primary and at secondary level, distinguishing those in mainstream classes, special classes and...
    • Special Educational Needs
      361. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the circumstances in which a detailed assessment is required before a child can obtain support in a special class or a special school; the number...
    • School Transport
      363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child (details supplied) will have their special school transport application approved; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Reports
      364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of all studies, research and reports commissioned by her Department that were outsourced, in each year since the formation of...
    • School Funding
      365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full-year cost if the school capitation grants for both primary and post primary schools were increased by 30%. [40407/23]
    • School Transport
      366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide clarification as to the reason that parents of children attending a primary school, which would be considered a feeder school for a...
    • School Textbooks
      367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the first- and full-year cost of extending the free schoolbooks scheme to all pupils in public post-primary schools, assuming a grant rate of...
    • School Transport
      368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students that avail of the school transport each year; and the number of students that avail of the SEN school transport scheme....
    • Special Educational Needs
      370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that only five hours have been allocated for home tuition to a child (details supplied) when that child, who was diagnosed with...
    • School Funding
      371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has plans to introduce grants for technology or ICT in primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40544/23]
    • Equality Issues
      372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of research (details supplied) on non-religious teachers; what plans, if any, she has to legislate to protect all teachers from...
    • Schools Building Projects
      373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to indicate the progress to date in the completion of allocated additional classrooms and subsequent appointment of additional teachers in the...
    • School Transport
      375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a request can be considered (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40571/23]
    • School Staff
      378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to several schools that are unable to hire a substitute teacher in order to fill a fixed-term role temporarily,...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider re-evaluating the length of the two-year Professional Masters in Education to account for teachers who have a Teaching...
    • Special Educational Needs
      380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will look at a case (details supplied) whereby a child with autism has been out of school since March this year and is unable to find a...
    • School Transport
      381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review a school transport matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40700/23]
    • School Textbooks
      382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary school children who received the benefit of free schoolbooks on their return to school this year; and the estimated savings...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Sports Funding
      383. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will establish a definitive date for the announcement of the upcoming sports capital funds, which will allow clubs to plan...
    • Tourism Industry
      384. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will continue to pursue pro-enterprise and pro-competitive policies to ensure the survival of the tourism SMEs in the...
    • Údarás na Gaeltachta
      385. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an ndéanfaidh sí punann réadmhaoine iomlán Údarás na Gaeltachta a chur ar fáil, lena...
    • EU Directives
      386. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to detail the preparations being undertaken by her Department in advance of the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU)...
    • Sports Funding
      387. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of an application by a club (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39720/23]
    • Arts Policy
      388. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if consideration has been given to using the Shared Island Initiative to fund cross-Border arts initiatives. [39791/23]
    • Public Sector Pensions
      389. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will sanction the annual 2% increase for pensioners in the RTÉ superannuation scheme; the role of NewERA in this...
    • Departmental Strategies
      390. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide details on the measures her Department has taken to implement specific action points (details supplied) of the action...
    • Departmental Reports
      391. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a list of all studies, research and reports commissioned by her Department that were outsourced, in each year since the...
    • Tourism Promotion
      392. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extra steps that Tourism Ireland will take to promote tourism advertisement campaign in the UK to come to Ireland during the...
    • Swimming Pools
      393. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which ongoing discussions are taking place with the relevant authorities, with a view to advancing the Maynooth...
    • Scéimeanna Rannach
      394. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé mhéad teaghlach atá fós ag fanacht ar íocaíochtaí faoi Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí...
    • Sports Funding
      397. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider amending the sports capital programme guidelines to enable golf clubs that are not owned by their members, to...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      398. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the pension increases for retired RTÉ employees will be implemented; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • National Parks
      399. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has engaged in discussions with relevant persons with regard to the potential purchase of the Conor Pass; to...
    • Rental Sector
      400. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of private rented accommodation inspections that were carried out by all local authorities in each of the years...
    • Planning Issues
      401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details, in tabular form, of the number of An Bord Pleanála planning appeals have been waiting more than a...
    • Local Authorities
      403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects the role Chief Executive of Dublin City Council will be advertised by the Public Appointments Service; and...
    • Industrial Disputes
      405. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the Government's position with respect to industrial action (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Planning Issues
      406. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if guidance is provided to local authorities for consideration of planning applications in rural areas relating to log...
    • Local Authorities
      409. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff in each local authority in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
    • Housing Provision
      410. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the affordable housing at a location (details supplied) will be open for applicants; how individuals can go about...
    • Defective Building Materials
      411. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether Wexford County Council will become a designated local authority under the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the use...
    • Invasive Species Policy
      412. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will advise on measures his Department is taking to prevent the arrival of the Asian hornet in Ireland; and if he will...
    • Tax Code
      413. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish the methodology used by the working group in respect of the review of the allocation of baseline funding in...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      414. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether local connections rules apply to those presenting for emergency accommodation; and whether this is an acceptable...
    • Departmental Communications
      416. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to publish a 'how members of local authorities are elected' guide in Ukrainian; if such a guide is available;...
    • EU Directives
      417. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail the preparations being undertaken by his Department in advance of the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU)...
    • Legislative Measures
      418. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update to the response received from An Taoiseach in early May 2023 to this Deputy’s Question on...
    • Local Authorities
      419. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the additional €75.4 million increase in local property tax funding to local authorities in 2024 has come from...
    • Departmental Schemes
      420. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of contracts approved by his Department to be signed by the Housing Agency under the croí cónaithe...
    • Defective Building Materials
      421. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new applications for the defective block remediation scheme since the enhanced schemed opened; the number of...
    • Departmental Reports
      423. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason no Q1 social housing pipeline report was published this year; and when the Q2 report will be published. [39706/23]
    • Planning Issues
      424. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of new positions sanctioned at An Bord Pleánála in the past 12 months; the positions granted; the...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      425. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the review of guidance for local authorities in relation to assisting victims of domestic violence with...
