Written answers

Wednesday, 17 January 2024

  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Middle East
      13. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government sought internal legal advice from the Office of the Attorney General or otherwise, in regard to Israel's actions in Gaza...
    • Citizenship Applications
      15. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his engagements with the Minister for Justice in relation to developing new guidelines in relation to the requirements...
    • Middle East
      16. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason Ireland is not submitting the names and details of the families of Palestinian-Irish citizens for exit from Gaza as other...
    • Passport Services
      17. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application (details supplied) given the applicants travel date is imminent and all requested supporting...
    • Human Rights
      19. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised concerns regarding human rights violations in Bahrain, including the detention of political prisoners and conditions in...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      20. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if an FBR application (details supplied) will be reviewed; if all information required to have this application processed at the earliest...
    • Middle East
      21. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade what efforts his Department is making to ensure the safe release of a person (details supplied) from Gaza; and if he will make a statement on...
    • North-South Ministerial Council
      29. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will list the ongoing research commissioned under the remit of his Department through the North-South Ministerial Council, Shared...
    • Northern Ireland
      30. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will list the ongoing research commissioned under the remit of his Department through the British-Irish Council or through other...
    • EU Programmes
      32. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the annual contribution from Ireland to the European Peace facility each year since it was established and the projected cost for the coming...
    • Departmental Data
      34. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets his Department holds that have been provided and/or shared...
    • Legislative Measures
      36. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will enact the Occupied Territories Bill 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1000/24]
    • Official Engagements
      38. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he plans to visit Poland in the first quarter of 2024. [1075/24]
    • Consular Services
      41. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the post of Irish Honorary Consul in Malaga has been filled; and if not, when he expects this post to be filled. [1145/24]
    • Passport Services
      42. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications currently with the Passport Office from persons based in County Meath. [1169/24]
    • Foreign Conflicts
      43. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade with regard to the increasingly urgent conflict situation in Sudan what supports his Department can provide or if he plans to introduce...
    • Consular Services
      44. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the initiatives his Department's embassies are undertaking to gain international recognition of St. Brigid's day with a particular reference...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      45. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if, in the history of the State, diplomatic status has even been given to representatives of a political movement (such as the African...
    • Economic Sanctions
      46. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if additional harsher sanctions will be discussed to be applied to North Korea due to their involvement in the war against Ukraine at the...
    • Human Rights
      50. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of reports of human rights abuses in Balochistan, Pakistan; if he has taken the matter up with the Government of Pakistan; and...
    • Middle East
      51. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to ensure Ireland’s commitments under the political declaration regarding the use of explosive weapons in populated areas...
    • Nuclear Plants
      Officials from my Department and from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) most recently visited the Sellafield site in July 2023. A similar visit took place in July 2022 and another is...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Energy Conservation
      54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if heat tests are carried out as part of the national retrofitting programme in advance of carrying out a retrofit....
    • Fisheries Protection
      55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a series of matters (details supplied) will be taken into account rather than introducing a brown tag regime on the...
    • Energy Conservation
      56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of concerns (details supplied) concerning the warmer home scheme, that inadequate work is carried out to...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      57. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of the €170.2 million underspend in residential and community retrofits in 2022; the factors that...
    • Departmental Data
      58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of retrofits carried out in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, broken down by scheme and by pre to...
    • Energy Conservation
      62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of additional workers required to reach the Government's national retrofitting targets; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the solar PV scheme for schools will be amended to include free-standing solar structures as well as roof-top...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      64. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has issued any guidance on the disposal of decommissioned wind turbine blades; if he accepts that due...
    • Energy Conservation
      65. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how many applications have been made and approved by the SEAI for residential retrofitting for houses built prior to...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      66. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to the order of business debate of 5 December 2023, to outline the consideration being given to the development...
    • Waste Management
      68. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider a proposal from a post-primary school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Local Authorities
      71. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current annual economic value of cumulative energy efficiency savings resulting from intentional energy efficiency...
    • Recycling Policy
      73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a breakdown of retailers who have signed up for the deposit return scheme to date; how many retails have yet...
    • Departmental Schemes
      74. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider making properties in the private rented sector eligible for funding equivalent to the better energy...
    • EU Directives
      75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the legal actions and actions of instances being taken against his Department for failure to implement EU directives;...
    • Departmental Schemes
      77. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost to double the domestic solar PV scheme by 50% over the next five years. [56818/23]
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will review correspondence (details supplied); and the status of the roll-out of fibre broadband at this property....
    • Climate Change Policy
      80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the Youth Assembly on Climate; and how he plans to respond to the report’s recommendations. [55772/23]
    • Energy Usage
      81. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to review the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56906/23]
    • Research and Development
      82. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will list the ongoing research commissioned under the remit of his Department through the North-South Ministerial...
    • Energy Usage
      83. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how persons can get access to their personal data usage having installed a smart meter without signing up to a smart...
    • National Broadband Plan
      84. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason a property (details supplied) is excluded from the NBI scheme even though the properties either side are...
    • Departmental Schemes
      89. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide details of the number of domestic solar PV upgrades undertaken in 2023; the average size in kw of...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      90. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the allowable size of invertors on residential solar units; whether there has been a change in the size permitted; if...
    • Departmental Schemes
      91. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the targeted solar PV scheme for medically vulnerable persons is in operation; the process by which people can avail...
