Written answers
Wednesday, 29 November 2023
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Departmental Expenditure
1. To ask the Taoiseach the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to his Department in each of the years from 2016 to date in 2023; and separately, the top...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Passport Services
2. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will expedite passport applications (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52585/23]
- Departmental Expenditure
4. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to his Department in each of the years from 2016 to date in...
- EU Directives
5. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a list of all EU Directives which have not yet been ratified within his Department; the estimated date of ratification of each...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Energy Conservation
6. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52600/23]
- Business Supports
7. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the data relating to the funded NDRC accelerator and unfunded pre-accelerators between 2017 and 2023; the breakdown of...
- Climate Change Policy
11. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on Ireland’s climate finance to developing countries; how much was provided in 2020, 2021, 2022...
- Energy Prices
12. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are any continuous supports for elderly people who are dependent on electric-powered medical devices with...
- Departmental Expenditure
14. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to his Department in each of the...
- Climate Action Plan
15. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide the latest financial modelling of the total cost of implementing all actions set out in the 2021 Climate...
- Electricity Grid
18. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline in detail the projected size requirement of the Irish electricity grid to power all the heating required for...
- Electricity Transmission Network
19. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline the expected number of homes in Ireland that will have to be rewired (details supplied) including with a...
- Electric Vehicles
20. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the analysis that has been carried out by his Department to determine if the Irish vehicle fleet were to go electric...
- EU Directives
22. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a list of all EU Directives which have not yet been ratified within his Department; the estimated date of...
- Departmental Schemes
23. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if schemes are available for persons living beside wind farms (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Defence
- Official Engagements
24. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the engagements he or his Department have had with representative governments or civil society organisations from the global south, particularly...
- Defence Forces
25. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if there is a height restriction on entry into the Irish Defence Forces; if so, if there are plans to adjust or remove such a restriction, given...
- Departmental Expenditure
26. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to his Department in each of the years from 2016 to date in...
- EU Directives
27. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide a list of all EU Directives which have not yet been ratified within his Department; the estimated date of ratification of each...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Electric Vehicles
28. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number and location of EV charge points in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52587/23]
- Road Projects
29. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the up-to-date position of a project (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52616/23]
- Road Safety
30. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the parameters for the use of tractors and agricultural vehicles on motorways; which vehicles are permitted to use motorways; the speed...
- Departmental Expenditure
32. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to his Department in each of the years from 2016 to date...
- EU Directives
33. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a list of all EU Directives which have not yet been ratified within his Department; the estimated date of ratification of each...
- Road Traffic Offences
34. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the powers available to gardaí to seize vehicles which produce excessive noise due to a modified exhaust...
- Bus Services
35. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he can provide an update on the implementation of the 425 Galway to Mountbellew service; when in Q4 is it expected to be up and...
- Public Transport
39. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total bill of damages to public transport infrastructure with respect to rioting in Dublin city centre on the evening of 23 November...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Rebates
40. To ask the Minister for Finance to clarify the current Revenue Commissioners guidelines for the VAT 58 rebate for farmers on certain farm equipment such as feed bins, milk bulk tanks,...
- Tax Code
41. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of taxpayers in County Kildare who stand to benefit from the USC reduction as provided for in budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Expenditure
42. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to his Department in each of the years from 2016 to date in 2023; and...
- Tax Reliefs
43. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason are farmers debarred from benefitting from reliefs if they have solar panels on their farms (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
- EU Directives
44. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a list of all EU Directives which have not yet been ratified within his Department; the estimated date of ratification of each Directive; and the...
- Motor Industry
45. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of cars exported from Ireland under the VRT refund scheme in the years 2013, 2014 and 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52746/23]
- National Treasury Management Agency
46. To ask the Minister for Finance the role the National Development Finance Agency has in protecting public procurement in large capital projects from bid-rigging and any ongoing review of...
- Departmental Funding
47. To ask the Minister for Finance the data relating to the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund between 2017 and 2023; the breakdown of number of company applicants for each programme to the ISIF...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Departmental Expenditure
49. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to his Department in each of the years from 2016 to...
- State Properties
50. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason and how the State acted with such alacrity on the purchase of a property at Dowth, while still delaying on the purchase of...
- EU Directives
52. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a list of all EU Directives which have not yet been ratified within his Department; the estimated date of ratification of each...
- Caiteachas Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta
53. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform an bhfuil sé sásta bualadh le toscaireacht ón earnáil Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta maidir leis an bPlean Fáis, plean...
- Coastal Protection
54. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will review the impact of coastal protection works at Rossbeigh, County Kerry; if he will consider a view sent in correspondence...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Departmental Expenditure
55. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to his Department in each of the years from 2016 to...
- Trade Agreements
56. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 44 of 23 November 2023, if there is no formal mechanism for a member state to call for the...
