Written answers
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Cabinet Committees
34. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Children and Education will next meet. [41577/23]
- Departmental Functions
48. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the economic policy unit of his Department. [42613/23]
- Departmental Legal Cases
64. To ask the Taoiseach the number of legal cases taken against his Department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023; and the costs associated with same in each of those years. [45405/23]
- Departmental Strategies
65. To ask the Taoiseach to outline the work completed on implementation of the Well-being Framework Policy post-Budget 2023 and prior to Budget 2024; the data sets used in that process; the...
- Budget 2024
66. To ask the Taoiseach how the people of Clare will benefit from his Department’s allocations in Budget 2024 [45782/23]
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Passport Services
67. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application (details supplied), as the applicant's travel date is imminent and all requested supporting...
- Departmental Legal Cases
68. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of legal cases taken against his Department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023; and the costs associated with same...
- Emigrant Support Services
69. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a detailed breakdown on the organisations in Australia that have made applications under the Emigrant Support Programme since...
- Passport Services
70. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45632/23]
- Middle East
71. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will make a statement of solidarity with people of Gaza and Palestine during this terrible time for them and to condemn the illegal...
- Departmental Staff
72. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware that workers at the Passport Office are not receiving their entitled pay increments; and if he will investigate the matter and...
- Budget 2024
73. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade how the people of Clare will benefit from his Department’s allocations in Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Climate Action Fund
74. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide the details of the source of the revenues paid into the Climate Action Fund, on an annual basis from 2020;...
- Departmental Legal Cases
77. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of legal cases taken against his Department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023; and the costs...
- Grant Payments
78. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if grants are provided to a landowner who gives land over for windmills to be built on their land (details supplied);...
- Inland Fisheries
79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the Section 18 appointments in place of the Board of Inland Fisheries Ireland (details...
- Climate Action Plan
80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide an update on the review of the ministerial accountability framework for the sectoral emissions ceilings as...
- Legislative Measures
84. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if Gas Networks Ireland is considered a relevant body under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment)...
- State Bodies
85. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on NewERA monitoring of the implementation of commitments in the commercial semi-State...
- Climate Action Plan
86. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress to date, to include the public sector, in the Climate Change in the Irish Mind survey, as outlined in the...
- Energy Infrastructure
87. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the average lifespan of a smart meter by model; the number of reported meter failures by model; and the average waiting...
- Inland Fisheries
89. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the report into the external review of governance within Inland Fisheries Ireland including an examination of the...
- Postal Services
91. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his office is aware that the An Post post box was removed from a location (details supplied) during renovations and...
- Budget 2024
92. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how the people of Clare will benefit from his Department’s allocations in Budget 2024; and if he will make a...
- Department of Defence
- Departmental Legal Cases
93. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of legal cases taken against his Department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023; and the costs associated with same in...
- Budget 2024
94. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence how the people of Clare will benefit from his Department’s allocations in Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Road Tolls
95. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the lower mission vehicle toll incentive and will be continued beyond this year; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Bus Services
96. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Bus Éireann or Local Link are looking at a bus route from Castleblayney to Navan to accommodate persons (details supplied); and if...
- Departmental Legal Cases
97. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of legal cases taken against his Department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023; and the costs associated with...
- Budget 2024
98. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extra buses that will be provided to Bus Eireann arising from Budget 2024. [45430/23]
- Road Safety
99. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an issue (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45445/23]
- Road Projects
100. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 213 of 7 March 2023, the current status of a pedestrian footbridge over the Owenriff River in...
- Driver Test
101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has received the correspondence regarding the unacceptable waiting times for driving tests, which are currently at an all-time high...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Credits
102. To ask the Minister for Finance to clarify the conditions that must be fulfilled for a person to claim carer's credits; what evidence is required or would be accepted to prove a person was a...
- Departmental Legal Cases
103. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of legal cases taken against his Department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023; and the costs associated with same in each of those...
- Budget 2024
104. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale for the €80,000 threshold with regard to the introduction of mortgage interest relief in Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on...
- Revenue Commissioners
105. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of additional WTE staff by grade that would be required if the Revenue Commissioners PAYE hotline was operated until 4.30pm between Mondays and...
- Tax Code
106. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will engage with GPs who will be negatively affected by the recent guidelines issued by the Revenue Commissioners in relation to tax treatment; the...
- Insurance Coverage
108. To ask the Minister for Finance if any progress has been made to make insurance for thatched properties more affordable; if he will outline the meetings that have taken place between his...
