Written answers

Tuesday, 17 October 2023

  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Special Educational Needs
      7. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional resources provided to special education schools in 2023. [44993/23]
    • School Facilities
      14. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 158 of 4 May 2023; to provide an update on his Department’s review of the guidelines of the use of...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      15. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if relevant data from the National Census 2022 is yet available to her Department, with particular reference to the HP Deprivation Index, to...
    • School Facilities
      16. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the progress of capacity surveys of the school system in relation to installation of solar panels on every school roof here;...
    • School Admissions
      17. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she is working to ensure that every child has a school place at primary and second level in Kildare North and throughout the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      18. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will provide funding for necessary work on a school (details supplied), including assessing whether a new school building is...
    • School Enrolments
      19. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any plans to streamline enrolment nationally (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45062/23]
    • School Facilities
      20. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the position for schools who have lost a portion of their play areas due to extension needs of their growing school. [45094/23]
    • School Textbooks
      21. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her estimate of the number of secondary students in each of Kildare, Wicklow, Meath and Louth who will benefit from the introduction of free...
    • School Facilities
      22. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of any engagement her Department has had with the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications with regard to the promised...
    • School Transport
      23. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider changing the qualifying criteria with regard to the school transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Textbooks
      24. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her estimate of the number of secondary students in each of Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford and Waterford who will benefit from the introduction of free...
    • Schools Building Projects
      25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to ensure that the Climate Programme by the schools buildings unit will take cognisance of the impact of emissions...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      26. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to review primary school class sizes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45099/23]
    • Capitation Grants
      27. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how much the increased capitation announced in Budget 2024 will be worth to schools in each of Cork and Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Transport
      28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which she will ensure the widest possible availability of school transport in Kildare north, with particular reference to the...
    • School Patronage
      29. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how she intends progressing separation of church and State in the education system; the funding that was provided for this in the Budget; and if...
    • Teacher Training
      30. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way her Department is supporting the creation of teaching qualifications for teachers of special education; her further plans, if any, in this...
    • School Facilities
      31. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to address the barriers to the take-up of funding for and delivery of solar panels on schools; and if she will make a...
    • Capitation Grants
      32. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she envisages a situation where schools in this country will not be reliant on charity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45017/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      33. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on progress on the new school building for a school (details supplied) which she visited in 2022. [44806/23]
    • School Transport
      34. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans that are in place to improve the school transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45025/23]
    • School Staff
      36. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that were included in the Budget to address the recruitment and retention crisis for teachers; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Equipment
      37. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding schemes that are available to secondary schools this academic year to help them with the purchase of musical equipment for students;...
    • Capitation Grants
      38. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the amount the capitulation funding will be increased for schools on a per student basis; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      39. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the timeline for the publication of the school transport review; if a new system will be implemented by her Department ahead...
    • School Textbooks
      40. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children that will benefit from the expanded free school book scheme, as announced under Budget 2024; and if she will make a...
    • School Transport
      41. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review of the school transport scheme; if she has received the completed review to date; the timeline for the publication of the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when schools (details supplied) will be opened upon building works being completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45097/23]
    • School Transport
      44. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her estimate of the number of secondary students in each of Cork and Kerry who will benefit from the introduction of free school books next year;...
    • School Textbooks
      45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement that her Department has had with school book publishers and the booksellers' associations regarding the Budget announcement of the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to a positive meeting between Board of Management of CBS, Mullingar and officials in the school building unit; and her plans to ensure...
    • School Transport
      47. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions that are being taken by her Department to tackle teacher shortages at primary and secondary school level, including the 740 special...
    • Schools Building Projects
      49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is more than one case in her Department where her education representatives have not engaged with the relevant contractor, arising from...
    • Teacher Training
      51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given her Department's Initial Teacher Education Policy Statement (2023), if it is intended to reduce the initial teacher education (ITE) two-year...
    • School Management
      52. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown by county of the number of primary schools with only a principal in them, a principal and one mainstream class teacher and a...
    • Mental Health Services
      53. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a €20 per child mental health support proposal for all primary school children; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of the Budget 2024 allocation of €4 million for additional supports for special schools between capital and revenue...
    • School Curriculum
      56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to include Climate Action and Sustainable Development in the leaving certificate curriculum as part of the annexe of actions for the...
    • School Patronage
      57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vocational schools which have closed in the State in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023; and if she will make a...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      58. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proposals, if any, there are to include more schools in the DEIS programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45051/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in County Mayo that have plans for additional accommodation delayed because of inflationary costs; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to resolve resourcing issues in special schools for the current school year. [44994/23]
    • School Transport
      61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action her Department is taking to ensure that all pupils who apply for school transport next year will be facilitated in view that a number...
    • School Staff
      63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to explain the omission of the restoration of posts of responsibility (such as assistant principal posts) from Budget 2024, despite making...
    • Irish Language
      64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to expand the provision of Irish education in the Dublin South Central area. [45028/23]
    • School Patronage
      65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in light of the small area census data release, her forward planning section will re-examine the need for a new secondary school in Dublin 8....
    • School Textbooks
      66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her estimate of the number of secondary students in each of counties Offaly, Laois, Longford and Westmeath who will benefit from the introduction...
    • Irish Language
      67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of gaelscoileanna which have opened, and the number which have closed, in the State in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023,...
    • School Textbooks
      69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will comment on a recent initiative, free schoolbooks for junior cycle students, announced in Budget 2024; and if she will make a statement...
    • Schools Building Projects
      70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding being provided for major capital works, minor works and emergency works in Carlow schools in 2023; how many schools have benefitted...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason no funding was provided for reducing class sizes in the Budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45014/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special educational needs classes that are currently being taught by mainstream teachers due to shortages of special educational...
    • School Staff
      73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that will be taken to restore the posts of responsibility in national schools across Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the progress of the Phase 2 and Phase 3 of the review of the school transport scheme; when she expects the report to be...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in County Louth was refused DEIS status when the secondary school in the same town was given DEIS status;...
    • Schools Building Projects
      76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has examined the substandard condition of the 1980s prefabricated classroom at a school (details supplied) in County Clare; if...
    • School Transport
      77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to a review of the current retirement age of school bus drivers and increasing the age limit beyond 70 years...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when primary schools, particularly DEIS primary schools, can expect to receive their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) grant. [45067/23]
    • School Textbooks
      79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her estimate of the number of secondary students in each of Limerick, Clare and Tipperary who will benefit from the introduction of free school...
    • School Transport
      80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has an update on the school bus service covering (Whitechurch to Blarney in County Cork) (details supplied) as a number of eligible...
    • Special Educational Needs
      81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new special needs assistants who were hired since 2022; and if there is an action plan outlining how the1,200 additional SNA posts...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      82. To ask the Taoiseach the number of small and medium enterprises (less than or equal to 250 persons engaged) which closed in each year 2010 to 2023, in tabular form. [44907/23]
    • Labour Market
      83. To ask the Taoiseach the total number of persons currently employed in the manufacturing sector throughout the country; and the extent to which this number has fluctuated over the past ten...
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      85. To ask the Taoiseach the bilateral meetings he had during his recent visit to the United States. [45281/23]
    • Data Protection
      86. To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 133 of 3 October 2023, if he will provide detail on the nature of the data breaches suffered by his Department; the severity of the...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Shannon Airport Facilities
      87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Shannon Airport will now be used as a transit hub for military support coming from the USA to be used to assist Israel in its illegal...