    • Rental Sector
      427. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a landlord requires their tenant to run a dehumidifier 24/7 to prevent growth/spread of mould, whether the landlord or...
    • Housing Schemes
      428. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the criteria on the price limit of properties for acquisition under the local authority and cost rental tenant-in-situ...
    • Rental Sector
      429. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider extending the rent pressure zone across the country to all areas. [39734/23]
    • Water Services
      430. 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. [39761/23]
    • Housing Schemes
      431. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether the income thresholds for housing adaptation grants for older people and people with a disability will be increased....
    • Defective Building Materials
      432. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has engaged with the Minister for Finance on the requests from homeowners affected by defective blocks that the works...
    • Planning Issues
      433. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to explain the long delay in the publication of the draft rural planning guidelines; and to state when these guidelines will...
    • Housing Schemes
      434. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out in tabular form the progress to date with both the social and cost-rental tenant-in-situ schemes, including number...
    • Foreshore Issues
      437. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a decision will issue in relation to a foreshore licence application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Housing Policy
      438. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a rebate will be made available to people who paid development contributions on planning permission prior to April 2023 and...
    • Building Regulations
      439. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if any reviews or studies have been conducted by his Department into the use of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete in the...
    • Housing Provision
      440. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the 33 local authority housing units approved for construction in a location (details supplied) have finished construction;...
    • Fire Service
      501. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of funding requests that his Department has received from Meath County Council seeking additional funding to...
    • Housing Schemes
      502. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will extend the croí cónaithe grant timeframe from 13 to 18 months; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Planning Issues
      504. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 888 of 11 September 2023, the date the comprehensive set of queries were sent to the...
    • Housing Schemes
      505. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, following the Cabinet decision in May 2023 to extend the rent-a-room scheme to all housing types, including local...
    • Housing Provision
      508. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to carry out a review into the management of Part V social housing, given the management of Part V social housing in a...
    • Planning Issues
      509. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current decision time for appeals to An Bord Pleanála for single housing projects; the current decision time for...
    • Defective Building Materials
      510. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm plans to open an enhanced defective concrete blocks scheme for local authority houses; and if he will make...
    • Building Regulations
      511. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will establish with the National Standards Authority of Ireland when it will issue a clear directive on the acceptable...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      513. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in a housing development with developer-provided infrastructure for wastewater treatment plants that cannot be connected to a...
    • Rental Sector
      515. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the rules or guidelines issued to the Housing Agency for the cost rental tenant-in-situ income eligibility test;...
    • Departmental Meetings
      516. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date of the past six regional homeless consultative forum meetings for the Munster region. [40154/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      517. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the annual funding provided to the regional homeless consultative forum for the Munster region. [40155/23]
    • Housing Schemes
      519. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average allocation per house under the EERP funding scheme; if local authorities are required to submit an overall spend...
    • Local Authorities
      522. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities can directly employ apprentices; and if so, the number of these employed, by local authority. [40175/23]
    • Housing Policy
      523. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of significant issues with particular flat complexes in Cork constructed in the 1960s under the design of city...
    • Departmental Strategies
      526. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details on the measures his Department has taken to implement specific action points (details supplied) of the...
    • Housing Policy
      528. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown, in tabular form, of the number of requests by each county and to each local authority for the right to...
    • Housing Schemes
      529. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person can apply for the local authority home loan if ground works have already started. [40330/23]
    • Housing Provision
      530. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the high levels of vacancy in local authority social housing units; his plans to ensure that social housing is...
    • Departmental Reports
      531. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of all studies, research and reports commissioned by his Department that were outsourced, in each year since...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      532. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the annual capital spend by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive in each year since 2005 of acquiring new emergency...
    • Recycling Policy
      534. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of public water bottle refill stations which have been installed to date, by location, in tabular form; and to...
    • Defective Building Materials
      535. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on discussions between the banking industry and his own Department in relation to support for...
    • Vacant Properties
      536. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of croí cónaithe vacant property refurbishment grants that have been approved; the reason that an...
    • Housing Provision
      538. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the 24 local authority housing units approved for construction in a location (details supplied) have finished construction;...
    • Housing Policy
      600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many applications have been made to appeal the inclusion of agricultural land in the RZLT; how many have been refused; and...
    • Fire Service
      602. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government of the €61 million capital allocation towards the fire service capital programme 2021-2025, the amount that has been...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      603. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39463/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      605. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 698 of 25 July 2023, if she will accept that a great injustice has been done in...
    • Home Care Packages
      606. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if home carer’s credits have been correctly applied in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Disability Services
      607. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a disability allowance will be restored in the case of a person (details supplied) who has requested that their payment...
    • Gender Equality
      608. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what plans her Department has to deal with the gender pension disparity caused by the minimum 520 PRSI contributions rule;...
    • State Pensions
      610. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a State pension (contributory) claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork, recently assessed, could be...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      611. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason carer's allowance was terminated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Fraud
      614. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of fraudulent claims of payments through her Department, by payment type of those residing in the State and those...
    • Disability Services
      615. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) qualifies for a supplementary welfare allowance pending decision on their application for the...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      616. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the projected cost of proposals (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39657/23]
    • EU Directives
      617. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to detail the preparations being undertaken by her Department in advance of the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU)...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      618. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) who had their fuel allowance refused due to being over the threshold by only...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      619. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal has been accepted on behalf of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      620. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration would be given to classifying long-Covid as an occupational illness, in line with other European countries...
    • Disability Services
      621. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for disability allowance in the case of a person (details...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      622. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an interim payment can be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      630. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to include fibromyalgia as a recognised long-term illness condition for social protection purposes; and if she...
    • Employment Support Services
      631. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection why a service funded by her Department is not available at a location (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make...
    • School Meals Programme
      632. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications by schools, per county, to change from providing a cold lunch to students to the provision of...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      633. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of disability allowance and State pension (contributory) as of August 2023; and the total spend on...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      636. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on the review of a decision on a carer’s allowance application in respect of a person...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      637. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the means test for carers allowance to take into account certain expenses such as rent or mortgage...