    • Waste Management
      95. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether he is taking any steps to ban disposable vapes as they are increasingly becoming an environmental hazard in...
    • Departmental Schemes
      96. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are retrofitting grants that are specific to apartment complexes; if not, his plans to put such specific...
    • Departmental Data
      99. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets his Department holds that have been...
    • Recycling Policy
      103. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware that that 75% of collected clothes are exported abroad and that there is an urgent need for regulations...
    • Departmental Schemes
      104. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are any protections for deposits placed by customers with participants in schemes supported by the SEAI for...
    • Environmental Investigations
      105. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of reports carried out on the former Dunsink Dump, Dublin 11, in relation to toxins and odours coming from...
    • Legislative Process
      107. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if all sections of all Acts under the remit of his Department in the past three years have been commenced; and the...
    • Electricity Grid
      108. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what, if any, additional funding has been provided to increase grid capacity and-or to prepare the grid for renewable...
    • National Broadband Plan
      110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a property (details supplied) can expect to be provided with high-speed broadband. [1121/24]
    • Departmental Staff
      111. 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 3 January 2024; the number...
    • Electricity Generation
      112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide an update on the Celtic Interconnector; and if the project is on track to meet the target of a 2026...
    • National Broadband Plan
      113. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason a property (details supplied) was not included in the roll-out of the National Broadband Plan as it does not...
    • Postal Services
      114. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an additional Eircode will be assigned to a building (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the current SEAI housing insulation scheme (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on...
    • National Broadband Plan
      116. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to examine a matter (details supplied) in relation to the NBI broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the process for a firm to register on the SEAI website; what checks are performed; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Recycling Policy
      121. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has assessed the capital investment which will be required in Ireland to meet higher recycling and reuse targets...
    • State Bodies
      122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he expects to fill the vacancies on the board of Inland Fisheries Ireland. [1629/24]
    • Electricity Supply Board
      123. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he last met the CEO of the ESB. [1630/24]
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      125. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of reports that the EPA and SEAI are only including Dublin Airport’s on-site operating emissions...
    • Post Office Network
      126. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment in light of the Post Office scandal in the UK, if he has considered conducting a review of the situation of postmasters...
    • Environmental Policy
      127. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 118 of 21 November 2023, to provide an update on the development of the National...
    • Electricity Generation
      128. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 28 September 2023, the number of submissions received by his Department as...
    • Air Quality
      129. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the required establishment of dedicated resources within regional lead authorities to...
    • Departmental Schemes
      130. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there is any possibility of ensuring a fully funded energy upgrade scheme application by a person (details supplied)...
    • Postal Services
      131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he supports the introduction of an An Post Ombudsman who could mediate in all disputes between An Post and...
    • Departmental Schemes
      132. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when an applicant (details supplied) can expect works to be completed in regard to the warmer homes scheme; and if he...
    • Food Waste
      133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether there are plans to implement a scheme that bans the destroying of food, which is still fit for consumption, in...
    • Fuel Sales
      134. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the supply of HVO fuel to Ireland; if the supply is sufficient to meet current demand in all...
    • Fuel Oil Specifications
      138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment about the classification of HVO fuel as a vehicular fuel; if there are plans to expand its classification to include...
    • Recycling Policy
      144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how the deposit return scheme, due to come into effect from 1 February, will pertain to vintners and pubs; and if he...
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      145. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment why a company (details supplied) that is delivering the emergency call answering service, which is a State contract,...
  • Department of Defence
    • Air Quality
      146. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence what air quality investigations were carried out at Main Technical Stores in Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel prior to the 2017 investigations by a...
    • Maritime Jurisdiction
      147. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on the presence of a Russian submarine positioned directly outside the entrance of Cork harbour; how he was alerted to the...
    • Maritime Safety
      148. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on the project for the enhancement of subsea awareness capabilities; the timeframe in which related equipment will be...
    • Naval Service
      149. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the proposals to ensure that Irish Naval Service ships are equipped with sonar equipment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56422/23]
    • Defence Forces
      150. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to amend the Defence Forces recruitment process to allow persons with asthma to join; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Research and Development
      154. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will list the ongoing research commissioned under the remit of his Department through the North-South Ministerial Council, Shared Island...
    • Ukraine War
      155. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the total share of the €500 million provided under the EU Act in Support of Ammunition Production Regulation will be used to provide...
    • Departmental Properties
      157. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 192 of 12 December 2023, the timeline for completion of the assessment of vacant housing stock referred...
    • Departmental Data
      158. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets his Department holds that have been provided and/or shared with...
    • Defence Forces
      159. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the date on which the Defence Forces updated their vehicle details in 2021, 2022 and 2023 on the National Fleet Database. [1073/24]
    • Naval Service
      160. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the name of external marine advisors that have been appointed to support the procurement of a muti-role vessel to replace the decommissioned LE...
    • Defence Forces
      161. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of males and females that applied for the post of conductor within the Defence Forces School of Music; if this post was advertised...
    • Commemorative Medals
      166. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if there is a provision available to re-issue medals for persons who fought and were awarded medals in both conflicts and whose medals have been...
    • Defence Forces
      167. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on the acquisition of primary radar; the timeframe in which he intends contracts to be agreed and equipment acquired and...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      168. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the timeline in which he intends to bring forward proposals to establish a network of military attaches comprised of Defence Forces personnel to...