    • Passport Services
      88. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to explain the rationale in section 14 of a child passport renewal stating that a guardians/parents signature is not required when the child...
    • Consular Services
      89. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if consular assistance will be provided to a person (details supplied). [44736/23]
    • National Security
      90. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to confirm that Hamas is a designated terrorist organisation in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44757/23]
    • Consular Services
      91. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the dates where the Irish Consulate General or Vice Consul based in the North of England has met with the Mayor of Newcastle to date in 2023,...
    • Passport Services
      92. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason it is not possible for an initial assessment of paper based passport applications to be done upon receipt of such applications so...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      94. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he will respond to correspondence sent to him (details supplied) in relation to employment permits; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Middle East
      95. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding Ireland’s efforts to promote the safety of civilians on both sides in the ongoing Israeli/Palestinian conflict...
    • Passport Services
      96. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45157/23]
    • Data Protection
      97. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 140 of 3 October 2023, if he will provide detail on the nature of the data breaches suffered by his...
    • Middle East
      98. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his engagements with the Government of Saudi Arabia and its representatives since taking office. [45358/23]
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Electric Vehicles
      101. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are any plans to regulate the costs of public electric vehicles chargers; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Inland Fisheries
      102. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when his officials in 2007 were drafting the Lough Conn and Lough Cullin (Conservation of Brown Trout) Bye-law No. 827,...
    • Departmental Staff
      103. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the WTE staff by job title working in the geological survey division of his Department as of 9 October 2023; the number...
    • Energy Conservation
      104. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an application for the warmer home scheme with SEAI can be expedited (details supplied). [44890/23]
    • EU Directives
      105. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the EU environmental directives that Ireland is not in compliance with; and his timelines to ensure we do comply, in...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      106. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding supports offered by his Department to an organisation (details supplied) since 1 January 2021; and if he...
    • Energy Conservation
      107. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to confirm how many persons in the Dublin Central constituency have been assisted under the better energy homes...
    • Data Protection
      112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 154 of 3 October 2023, if he will provide detail on the nature of the data...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces
      113. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of females who are currently in recruit training in each branch of the Permanent Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Data Protection
      115. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 161 of 3 October 2023, if he will provide detail on the nature of the data breaches suffered by his...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Taxi Regulations
      116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the regulations in place (details supplied); if the taxi regulator is aware of such instances; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Driver Test
      117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of people currently on a waiting list for a driving test in north Tipperary; on average, how long it takes to sit a test from...
    • Rail Network
      118. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if additional train carriages will be added to the service between Newbridge and Grand Canal Dock at peak times; if additional train...
    • Departmental Bodies
      119. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has received each of the 2022 annual reports and audited financial statements from each State agency under the remit of his...
    • Road Safety
      120. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that need to be taken to encourage people who are out walking to protect themselves and wear hi-vis jackets at all times...
    • Greenways Provision
      121. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to detail the latest costs total under consideration by his Department for the construction of the Dungarvan to Mallow greenway; within...
    • Public Transport
      122. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the updated timeline for publishing in full the route for a project (details supplied); the cost incurred on the project to date and...
    • Active Travel
      123. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 13 of 5 October 2023, his plans and actions to accelerate the delivery of active travel networks;...
    • Bus Services
      124. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a bus service from Leixlip to Blanchardstown hospital can be facilitated or incorporated into current routes to facilitate elderly...
    • Rail Network
      125. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of additional DART carriages and train drivers that would be required if the frequency of the DART was increased to every 20...
    • Defibrillators Provision
      126. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of installing a minimum of one defibrillator at each manned full time train station and for all necessary staff in...
    • Active Travel
      127. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount per local authority that was unspent and returned to the NTA under the active travel project implementation heading in the...
    • Bus Services
      128. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a complaint (details supplied) with the provider; if he will ensure it improves the bus services offered; and if he...
    • Road Projects
      131. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current estimated date for the opening of the new Shannon crossing road project. [44879/23]
    • Greenways Provision
      132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the new south Kerry greenway will be completed. [44881/23]
    • Driver Test
      133. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the waiting time for a driving test in Donegal has increased (details supplied); if he can provide a list of the current...
    • Bus Services
      134. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details on the new citylink service from Mayo to Dublin Airport servicing Athlone, and to confirm if this service...
    • Road Projects
      135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure the NTA prioritises resurfacing works on the N55 between Athlone and Ballymahon, as this main artery has not received...
    • Road Safety
      136. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure Transport Infrastructure Ireland prioritises measures to reduce traffic speed on the N55 at Tang, County Westmeath...
    • Bus Services
      137. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NTA can provide a bus stop at Tang, County Westmeath. [44961/23]
    • Public Transport
      138. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the progress of the review of the student Leap card and young adult card discounted fare scheme; whether the...
    • Road Projects
      139. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide his Department's update in respect of the A5 upgrade. [44997/23]
    • Rail Network
      140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for clarification on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45057/23]
    • Bus Services
      141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide details of the steps Dublin Bus, a company (details supplied) and Transport Ireland are taking when they receive complaints;...
    • Road Safety Authority
      143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider filling the two vacant positions on the board of the Road Safety Authority; to outline the recruitment process; to...
    • Public Transport
      144. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if transport will be granted to a person (details supplied). [45172/23]
    • Driver Test
      145. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to the addition of a cancellation list for driving test appointments at test centres nationally to...
    • Departmental Funding
      148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 11 of 19 January 2023, if he will outline the outcome from the engagement with the Minister for...
    • Bus Services
      149. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to have a regular Local Link bus serving the Belturbet area of Cavan. [45292/23]
    • Park-and-Ride Facilities
      150. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the locations and capacity of each park-and-ride facility funded by the National Transport Authority, in tabular form. [45293/23]
    • Pension Provisions
      151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if NewEra has made contact with officials in his Department on the matter of an Irish Aviation Authority, IAA, board request to make a...
    • Driver Test
      153. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting since March 2023 for a driving test; if the test will be expedited; and if he...
    • Data Protection
      154. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 194 of 3 October 2023, if he will provide detail on the nature of the data breaches suffered by his...
    • Taxi Licences
      155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45357/23]
    • Park-and-Ride Facilities
      156. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to urgently contact the TII regarding the lack of safe park-and-ride facilities along the N3 road (details supplied); if they are aware...
  • Department of Finance
    • Customs and Excise
      157. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will seek EU funding to cover the cost of replacing the two customs cutter vessels for the Revenue Commissioners; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Schemes
      158. To ask the Minister for Finance to set out what his Department's response is where a developer/builder received help to buy finance but fails to complete the houses to which the help to buy...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      159. To ask the Minister for Finance the capital budget allocation for the Revenue Commissioners in the years 2022 and 2023, in tabular form; and the percentage of that capital funding that was...
    • Tax Code
      160. To ask the Minister for Finance for the Revenue Commissioners' plans to reassess their planned revised tax treatment of general medical services income of general practitioners which is to...
    • Tax Data
      161. To ask the Minister for Finance to explain how the estimated €3 million cost figure was arrived at in relation to the proposed VAT zero-rating of ebooks and audiobooks in budget 2024,...
    • Insurance Coverage
      162. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that small construction consultants are experiencing difficulties in obtaining professional indemnity cover, with the limit of indemnity being...