    • Departmental Strategies
      639. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide details on the measures her Department has taken to implement specific action points (details supplied) of the...
    • Departmental Reports
      640. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on her Department’s review report in relation to the expansion of free travel scheme to people...
    • Employment Support Services
      641. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of providing the WALK providing equal employment routes, PEER, employment support service model in all 26...
    • Social Insurance
      642. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what campaigns are being undertaken to inform people of their ability to purchase voluntary social insurance contributions to...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      643. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40308/23]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      645. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when urgent financial assistance will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Pensions
      646. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether she intends to rectify the anomaly in relation to carers whose periods of care-giving are inferior to 20 years, but...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      647. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether improvements in maternity, paternity or parental benefit is scheduled; and if so, the dates that they will take...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      649. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for the disability allowance in the case of a person (details...
    • Departmental Data
      650. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a list of all studies, research and reports commissioned by her Department that were outsourced, in each year...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      651. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is entitled to fuel allowance. [40383/23]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      652. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she would consider extending eligibility of the fuel allowance to those in receipt of the working family payment; and if...
    • Pension Provisions
      654. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) can purchase additional credits in order to qualify the minimum State pension (contributory);...
    • Departmental Data
      655. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost in 2024 of extending parental leave and benefits by four weeks for mothers, and six weeks for fathers....
    • Social Welfare Payments
      657. 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. [40685/23]
    • Pension Provisions
      658. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the State pension contributions of a person (details supplied). [40686/23]
    • Social Welfare Code
      659. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether the disregard of only a portion of maintenance payments in means tests continues to apply; whether she intends to...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      660. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline how the working family payment is estimated in the case of a single parent who works and is in receipt of...
    • Departmental Data
      661. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated number of people eligible for the free fuel scheme after the implementation of the changes made earlier this...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      663. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the conditions in which a telephone allowance is paid. [40725/23]
    • Departmental Data
      664. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has reviewed the level of claims for exceptional needs being made to her Department; the number of claims and the...
    • Visa Applications
      669. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the visa applications for the family of a person (details supplied) are expected to be finalised; and if she will make a...
    • Penalty Points System
      670. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to confirm if penalty points for speeding have been applied in specific circumstances (details supplied) in each of the past...
    • Departmental Contracts
      671. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide details of the total amount paid by the State to a company (details supplied) each year since the start of...
    • Family Reunification
      673. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will provide more family reunification admission programmes for Syrian refugees and their families who have...
    • Visa Applications
      674. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a visa application for the mother of a person (details supplied) will be assessed with a view to granting the application;...
    • Foreign Policy
      675. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she was aware that prior to the publication of the EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report (TE-SAT) in June 2023, Spanish...
    • EU Directives
      678. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to detail the preparations being undertaken by her Department in advance of the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU)...
    • Posthumous Pardons
      679. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the up-to-date position regarding the review of historic cases (details supplied); if a recommendation has issued to her; and...
    • Northern Ireland
      680. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline, in the light of the recent UK government decision to carry out a fresh statutory investigation into the...
    • Visa Applications
      681. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline in detail the progress that has been made to date in respect of having a single application process for employment...
    • Ukraine War
      682. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline, notwithstanding the Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/382, her plans to put in place a recording...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      683. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) will have their naturalisation application decided; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Visa Applications
      684. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a visa application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39861/23]
    • An Garda Síochána
      685. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current average allocation of unused annual leave for all members of An Garda Síochána; and if she will make a...
    • Extradition Arrangements
      686. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to detail the offence that is punishable by imprisonment in Ireland for a maximum period of at least one year referred to in a...
    • Immigration Status
      688. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application to the undocumented scheme in the case of a person (details...
    • An Garda Síochána
      689. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda mountain bikes allocated to each Garda district within the Meath division as of 5 September 2023, in...
    • Citizenship Applications
      691. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the case of a child (details supplied), whose parents applied for a citizenship application...
    • Immigration Policy
      692. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Government will change the rules precluding refugees from working for six months (details supplied); and if she will...
    • An Garda Síochána
      693. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the individual who is responsible for allocating specific Garda resources to an area on a given day; and if she will make a...
    • Citizenship Applications
      697. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application (details supplied). [40132/23]
    • Prison Service
      698. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many prisoners have been granted probation, but due to an inability of community-based probation teams to facilitate early...
    • Peace Commissioners
      699. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the status of an application for a Peace Commissioner by a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Departmental Strategies
      700. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide details on the measures her Department has taken to implement specific action points (details supplied) of the...
    • Immigration Status
      701. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an application by persons (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40269/23]
    • Family Reunification
      702. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe from application to issue of a long-stay (join family) visa under the International Protection Act 2015 for...
    • International Protection
      703. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a decision (details supplied) will be reconsidered, given that the reasons cited for refusal are incorrect; if she will...
    • Departmental Reports
      704. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a list of all studies, research and reports commissioned by her Department that were outsourced, in each year since...
    • Crime Data
      705. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of aggravated burglaries reported to gardaí in the K district within the DMR in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023,...
    • Crime Prevention
      706. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on Garda Operation Satailt; and the number of persons arrested and charged under this operation. [40396/23]
    • Departmental Staff
      707. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of full-time staff, by grade, working in the border management unit of her Department as of 12 September 2023, in...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      708. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to clarify how those who made applications for Irish citizenship by naturalisation earlier in 2023 have received their decision...
    • Immigration Status
      709. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) will be permitted to apply for citizenship in February 2024 rather than May 2024, as they...
    • Visa Applications
      711. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will ensure that a visa application (details supplied) will be processed as a matter of urgency as the delay has cost...
    • Family Support Services
      713. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of the huge financial burden placed on those using a service (details supplied) for supervised visits with...
    • An Garda Síochána
      714. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community gardaí in the DMR each year from 2020 to 2023, broken down by division; and if she will make a...
