Written answers
Wednesday, 27 September 2023
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Departmental Projects
37. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the status of the project to develop a national model that will help support communication with communities where accommodation centres are opening....
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- National Security
38. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he expects the report from the fora on international security policy to be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Human Rights
39. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the complaint submitted by an organisation (details supplied) about the ESB’s relationship with the Cerrejón...
- Middle East
40. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the timeline for the formal recognition by Ireland of the state of Palestine; the details of any analysis underway by his Department in...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Inland Fisheries
41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to resolve a fisheries issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41846/23]
- Environmental Policy
42. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide an update on progress to develop carbon capture storage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41672/23]
- Energy Conservation
43. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether he would consider extending the free energy upgrades provided under the warmer homes scheme to automatically...
- Energy Policy
44. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to clarify how the revenues raised from the temporary solidarity contribution in the energy sector will be allocated;...
- Electricity Generation
46. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the projected yield respectively in 2022 and 2023 from the price cap on non-gas electricity generators; if he will...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Driver Licences
48. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a driving licence will issue for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41677/23]
- Bus Services
49. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport how many Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus services have failed to arrive over the past year; if he will detail the top-ten worst Bus...
- Driver Test
53. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driving test can be expedited for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41700/23]
- Bus Services
54. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the most industrious bus routes in Cork city are under-resourced and unable to fulfil their obligations at peak times; the...
- Departmental Meetings
55. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 82 of 20 September 2023, to provide the name of each attendee at the ten Ministerial Committee on...
- Road Projects
56. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the up-to-date position regarding the N70 Milltown Relief Road project; the preferred route for the project; the up-to-date timeline for...
- Bus Services
57. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be provided for a bus shelter (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41844/23]
- Department of Finance
- Housing Schemes
59. To ask the Minister for Finance whether consideration can be given to altering the rent-a-room scheme so that if a person earns more than €14,000, they are not taxed on the entire...
- Customs and Excise
60. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of not proceeding with the legislated increase in excise duty on petrol and diesel to take effect on 31 October 2023, for 2023 and 2024,...
- Media Sector
61. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to a range of queries concerning the Budget Oversight Committee's recent recommendations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Tax Code
62. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 160 of 20 September 2023, if he can provide a timeline for the completion of the Departmental review of inheritance tax...
- Tax Data
63. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue raised by the domicile levy for the past three years, in tabular form; the estimated revenue that would be raised from doubling the domicile levy...
- Rental Sector
65. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending the rental tax credit to children of landlords renting from parents, in the instance of full compliance with all taxes and RTB...
- Energy Policy
66. To ask the Minister for Finance if the yield from the two measures targeted at windfall gains in the energy sector has been included in the Budget exchequer revenue figures for 2024; if not...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Environmental Policy
67. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on the OECD report on strengthening environmental considerations in public investment management; how he plans to...
- Public Sector Pay
68. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on the body being set up to examine remuneration for senior posts across the civil service and semi-State sectors;...
- Public Sector Staff
69. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he intends to extend the civil service mobility scheme to professional and technical personnel; if he will provide the rationale...
- Animal Culls
70. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated number of deer in the Phoenix Park annually from 2010 to date and the number culled by the OPW for each year, in tabular...
- Heritage Sites
71. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the issue of public access from the N4 to Castletown House; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41847/23]
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Job Losses
73. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how many job losses have been reported to his Department from 1 January 2023 to date (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Department of Education and Skills
- School Accommodation
74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is dealing with any applications from second-level schools in Tallaght for additional autism classroom accommodation; and if she...
- School Transport
75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration would be given to extending a bus route to allow for a child (details supplied) to be picked up outside their home, as had been...
- Educational Disadvantage
77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, concerning the OECD report into the DEIS system, she will assure schools in areas of acute disadvantage that such schools will be included in...
- Schools Building Projects
78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update in relation to the status of a project for a school (details supplied); if planning permission has been granted; if there is...
- School Transport
79. 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. [41721/23]
- Home Schooling
80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how a parent goes about filling home tuition hours when a student cannot get a place in their local school; if there is a database of retired...
- Schools Administration
81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a facility (details supplied) can be opened early; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41850/23]
- School Transport
82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on a school transport access case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41851/23]
- Education Policy
83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills following harassment, threats, intimidation and assaults directed towards librarians, health care workers, staff in bookshops, activists and...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Raidió Teilifís Éireann
84. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when former RTÉ staff members, who now receive the RTÉ pension, will be given an increase in their pension payments; what...
- Television Licence Fee
85. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to the report of the Commission on the Future of Media, which identified the taxpayer contribution to public service media...
- Media Sector
88. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if, in relation to Table 5-2 in the report of the Commission on the Future of Media, which sets out recommended public funding...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- National Monuments
89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a monument (details supplied) is included on the scheduled list of protected structures; if so, the funding that might be...