    • Housing Schemes
      163. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the purchase of second-hand homes by first-time buyers was not included in the help to buy scheme in Budget 2024; if he will commit to re-examining...
    • Tax Code
      164. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 475 of 11 September and 160 of 20 September 2023, if he will consider an amendment to the Finance Act 2024 that would...
    • Grant Payments
      165. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is a grant for assistance with fuel for a driver who drives an unmodified car but assists with driving their disabled spouse to and from medical...
    • Insurance Coverage
      166. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update in relation to insurance measures which are available to residents living in flood risk areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Exemptions
      167. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make psychotherapy and counselling services VAT exempt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45229/23]
    • Tax Reliefs
      168. To ask the Minister for Finance if tracker and variable rate mortgage holders who benefit from the rent-a-room scheme in respect of their principal private residence will be able to access...
    • Data Protection
      170. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 241 of 3 October 2023, if he will provide detail on the nature of the data breaches suffered by his Department; the...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Flood Risk Management
      171. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on the Clifden flood relief scheme; the works that are proposed for the Owenglin river as part of this scheme; if...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      172. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a person (details supplied) should have entitlement to a portion of a Civil Service pension. [44753/23]
    • Office of Public Works
      173. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW had a contract with a group (details supplied) to provide services on behalf of the OPW in the years of 2021, 2022 and to...
    • Insurance Coverage
      174. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the options that are available to residents of Shannon town who cannot get flood insurance cover; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Parks
      175. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 266 of 3 October 2013 and the report that OPW is to commission a cull of wild rabbits at a...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      176. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will investigate the public service pension entitlement of a person (details supplied), a retired OPW employee; and if he will...
    • Flood Risk Management
      177. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 151 of 10 October 2023, the reason the Minister of State for the OPW makes no commitment to meet...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      178. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the breakdown of the Covid Contingency Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44999/23]
    • Civil Service
      179. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current status of the Civil Service Arbitration Board; if dates are being issued for arbitration hearings at present; and if he will...
    • State Properties
      180. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will sell the old Garda station in Bunbeg, County Donegal directly to Donegal County Council for use as a site for social housing...
    • Flood Risk Management
      181. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the flood relief projects currently under construction and funded by the OPW; and when each of these flood relief projects will be...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      182. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total projected capital spend in 2023 broken down by core and non-core and what it represents as a percentage share of GNI; and if...
    • Data Protection
      185. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 269 of 3 October 2023, if he will provide detail on the nature of the data breaches suffered by...
    • National Monuments
      186. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount collected in entrance fees for national monuments by the Office of Public Works in 2022 and to date in 2023. [45365/23]
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Business Supports
      187. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 235 of 05 October 2023, while it is heartening to read about the supports available to...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      188. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the Code of Practice on the right to request remote work will be in place; if it will be in place before the end of 2023; and if...
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      189. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated full year cost to double the number of Workplace Relations Commission inspectors; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Job Losses
      190. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied that a company (details supplied) sufficiently handled the consultation process for upcoming redundancies; and if...
    • Work Permits
      191. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when upholstery and furniture making was removed from the general employment permit lists; the reason for its removal at that time;...
    • Departmental Data
      192. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 204 of 26 January, 2023, 1884 , 584 and 585 of 11 September 2023, the reason data on mixed...
    • Business Supports
      198. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he believes the Pre-Seed Start Fund has been an adequate replacement for the Competitive Start Fund, and if there are any plans to...
    • Work Permits
      199. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will urgently review the work permit situation for the meat production industry; if he is aware of the chronic workforce...
    • Departmental Data
      200. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of early warning reports for foreign direct investment companies for each of the past five years. [44908/23]
    • Departmental Projects
      201. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when construction will start on an advanced manufacturing facility in Co. Westmeath (details supplied). [44954/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      202. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the regional enterprise funds will open to applications. [44955/23]
    • Employment Rights
      203. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the intention of the overtime element of the new ERO legislation was to see security workers paid time and a half for every hour...
    • Tax Credits
      204. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment with reference to the Committee on Budgetary Oversight’s May 2023 Report on Section 481 – Films Tax Credit, the action...
    • Enterprise Policy
      205. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to respond to concerns raised by the Restaurants Association of Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Work Permits
      207. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason work permits have still not been made available to the meat processing industry. [45236/23]
    • Income Inequality
      208. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No.41 of 15 February 2023, if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied) which...
    • Work Permits
      209. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans to amend the work permits system for non-EU nationals who wish to come to work in Ireland, in order that permits that...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Special Educational Needs
      211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that an additional needs class is provided for a school (details supplied) for the 2024/2025 school year, that this class has...
    • School Funding
      212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will set out the additional supports her Department will provide to a school (details supplied) which is in an area of obvious economic...
    • Schools Building Projects
      213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of a construction project at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44663/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 708 of 11 September 2023, the current status of an application to build an extension to a school (details...
    • School Transport
      215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school bus ticket applications were issued for the academic year 2023-2024 compared to the previous 2022-2023 academic year in...
    • Education Policy
      216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the call for a national education strategy for gifted children; whether the current system for the allocation of resource...
    • Special Educational Needs
      217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools that have ASD units in the Clontarf, Killester, Raheny school planning area; the number of new ASD which have been...
    • School Transport
      218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school transport case (details supplied) can be responded to; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44710/23]
    • Education Policy
      219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will implement a national plan for the support and management of exceptionally able children in the Irish education system; and if she...
    • School Facilities
      220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision not to assist a school (details supplied) with an urgently needed set down area for children to be safely left off due to it being...
    • School Transport
      221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if suitable transport can be identified for a total of 25 children (details supplied) to attend the school in view of the large number involved;...
    • School Funding
      222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the refund of a community contribution due to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Data
      223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm that a school (details supplied) was covered by State indemnity since 2012 and therefore did not require building insurance,...
    • Education Policy
      224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills concerning special classes, in the context of the ETB and community schools, if the provision of special classes is a matter for individual...
    • Teacher Training
      225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered the concept of reducing the time for teacher training as suggested recently by the Tánaiste. [44779/23]
    • School Transport
      226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a student (details supplied) did not receive a school bus ticket for the 2023/2024 academic year; if the Bus Éireann system had...
    • Special Educational Needs
      227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason an additional ASD class has not been approved for a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Accommodation
      228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail how pyrite remediation was funded in each of the six schools it was identified in; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail the reason her Department representatives did not engage with the relevant contractor to ensure that any snags or defects were remedied...
    • Special Educational Needs
      231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44845/23]
    • School Transport
      232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider providing better pay and conditions for bus escort employees of special education schools to include enumeration during...
    • School Accommodation
      233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department's professional and technical team will complete the review of a report (details supplied); when a decision is likely to be...
    • Special Educational Needs
      234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason no reply was issued to a person (details supplied) regarding a place in a primary school for an autistic child; and if she will make a...
    • School Admissions
      235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all efforts can be made to facilitate a school place for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44872/23]
    • School Facilities
      236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the situation in which a modular building on the grounds of Firhouse College is still being run on a generator...
    • Schools Building Projects
      237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated timeframe for building the new secondary school (details supplied) in Roscrea. [44913/23]
    • School Staff
      238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the academic allowance can be awarded to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44942/23]
    • School Textbooks
      240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her estimate of the number of secondary students in counties Galway, Mayo and Roscommon, respectively that will benefit from the introduction of...