    • Visa Applications
      716. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to review a hardship case (details supplied) of a person whose travel plans faced significant disruption because of the sudden...
    • An Garda Síochána
      717. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are plans to issue front-line gardaí with PAVA spray instead of CS spray. [40667/23]
    • Prison Service
      718. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of recruit prison officers recruited for the Irish Prison Service in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and the number...
    • An Garda Síochána
      719. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí and full-time civilian staff based in each of the four Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau satellite...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Greyhound Industry
      721. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of the 12,483 non-coursing greyhounds born and registered with the Irish Coursing Club between 1 January 2021 and 31...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      725. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason persons (details supplied) are still waiting on payment for the TAMS scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • EU Directives
      727. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to detail the preparations being undertaken by his Department in advance of the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882);...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      728. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39693/23]
    • Departmental Strategies
      729. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a final report from the National Deer Management Strategy Group will be completed and published; and if he will make a statement...
    • Greyhound Industry
      730. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a list of all key life events recorded by the RCETS in respect of non-coursing greyhounds; whether the data recorded for...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      734. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason farmers’ ANC farm payments are delayed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39788/23]
    • Forestry Sector
      735. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total hectares of land excluded from afforestation activity under bird exclusion zones within the new forestry programme; and if...
    • Harbours and Piers
      750. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will conduct an investigation into a local issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Forestry Sector
      751. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if new forestry grant rates are in line with inflation since 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39871/23]
    • Agriculture Supports
      767. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what supports will be provided for farmers negatively impacted by the new nitrates programme following the failure to secure a...
    • Beef Sector
      768. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the failure to secure a derogation under the new nitrates programme from the EU Commission will result in a reduction in the...
    • Departmental Staff
      769. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated full-year cost to recruit one additional whole-time equivalent, WTE, deputy chief analyst and one additional WTE chief...
    • Forestry Sector
      770. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide, in tabular form, the total number of private felling licences issued by his Department in each year since 2014; the...
    • Pesticide Use
      774. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether his Department has conducted research into possible health effects of the use of Roundup, which contains glyphosate; and if...
    • Departmental Strategies
      775. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide details on the measures his Department has taken to implement specific action points (details supplied) of the action plan...
    • Forestry Sector
      777. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify a series of matters (details supplied) in relation to the afforestation scheme 2023-2027; and if he will make a...
    • Animal Welfare
      781. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are any plans to recruit an animal welfare inspector for Limerick city, appreciating the high number of wandering horses and...
    • EU Funding
      782. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will advise on his engagement with the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform on the...
    • Departmental Reports
      783. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a list of all studies, research and reports commissioned by his Department that were outsourced, in each year since the...
    • Greyhound Industry
      784. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of each bonus payment to employees of Greyhound Racing Ireland and Horse Racing Ireland in 2021 and 2022. [40404/23]
    • State Properties
      785. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the policy in relation to occupancy of States assets at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      786. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the farm restructuring guidelines to qualify for farm consolidation relief (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Animal Welfare
      787. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will appoint an animal welfare inspector for Limerick; what efforts the Government is making to deal with the increase in...
    • Forestry Sector
      788. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the new forestry grant scheme for native Irish trees will be open for applications; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agriculture Supports
      789. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a progress update on the plan to provide supports to the forgotten farmers; if he can now provide a definite...
    • Tillage Sector
      790. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost of increasing the grant ceiling for the tillage capital investment scheme to €150,000; and the current...
    • Customs and Excise
      791. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value of counterfeit veterinary prescription drugs and animal growth hormones seized by customs officials at privately owned and...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Disability Services
      792. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of persons across all services awaiting respite service in County Wexford; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Investigations
      794. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether the full investigation report into the 'Brandon' case will be published; and if he will make a statement...
    • Disability Services
      795. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that funding is in place to fully staff a community neurorehabilitation team in each of the...
    • Nursing Homes
      796. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagements he has had with the HSE CEO regarding the recent testimony by a safeguarding expert that they...
    • Disability Services
      797. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current number of adult disability respite beds vacant in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Childcare Services
      803. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many childcare providers in Mayo were overpaid in their Core funding 2022 allocations; and if he will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      805. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children aged 0 to 18 years who are waiting for first-time intervention in all areas of early...
    • Disability Services
      807. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of assessment of needs applications carried out in-house by the HSE and which were not...
    • Care Services
      808. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when respite will be restored in the case of the son of a person (details supplied), whose respite has been...
    • Childcare Services
      810. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm the additional measures that his Department will take to support childcare workers, to both support...
    • Psychological Assessments
      812. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the increased number of children diagnosed with psychological conditions (details supplied); and...
    • Departmental Strategies
      813. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an explanation on a serious issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39600/23]
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      814. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason he excluded St. Patricks Guild, Rathmines, from the mother and baby home redress scheme and will he...
    • Family Resource Centres
      815. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that family resource centres (details supplied) will have their funding increased in Budget...
    • Disability Services
      816. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a person (details supplied) will receive overnight respite care; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • EU Directives
      820. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when it is expected to enact the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882); the reasoning for failing...
    • Care Services
      822. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on what aggressive recruitment strategies he will employ with respect to personal assistance supports;...
    • Immigration Support Services
      823. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the procurement process will be expedited and finalised for a person (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Disability Services
      824. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the financial support that his Department provides to an organisation (details supplied); if he will ensure that...
    • Children in Care
      826. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the demands put forward by an organisation (details supplied); if he supports these demands;...
    • Disability Services
      827. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when appropriate supports will be provided to the son of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Proposed Legislation
      829. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expects to publish one or more of the general schemes for the referendum Bills; and if he will make a...
    • Budget 2024
      831. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to increase the foster care allowance in Budget 2024; if his attention has been drawn to the fact...
    • Mental Health Services
      832. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when an AON report will be sent to CAMHS for a child (details supplied) in county Donegal; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Services
      833. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to address the unacceptable level of vacancies for key positions in the Children's Disability Network...