    • Defence Forces
      169. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the current number of permanent members within the Army, Air Corps and Naval Service; the corresponding number for each January in each of the...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Projects
      171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress that has been made on the N2 Ardee to Castleblayney Road scheme in 2023; the progress that is expected in 2024; the...
    • Ports Policy
      173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether the current ownership model of Rosslare Europort has hindered investment in the port; whether he agrees that it should be taken...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the decision by Transport Infrastructure Ireland to close down motorway lay-bys for private vehicles; and if he will...
    • Driver Licences
      175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NDLS will contact a person (details supplied) to resolve outstanding issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56380/23]
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the data available to TII regarding fatal and non-fatal accidents on a stretch of the N22 (details supplied) over the past ten years; and...
    • Driver Test
      178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that the Department of Education is currently piloting the use of well-being practitioners for primary schools in the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport how much was expended on transport of persons in receipt of temporary protection, per month, since February 2022; and if he will make a...
    • Driver Licences
      181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) will receive their licence exchange; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56501/23]
    • Road Tolls
      182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the recent toll road increases and the specific effect it has on areas such as Inchicore, Chapelizod and the Phoenix Park...
    • Bus Services
      183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of electric buses purchased by the NTA in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; the overall investment made; if all of these buses are...
    • Public Transport
      184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will set aside increased funding in respect of the rural public transport scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • National Car Test
      185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the approach by the contractor approved to carry out NCT tests whereby the applicants are required to re-present for a...
    • Maritime Safety
      186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide clarification on the current surveying practices for fishing vessels, particularly those that fall just over the...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost per tonne of abating greenhouse gas emissions by facilitating and incentivising switching from diesel and petrol cars...
    • Bus Services
      190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the implementation of next generation ticketing and cashless payment under BusConnects Cork; the expected benefits...
    • Taxi Licences
      191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the area knowledge module of the taxi licence exam in Ireland will be updated to take account of the use of satellite navigation...
    • Taxi Regulations
      192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department plans to address the difficulties faced by the taxi industry in obtaining taxi plates, the prices of which have...
    • Official Travel
      193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the airmiles spent by the Government since 2020 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56784/23]
    • Public Transport
      194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport how many additional Luas carriages will be purchased in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56785/23]
    • Taxi Licences
      196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of new taxi drivers, by month, since 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56787/23]
    • Bus Services
      197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of new bus drivers in each county since 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56788/23]
    • Rail Network
      198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of new train drivers since 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56789/23]
    • Marine Accidents
      199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps the Marine Survey Office is taking to investigate the circumstances surrounding the sinking of a fishing vessel off the coast...
    • Road Network
      200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56839/23]
    • Driver Licences
      202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to examine an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56883/23]
    • Research and Development
      203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will list the ongoing research commissioned under the remit of his Department through the North-South Ministerial Council or Shared...
    • Rail Network
      204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 30 of 30 November 2023, the reason the NTA is not carrying out a study of the effect on intercity...
    • National Transport Authority
      205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure an answer is provided to a query sent to the office of the Minister of State for International and Road Transport and...
    • Bus Services
      206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request the NTA to consider updating the route of bus S8/S6 so that the direct Dundrum and UCD connection is returned to the...
    • Transport Policy
      207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consultation has taken place with disabled persons representative organisations in relation to the Active Travel Programme. [57013/23]
    • Legislative Measures
      208. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the new primary legislation on speeding limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57015/23]
    • Transport Policy
      209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current project stages and project deliverable timelines for each of the remaining two sections of the Cork to Waterford Inter-Urban...
    • Electric Vehicles
      210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of electric State vehicles as a percentage of the overall number of State-owned vehicles in 2023, broken down into...
    • Departmental Data
      211. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total number of cars registered, by fuel type in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57067/23]
    • Electric Vehicles
      212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of EV charging points delivered, by county, in 2022 and 2023, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Road Projects
      213. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to accelerate the Galway bypass and improve travel in Galway city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57084/23]
    • Parking Provision
      215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the criteria required in order to obtain a disabled parking permit; if his Department has plans or proposals to change...
    • Bus Services
      216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will examine and address an issue in relation to a local bus service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Car Test
      217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will advise on NCT services in counties Roscommon and Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57151/23]
    • Road Projects
      218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action he has taken to progress the funding for the N2 Ardee to Castleblaney road scheme. [57155/23]
    • Road Network
      219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to detail the additional funding that was announced in Budget 2024 to maintain and improve the county, regional and local road network....
    • Road Safety
      220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there will be any requirements for lighting on personally powered transporters in the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023 regulations; and...
    • Road Projects
      221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a project (details supplied) submitted by Laois County Council will be approved for funding; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Bus Services
      222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to examine a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57182/23]
    • Coast Guard Service
      223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for a progress update on the Greystones Coast Guard station; when the tender process will be completed; the timeline for construction and...
    • Departmental Data
      224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets his Department holds that have been provided and/or shared...
    • Park-and-Ride Facilities
      225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to upgrade the car parking facilities at Charleville train station; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Bus Services
      226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to examine reliability issues with the C3 bus service (details supplied); if plans are in place to address this issue; and if he will...
    • Parking Provision
      227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person (details supplied) will receive a disabled parking bay, similar to that provided in an area in Dublin 24, considering their...