    • School Transport
      242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received the school transport scheme review; and if she will publish same. [44996/23]
    • School Curriculum
      243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consideration and progress that is being made in reviewing and implementing the current leaving certificate cycle; and if she will make a...
    • Scoileanna Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta
      244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén treimhse ama a bhíonn ann idir an cigireacht agus nuair a bfhaigheann an scoil an stadus scoil gaeltacht go hoifigiúil, cad ba...
    • School Admissions
      245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the data that was used when determining the catchment area for a school in Ballyogan (details supplied), and the reason Ballyogan...
    • School Transport
      246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the status of school transport for a person (details supplied). [45037/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the building of an extension at a school (details supplied); the timeline for this work to be started and finished; and if she will...
    • Legislative Measures
      248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the Education (Student and Parent Charter) Bill. [45118/23]
    • School Transport
      249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine a school bus transport application (details supplied). [45139/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an assistive technology grant application (details supplied) has been received by her Department; when a decision on this application will be...
    • School Accommodation
      252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm that her Department has received correspondence from a school (details supplied); if the points outlined will be taken under...
    • School Transport
      253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether she will consider the provision of a larger school bus in upper Glanmire to assist eight families who are still without transport. [45175/23]
    • School Facilities
      254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to assist with the shrinking play area at a school (details supplied) due to building extensions and a growing school population; if...
    • School Curriculum
      255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 228 of 10 October 2023; if he will confirm when the work on the Junior Certificate School Programme review...
    • Schools Building Projects
      256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current position regarding building works at a schools (details supplied); when these works will be complete; when the school will be opened;...
    • School Transport
      257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update in respect of school bus transport for a person (details supplied), as a response has not been received from Bus...
    • School Textbooks
      258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown per capita of what will be the allocation to 1st, 2nd and 3rd years of the Government’s expansion of the schoolbook grant;...
    • School Funding
      259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to Budget 2024, if the Financial Support Services Unit will have any additional moneys available for schools that are facing...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of allocation specifically to NEPS as contained in Budget 2024, which appears to state a reduction of funding of over...
    • School Staff
      261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of the 1,000 AP posts in primary and post-primary schools. [45210/23]
    • School Transport
      262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when outstanding reps for school transport queries (details supplied) will be issued; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45244/23]
    • School Textbooks
      263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what provision is being made to secondary schools to administer the new free school books scheme for junior cycle (details supplied); and if she...
    • School Transport
      264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update in relation to bus transport for children at schools (details supplied) in Dublin South-West; and if she will make...
    • Schools Building Projects
      265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a new school (details supplied) might not have had special classes designed into the structure at architectural planning stage along...
    • Special Educational Needs
      266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to issues raised regarding a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11; the steps her Department is taking to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in the contest of the school building programme, the extent to which continuous and urgent provision is being made to accommodate school-going...
    • Special Educational Needs
      269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which special needs provision in terms of school places continues in line with requirements and discussions with the various school...
    • School Accommodation
      270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which progress in the provision of primary and post-primary schools or extension of existing schools is in line with expectations...
    • Schools Building Projects
      273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in the delivery of the three-school project at Celbridge, County Kildare, with particular reference to replacement for a...
    • School Admissions
      274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which demand for school places at primary and second level continue to be met at Kilcock, County Kildare, given the rapidly...
    • Special Educational Needs
      277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she expects to be in a position to meet the special needs education requirements throughout north Kildare with particular...
    • School Transport
      278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which efforts are being made to provide a solution to the issue of school transport in a number of areas of Kildare north where the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which efforts are currently being made to incorporate the provision of afterschool services at every school in the context of the...
    • School Management
      280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she continues to have dialogue with the various pre-school, primary and post-primary school authorities in Leixlip, County...
    • School Staff
      281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she hopes to attract and retain teachers at primary and second level in all areas throughout the country; the regions...
    • School Enrolments
      282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which primary school places at Johnstownbridge, County Kildare, continue to be assessed with a view to ensuring that accommodation...
    • School Facilities
      283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on progress in the provision of extra school facilities at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Admissions
      284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which adequate school places remain available to parents and schoolchildren at Moyvalley, County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Bullying in Educational Institutions
      286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she continues to address the issue of school bullying; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45326/23]
    • Data Protection
      287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 311 of 3 October 2023, if she will provide detail on the nature of the data breaches suffered by her...
    • Departmental Data
      288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of recipients of home tuition grants due to mental health issues for 2022-23; the average number of weekly hours they received; and if...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Film Industry
      289. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to ensure that all available supports are provided to ensure that Ireland and, in particular, the north east is advertised...
    • Departmental Policies
      290. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether she agrees that the National Famine Commemoration Day should be treated equally to St. Patrick’s Day and the...
    • Film Industry
      291. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware of buyout contracts that disadvantage Irish creatives in the audio-visual industry (details supplied); and if she...
    • Tourism Policy
      292. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on any engagements with the EU Commission in relation to the short-term holiday let register agreed by Cabinet in...
    • Sports Organisations
      293. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide a list of all sporting groups and clubs she has met since she took office including date of meeting, sporting...
    • Sports Funding
      294. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on sports capital applications (details supplied). [45148/23]
    • Scéimeanna Teanga
      296. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht céard iad na riachtanais bhreise ó thaobh saoráidí tithíochta a gcaithfear cloí leo sa bhreis ar na...
    • Data Protection
      297. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 345 of 3 October 2023, if she will provide detail on the nature of the data breaches...
    • Sports Facilities
      298. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an update on the steps she is taking or plans to take with respect to the use of the National Stadium by an...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Seaweed Harvesting
      299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether the cutting of seaweed at a location (details supplied) requires a licence. [44906/23]
    • Housing Schemes
      300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is considering allowing disability allowance to be disregarded for the purposes of the housing adaptation grant for...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the state expenditure on long-term leasing in each of the years 2015 to 2022, and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Housing Provision
      302. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses delivered, and estimated timeline for further delivery by number of units, in tabular form by year as...
    • Departmental Bodies
      304. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has received each of the 2022 annual reports and audited financial statements from each State agency under the remit of...
    • International Protection
      305. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current situation regarding an application for funding to adapt a building (details supplied) in County Cork as an...
    • Vacant Properties
      306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that one of the State's largest mortgage providers (details supplied) is unwilling to allow a second charge on...
    • Housing Provision
      307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of refusals by the Housing Agency for the cost rental backstop, by reason for refusal, in tabular form. [44716/23]
    • Fire Service
      309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is considering the request from the Tallaght Community Council regarding aerial fire-fighting equipment for the Tallaght...
    • Housing Provision
      310. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of new houses and apartments which are managed by local authorities or voluntary housing agencies, and which...
    • Departmental Bodies
      312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total capitalisation of the Land Development Agency to date; the dates on which the capitalisation took place; the amounts...
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline his understanding of the financial and governance issues currently taken place within an organisation (details...
    • Waterways Issues
      314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm the date on which he provided Ministerial approval to Waterways Ireland for the introduction of the issuing of...
    • Water Quality
      315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his attention has been drawn to the decline in marine life and water quality in Lough Hyne; if a dedicated...
    • Invasive Species Policy
      316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions his Department is taking to control and eradicate invasive plant species such as rhododendron in Donegal; and if...