    • Adoption Services
      834. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what percentage of tracing applications made under the Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 have been...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      835. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department received the recent business case from a school (details supplied); and if his officials have...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      836. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on progress to establish a minimum of six regional assessment of needs units; and the...
    • Disability Services
      837. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding that has been allocated to each CHO area for the supply of assistive technology in 2020, 2021, 2022...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      841. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied); his views on the challenges affecting the...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      842. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when it is expected to open applications for the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; the number of...
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      843. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to correspondence (details supplied) on behalf of a charity; the engagements he...
    • Public Services Provision
      844. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of public changing places facilities available, by location, in tabular form; the actions being taken...
    • Departmental Funding
      845. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will review the funding granted to centres run by an organisation (details supplied). [40219/23]
    • Departmental Strategies
      846. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details on the measures his Department has taken to implement specific action points (details...
    • Disability Services
      847. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1010 of 13 June 2023, if a key contact has now been appointed (details...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      848. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm that a request for transfer has been received from a person (details supplied); and if the request...
    • Childcare Services
      849. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider removing the requirement for crèche operators to have professionally produced accounts;...
    • Disability Services
      850. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will examine the case of a child (details supplied) who, having been referred in January 2023 to the St....
    • Childcare Services
      852. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children getting support under the universal childcare payment of €1.40 per hour; and their...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      859. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the latest number of children participating in the various streams of support under the access inclusion model;...
    • Parental Leave
      860. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether improvements in maternity, paternity, or parental leave is scheduled; and if so, the dates that they...
    • Departmental Reports
      861. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a list of all studies, research and reports commissioned by his Department that were outsourced, in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      862. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether a school (details supplied) has been assigned therapist hours. [40382/23]
    • Disability Services
      863. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a breakdown of the cost to allow services to use service capacity rather than the child's attendance as the...
    • Health Services Staff
      865. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people with a declared physical, intellectual and learning disabilities and people with...
    • Adoption Services
      866. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an application (details supplied) can be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40558/23]
    • Childcare Services
      867. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what grant assistance could be provided by his Department, or by agencies under the remit of his Department, to...
    • Departmental Budgets
      868. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if as part of his Department's budgetary proposals this year will they propose measures to address issues raised...
    • Childcare Services
      869. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to increase the payment through the national childcare scheme for vulnerable children funded through...
    • Children in Care
      870. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to increase the fostering allowance, given that it has not been increased since 2009; and if he will...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      871. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will verify the total number of children on waiting lists for assessment of need; the number of children...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      872. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that an accommodation provider (details supplied) is again suffering from late payment of invoices...
    • Departmental Staff
      873. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what the staffing complement of the new community engagement team in his Department will be; and if he will make...
  • Department of Health
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      874. To ask the Minister for Health if, in relation to the IVF plans, there will be a rebate scheme in place to 'claim back' one round of assisted human production (AHR) if they are not accepted...
    • Mental Health Services
      876. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure a person (details supplied) will be allocated a residential care bed at a suitable facility. [39467/23]
    • Departmental Data
      877. To ask the Minister for Health the current total number of respite beds available in County Wexford; how many of the respite beds are allocated to older person services; how many of the...
    • Home Help Service
      878. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new persons approved for HSE home care supports hours in County Wexford to date in 2023; the number of existing clients approved for additional...
    • Medicinal Products
      881. To ask the Minister for Health whether there are drugs available, or there are any plans to make available, drugs for the long-term illness Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, a chronic,...
    • Primary Care Centres
      882. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the planned Ballyhaunis primary care centre, Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, which had a scheduled operational date of Q4 2021; and if he will make...
    • Disability Services
      883. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1005 of 8 November 2022, if a case manager has been appointed and met with the family of a person (details supplied); the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      884. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have presented at the long-Covid clinics in Dublin and Cork; and the measures being taken to support these clinics, including...
    • Hospital Staff
      885. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff now employed at Mallow General Hospital, those for the original sections and those hired for the new section recently built; and the number...
    • Medicinal Products
      886. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on when the report on the cariban reimbursement scheme review will be published; if further changes will be made to the scheme than the changes...
    • Health Service Executive
      887. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a HSE hardship scheme application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39539/23]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      888. To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to introduce legislation regulating surrogacy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39540/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      889. To ask the Minister for Health if he will designate special funding to the healthy homes co-ordinators in local authorities to assist them in their role to help older and vulnerable people;...
    • Mental Health Services
      890. To ask the Minister for Health , further to Parliamentary Question No. 815 of 13 July 2023, to provide a breakdown of where the €14 million of new development funding was allocated...
    • Health Services
      891. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the significant shortfall that clients of the cross-Border scheme are experiencing when their reimbursement comes through (details supplied)....
    • Hospital Procedures
      892. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive an urgent appointment in respect of a facets joint injections procedure. [39566/23]
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      893. To ask the Minister for Health for an update following on from a primary medical certificate appeal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39591/23]
    • Nursing Homes
      894. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give urgent consideration to a request (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39613/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      895. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the location of the site on Lusk Main Street referred to in the 2023 Health Capital Plan in 'Appendix 2 - Mental Health' that refers to the...
    • Medical Cards
      896. To ask the Minister for Health the geographical areas in which it is not possible for medical card holders to get free access to vasectomies; if he will resolve this situation; and if he...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      897. To ask the Minister for Health whether support is available for the extension of Coolmine into Galway. [39637/23]
    • EU Directives
      898. To ask the Minister for Health to detail the preparations being undertaken by his Department in advance of the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882); the guidance that is...
    • Health Services
      899. To ask the Minister for Health when the national discharge and annual review plan will be implemented for existing paediatric eyecare patients aged eight years and over; if this will be...
    • Hospital Facilities
      901. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department issues guidance to hospitals and car park operators in respect of waiving parking fees for individuals who are admitted as in-patients...