    • Road Network
      228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the East-West Link which includes a risk-based analysis for the east-west route between Dundalk and Cavan...
    • Departmental Policies
      229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to detail the proposed new driver education plan for transition year students; to seek clarification on the reason approved driving...
    • Bus Services
      230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a bus pick up will be allowed for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1013/24]
    • Rail Network
      231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason passengers travelling on the late evening Ennis to Dublin rail service must endure an hour-long wait at Colbert Station,...
    • Driver Test
      232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason there is such a discrepancy between the volume of candidates that pass driving tests in Nenagh test centre compared to all...
    • Departmental Data
      233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of fleet owners/managers and motor traders that failed to upload their vehicle details to the National Fleet Database, by...
    • Coast Guard Service
      234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which the Irish Coast Guard updated their vehicle details in 2021, 2022 and 2023 on the National Fleet Database. [1074/24]
    • Road Projects
      235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expected timeline for completion of the inner relief road Thurles, County Tipperary linking Slievenamon Road to the Mill Road; if...
    • Parking Provision
      236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of parking spaces in each public car-park area within Dublin Airport, in tabular form. [1141/24]
    • Rail Network
      237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding being made available in 2024 and 2025 to purchase additional longer carriages for the LUAS for both lines; and if so, when...
    • Dublin Bus
      238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of times Dublin Bus routes were curtailed; the reasons for same, by individual bus routes and by month for 2023; and if he...
    • Electric Vehicles
      241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what discussions he has had with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in relation to ensuring, over time, that all...
    • Road Safety Authority
      242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that the RSA has informed seven driving testers that their temporary contracts will not be renewed next month despite...
    • Rail Network
      244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the outcome of the 2019 order for 41 rail carriages which was to deliver a 10% increase in capacity in the morning and evenings for...
    • Bus Services
      245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on funding allocated to progress a dedicated town bus service for Ennis. [1241/24]
    • Rail Network
      247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date for publication of the route of the proposed Cork Luas; and the amount spent to date on the project. [1253/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a capital envelope is available to local authorities for the repair and enhancement of footpaths. [1255/24]
    • Cycling Facilities
      250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of users of the Cork bike scheme in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, by station, in tabular form; and the number of 2024 memberships...
    • Bus Services
      255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the roll-out of next gen ticketing in Cork city and county buses. [1262/24]
    • Park-and-Ride Facilities
      261. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of applications for additional park and ride locations in cork city; the amount spent to date on such applications and...
    • Road Network
      262. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the route for the Northern Distributor Road in Cork city will be chosen; and when work will commence. [1271/24]
    • Road Projects
      263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date of publication of TII funding for 2024 for national roads and by-passes. [1272/24]
    • Driver Test
      264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason an applicant (details supplied) for a CPC card has to re-sit the theory test to be approved for the CPC card when they already...
    • Bus Services
      265. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason travel centres have been closed in all bus stations. [1282/24]
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      267. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a comprehensive breakdown of road traffic collisions, by county for the most recent year available, detailing the number of...
    • Dublin Bus
      268. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of purchasing 100 extra hybrid and 18 extra hydrogen buses for the Dublin Bus fleet. [1297/24]
    • Road Traffic Offences
      269. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of cross-Border driving bans that the RSA has sought to enforce through the courts since 1 January 2020 to date in 2024; the...
    • Driver Test
      270. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions being taken by his Department to reduce waiting times for driving tests in the Dublin area; the current waiting times, by...
    • Fuel Oil Specifications
      271. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to run an information campaign for motorists who may be able to use hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) in their vehicles, given...
    • National Transport Authority
      272. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the NTA will receive its 2024 funding allocation; and the reason for the delay to date.; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Bus Services
      273. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the Transport For Ireland Live app does not process the Nightlink bus information; if there is a plan to process this...
    • Departmental Schemes
      274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the eSPSV grant is due to reopen for applications in 2024; and if so, if the eligibility requirements will remain the same as in the...
    • Road Safety
      275. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to make the wearing of high-visibility clothing a legal requirement for pedestrians and cyclists due to the high level of...
    • Driver Test
      276. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagement his Department has had with the RSA to develop measures necessary to reduce driving test waiting times; and if he will...
    • Driver Licences
      277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that drivers who are limited to a three year driving licence due to medical reasons, when renewing their licence pay...
    • Environmental Policy
      278. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to confirm which entities including public bodies under his remit are included in and required to implement the All-Ireland Pollinator...
    • Rail Network
      279. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an updated timetable on the completion of works at Portmarnock train station; when these works will be completed; and if he will make...
    • Park-and-Ride Facilities
      280. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the final number of car parking spaces that will be available at Portmarnock train station upon the completion of works; and if he will...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      282. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of fatal car accidents in each county, in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [1521/24]
    • Departmental Records
      283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport where a person can seek records of their father's employment as a station master from 1916-1934. [1555/24]
    • Driver Test
      284. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applicants awaiting a driving test, by county and age and the length of time that they are waiting, in tabular form. [1562/24]
    • Public Transport
      286. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if further consideration will be given to the provision of support for hackney services in rural communities in counties Cavan and...
    • Driver Test
      288. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for a driving test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1655/24]
    • Military Aircraft
      289. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an aircraft (details supplied) was approved to carry weapons or munitions or US soldiers through Shannon Airport; the reason(s) such...