- Climate Action Plan
109. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of funding set aside, from windfall taxes, for the Climate Action Fund for 2024-2026, as referenced in the Summer Economic Statement 2023,...
- Tax Code
111. To ask the Minister for Finance whether an employer can provide part of an employee's annual bonus as a voucher under the small benefit exemption; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Credit Register
112. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of any mechanism by which a person can improve their credit rating in the situation where their home was repossessed and where there was a...
- Departmental Strategies
113. To ask the Minister for Finance when the public consultation on the National Payments Strategy will open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45670/23]
- Departmental Data
114. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of mortgages, previously classed as performing loans, which have fallen into arrears since the beginning of the interest rate increases to date;...
- Tax Code
115. To ask the Minister for Finance if there has been any analysis of the success of the Budget 2023 measure to remove VAT on AEDs; if there is any data on the number of AEDs purchased in 2023...
- Budget 2024
116. To ask the Minister for Finance if Budget 2024 reduced the VAT rate for print maps or eMaps to 0% given that the VAT rate on eBooks and audio books was reduced to 0%; and if he will make a...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Departmental Legal Cases
118. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of legal cases taken against his Department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023; and the costs associated with...
- An Garda Síochána
119. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the capital works that were carried out in Garda Training College, Templemore in 2022 and to-date in 2023; and the capital works...
- Equality Issues
120. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the work completed on gender equality budgeting by his Department post-Budget 2023 and prior to Budget 2024; the data sets...
- Animal Culls
121. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the proposed cull of rabbits (details supplied) will take place; if so, when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45504/23]
- Ukraine War
122. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether he can provide details of a company (details supplied) in Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45609/23]
- State Bodies
123. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on the code of practice for the governance of State bodies to reflect the requirement to report under the public...
- Budget 2024
124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform how the people of Clare will benefit from his Department’s allocations in Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Departmental Legal Cases
125. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of legal cases taken against his Department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023; and the costs associated...
- State Bodies
126. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the budget allocation for the Companies Enforcement Agency in 2023; and the budget allocation for same in 2024. [45429/23]
- Work Permits
127. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what steps he intends to take to expedite the applications for work permits in the processing industry; and if he will make a...
- Business Supports
129. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total moneys issued under the temporary business energy support scheme; what has become of the underspend from this scheme; and...
- Budget 2024
131. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for a breakdown of the €27 million allocated to IDA Ireland in Budget 2024 to accelerate its Regional Property and Enterprise...
- Enterprise Support Services
132. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for a breakdown of the €9 million allocated to Local Enterprise Offices to increase Measure 1 and Measure 2 grants, Trading...
- Budget 2024
133. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if funding will be made available from Budget 2024 for a doubling of the innovation voucher. [45601/23]
- Enterprise Support Services
134. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for a breakdown of the Science and Technology Programme funding allocated for EI's Modern Methods of Construction Demonstration Park...
- Budget 2024
135. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for a breakdown of the of the €750 thousand allocation in Budget 2024 to contribution to support nine Regional Enterprise Plan...
- National Minimum Wage
136. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on concerns raised by a small company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45604/23]
- Business Supports
137. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason businesses with penal rates of €63,700 and €55,200 are excluded from the SME support scheme; how the...
- Budget 2024
142. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how the people of Clare will benefit from his Department’s allocations in Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Library Projects
143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the Junior Certificate School Programme (JCSP) Demonstration Library Project and JCSP Digital Library Service will be expanded; and if she...
- Departmental Legal Cases
144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of legal cases taken against her Department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023; and the costs associated with same in...
- School Transport
145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an application for a change in the nature of the school transport provision will be made for a student (details supplied); and if she will...
- Budget 2024
147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what funding her Department will allocate to the National Educational Psychological Service as part of Budget 2024. [45498/23]
- Special Educational Needs
148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if current supports in place for a child with Down's syndrome will continue until they are 18 years old (details supplied); and if she will make...
- Schools Building Projects
149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when additional accommodation will be provided at a school in County Meath (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- School Transport
150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the matter regarding increasing the age of school bus drivers from 70 to 75 years when medically certified can be reviewed given the current...
- National Educational Psychological Service
151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils, who had direct involvement with psychologists of the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) in the school years...
- School Transport
153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason bus transport has not been provided to students enrolled at schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Staff
154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify if a person is eligible for an allowance (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45564/23]
- School Transport
155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport will be provided to students (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45571/23]
- Capitation Grants
156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will amend the guidelines for the annual census on which the capitation grant is based, in light of increased enrolments in schools after...