- EU Directives
57. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a list of all EU Directives which have not yet been ratified within his Department; the estimated date of ratification of...
- Caiteachas Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta
58. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has had an opportunity to read the Plean Fáis: an Investment Plan for Irish and the Gaeltacht, launched by Conradh na...
- Departmental Expenditure
59. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total value of Government funding allocated to the NDRC accelerator and NDRC pre-accelerator and the Ireland Strategic Investment...
- Special Educational Needs
61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the ASD special class will open in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52671/23]
- Schools Building Projects
62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52686/23]
- Renewable Energy Generation
63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when schools in County Cork will be eligible to apply for the solar for schools programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52691/23]
- EU Directives
64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of all EU Directives which have not yet been ratified within her Department; the estimated date of ratification of each...
- School Transport
65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review a case for school transport (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52736/23]
- Special Educational Needs
67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for additional subject hours lodged with her Department by a special school earlier this year (details...
- Official Engagements
68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on her recent meeting with the British Secretary of State for Education Gillian Keegan; and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Textbooks
69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in Connacht and Ulster who will benefit from the free schoolbooks scheme in both primary and secondary schools; and if she...
- Schools Building Projects
70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the capital build project for a school (details supplied). [52784/23]
- Special Educational Needs
71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the case of a school (details supplied); if she will review the attached correspondence from the school and indicate when...
- Traveller Education
72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the supports given by the provision of homework clubs for Traveller children; the homework clubs, if any, that her Department funds...
- State Examinations
73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will act to ensure that oral exams are moved back before the Easter break, as requested by a union (details supplied); and if she will make...
- School Transport
74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been brought to the shortage of bus contractors and drivers available to provide the school transport service in parts of...
- School Staff
76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 713 of 18 January 2023; the status of plans to establish a new system of redeployment for post-primary...
- Oideachas trí Ghaeilge
77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte Uimh. 150 an 29 Iúil 2023, an dtabharfaidh sí soiléiriú ar an dul chun cinn atá déanta...
- School Funding
78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what analysis her Department has carried out into the different approaches to funding, and any disparities that may arise as a result, between ETB...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Departmental Expenditure
79. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to her Department in each of the years from 2016...
- EU Directives
80. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a list of all EU Directives which have not yet been ratified within her Department; the estimated date of ratification...
- Swimming Pools
81. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the swimming pool grant will be available to groups in the coming months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52720/23]
- Sports Funding
83. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on a project which has applied under the LSSIF (details supplied); if she can provide an update on this case; and if...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Wildlife Regulations
85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether appointment-only private falconry exhibitions operating with an appropriate falconry licence which operate on an...
- Departmental Expenditure
86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to his Department in each of the years from...
- Defective Building Materials
87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 146 of 4 October 2023 and his assertion of an understanding that “once a home has...
- Local Authorities
88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the resources made available to, and drawn down by, Cork County Council in respect of the appointment of full-time vacant homes...
- EU Directives
89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of all EU Directives which have not yet been ratified within his Department; the estimated date of...
- Planning Issues
90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide, in tabular form, the number of section 179A social housing planning exemptions that have secured stage 1 approval...
- Fire Service
91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52765/23]
- Wastewater Treatment
92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will comment on a pilot wastewater scheme for unsewered villages and when he expects to announce the awardees of the...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Local Authorities
93. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received under the humanitarian assistance fund from Cork city and county, respectively for...
- Departmental Expenditure
94. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to her Department in each of the years from...
- Social Welfare Benefits
95. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will issue a decision on an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied). [52670/23]
- EU Directives
97. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a list of all EU Directives which have not yet been ratified within her Department; the estimated date of...
- Community Employment Schemes
98. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on a proposal put to her Department (details supplied); if she will advise on engagement with...
- Social Welfare Appeals
100. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a carers allowance appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Residency Permits
101. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the recent postings on the irishimmigration.ie website (details supplied); if this will increase waiting times...
- An Garda Síochána
102. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí currently stationed in Monasterevin Garda station, Monasterevin, County Kildare; and the opening...
- Departmental Expenditure
103. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to her Department in each of the years from...
- Visa Applications
104. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to review extenuating circumstances being cited in a visa renewal (details supplied); and if she will provide an update on this...
- EU Directives
105. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a list of all EU Directives which have not yet been ratified within her Department; the estimated date of...
- Crime Prevention
106. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if additional legislative measures are needed to deal effectively with violence, criminality and thuggery as experienced in...
- Family Reunification
107. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the family reunification application of a person (details supplied). [52819/23]
- An Garda Síochána
108. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of arrests and measures that will be taken following rioting in Dublin city centre on the evening of 23...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Invasive Species Policy
109. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how many staff are employed at Irish ports to examine imported timber for bark beetles; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Agriculture Schemes
113. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a BISS payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52597/23]
- Departmental Expenditure
114. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to his Department in each of the years from 2016 to...