    • Driver Test
      290. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 170 of 7 December 2023, if any of the additional driver testers have been allocated to test centres...
    • Air Safety
      291. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department and the DAA have liaised in relation to the safety and quality control procedures of Boeing aircraft following recent...
    • Ports Policy
      292. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 50 of 10 May 2023, to outline the way his Department is supporting and assisting the relevant ports...
    • Bus Services
      293. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will liaise with the NTA in relation to recent route changes that have left elderly residents (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Driver Licences
      294. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether on renewing an individual's drivers licence online the requirement to have a public services card in order to activate MyGovID...
    • Bus Services
      295. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in light of the approval by An Bord Pleanála of the Liffey Valley to Dublin City Centre BusConnects scheme, when construction of...
    • Road Tolls
      296. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the toll increases that are due to be implemented in July 2024; if he will postpone these increases given the recent...
    • Bus Services
      297. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the concerns in the community of Firhouse in relation to when the bus route 49 will be taken out of Firhouse Village...
    • Driver Licences
      298. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he, in conjunction with the Road Safety Authority will reconsider the decision to only accept electronic payments for drivers licences...
    • Rail Network
      299. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the development of a railway station at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1849/24]
    • Electric Vehicles
      301. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what action his Department is taking to ensure that all motorway stop off petrol stations are fitted out with both fast charge and type 2...
    • Road Network
      302. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to a request from the N2/A5/Ten-T Cross Border Committee (details supplied), if he will meet with the committee to discuss the...
    • Driver Licences
      303. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the decision to accept non-cash payments only to pay for driver's licences will be reconsidered; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Road Projects
      304. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a full update on the funding requirements and allocations required to advance the N2 Ardee to Carrickmacross road project; and...
    • Electric Vehicles
      306. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the rationale behind the reduction in the home charger grant scheme which came into effect on 1 January 2024; and if he will...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Reliefs
      307. To ask the Minister for Finance the total expenditure on the help to buy scheme in each year since the scheme was launched, including expenditure to date in 2023; and the budget allocation...
    • Tax Yield
      308. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of electricity tax collected from business and non-businesses categories, respectively. [56363/23]
    • Tax Code
      309. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will amend the rules regarding the imposition of the residential zoned land tax on land used for active farming; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Customs and Excise
      310. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of officers with assigned powers (details supplied) under section 62 of the Finance Act 1994, per county, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Code
      313. To ask the Minister for Finance what consideration has been given by him to a more favourable VAT and customs regime for products deemed to be more environmentally friendly; and if he will...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      314. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount in legal costs that have been recovered by the Office of the Chief State Solicitor following an award of costs in favour of a party...
    • Tax Code
      315. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56600/23]
    • National Asset Management Agency
      316. To ask the Minister for Finance if the National Asset Loan Management Ltd is still the owner of a property (details supplied). [56604/23]
    • Financial Services
      317. To ask the Minister for Finance if a scheme will be implemented to allow homeowners to buy back their mortgage from a vulture fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56616/23]
    • Tax Credits
      318. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing a refundable tax credit that would return unused portions of the PAYE tax credit to low-income workers; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Yield
      319. To ask the Minister for Finance if the proceeds of the vacant homes tax and residential zoned land tax respectively will be retained centrally by the Exchequer or returned to the relevant...
    • Tax Credits
      320. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who have claimed the renters credit in each month since its introduction; and if he will make a statement on the evidence used to...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      321. To ask the Minister for Finance what action his Department is taking to appoint a board for the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal to deal with appeals under the disabled drivers and...
    • Tax Code
      322. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the tax position for mortgage holders of a bank (details supplied) who will be receiving a payment from the bank in 2024 on the basis that...
    • Departmental Consultations
      323. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide an update on consultations with representative organisations about the taxation treatment of GMS income for GP practices; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Rebates
      324. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide clarification where in the Revenue Commissioners guidance it is stated that uploading health receipts is a prerequisite for availing of a...
    • Departmental Policies
      326. To ask the Minister for Finance to examine a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56783/23]
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      327. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the VRT refund scheme was originally set up; if it was to comply with an EU directive; how much it cost to set up the scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Yield
      328. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of carbon tax accrued for 2023; to provide a full and comprehensive breakdown of what these monies will be used for, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Tax Code
      330. To ask the Minister for Finance if due consideration will be given in coherence with Food Vision 2030, to the review and optimisation of the tax treatment of investment by agtech companies...
    • Research and Development
      331. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will list the ongoing research commissioned under the remit of his Department through the North-South Ministerial Council, Shared Island Initiative or...
    • Site Acquisitions
      332. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update in respect of the purchase of a school site in a project that involves the NTMA (details supplied); and the date on which the...
    • Departmental Data
      333. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets his Department holds that have been provided and/or shared with other...
    • Tax Code
      334. To ask the Minister for Finance if VAT applies to social and affordable housing funded by his Department and delivered by councils and approved housing bodies; and if, in those cases where...
    • Tax Reliefs
      335. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in line with Action 74 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, she has plans to adopt a needs-based approach to the disabled drivers and passengers...
    • Tax Credits
      336. To ask the Minister for Finance if, given the ongoing housing crisis and the precarious nature of many renting arrangements, renters in non-registered tenancies can access the...