    • Departmental Policies
      317. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 370 of 3 October 2023, the position regarding the definitions in the Act, given that the...
    • Departmental Consultations
      318. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update in relation to any engagements with the EU Commission in relation to the short-term holiday let register agreed...
    • Departmental Funding
      319. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated to the STAR investment programme for 2024; if this is voted Government expenditure or funded...
    • EU Directives
      320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when Ireland will be in compliance with the +water framework directive. [44914/23]
    • Water Supply
      322. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he supports the full construction of the Shannon-Dublin pipeline by Uisce Éireann. [44930/23]
    • Housing Schemes
      323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the total number of active HAP tenancies in each local authority for the most recent date available....
    • Budget 2024
      324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the €250 million URDF funding announced in Budget 2024 by specific funding scheme, i.e....
    • Housing Provision
      328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total expenditure in 2022 and to date to date in 2023, on social and affordable housing funded through SHIP, CALF, CAS,...
    • Rental Sector
      333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can provide the number of landlords registered with the Residential Tenancies Board in each of the past 5 years; and if...
    • Proposed Legislation
      334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45147/23]
    • Housing Schemes
      335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will detail on a county or local authority basis the number of residential purchases in each that have been approved for...
    • Budget 2024
      336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason an additional €16 million for the Cork Event Centre was pledged under Budget 2024; what documentation was...
    • Defective Building Materials
      337. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline what the 2024 budget is for assisting families availing of the enhanced defective concrete blocks grant scheme; if...
    • Planning Issues
      339. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to conflicting information related to a planning matter as stated (details supplied); the...
    • Housing Provision
      340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has engaged with an approved housing body (details supplied) regarding recent financial governance concerns that have...
    • Local Authorities
      341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans through further resources to aid Dublin City Council in dealing with its significant backlog in conveyancing works...
    • National Parks
      342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the capital works projects that were carried out in each of the national parks under the remit of his Department in 2021,2022...
    • Data Protection
      343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 364 of 3 October 2023, if he will provide detail on the nature of the data breaches...
    • Defective Building Materials
      344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will respond to correspondence from a person (details supplied) seeking urgent clarification in relation to assurances...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • State Pensions
      345. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when cuts made to contributory pension eligibility (details supplied) will be reinstated; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Data
      346. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a specific industry sector has been identified in the recent increase seen in unemployment figures; and if she will make a...
    • Gender Recognition
      347. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the inquiries, if any, which are undertaken by her or her Department to ensure that an applicant for a gender...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      348. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update directly to a person (details supplied) that has been waiting on a decision on an appeal. [44652/23]
    • State Pensions
      349. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to publish the report on the benchmarked/indexed rate of State pension payments which was introduced as an input...
    • Childcare Services
      350. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of childcare career events held by the European Employment Services (ERS Ireland) in the Department of Social...
    • Civil Registration Service
      351. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when section 6 of the Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014 will can be commenced; the estimated timeframe for when...
    • State Pensions
      352. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when her Department is expected to pay the pension arrears and the exact amount to a person (details supplied) in County...
    • School Meals Programme
      353. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to give a progress report on the school meals programme and its successful expansion. [44780/23]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      354. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if any financial assistance is available to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Fuel Poverty
      355. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to indicate eligibility for fuel allowance for a person (details supplied) who is in receipt of disability allowance; and if...
    • State Pensions
      356. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to indicate in the case of a person (details supplied) who has applied for a top-up on her EU-based pension and who requires...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      357. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied)...
    • State Pensions
      358. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are any plans to allow for an increased contributory pension qualified adult allowance payment for persons (details...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      359. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views that those aged 70 years and over in receipt of the household benefits package should be entitled to any lump sum...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      360. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will publish the payment dates of all additional lump sum payments announced as part of budget 2024; and if she will...
    • State Pensions
      361. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine the reason a person in receipt of a partial contributory pension does not receive a full increase and...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      362. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review an overclaim on behalf of a person (detailed supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Payments
      363. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for a clarification on a pension matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44940/23]
    • School Meals Programme
      364. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the hot school meals programme can be extended to a school in Tipperary town (details supplied), considering the recent...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      365. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) has an entitlement to dental benefit based on his or her PRSI contributions; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      366. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a child who has turned 18-years-old since May of this year, but will be in full-time education in 2024, will be entitled...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      368. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45116/23]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      369. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm the current total number of recipients of fuel allowance payments living in the constituency of Dublin central....
    • Data Protection
      373. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection , further to Parliamentary Question No. 415 of 3 October, if she will provide detail on the nature of the data breaches...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Citizenship Applications
      374. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Government will consider giving a person (details supplied) honorary Irish citizenship in appreciation for his work on...
    • Courts Service
      375. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a breakdown for the current wait times for an initial hearing in the District, Circuit, Central, High and Supreme Courts,...
    • Legislative Measures
      376. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline if the expression transgender has been defined elsewhere in Irish law. [44638/23]
    • Ukraine War
      377. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 436 of 9 May 2023 and 521 of 23 May 2023, the reason if Ukrainian applicants for...
    • Prison Service
      378. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have been remanded to the Irish Prison Service while awaiting removal from the State since January...
    • An Garda Síochána
      379. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1231 of 11 September 2023, if she has received the necessary information from the Garda...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      380. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if demonstrating public support for proscribed terrorist organisations through such activities as marches, displaying of...
    • Departmental Data
      381. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a list of all organisations or groups designated as terrorist organisations; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Middle East
      382. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has made any efforts to determine the presence of the Hamas terrorist organisation within the State, and also...
    • Legal Services Regulation
      383. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when Part 15 Legal Services Regulatory Authority Act will be commenced; the reason it has not been commenced to date; and if...
    • Immigration Status
      384. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if permission to remain can be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Family Reunification
      385. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether family reunification in respect of four children can be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she...
    • Departmental Data
      386. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of attempted murder and serious assault causing harm cases reported to Gardaí within the Kildare division in...
    • An Garda Síochána
      387. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí by rank attached to the Kildare divisional drugs unit as of 10 October 2023. [44832/23]
    • Prison Service
      388. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the transport budget allocation to the Irish Prison Service in the years of 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [44833/23]
    • Irish Prisoners Abroad
      389. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress with regard to the application by a person (details supplied) to move from a prison in Britain home to Ireland, in...
    • Court Sittings
      390. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the policies that are in place regarding support for minors attending court sittings in circumstances other than when they are...
    • Courts Service
      391. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the engagement her Department have had with the Courts Service regarding the potential expansion or additional sittings outside...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      392. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an application for naturalisation will be finalised (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Visa Applications
      394. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason applicants for an Irish visa are requested to show bank statements of a person with whom they will be staying when...
    • Protected Disclosures
      395. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will instigate an independent investigation into the treatment of whistleblowers within the Prison Service, such as in...
    • Prison Service
      396. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of addiction counsellors employed by the Irish Prison Service, by institution and by year, from 2013 to date. [45176/23]
    • Citizenship Applications
      397. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed in order to obtain Irish citizenship in the name of a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Drug Dealing
      398. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drug seizures by gardaí in the State in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023; and if this figure...
    • Visa Applications
      402. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are plans to open new visa processing offices in Washington DC and Seoul in South Korea. [45289/23]
    • An Garda Síochána
      403. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of senior investigating officer courses held for gardaí within the Cavan-Monaghan division in 2022 and to date...