- Agriculture Schemes
115. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if slurry bags are eligible for TAMS grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52687/23]
- Fishing Industry
116. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the eligibility criteria of the Brexit fish processor transition scheme can be reviewed in view of the fact that the majority of...
- EU Directives
117. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a list of all EU Directives which have not yet been ratified within his Department; the estimated date of ratification of...
- Fishing Industry
118. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to clarify the confusion which exists in a scheme (details supplied) in relation to whether or not it is calendar year sales or...
- Forestry Sector
119. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will advise on forestry premiums for the previous forestry programme; if he will advise on the difference in premiums under the...
- Inshore Fisheries
124. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if grant aid approved to a small fisherman (details supplied) in County Kerry under the Brexit Inshore Business Model Adjustment...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Disability Diagnoses
126. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 978 of 7 November 2023, what services the assessment of need...
- Disabilities Assessments
127. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of assessments of need carried out by the private sector following a referral from the HSE; the...
- Childcare Services
128. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52607/23]
- Departmental Expenditure
129. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to his Department in each of...
- Childcare Services
130. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that childcare providers are being asked to produce separate sets of accounts to meet the...
- EU Directives
131. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a list of all EU Directives which have not yet been ratified within his Department; the estimated...
- Vaccination Programme
132. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Covid-19 vaccines that were purchased by the HSE between 2020 and 2022; and the total cost of...
- Department of Health
- Mental Health Services
133. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the inpatient peri-natal mental health unit at St. Vincent’s Hospital; when this will be operational; and if he will make a statement...
- Health Service Executive
134. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been any engagement with the HSE with regard to funding Daisy Hill Hospital or access of southern patients to the hospital; if so, if he will...
- Addiction Treatment Services
135. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be allocated to a community group (details supplied) in County Kildare; if so, the amount of funding; the date such funding will be...
- Eating Disorders
136. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults waiting for eating disorder treatment services; and the amount of time they have been waiting, by CHO, in tabular form. [52610/23]
- Mental Health Services
142. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adult mental health beds in CHO7; the location of each; and the number that are currently available for patients. [52624/23]
- Hospital Staff
143. To ask the Minister for Health the number of job offers removed or frozen at Naas General Hospital, Naas, County Kildare as a result of the HSE CEO's recent memorandum; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Charges
145. To ask the Minister for Health if the hospital bill that was issued in respect of a medical card patient (details supplied) for a stay in a hospital will be cancelled in view of the fact the...
- Primary Care Centres
146. To ask the Minister for Health the location of all primary care centres built from 2016 to date; the location of all primary care centres currently in development; and the location of all...
- Departmental Expenditure
147. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to his Department in each of the years from 2016 to date in 2023; and...
- Vaccination Programme
148. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the policy with regard to the shingles vaccination; if he is aware of the significant cost involved for patients; the proposals if any he...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
149. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive their Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52685/23]
- Covid-19 Tests
150. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reinstate free PCR testing centres for Covid-19 for at least the duration of the winter period, given the likely increase in Covid-19 cases; and if...
- EU Directives
151. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of all EU Directives which have not yet been ratified within his Department; the estimated date of ratification of each Directive; and the...
- Health Services Staff
152. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of all vacancies for intellectual disability nursing positions in CHO4; the locations of the vacancies; and the impact of the HSE recruitment...
- General Practitioner Services
153. To ask the Minister for Health whether his attention has been drawn to instances where parents who contact out-of-hours GP helplines have been advised to directly visit an emergency...
- Hospital Appointments Status
154. 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. [52722/23]
- Hospital Services
155. To ask the Minister for Health if he will act to ensure that a dedicated neurology nurse phone line is reopened in Crumlin Hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Services Staff
156. To ask the Minister for Health to indicate the HSE grading system genetic counsellors fall under; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52758/23]
- Eating Disorders
157. To ask the Minister for Health if historical data on the number of children and teenagers treated for anorexia as inpatients in a paediatric hospital is retained; if so, the data for the...
- Vaccination Programme
158. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid 19 vaccines that were purchased by the HSE between 2020 and 2022; and the total cost of these vaccines. [52848/23]
- Department of Education and Skills
- Third Level Education
159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to establishing a postgraduate university course for genetic counselling in Ireland; and if he will make a...
- Third Level Staff
160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52637/23]
- Departmental Expenditure
161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to his Department in each of the years from 2016 to date in...
- EU Directives
162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of all EU Directives which have not yet been ratified within his Department; the estimated date of ratification of each...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Departmental Expenditure
163. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to her Department in each of the years from 2016 to...
- EU Directives
164. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide a list of all EU Directives which have not yet been ratified within her Department; the estimated date of ratification of...
- Offshore Islands
165. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the strategic objectives underpinning the provision of subsidies for the transportation of freight to the offshore islands. [52724/23]