- Education Schemes
157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children without a school place who were forced to avail of home tuition in each year over the past five years, in tabular form for...
- Special Educational Needs
162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the proposed new special school for the south Wicklow/north Wexford area; the capacity of the school; the opening date of any...
- School Transport
163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the provision of funding for transport for students (details supplied) to access off-site sports facilities; and if she will...
- Information and Communications Technology
164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the ICT grant will be paid to both primary and post-primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45660/23]
- Disadvantaged Status
165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she will put in place to address the serious situation faced by a DEIS school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
- School Staff
166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the teacher vacancy rate in a school (details supplied); the assistance her Department will offer to fill these vacancies;...
- Special Educational Needs
167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the SNA vacancy rate in a school (details supplied); the assistance her Department will offer to fill these vacancies; and if she will make a...
- School Staff
168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average teacher vacancy rate in secondary schools in Dublin Mid-West, by school; what assistance her Department will offer to fill these...
- Youth Services
170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to extend Youth Reach to include 13/14-year-olds; if not, what options are available to parents who would like their children...
- Budget 2024
171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how the people of Clare will benefit from her Department’s allocations in Budget 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Departmental Legal Cases
172. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of legal cases taken against her Department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023; and the costs associated...
- Film Industry
173. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she plans to visit the east coast of the United States early in 2024 to meet senior officials from major film production...
- Defibrillators Provision
174. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she can provide details of the number of funding requests through the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme, or other...
- Budget 2024
175. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht how the people of Clare will benefit from her Department’s allocations in Budget 2024; and if she will make a statement on...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Housing Policy
176. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm that New Era is undertaking a review of the LDA; to confirm the terms of reference of that review; and to state...
- Energy Conservation
177. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when details of the 2023 retrofit scheme will issue to local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45720/23]
- Departmental Legal Cases
178. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of legal cases taken against his Department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023; and the costs...
- Housing Schemes
179. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 531 of 19 January 2022, and 192 of 4 May 2022, the current status of the social...
- Planning Issues
187. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will be bringing a memo to Cabinet regarding the issue of alleged historic planning irregularities in County Donegal....
- Housing Schemes
188. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how much funding for the capital advance leasing facility will be allocated in Budget 2024. [45596/23]
- Housing Policy
190. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of any scenario where the clawback amount on a local authority home purchased 20 years ago can be reduced; and...
- EU Directives
191. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Article 8 of the Broadband Cost Reduction Directive 2014 (2014/61/EU) will be enacted into Irish law by the end of 2023;...
- Housing Schemes
192. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a decision will be made on an application submitted to his Department by Galway City Council for a housing grant in...
- Housing Policy
193. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a policy (details supplied) to ensure greater access to housing for individuals and families on lower...
- Housing Provision
194. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many affordable homes have been delivered, by county in 2020, 2021, 2022, and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he...
- Vacant Properties
195. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will extend the timeframe of 13 months to complete works to vacant and derelict properties under the croí...
- Housing Schemes
196. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications for the tenant in situ scheme from both tenants and landlords, for each local authority for each of...
- Budget 2021
197. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how the people of Clare will benefit from his Department’s allocations in Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Benefits
198. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on a matter regarding child benefit payments (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Legal Cases
199. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of legal cases taken against her Department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023; and the costs...
- Social Welfare Eligibility
200. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify the situation regarding eligibility for children's allowance for children in full-time secondary...
- Departmental Staff
201. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of WTE medical assessors working in her Department in 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form; and if there are...
- Budget 2024
202. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for excluding invalidity benefit from the bonus announced in Budget 2024; and her views on whether this is...
- Social Welfare Payments
203. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the options available to a person (details supplied) in a situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45497/23]
- Social Welfare Eligibility
205. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45578/23]
- Parental Leave
206. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a definitive date by which a baby must be born in order for parents to avail of the additional two weeks of...
- Social Welfare Payments
207. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what type of payment a person (details supplied) is receiving; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45671/23]
- Budget 2024
209. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how the people of Clare will benefit from her Department’s allocations in Budget 2024; and if she will make a...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Departmental Legal Cases
210. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of legal cases taken against her Department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023; and the costs...
- An Garda Síochána
211. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the transport budget allocation to An Garda Síochána in 2022 and 2023; and the expected transport budget that is...
- Crime Prevention
213. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she acknowledges the long-term benefits of supporting organisations such as CASP Clondalkin Addiction Support Programme,...