    • Crime Prevention
      404. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the budget provided by her Department is adequate to meet the ongoing challenges of crime prevention and policing; and if...
    • Data Protection
      405. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 438 of 3 October 2023, if she will provide detail on the nature of the data breaches...
    • Departmental Data
      406. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons arrested for rape or sexual assault in each county in the State in each of the past ten years and to date...
    • Prison Service
      407. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of prisoners currently in the State. [45377/23]
    • An Garda Síochána
      410. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda members in each roads policing unit, by Garda division, to date in 2023; and if she will make a statement...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Pesticide Use
      411. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the amount of pesticide used in the State in the years 2020 to date and any Government targets or commitments to...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      412. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he is next scheduled to meet the CEO of Horse Racing Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44667/23]
    • Greyhound Industry
      413. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he is next scheduled to meet the CEO of Greyhound Racing Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44668/23]
    • Animal Welfare
      414. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the accusations of animal abuse at the Ballinasloe fair (details supplied); if his Department’s inspectors...
    • Nitrates Usage
      416. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a breakdown of the farmers impacted by the reduction from 250kgs of N to 220kgs of N based on area farmed (details...
    • Greyhound Industry
      417. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the necessary legislation has not been introduced to allow Rásaíocht Con Éireann to set up its own...
    • Agriculture Industry
      419. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider extending the deadline for lime to be spread beyond 31 March 2024 to 15 July 2024 to allow farmers time to spread...
    • Legislative Measures
      421. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he intends to publish heads of the Agriculture Appeals (Amendment ) Bill; whether this will allow for a fully independent...
    • Wildlife Protection
      422. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify whether there is a requirement to seek permission from his Department to import non-native honeybees; and if so,...
    • Departmental Staff
      423. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of WTE vacancies by job title in the import control division of his Department as of 10 October 2023; the full year cost...
    • Departmental Bodies
      424. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the type of advice being sought and the purpose of a tender (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44917/23]
    • Control of Dogs
      425. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any of the recommendations from the interdepartmental working group which has been examining issues under the Control of Dogs Act...
    • Greyhound Industry
      426. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason export receipts from the sale of some 6,500 greyhounds to the UK each year are not included in a report (details supplied)...
    • Harbours and Piers
      433. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of funding applications made by Cork County Council to his Department in respect of the Old Pier at Keelbeg, Union Hall,...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      434. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide details of the proposals for a voluntary dairy exit scheme that is currently under consideration by his Department; if he...
    • Invasive Species Policy
      435. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what measures his Department has put in place to prevent the arrival of the bark beetle to the State; and if he will make a statement...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      436. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the indicative allocation of funding for Ireland's 2023-2027 CSP, by interventions, in tabular form;...
    • Data Protection
      437. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 482 of 3 October 2023, if he will provide detail on the nature of the data breaches suffered by...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Children in Care
      438. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to concerns raised by (details supplied) regarding the staggered increase in...
    • Childcare Services
      439. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the value of core funding for each individual early learning and care and school age children service for...
    • Disability Services
      440. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the criteria on the number of support workers required to the number of service users of HSE transport attending...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      441. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to increase the funding per child in the early learning years sector. [44656/23]
    • Disability Services
      442. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of CAMHS intellectual disability teams based in CHO9. [44688/23]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      449. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will arrange to have invoices paid (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Services
      450. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current CDNT WTE posts vacancies across CHO5, broken down, in tabular form, according to each of the 12...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      451. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm that assessment of needs hubs in all CHO areas are now fully operational and providing assessment of...
    • Disability Services
      452. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what funding has been allocated to Clan Mór, Navan for each of the years 2018 to 2023; the staffing levels...
    • Child Protection
      454. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the efforts that are in hand to protect the welfare of the two children of a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Disability Services
      457. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number and location of therapist posts including speech and language therapists, psychological and others...
    • Direct Provision System
      458. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on HIQA inspections of direct provision centres; the number of inspections that...
    • Disability Services
      459. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will detail the number of speech and language therapists for each CHO area employed for disability...
    • Direct Provision System
      462. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the additional transport provisions that will be put in place at Temple Accommodation Centre, Horseleap, Moate,...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      464. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position regarding the proposed change of the legal status of childminders that would allow parents that use...
    • Budget 2024
      465. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a full breakdown of the €195 million budget for disability. [44985/23]
    • EU Directives
      466. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when it is intended to issue guidance to businesses around the requirements and responsibilities under the...
    • Children in Care
      467. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will work with the relevant departments to expedite the recently announced increase in the weekly foster...
    • Disability Services
      468. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline for full reimplementation of services provided by the Celbridge CDNT with particular reference to...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      469. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for clarification on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45108/23]
    • Childcare Services
      470. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm the number of childcare places currently available in the constituency of Dublin central. [45161/23]
    • Departmental Schemes
      473. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the building blocks grant scheme will open for submissions for 2023 and 2024 respectively. [45170/23]
    • Departmental Policies
      474. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will take action in relation to the implementation of a report (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • International Protection
      475. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to review correspondence (details supplied); if he will provide an update on this matter; and if he will make a...
    • Children in Care
      476. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the delay for the rise in payments to foster carers under Budget 2024 to end 2024; and if he will...
    • International Protection
      477. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has enough sites to complete the Government's modular homes programme; to identify which sites...
    • Data Protection
      478. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 532 of 3 October 2023, if he will provide detail on the nature of the data...
    • Child and Family Agency
      479. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of legal cases taken against Tusla in each year since it was established and to date in 2023; if a...
  • Department of Health
    • Legislative Measures
      480. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 832 of 11 July 2023, the estimated number of religious buildings which can avail of the exemption outlined in section 3...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      482. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list figures, average waiting time, number of people waiting more than six months, more than one year, more than two years, more than three...
    • Medicinal Products
      483. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make funding available for a drug from Merck called sotatercept, this drug which has had positive results to treat pulmonary hypertension a...
    • Cancer Services
      487. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44657/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      488. To ask the Minister for Health if a scan for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44659/23]
    • Hospital Equipment
      489. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans in place to return the C/T scanner to Monaghan Hospital; the timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44661/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      491. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals made to each of the CAMHS teams based in County Carlow in the years 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Hospital Equipment
      492. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hoists currently in use by the Radiology department of St. Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Staff
      493. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of staffing all emergency departments with liaison psychiatrists for two years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      495. To ask the Minister for Health if a new chronic disease management hub will become fully operational in County Kilkenny; the staffing details that would be required for the Hub; and if he...
    • Health Services Staff
      496. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE audiologists by grade employed by the HSE in CHO 5 in the years 2022 and to date in 2023; the locations within CHO5 where these audiologists...
    • Health Services
      497. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can be provided with a service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44680/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      498. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE speech and language therapist posts in the CAMHS teams in County Wicklow that are currently unfilled; and when will these vacancies be...
    • Disability Services
      500. To ask the Minister for Health the locations within CHO6 where primary care autism assessment teams are located in tabular form. [44695/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      501. To ask the Minister for Health how long, on average, Coru is currently taking to process appeals for physiotherapists trying to register in Ireland; what steps he is taking to reduce this...
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      502. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to concerns raised in (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44704/23]
    • Health Services
      503. To ask the Minister for Health if the catchment rule in terms of access to physio services is a rigid rule that cannot be made flexible to ensure that citizens have access to proper services...