- Housing Schemes
90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail, in tabular form, the number of tenant-in-situ applications made to Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council; the...
- Housing Policy
91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to amend The Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) Regulations 2015, to allow for tenants residing in dwellings...
- National Monuments
92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding that might be available for an iconic structure (details supplied) in County Cork. [41709/23]
- Wildlife Protection
93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to engage with the National Association of Regional Game Council to explore how it can assist with the protection of wildlife....
- Harbours and Piers
95. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can give an undertaking that a marina (details supplied) will not be given a commercial licence until such time as it has...
- Waterways Ireland
96. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can give an undertaking that all dealings with any unauthorised development coming under Waterways Ireland jurisdiction...
- Derelict Sites
97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has received a report from the review into the derelict sites levy; and if so, if he will publish the review. [41800/23]
- Water Services
98. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify if a housing estate in County Roscommon (details supplied) can be included in the resolution programme under...
- Housing Schemes
99. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a copy of a circular (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41865/23]
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Disease Management
102. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider those suffering from a medical condition (details supplied) for the national fuel allowance, given the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
103. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the status of an application for carer's allowance (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Appeals
105. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in respect of an appeal for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Social Welfare Benefits
108. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline, in tabular form, what options are available to a person (details supplied) seeking to join family living in...
- Residency Permits
109. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if all information requested was received on time in the case of a person (details supplied) in respect of their pending...
- Registration of Wills
110. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has considered introducing a registration of wills; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41722/23]
- Immigration Status
111. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41726/23]
- Census of Population
112. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a list of the populations of each division in the Garda Dublin metropolitan region as of the 2022 census;...
- An Garda Síochána
113. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has confidence in the Garda Commissioner; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41867/23]
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Agriculture Supports
114. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) did not qualify for compensation for cattle they sent to the factory that were discovered to...
- Fishing Industry
115. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether his Department has considered the introduction of a support scheme for fishers operating small boats who are struggling due...
- Fishing Communities
119. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to difficulties experienced by new producer organisations (details supplied) under the current...
- Agriculture Schemes
120. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an ACRES payment will issue to a person in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41841/23]
- Invasive Species Policy
121. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what measures his Department has in place to protect people from the bark beetle (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Child Safety
122. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if, following on from his statement in the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children on 20 September 2023, relating...
- Disabilities Assessments
123. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will ensure that a child (details supplied) will have their speech and language/OT and psychology...
- Family Resource Centres
124. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to ensure in the context of budget 2024 that all 121 FRCs are brought up to the optimum level of €220,000...
- Disabilities Assessments
125. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can confirm whether the six planned regional assessment teams were fully established and operational by 1...
- Department of Health
- Medical Cards
126. To ask the Minister for Health if he would consider reviewing the medical card guidelines for individuals with spinal injuries; if he will contemplate the automatic provision of medical...
- Disease Management
127. To ask the Minister for Health if he has any plans to assist those suffering from a medical condition (details supplied); if he will consider providing assistance with the insulation of...
- Qualifications Recognition
128. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41680/23]
- Health Services
129. To ask the Minister for Health when a Cross Border Directive NIPHCS appeal decision will be made (details supplied); the average waiting times for such decisions; and if he will make a...
- Health Services Staff
130. To ask the Minister for Health if, arising from the recruitment and retention difficulties faced in the public health service in the context of nursing post, if he will outline the...
- Medical Cards
131. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical card holders in each county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41718/23]
- Departmental Priorities
133. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the development of a national diabetes register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41724/23]
- Disease Management
134. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including all glaucoma eye drop medication in the long-term illness scheme for people with diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Services Staff
135. To ask the Minister for Health if the 6,000 additional staff across acute and social care services announced in Budget 2023 have been recruited; to provide a breakdown, in tabular form, by...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
136. To ask the Minister for Health if, following the outsourcing of children's incontinence wear to a private provider (details supplied), the HSE can compel the provider to supply the same...
- Hospital Appointments Status
137. To ask the Minister for Health if the numerous referrals issued by GPs in the case of a person (details supplied) are being given adequate priority given their recurrent tonsillitis; his...
- Hospital Facilities
138. To ask the Minister for Health whether he is aware of issues with staff car parking in Cork University Hospital and Cork University Maternity Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Procedures
139. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm how cases at a hospital (details supplied) will be decided; and if a lottery system will be used. [41879/23]
- Hospital Services
140. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for a decision (details supplied). [41880/23]
- Hospice Services
141. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to expand capacity at a hospice (details supplied). [41881/23]
- Care Services
142. To ask the Minister for Health what plans there are to increase the availability of staff to increase care hours for patients (details supplied). [41882/23]
- Hospital Equipment
143. To ask the Minister for Health whether it is the policy of his Department that a patient who has been on long-term palliative care and whose fragility puts them at particular risk of...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Rural Schemes
160. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the CLÁR 2024 programme will open to applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41748/23]