    • General Practitioner Services
      902. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that funding is provided for the expansion of the Ballyhale Health Centre, County Kilkenny, as a matter of urgency, given the demand on the...
    • Primary Care Centres
      903. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the primary care centre in Blarney. [39719/23]
    • Hospital Services
      904. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update with respect to all future plans to develop Ennis Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39738/23]
    • Departmental Schemes
      905. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications received under a scheme (details supplied); those which were successful, and those not approved, since the beginning of the scheme;...
    • Health Services Staff
      907. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the aggressive recruitment strategies needed with respect to homecare supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39743/23]
    • Hospital Services
      908. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the tendering of haemodialysis services at a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39746/23]
    • Health Service Executive
      909. To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of limited evidence in respect of the use of puberty blockers for the treatment and care of children, he will establish an independent external...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      910. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration would be given to extending the special leave with pay scheme (SLWP), which is due to end on 31 October 2023, until there is an effective...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      911. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration would be given to classifying long-Covid as a disability, in view that long-Covid is characterised by extreme exhaustion after minimal...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      915. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on an appointment for surgery (details supplied); if he will expedite same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39785/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      916. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE clinical nurse specialists in permoneal dialysis at Mayo University Hospital in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form....
    • Hospital Equipment
      919. To ask the Minister for Health the number of MRI scanners in use at Roscommon University Hospital. [39808/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      920. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE vacant nursing posts at Our Lady's Hospital, Navan; and the steps being taken to fill these vacancies. [39809/23]
    • Hospital Services
      921. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to expand the pathfinder alternative care pathway to Bantry General Hospital. [39810/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      922. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time emergency department nurses at St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny, in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if...
    • Hospital Facilities
      924. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of revenue generated through parking charges within public car parks at Portiuncula University Hospital in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular...
    • Hospital Staff
      925. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE emergency medicine registrars working in Portlaoise Regional Hospital in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [39814/23]
    • Hospital Equipment
      926. To ask the Minister for Health the number of CT scanners in use at Louth County Hospital. [39815/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      927. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric neurologists at University Hospital Waterford in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [39816/23]
    • Nursing Homes
      929. To ask the Minister for Health the initial date that concerns were raised within the HSE regarding a nursing home's management of a Covid-19 outbreak in December 2020 or early 2021 (details...
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      930. To ask the Minister for Health the number of investigations, hearings or disciplinary matters undertaken by The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland regarding patient care from December...
    • Health Services
      931. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently intervene and provide direct support to family (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39843/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      932. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to concerns in respect of counselling and psychotherapy services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39877/23]
    • Health Service Executive
      934. To ask the Minister for Health the provision that is made for patients who have to travel to hospital appointments on a regular basis but do not drive or cannot afford a taxi service; if a...
    • Health Services
      935. To ask the Minister for Health if a transport service is available for an elderly person (details supplied) to facilitate their hospital appointments; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Data
      936. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of any contracts granted by the HSE for building and maintenance works in Beaumont Hospital since January 2020; the number of...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      937. To ask the Minister for Health if Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, has availed of any public or private external services that has been provided to it by the HSE acute services in reducing the...
    • Dental Services
      938. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for braces after a public orthodontist recommended them for braces under the PRSI system; and the average waiting time for CHO8....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      939. 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. [40008/23]
    • Primary Care Centres
      940. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for assessment by the primary care centre in Longford. [40016/23]
    • Health Service Executive
      941. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE is no longer accepting referrals from nursing homes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40020/23]
    • Medical Cards
      942. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the average waiting time and minimum waiting time respectively for a medical card for persons diagnosed with cancer; and if he will make a...
    • Medicinal Products
      943. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review extending the access to a new treatment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40028/23]
    • Medical Cards
      944. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the review cycle for medical card holders with a spinal cord injury to ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40038/23]
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      946. To ask the Minister for Health if he will implement a crisis management plan at a hospital (details supplied), in view of recent significant overcrowding; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Service Executive
      947. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the HSE winter plan for this year as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40041/23]
    • Hospital Services
      949. To ask the Minister for Health who is the final decision maker with respect to the reinstatement of accident and emergency services at a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Medical Cards
      950. To ask the Minister for Health if there is any consideration being given to the automatic provision of medical cards to people with a spinal cord injury based on certified medical needs,...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      952. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite an appointment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40057/23]
    • Legislative Programme
      953. To ask the Minister for Health the status of new legislation to replace the Dentists Act 1985; the timeline he is working towards; the reason for the delay in progressing this legislation;...
    • Health Services Staff
      954. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 403 and 404 of 8 February 2023 and No. 481 of 3 May 2023, if he is aware of the position of the HSE's Heads of...
    • Vaccination Programme
      958. To ask the Minister for Health if he explored extending the flu programme to the 50-64-year-old group first, rather than examining the benefits of an enhanced flu vaccine for the 65+ cohort;...
    • Disease Management
      959. To ask the Minister for Health if he has explored the use of the heel prick test for spinal muscular atrophy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40097/23]
    • Health Strategies
      960. To ask the Minister for Health if, in light of HPSC data on excess mortalities seen last winter, he will outline the new measures which he is bringing in for this coming winter to protect...
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      961. To ask the Minister for Health following the vacancy in May 2023 of the director of midwifery post in the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, the steps taken to advertise the now vacant...
    • Health Services Staff
      963. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time multiple sclerosis, MS, nurse specialists employed by the HSE in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and the locations in...
    • Hospital Staff
      964. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE optometrists and orthoptists based in CHI Crumlin in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [40124/23]
    • Hospital Procedures
      966. To ask the Minister for Health the number of brain scans carried out at Beaumont Hospital in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [40126/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      967. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that non-consultant hospital doctors (NCHDs) are not consistently emergency taxed each time they change hospitals; to respond...
    • Medical Cards
      969. To ask the Minister for Health how medical card holders can access replacement dentures at a time when dentists are not accepting medical-card-holder patients (details supplied); and if he...