    • Legislative Measures
      339. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will enact the Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1001/24]
    • Mortgage Resolution Processes
      340. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of mortgage borrowers with long term mortgage arrears at the end of each year since 2000; the efforts being made, through assisting people in...
    • Illicit Trade
      343. To ask the Minister for Finance for a breakdown of the number of seizures of illicit fentanyl by the Revenue Commissioners for each of the years 2018 to 2022 and to date in 2024, in tabular...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      344. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full cost in 2024 if the number of dogs in the Revenue Commissioners dog unit increased to 55. [1093/24]
    • Tax Data
      346. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of businesses in each county which availed of mechanisms to warehouse tax debt; the types of businesses which availed of the measure by county, in...
    • Financial Services
      351. To ask the Minister for Finance to investigate reports that performing loans with AIB are being transferred to debt collectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1155/24]
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      352. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of decision 1324TACD2021, made by the Tax Appeal Commissioners, in which a finding was made that the Revenue Commissioners had been applying...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      353. To ask the Minister for Finance if there has been any change to the eligibility criteria for the primary medical certificate, or if he plans to introduce changes to the eligibility criteria....
    • Business Supports
      354. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason non-green projects under the SCBI growth and sustainability loan scheme are not being funded in the initial tranche of loans; and if he will make a...
    • Financial Services
      355. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether it is appropriate for service providers (details supplied) to charge customers a surcharge for making payments by credit or debit card....
    • Fiscal Policy
      356. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and monetary value of investments held by the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund in companies which produce, export or sell weapons or dual-use...
    • Tax Collection
      357. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason LPT charge is being deducted at source in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1307/24]
    • Official Engagements
      358. To ask the Minister for Finance if he met the CEO of a company (details supplied) during his recent visit to the west coast of the United States. [1355/24]
    • Tax Data
      359. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of residential units and number of persons subject to the 10% rate of stamp duty with respect to the acquisition of certain residential property...
    • Tax Reliefs
      361. To ask the Minister for Finance if the help-to-buy scheme will be extended to previous home owners who can demonstrate a housing need which they cannot meet for reasons of breakdown of a...
    • Tax Data
      362. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the PRSI record for the self-employed for 2022 has not been passed on to the Department of Social Protection; the reason for this delay; if this...
    • Tax Code
      363. To ask the Minister for Finance how the introduction of VAT refund orders under section 103 of the Value-Added Tax Consolidation Act 2010 interacts with the VAT Directive where a minimum...
    • Electric Vehicles
      364. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of electric vehicles licenced, by county, for 2023, in tabular form. [1613/24]
    • Economic Sanctions
      367. To ask the Minister for Finance given the European Court of Justice ruling in 2022 to bar public transparency on beneficial ownership and the international consortium of investigative...
    • Budget 2024
      369. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Government still supports the Budget 2024 announcement to introduce a tax on e-cigarettes in Budget 2025; if the plans to introduce the measure in...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      370. To ask the Minister for Finance if the appeal hearings for the primary medical certificate have recommenced as planned at the end of 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1851/24]
    • Tax Exemptions
      371. To ask the Minister for Finance how many farmers were refused VAT exemptions for purchase of fixed equipment between 1 November and 31 December 2023; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Code
      372. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider raising the maximum value of the help-to-buy scheme from €500 thousand to €550 thousand in order to allow for inflation...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Public Sector Pensions
      373. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56329/23]
    • Tax Data
      376. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform how the proceeds of the carbon tax are spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56346/23]
    • Public Sector Pensions
      377. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware of the concerns expressed by an organisation (details supplied) of a threat to a discontinuation of a pay/pension parity...
    • Flood Risk Management
      378. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW has received a request from Cork County Council for funding to carry out flood prevention measures in Castlemartyr in east...
    • Office of Public Works
      379. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the attention of the OPW has been drawn to a possible bequest to the State of a property with a view to securing the property for...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      380. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he supports the retention of the pay/pension parity link for gardaí and other public servants; and if he will make a statement...
    • Office of Public Works
      381. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a full list of heritage sites maintained by the OPW that have guided visitor experiences, in tabular form; the cost to the...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      382. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the exact reason for the delay in resolving the issue regarding post-1995 retired Garda members having to apply for jobseeker’s...
    • Research and Development
      384. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will list the ongoing research commissioned under the remit of his Department through the North-South Ministerial Council, Shared...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      385. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will engage with representatives from an organisation (details supplied) during talks on the Building Momentum Agreement for...
    • An Garda Síochána
      387. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the refurbishment of a Garda station (details supplied) what works will be undertaken; the timeline for their...
    • Coast Guard Service
      388. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress update on the Greystones Coast Guard station; when the tender process will be completed; the timeline for construction and...
    • Departmental Data
      389. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets his Department holds that have been provided and/or...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      390. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform what progress has been made on reviewing the criteria of qualification for the occupational supplementary pension in relation to...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      391. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in line with Action 75 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, he has plans to undertake a review of public sector...
    • Civil Service
      393. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the widows and orphans/spouses and children's superannuation scheme is compulsory within the civil service, yet is optional...
    • Heritage Sites
      394. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will source and release a survey (details supplied) for use on a project. [57399/23]
    • Public Sector Pensions
      395. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to elaborate on his plans to discontinue the long-standing and well-established pay/pension parity link which retired members of An...