    • Departmental Funding
      506. To ask the Minister for Health if boarding out providers funded through the boarding out regulations under the Health (Nursing Homes) Act 1990 are eligible for the Government’s...
    • General Practitioner Services
      507. To ask the Minister for Health is he aware that as of September 2023 the HSE no longer allocates a GP to medical card holders if they are unable to find in their locality a GP with capacity...
    • Hospital Services
      508. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that St. James's Hospital has ended the GP blood clinic (details supplied). [44729/23]
    • Health Services
      509. To ask the Minister for Health is he aware that the Limekiln Lane Health Centre, Dublin, has ended its important development checks on two-year-olds; the steps that are being taken to reopen...
    • Hospital Services
      510. To ask the Minister for Health regarding the recent shift to charge €30 for blood tests in hospitals, the reason for this change; the measures being considered to address the...
    • Road Safety
      511. To ask the Minister for Health if hospitals routinely conduct blood tests for alcohol or drug traces in patients admitted after serious car accidents; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      512. To ask the Minister for Health the steps a person should take to get medical treatment from a doctor, given that their existing GP is retiring and he has been unable to find another practice...
    • Healthcare Policy
      513. To ask the Minister for Health if dementia is classified as a disability in his Department's healthcare policy or the policy of the HSE; if not, the reason for same; if there are plans to...
    • Pharmacy Services
      514. To ask the Minister for Health to address concerns that some older persons who do not hold a medical card are being asked to pay extra money at their chemist in order to get their medication...
    • Regulatory Bodies
      515. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on psychotherapy registration through CORU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44745/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      517. 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. [44751/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      518. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consult with the relevant departments to introduce a scheme to partially reimburse those with a formal coeliac disease diagnosis for the purchase of...
    • Medicinal Products
      519. To ask the Minister for Health his assistance and clarification with a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44766/23]
    • Vaccination Programme
      520. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to introduce the shingles vaccine to the national immunisation programme similar to what is in place for people over 65 years of age, with...
    • Transport Policy
      521. To ask the Minister for Health the transport options that are available for older people in Dublin Bay North who wish to attend events specifically organised for older people in the area...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      522. To ask the Minister for Health for details on non-payment of the pandemic payment to a company (details supplied). [44805/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      523. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric urologists based at CHI Temple Street in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023; and the number of hours per week each...
    • Hospital Charges
      524. To ask the Minister for Health the additional revenue that would be generated if private patient charges in HSE funded Hospital for single occupancy rooms increased by a further 25% based on...
    • Hospital Staff
      525. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE clinical specialist physiotherapist in musculoskeletal orthopaedics at Tallaght University Hospital in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023,...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      526. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list to see each consultant ENT surgeon at St Vincent's University Hospital in tabular form. [44838/23]
    • Departmental Data
      527. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of revenue generated through sales at public restaurants at both Mater Hospital and Beaumont Hospital in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in...
    • General Practitioner Services
      528. To ask the Minister for Health the steps a person (details supplied) should take where all local GPs have refused to accept them as a medical card patient and the HSE is no longer able to...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      529. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) is entitled to free prosthesis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44844/23]
    • Health Services
      530. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44846/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      531. To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent appointment will be expedited for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44856/23]
    • Defibrillators Provision
      532. To ask the Minister for Health to review (details supplied); the funding that is in place for defibrillators and local voluntary groups of Red Cross; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Dental Services
      533. To ask the Minister for Health when the school dentist (details supplied) in the Mizen Medical Centre will be replaced; if this position has been advertised; when the service is likely to...
    • Medical Waste
      535. To ask the Minister for Health what plans the HSE have to ensure that medical laboratory waste is most efficiently dealt with and recycled as part of their plans to decarbonise the treatment...
    • Health Service Executive
      536. To ask the Minister for Health the number of contracts the HSE has with a company (details supplied); the nature of such contracts; and the of each, in tabular form. [44878/23]
    • Nursing Homes
      537. To ask the Minister for Health when the new community nursing home in Nenagh will be opened and staffed. [44880/23]
    • Budget 2024
      538. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an itemised breakdown of new developments funding announced in budget 2024, in tabular form. [44884/23]
    • Nursing Homes
      540. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nursing homes that have given notice to the chief inspector of HIQA that they wish to deregister and repurpose their buildings in the past three...
    • Health Services
      541. To ask the Minister for Health if scans at the early pregnancy unit in Cavan General Hospital are available at the weekend; if scans can be provided to concerned women at weekends; if he...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      543. To ask the Minister for Health if a price has been agreed for the purchase of the Mount Carmel nursing home and site in Roscrea that has been referenced in the HSE's 2023 capital plan; and...
    • Mental Health Services
      544. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the 49 recommendations set out in the Mental Health Commission's report regarding Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services; and if he...
    • General Practitioner Services
      546. To ask the Minister for Health the payments made in 2022 to doctors under the GMS, to include payment details in all categories, GP name, location and provide this information on a county...
    • Medicinal Products
      547. To ask the Minister for Health when the rapid HTA, undertaken by HIQA in November 2022, reviewing the evidence of the clinical and cost-effectiveness of continuous (includes the Dexcom,...
    • Health Service Executive
      548. To ask the Minister for Health the measurements that are in place year-on-year to ensure the HSE becomes carbon neutral over the coming years. [44912/23]
    • Health Services
      549. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding to patients who have to travel to hospital for treatments who have no access to public transport and are not capable of driving; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      551. To ask the Minister for Health why a person was excluded from the pandemic recognition payment (details supplied). [44953/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      553. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that low dose naltrexone is not covered under the medical card or hardship scheme and that this is used to treat...
    • Hospital Staff
      554. To ask the Minister for Health what arrangements will be in place for dermatology patients at Letterkenny University Hospital when the only dermatologist retires shortly. [44974/23]
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      555. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the letter from 78 GPs in Donegal, conveying their serious concerns about the ongoing crisis at Letterkenny University Hospital, calling for...
    • Dental Services
      556. To ask the Minister for Health the current orthodontic waiting times for Dublin, Limerick and Cork; the number of patients in each area seen by public orthodontists to date in 2023; the...
    • Mental Health Services
      557. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of mental health funding under Budget 2024. [44989/23]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      558. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients awaiting knee and hip surgeries at Letterkenny University Hospital; and the number of cancellations of appointments for knee and hip...
    • Hospital Procedures
      559. To ask the Minister for Health the number of day surgeries that have been cancelled at Letterkenny University Hospital in 2021, 2022, and 2023, in tabular form. [45001/23]
    • Health Services
      560. To ask the Minister for Health if two minor injury clinics will be established in Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45003/23]
    • Hospital Facilities
      561. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ask the HSE to urgently review the decision not to include a surgical hub for the north west and to consider Donegal town as one of the locations...
    • Cancer Services
      562. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that were put in place for patients with complex cancer cases in Portiuncula Hospital prior to the hiring of a consultant radiologist six weeks...
    • Hospital Procedures
      563. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary total hip and primary total knee replacement surgeries performed at Letterkenny University Hospital during each of the calendar years...