    • Medicinal Products
      970. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the number of pregabalin-related deaths between 2012 and 2020, as reported by the Health Research Board (details supplied); the actions he intends...
    • Departmental Funding
      971. To ask the Minister for Health if, further to the announcement of additional annual funding of €3.5 million for drugs and inclusion health services, he will provide further details on...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      972. To ask the Minister for Health his views on partnerships between gambling industry-funded bodies and addiction services (details supplied); his views on whether it is appropriate for...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      973. To ask the Minister for Health if employees of a company (details supplied) will be entitled to the Covid-19 recognition payment, having worked throughout the pandemic to support acute...
    • General Practitioner Services
      974. To ask the Minister for Health when a replacement GP will commence at a location (details supplied); if a temporary replacement GP will be provided until a permanent GP is secured for the...
    • Disability Services
      975. To ask the Minister for Health to investigate the reason that there is no board of management for the medical primary certificate application office, resulting in the refusal of all medical...
    • Legislative Programme
      977. To ask the Minister for Health when it is expected to take Committee Stage for the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023. [40210/23]
    • Dental Services
      978. To ask the Minister for Health to request an urgent dental appointment for a child (details supplied) in UHK dental clinic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40214/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      979. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the checks which are carried out by private care companies to ensure employees are competent within their roles in providing community care....
    • Departmental Strategies
      980. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details on the measures his Department has taken to implement specific action points (details supplied) of the action plan to support the National...
    • Health Services
      981. To ask the Minister for Health if he has been notified of any changes to SouthDoc services in the Cork/Kerry region over the past six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Nursing Homes
      982. To ask the Minister for Health if he will supply information in regard to the fair deal scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40270/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      984. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 735 of 20 June 2023, if the vacancy has since been filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40289/23]
    • Health Services
      985. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 661 of 31 January 2023, what efforts have since been made (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Service Executive
      986. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a grant for HSE-supplied powered mobility equipment (PME); what the current maximum grant amount for PME is; what the maximum grant amount for PME...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      987. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect an appointment from a cardiologist and a neurologist from Letterkenny University Hospital; if...
    • Medicinal Products
      988. To ask the Minister for Health the considerations that his Department is giving to the inclusion of the drugs saxenda and ozempic, both now recognised as valuable medications in the...
    • Hospital Staff
      989. To ask the Minister for Health if he considers it acceptable, as outlined by the head of the radiology department in Letterkenny University Hospital, that on-call staff at the weekend have...
    • Health Services
      990. To ask the Minister for Health the process to be followed to apply for reimbursement for an urgent cataract removal operation which had to be carried out at short notice in the case of a...
    • Departmental Data
      991. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of all studies, research and reports commissioned by his Department that were outsourced, in each year since the formation of this...
    • Health Services
      992. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric heart transplant and kidney transplant procedures that have been performed to date in 2023. [40398/23]
    • Ambulance Service
      993. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of providing two additional HSE air ambulance helicopters on a 24-7 basis. [40399/23]
    • Health Services
      994. To ask the Minister for Health the latest update on the rollout of oral immunotherapy for children; the location of each facility in which the treatment is dispensed; and the funding and...
    • Hospital Staff
      995. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE clinical nurse specialists in the heart failure clinic at the Mater Hospital in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form....
    • Health Services
      996. To ask the Minister for Health the new services or technologies that have been deployed recently for neurology in CHO9. [40402/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      997. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant neonatologists based at the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form....
    • Dental Services
      998. To ask the Minister for Health when a 15-year-old child in Donegal (details supplied) who has been on the waiting list for orthodontic treatment in Letterkenny since January 2022 will...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1001. To ask the Minister for Health for an update for a progress report on the provision of primary care centre for Mayfield and Glanmire in Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Facilities
      1002. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of revenue generated through parking charges at Cork University Hospital in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; what the money was spent on;...
    • Disability Services
      1003. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will provide funding to a person with a disability in County Kerry (details supplied) to carry out essential works, not covered under the local...
    • Departmental Functions
      1004. To ask the Minister for Health if he can confirm which department the issue of non-medical costs associated with caring for a child with a life-limiting illness falls into.; and if he will...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1005. 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. [40436/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1006. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the mental health budget to 10% of the total health budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40437/23]
    • Legislative Measures
      1008. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to reform the Mental Health Act 2001; the timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40439/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1010. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm his plans for increased mental health supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40441/23]
    • Medical Cards
      1012. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to awarding people with spinal cord injuries medical cards without the need for means testing; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1013. To ask the Minister for Health when a person will receive an appointment (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40459/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1014. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the service provision (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40460/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      1015. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make the drug Vydura (rimegepant), available on the DPS scheme; if there is any other scheme available to help an individual with the cost of this...
    • Health Service Executive
      1017. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the model of care, assessment procedure, governance structure and legal and service arrangement in place between the HSE and a...
    • Home Care Packages
      1019. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people waiting for home support services, broken down by CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40578/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1021. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for a CAMHS appointment, by CHO, LHO and time waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40581/23]
    • Dental Services
      1022. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults and children in Donegal on HSE dental waiting lists at the end of May and June of each year 2019 to 2023, broken down by standard waiting...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1024. To ask the Minister for Health whether the full investigation report into the handling of Covid-19 at a facility (details supplied) in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, in 2020 will be published;...
    • Health Strategies
      1025. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the progress made in developing a new rare disease plan; when further information will be published; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1026. To ask the Minister for Health when the implementation working group established following the publication of the Mazars report and tasked with reviewing the policy, legal and institutional...
    • Health Strategies
      1027. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the expansion of the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme; when the review is due to conclude and be published; and if he will make...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1028. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that a school bus escort (details supplied) who worked during the pandemic is entitled to a pandemic recognition payment; when the payment will be...