    • Office of Public Works
      396. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date on which the OPW updated their vehicle details in 2021, 2022 and 2023 on the National Fleet Database.; and if he will make a...
    • Heritage Sites
      397. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if each heritage site under the OPW and has at least one floor for public viewings within that site has a lift for public use to get to...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      398. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it is intended to retain the link between current salary increases for serving members of An Garda Síochána and retired...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      400. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 157 of 14 November 2023, if he has completed his investigation into this matter and if he can now...
    • General Practitioner Services
      401. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department will sanction an increase for GP's who are in receipt of district medical officer salaries in view of the immense...
    • Legislative Process
      402. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current status of Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2021; and when this Bill will move to the next stage. [1632/24]
    • Heritage Sites
      403. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform given the recent announcement that exhumations are to take place in Mountjoy Prison to recover the remains of executed prisoners buried...
    • Architectural Heritage
      404. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on proposed developments at the Oldbridge site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1758/24]
    • Heritage Sites
      405. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a start date has been agreed for the commencement of remedial works on Cairn T, at the Loughcrew heritage site near Oldcastle, County...
    • National Lottery
      406. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he remains satisfied that issues affecting the operation and running of the National Lottery are resolved to the...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      407. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the planning permission for the flood defences for Midleton will be submitted; and what interim measures will be put in place to...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Business Supports
      408. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports available for small businesses that are struggling with increased costs since the return to 13.5% VAT rate and the...
    • Trade Promotion
      409. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the Irish trade office in Taiwan was previously closed; if there are plans to reopen such a trade office in Taiwan; and if...
    • Trade Data
      410. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the level of imports and exports between Ireland and Taiwan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56383/23]
    • Trade Promotion
      411. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his proposals to develop the trading relationship between Ireland and Taiwan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56384/23]
    • Business Supports
      412. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if he is considering designing such a scheme as suggested in the...
    • Wage-setting Mechanisms
      413. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of breaches of the minimum wage legislation in each of the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023; if he is...
    • Industrial Development
      414. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of IDA lands north of the Kilbarry Enterprise Centre in Cork, which were re-zoned for residential development in the most...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      415. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the IDA and other State supports that a company (details supplied) has received since its establishment in the State; and if he will...
    • Industrial Development
      416. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 171 of 14 November 2023, if the referenced ‘small number of full time workers employed...
    • Research and Development
      419. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will list the ongoing research commissioned under the remit of his Department through the North-South Ministerial Council,...
    • Industrial Development
      420. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will detail the most recent annual data (including 2023) on the level of IDA supported jobs, by county, in tabular form; and if...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      421. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will detail the most recent annual data (including 2023) on the level of Enterprise Ireland supported jobs, by county, in...
    • Legislative Process
      423. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the progression on the Employment Permits Bill 2022 considering the legislation passed Committee...
    • Work Permits
      424. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on general employment permits; if he will advise on consideration his Department have given to sectoral...
    • Departmental Data
      425. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets his Department holds that have been provided and/or...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      426. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in line with Action 76 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, he has plans to provide autism training to all public...
    • Health and Safety
      430. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what recourse an employee has when the regulations on the right to sit in SI. No. 358/1995 are not being adhered to; and if he will...
    • Work Permits
      431. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the latest minimum income requirement from January 2024 for a horticulture work permit renewal; and if he will make a statement on...
    • State Bodies
      432. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated full-year cost to recruit one additional WTE overseas manager and one extra WTE senior market adviser for Enterprise...
    • Trade Missions
      433. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if Enterprise Ireland is planning a trade mission to the west coast of the US in Q1 2024. [1131/24]
    • State Bodies
      434. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of WTE vacancies by job title at Health and Safety Authority as of 4 January 2024; the estimated full year cost of filling...
    • Work Permits
      435. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the new minimum salary requirements for general employment permits announced by his Department will also apply to existing permit...
    • Business Supports
      436. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when details of the temporary supports package for small businesses will be announced to help with the increase to the minimum wage;...
    • Work Permits
      437. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether the increase in the minimum salary requirement for new general employment permits to €39,000 will apply to existing...
    • Departmental Meetings
      439. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he or any of officials at the grade of administrative officer and above met the CEO of a company (details supplied) in 2023. [1295/24]
    • European Council
      440. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the next EU Council of Trade Ministers meeting is scheduled to take place. [1358/24]
    • Legislative Measures
      441. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021 in relation to fertility treatment and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      442. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to a parliamentary question (details supplied), to issue a letter on the relevant Department headed notepaper to a person in...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      443. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the work of the AI advisory council; to outline the scope of the council’s mandate; the membership of...
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      444. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount in unpaid wages that has been returned to workers following workplace investigations by the Workplace Relations...
    • Export Controls
      447. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has investigated whether dual-use items being traded with Israel are currently being used against civilians and...
    • Economic Sanctions
      448. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what powers his Department has to enact trade sanctions against Israel as a mechanism to stop the deliberate targeting of civilians...
    • Work Permits
      449. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of work permits issued by his Department in 2022 and 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1807/24]
    • Departmental Data
      451. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA-supported jobs in each county at the end of 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Business Supports
      455. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the provision of State supports for businesses damaged and affected due to the riots in Dublin on 23 November 2023; and...