- Budget 2024
214. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how the people of Clare will benefit from her Department’s allocations in Budget 2024; and if she will make a statement...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Departmental Legal Cases
215. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of legal cases taken against his Department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023; and the costs associated...
- Harbours and Piers
216. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the repairs to the western marina pontoon at Dingle Fisheries Harbour has commenced; and when are these works expected to be...
- Animal Welfare
218. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration is being given to the increased cost of running animal welfare and animal rescue organisations as preparations are...
- Agriculture Schemes
219. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to renew the lime scheme in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45630/23]
- EU Regulations
220. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has carried out a review or impact assessment on the potential implications the changes to the current Sustainable...
- Special Areas of Conservation
221. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 360 of 26 September 2023, if the lands in question are still designated as geese and swan...
- Budget 2024
222. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how the people of Clare will benefit from his Department’s allocations in Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Disability Services
223. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the revised capital ceilings under the National Development Plan for his Department given the transfer of...
- Departmental Legal Cases
225. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of legal cases taken against his Department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023; and...
- Disability Services
226. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to bring the Section 39 workers up to pay parity with the Section 38 workers (details supplied)....
- International Protection
228. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the location of each emergency accommodation centre for international protection applicants across the State;...
- Disability Services
230. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a person (details supplied) in County Donegal had their bus escort stopped in June 2023; when the...
- Budget 2024
233. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will expedite the proposed Budget increase for foster carers to 1 January 2024, in view of the fact that...
- Childcare Services
234. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of the targeted funding which will be allocated to early years services in disadvantaged areas which...
- Budget 2024
236. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to move forward the implementation of increases to payments made by his Department in Budget 2024 to...
- Disability Services
237. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to clarify the new funding provided for disability services in Budget 2024; to provide a breakdown of the...
- Budget 2024
238. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how the people of Clare will benefit from his Department’s allocations in Budget 2024; and if he will...
- Disabilities Assessments
239. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the aggressive measures he intends to use to reduce waiting lists for assessments of needs for children; and if...
- Disability Services
240. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current waiting lists for first contact from Clare Children's Disability Network Team, in tabular form; and...
- Department of Health
- Mental Health Services
241. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE psychologists and behaviour therapists based in CHO 3 and 5 in 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form. [45415/23]
- Public Procurement Contracts
242. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed explanation of the processes, milestones and timelines that led to the recently released tender for Cork University Hospital Clinical...
- Health Promotion
244. To ask the Minister for Health if he agrees that there should be a moral obligation on food retail outlets, large or small, to sell fresh fruit, that is, individual fruits, a whole banana,...
- Health Services
245. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urge the HSE to reconsider its decision to refuse funding to a cancer support group (details supplied); the reason this group is being denied...
- Health Service Executive
246. To ask the Minister for Health to direct the HSE to respond to concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); the reason the HSE has not responded to a number of representations on...
- Departmental Legal Cases
247. To ask the Minister for Health the number of legal cases taken against his Department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023; and the costs associated with same in each of those...
- Hospital Services
248. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that have attended the minor injuries unit at Nenagh General Hospital in 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form. [45422/23]
- Health Services
249. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the CHOs that currently provide rapid access stabilisation units; and his plans to provide funding for such units. [45423/23]
- Hospital Staff
250. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE advanced nurse practitioner in paediatric rheumatology at University Hospital Limerick in 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form....
- Health Services Waiting Lists
251. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for each HSE weight management clinic, in tabular form. [45425/23]
- Hospital Services
252. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to extend the opening hours of the minor injuries unit at Our Lady's Hospital, Cashel to 8am-8pm seven days a week. [45426/23]
- Hospital Appointments Status
253. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45434/23]
- Disability Services
254. To ask the Minister for Health if respite services (details supplied) in County Donegal are fully operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45435/23]
- General Practitioner Services
255. To ask the Minister for Health if he has been made aware of GPs who will be negatively affected by the recent guidelines issued by the Revenue Commissioners in relation to tax treatment; if...
- Pharmacy Services
257. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he will introduce to address the issues outlined by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45444/23]
- Emergency Departments
258. To ask the Minister for Health the average wait time from check-in to seeing a clinician at Letterkenny University Hospital emergency department; the national average for this figure; and if...
- Health Services Staff
260. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45451/23]
- Industrial Disputes
262. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to proposed industrial action by some Section 39 workers related to pay disparity disputes; if his Department is engaging with...