    • Medical Cards
      1029. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce, in context of Budget 2024, the automatic provision of medical cards to people with a spinal cord injury based on certified medical...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1031. To ask the Minister for Health when the review of the long-term illness scheme will take place; if the age limit of 16 years old in the mental health category of the scheme will be...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1032. To ask the Minister for Health to outline, in tabular form, how many referrals to CAMHS were made in the past five years; how many of those were refused; and the reasons given for refusal....
    • Health Services
      1033. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the approach that is to be taken by CAMHS in circumstances where an applicant has diagnosed autism and potentially has ADHD, whether CAMHS will...
    • Departmental Funding
      1034. To ask the Minister for Health his views regarding funding for training staff members (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40663/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1035. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant cardiothoracic surgeons based at Cork University Hospital in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [40673/23]
    • Health Services
      1037. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on perinatal services in CHO areas 3+5. [40675/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      1038. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE dietitians, speech and language therapists and occupational therapists working in South Tipperary General Hospital in the years of 2022 and...
    • Legislative Reviews
      1039. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reform the Dental Act 1985; if he will provide a timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40695/23]
    • Health Service Executive
      1042. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1154 of 21 March 2023, 597 of 25 April 2023 and 703 of 27 June 2023, if he will provide an update on the formation of...
    • Mental Health Services
      1043. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 719 of 17 May 2023, the length of time that the HSE plans to continue its use of a facility (details supplied) as a...
    • Health Service Executive
      1045. To ask the Minister for Health the exact requirements for the advertising of local recruitment competitions for HSE staff grade and senior grade psychology posts, such that they are...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1046. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1375 of 25 July 2023, the status of the development of a primary care centre on Inisbofin; the status of the land...
    • Hospital Services
      1047. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the new surgical hub planned in advance of the delivery of the new permanent elective hospital in Merlin Park; the total projected cost of the...
    • Health Services
      1048. To ask the Minister for Health when the parents of a child (details supplied) can expect to receive services from the early intervention team in Buncrana; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Grant Payments
      1049. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will facilitate an appeal in relation to the awarding of a SUSI grant to a person (details supplied) who, due to their being abroad during...
    • Third Level Costs
      1050. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware that an increase in the State contribution towards graduate entry medicine from a rate of €11,950 per student in the...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1051. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39555/23]
    • Grant Payments
      1056. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SUSI will be encouraged to reconsider the refusal of a higher education grant in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1057. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether any essential expenditure from an inheritance, such as the purchase of a car to travel to college, can be included in a SUSI means...
    • EU Directives
      1059. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail the preparations being undertaken by his Department in advance of the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882); the...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1060. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what action his Department is taking to attract people into motor mechanic apprenticeships, given there is a growing shortage of qualified motor...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1061. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider a lower threshold for SUSI qualification in respect of applicants from households in receipt of a widow's pension; and if he...
    • Third Level Admissions
      1063. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; if advice will be provided in relation to this case; and if he will make a...
    • Grant Payments
      1065. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on student grants (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39822/23]
    • Third Level Admissions
      1067. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if student numbers for radiation therapy courses at third level have increased in 2023 in comparison to numbers in 2022; and if he will make a...
    • Third Level Education
      1070. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration would be given to his Department engaging with the Department of Health and the HSE with regard to funding the master's...
    • Gambling Sector
      1071. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on partnerships between gambling industry-funded bodies and addiction studies programmes in higher education institutes (details...
    • Third Level Examinations
      1072. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will intervene in the case of person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40205/23]
    • Third Level Admissions
      1073. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full- and first-year cost of increasing the number of social work courses provided by third level institutions by 5%, 10%, 20% and 25%; and...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1074. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details on the measures his Department has taken to implement specific action points (details supplied) of the action plan to support...
    • Third Level Education
      1075. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places currently in the Masters of Arts in Social Work at the Atlantic Technological University. [40248/23]
    • Grant Payments
      1081. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration can be given to the case of a person (details supplied) in relation changes to the assessment of the SUSI grant; and if he will...
    • Student Accommodation
      1082. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding can be accessed by third-level institutions to increase student accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40268/23]
    • Third Level Education
      1083. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the constraints on the children of certain categories of visa holders, including stamp 3 visa holders, who are often the...
    • Departmental Reports
      1084. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of all studies, research and reports commissioned by his Department that were outsourced, in each year since the formation of...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1085. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current number of apprentices waiting for off-the-job training at level 2, 4 and 6, disaggregated by craft apprenticeship type, in tabular...
    • Third Level Education
      1086. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current offerings available at the TUS Ennis campus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40660/23]
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Departmental Data
      1088. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of a project (details supplied); the amount awarded; the amount drawn down to date; the contractors engaged; and the...
    • Departmental Funding
      1089. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a fund for urban-village signage is available in Cork city. [39509/23]
    • EU Directives
      1090. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to detail the preparations being undertaken by her Department in advance of the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882);...
    • Departmental Funding
      1091. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will consider including provision for local history projects in one of her Department's funding streams; if she sees the value...
    • Meals-on-Wheels Services
      1092. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for an update on an organisation (details supplied); the services the organisation provides in counties Cavan and Monaghan; how many...
    • Departmental Funding
      1093. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will confirm the date when funding will be allocated (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39739/23]
    • Local Development Companies
      1094. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide clarity on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39800/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      1095. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the social inclusion and community activation programme (SICAP) budgets will be increased to reflect the exorbitant inflation...
    • Voluntary Sector
      1096. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if, with respect to Government policy, specifically within 'DRCD: Sustainable, Empowered and Inclusive Communities, Action Point 4.1'...
    • Library Projects
      1097. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule of applications received by municipal districts in Wicklow County Council’s local authorities...
    • Departmental Budgets
      1098. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development how much of the budget allocated towards the community centres investment fund has been spent to date. [40117/23]
    • Departmental Strategies
      1099. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide details on the measures her Department has taken to implement specific action points (details supplied) of the action plan...
    • Departmental Reports
      1100. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide a list of all studies, research and reports commissioned by her Department that were outsourced, in each year since the...

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