    • Departmental Reports
      569. To ask the Minister for Health to publish the latest report from the HSE Working Group on Residential Treatment and Rehabilitation (Substance Users). [45053/23]
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      570. To ask the Minister for Health the average wait time, by facility, from referral to admission for addiction rehabilitation and detox. [45054/23]
    • Departmental Data
      571. To ask the Minister for Health given that an estimated up to 5% of children and young people in Ireland are impacted by foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, the dedicated supports that are...
    • Health Services
      573. To ask the Minister for Health when a payment to a person will occur (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45077/23]
    • Nursing Homes
      575. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the full details of the audit on the €150 million temporary assistance payments scheme for voluntary and private nursing homes; the...
    • Industrial Disputes
      576. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will engage with the unions and workers involved in the Section 39 community and voluntary sector organisations who are engaging in strike...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      577. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive an urgent appointment in CHI, given the appointment set for 18 October 2023 has been postponed to 15 November 2023...
    • Hospital Staff
      578. To ask the Minister for Health the number of approved nursing posts in the paediatric emergency department in the Regional Hospital, Mullingar. [45123/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      584. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an urgent medical appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45143/23]
    • Healthcare Policy
      586. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to provide access to the long-term illness scheme for persons affected by hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      587. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45153/23]
    • Healthcare Policy
      590. To ask the Minister for Health the reason why a report (details supplied) cannot be accepted as part of an LTI application in view of previous reports approved on that basis. [45165/23]
    • International Agreements
      591. To ask the Minister for Health when he and his Department will be prepared to sign the Joint Ministerial Declaration on the Guarantee of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the...
    • Mental Health Services
      592. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the statement within a review (details supplied) which states that "that 92.7% of urgent CAMHS cases were responded to within three working days";...
    • Nursing Homes
      593. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which it is intended to facilitate the family of a person (details supplied) in respect of fair deal scheme charges; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      594. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commit to meeting with a group that wish to discuss current and increasing regulation on tanning bed usage; if he will consider a central database...
    • Mental Health Services
      596. To ask the Minister for Health if urgent assistance through CAMHS can be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45187/23]
    • Care of the Elderly
      597. To ask the Minister for Health to review an urgent case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45188/23]
    • Public Sector Pensions
      598. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify a pension query for a person (details supplied). [45190/23]
    • Health Services
      599. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list for podiatry appointments by CHO area and region including the length of time each person has been waiting; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Services Staff
      600. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE posts vacant across all community healthcare services by CHO area and region, including the length of time the post has been vacant; and if...
    • Regulatory Bodies
      601. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on progress made to date by his Department on work to develop a policy framework to guide policy on the regulation of health and social...
    • Health Services
      602. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if any further progress has been made to date by his Department regarding the inclusion of certified athletic therapists in the CORU regulation...
    • Nursing Homes
      604. To ask the Minister for Health his response to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45223/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      605. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive the pandemic recognition payment. [45224/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      608. To ask the Minister for Health to report on the amount of money allocated to section 38 and section 39 mental health organisations in the years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023,...
    • Health Services
      612. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who started on chemotherapy, hormonal treatments and immunotherapy in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2023. [45271/23]
    • Departmental Data
      613. To ask the Minister for Health the number of babies born with drug or alcohol addiction in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023. [45272/23]
    • Cancer Services
      614. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women screened by BreastCheck in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023. [45273/23]
    • Health Services
      616. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1788 of 11 September 2023, how the funding for each CHO will be spent; who decides which community and voluntary...
    • Dental Services
      617. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GMS registered dentists in Cavan-Monaghan in 2021,2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form. [45284/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      618. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE ophthalmic registrars working in Cavan General Hospital in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [45285/23]
    • General Practitioner Services
      619. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GMS registered general practitioners in Cavan-Monaghan in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [45286/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      620. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric in infectious diseases based in CHI Temple Street in of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [45287/23]
    • Departmental Data
      621. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE lactation consultants positions in CHO1 in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [45288/23]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      622. To ask the Minister for Health if the non-payment of the pandemic recognition payment to a person (details supplied) will be investigated and resolved.; and if he will make a statement on...
    • General Practitioner Services
      623. To ask the Minister for Health what action is being taken by the HSE to assist people who are not medical card holders to access GP services in areas where GPs have retired, such as the town...
    • Data Protection
      624. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No.614 of 3 October 2023, if he will provide detail on the nature of the data breaches suffered by his Department; the...
    • Health Services
      625. To ask the Minister for Health when day care services will be reinstated at Carndonagh, Community Hospital, County Donegal; if he is aware that a public meeting, attended by hundreds of...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      626. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will deliver a minor injury unit to be based at Carndonagh Community Hospital as part of the plan to reduce attendances at the crisis laden...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      627. To ask the Minister for Health the reason cannot get an appointment with a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45355/23]
    • Departmental Reviews
      628. To ask the Minister for Health if he will conduct a review of the lack of support given to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45356/23]
    • Sexually Transmitted Infections
      629. To ask the Minister for Health the number of diagnoses of HIV, gonorrhoea, chlamydia, syphilis, pubic lice and HPV in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Data
      630. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by the HSE on private recruitment firms in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; the number and type of staff recruited by...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Further and Higher Education
      631. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether a local public representative would be precluded from applying to the Board of Skillnet; if so, the reason for this; and if he will make...
    • Third Level Admissions
      632. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has examined the cases of the students who earned a place on their chosen college course, when their papers were re-evaluated, but have...
    • Third Level Staff
      633. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to a letter sent to the office of the Minister of State for Skills and Further Education (details supplied), if he will meet with the...
    • Legislative Process
      634. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the Construction Safety Licensing Bill 2023. [44840/23]
    • Regulatory Bodies
      635. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason an applicant to a Board was unsuccessful (details supplied); the pathway to receive full feedback on their application; and if he will...
    • Third Level Costs
      636. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether he would consider approving a course (details supplied) for tax relief. [44983/23]
    • Grant Payments
      637. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who sought the SUSI grant on the grounds of estrangement from parents in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023....
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      638. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how many instructors are employed by Cavan-Monaghan Educational Training Board to conduct cybersecurity associate level 6 apprenticeship training...
    • Data Protection
      639. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 716 of 3 October 2023, if he will provide detail on the nature of the data breaches suffered by his...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      640. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to the €67 million announced for apprenticeships in the Budget Expenditure Report (2024), how much of this comprises unspent...
    • Further and Higher Education
      642. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to his announcement that PhDs will receive a €3,000 increase in their stipend, if he can confirm that this applies to...
    • Third Level Education
      644. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline his progress on the roll-out of graduate entry dentistry across selected Irish universities; and if he will make a statement...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Departmental Schemes
      645. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the grants and funding streams available to assist community centres with the maintenance and upgrade of their facilities; and if she...
    • Control of Dogs
      646. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if any of the recommendations from the interdepartmental working group which has been examining issues under the Control of Dogs Act...
    • Rural Schemes
      647. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide an update on the evaluation of the Leader Local Development Strategies for the 2023-2027 programme; when the funding...
    • Departmental Data
      652. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of contracts awarded to suppliers to fit monuments and or plaques in Clare County Council graveyards in 2019, 2020, 2021,...
    • Men's Sheds
      653. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the men’s shed sustainability grant of €2,000 is still available from her Department to assist with the running costs...
    • Rural Schemes
      654. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of new approved participants in the senior alert scheme for 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [45237/23]
    • Data Protection
      655. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 731 of 3 October 2023, if she will provide detail on the nature of the data breaches suffered by...

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