- Budget 2024
263. To ask the Minister for Health what funding his Department will allocate to the National Educational Psychological Service as part of Budget 2024. [45499/23]
- Hospital Charges
264. To ask the Minister for Health the reason public patients holding medical cards are being asked to pay fees for MRI scans referred through the public health system in Wexford; and if he will...
- Budget 2024
265. To ask the Minister for Health if support centres (details supplied) have been allocated any funding in Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45518/23]
- Health Services
266. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that have been taken since 2020 to improve capacity within community health services in the mid-west to take pressure off the emergency department...
- Health Services Waiting Lists
267. To ask the Minister for Health if research has been carried out by his Department to ascertain the impact that waiting lists are having on the effectiveness of antibiotics which in many...
- Eating Disorders
268. To ask the Minister for Health if the provisions of Budget 2024 will see an increase in services for people with eating disorders; if he has made any provision for the development of a...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
269. To ask the Minister for Health if certain workers (details supplied) are to receive the pandemic bonus; the reasons for not receiving it to date; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Nursing Homes
270. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a fair deal review (details supplied). [45573/23]
- Mortality Rates
271. To ask the Minister for Health if he will seek details from his Department on the total number of deaths from causations (detail supplied) from 2014 to 2021; and if he will make a statement...
- Child Abuse
272. To ask the Minister for Health if an inquiry was ever held by the Eastern Area Health Board with regard to allegations of child abuse (details supplied) in 1996 as stated in the media...
- Disability Services
273. To ask the Minister for Health the revised capital ceilings under the National Development Plan for his Department given the transfer of specialist disability services to the Department of...
- Medical Qualifications
274. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of concerns raised regarding the potential implications of CORU draft registration standards for psychotherapy training and if the proposed...
- Public Procurement Contracts
275. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed explanation of the processes, milestones and timelines that led to the recently released HSE tender for Cork University Hospital Clinical...
- Medical Qualifications
277. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the registration of psychotherapists; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Disability Services
278. To ask the Minister for Health can he give a full update on the completion of the day care centre in Monasterevin; and a timeline on a projected opening date for same. [45712/23]
- Disabilities Assessments
279. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he will take to address issues in relation to children, already previously assessed for autism, but due to errors identified in those assessments,...
- Medical Cards
280. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the medical cards of children under seven years coming up as invalid at GP surgeries, when they are still well within their expiry date, causing...
- Hospital Appointments Status
281. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an urgent appointment to have both cataract surgeries completed at University Hospital Limerick,...
- Budget 2024
282. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the new funding provided for mental health in Budget 2024; to provide a breakdown of the allocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Appointments Status
283. 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. [45756/23]
- Health Services
284. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a process within the HSE where a person (details supplied) can access the long-term illness card for treatment of hereditary spastic paraplegia;...
- Budget 2024
285. To ask the Minister for Health how the people of Clare will benefit from his Department’s allocations in Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45776/23]
- Mental Health Services
286. To ask the Minister for Health the mental health supports in place for adults with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45787/23]
- Department of Education and Skills
- Third Level Fees
289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for not addressing the cost of graduate entry medicine fees as a means for increasing the number of qualified medicine graduates;...
- Departmental Legal Cases
290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of legal cases taken against his Department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023; and the costs associated with same in...
- Grant Payments
291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether his attention has been drawn to SUSI guidelines for proof of independent residency (details supplied), whereby they do not account for...
- Technological Universities
292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the significant lack of parking availability at the Waterford campus of South East Technological University...
- Third Level Costs
294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1008 of 21 March 2023, if his Department can provide a copy of any response issued; if none issued, to...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on apprentice placements (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45659/23]
- Grant Payments
297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a third level student who is completely estranged from their parents, but has not reached the age of 23 years, can apply for support through a...
- Student Accommodation
298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the development of the long-term policy approach to support the construction of student accommodation; the expected timeline for...
- Budget 2024
299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how the people of Clare will benefit from his Department’s allocations in Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Control of Dogs
300. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she plans to impose a ban on dangerous American XL bully dogs in Ireland; the steps she has taken to ensure that owners of dogs...
- Departmental Legal Cases
301. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of legal cases taken against her Department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023; and the costs associated...
- Rural Recreation Policy
302. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the 2023 budget allocation for outdoor recreation infrastructure scheme within her Department; and the expected 2024 budget allocation...
- Voluntary Sector
303. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of an application by an organisation (details supplied) to Pobal for funding for an additional full-time worker; and if she...
- Budget 2024
304. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development how the people of Clare will benefit from her Department’s allocations in Budget 2024; and if she will make a statement on the...