    • Departmental Strategies
      456. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to detail the calendar of events proposed for the duration of Ireland's chairmanship of the D9+ Group and the plans to involve...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      457. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the key supports his Department is providing for the SME sector. [2096/24]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Transport
      458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the school transport review publication date; her views on the expansion of the criteria for access to transport in order...
    • School Staff
      459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers waiting for payment for the July home provision scheme; the reason there is such a delay in processing payments; the steps...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding his Department’s view on funding for the awarding of incremental credit to post primary school teachers for...
    • Education Policy
      461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her guidelines for primary school teachers in respect of homework; if there are plans to re-examine this policy or make any changes in the coming...
    • School Facilities
      462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 14 of 17 October 2023, to provide an update on the review of the guidelines for the use of school buildings...
    • School Staff
      463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if 70 years-of-age is the compulsory retirement age if a person entered secondary school teaching before 2004; there is no compulsory retirement...
    • School Transport
      465. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school transport service ceased (details supplied); how her Department plans to resolve the issue; and if she will make a statement...
    • School Staff
      466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when payments for teachers and SNA’s who facilitated the Home-Based Summer Programme in 2023 will be issued; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the unfilled SENO role in a school (details supplied); the actions her Department is taking to ensure this...
    • Schools Building Projects
      468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for when approval for construction for a school (details supplied) will be granted for a three-room extension; and if she will make...
    • School Facilities
      469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline future plans for the provision of additional primary school facilities within schools (details supplied) to alleviate the waiting...
    • Home Schooling
      470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the length of time the home school liaison officer post for south east Dublin has been vacant; when is it likely to be filled; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proposals to provide an ASD/early intervention unit at primary schools in Monaghan town; whether such units will be available in the town by...
    • Schools Building Projects
      474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 218 of 10 October 2023 and 464 of 7 November 2023, when the review of the Stage 2A report will be...
    • Education Schemes
      476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a matter will be examined (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56391/23]
    • School Enrolments
      477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision is anticipated regarding whether a school (details supplied) is likely to continue to as a co-educational school, with particular...
    • School Facilities
      478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on proposed works to reopen a premises (details supplied); the timeline for same; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Protected Disclosures
      479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm that she received correspondence from a person (details supplied); the actions she has taken arising from this disclosure;...
    • Special Educational Needs
      480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for an ASD class (details supplied); and if it will be put in place for the opening of the 2024 school year. [56486/23]
    • School Staff
      481. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of a lack of appropriate paid leave for male primary school teachers for antenatal medical appointments; whether she agrees that...
    • Energy Usage
      482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and second level schools that are dependent on fossil fuels for their heating requirements; and his Department’s...
    • Special Educational Needs
      483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of ASD and special school spaces at primary school level and at secondary school level, by county, in tabular form; and if she will...
    • Waste Management
      485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider a proposal (details supplied) from a post-primary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56536/23]
    • Childcare Qualifications
      487. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase the practical work experience element of education in the early childhood sector; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what actions have been taken to prioritise the capital construction project at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Enrolments
      490. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what measures she is putting in place to address the acute shortage of secondary school places in Athenry town; and if she will make a statement...
    • School Funding
      491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will introduce a scheme to provide grant assistance for the replacement of old desks in existing classes, for children with an autism...
    • Special Educational Needs
      493. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the process for the establishment of an ASD unit, at both primary and post primary; the number of students/demand that needs to be...
    • School Funding
      497. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a grant for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56592/23]
    • Education Schemes
      498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take the necessary steps to develop and extend the pilot Programme of Counselling Supports for Primary Schools into all primary...
    • School Textbooks
      499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give due consideration to delivering free schoolbooks to second level students, beginning with a pilot programme in 2024; and if she...
    • School Funding
      500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ring fence dedicated funding to enable children suffering from economic disadvantage to participate in in-school activities such as...
    • Education Costs
      502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to take the necessary steps to phase out the system of voluntary contributions by increasing capitation grants to schools; and if she will make a...
    • School Transport
      504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount that will issue to a family (details supplied) in relation to the special transport interim grant; and when the grant will issue....
    • Special Educational Needs
      506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56705/23]
    • Teaching Qualifications
      507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider adding some additional terms and conditions to the supplementary panel for primary school teachers in order that fully...
    • School Funding
      508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that resources are made available to a school (details supplied) to carry out all necessary repairs as a matter of urgency....
    • Schools Building Projects
      509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56792/23]
    • Departmental Meetings
      513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of times an organisation (details supplied) has requested a meeting with her; and the number of meetings that have actually taken...
    • Schools Building Projects
      514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56838/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether the extra resources in special education will be used to extend the pilot whereby a team of therapists' team with clusters of schools and...
    • School Accommodation
      516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will provide funding for additional accommodation at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Research and Development
      517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will list the ongoing research commissioned under the remit of her Department through the North-South Ministerial Council, Shared Island...
    • Schools Building Projects
      518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the stage at which a new building project for a school (details supplied) is at; when the project will move to the next stage; if funding is...
    • School Accommodation
      519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ask her Department's rental section to cover the cost of rent for a school (details supplied) until such time as their new school...
    • School Curriculum
      520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason school curricula are not audibly accessible to children who struggle with reading; and if plans are in place to facilitate this across...
    • Schools Building Projects
      521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the new building works for a school (details supplied); if she will provide assurances that works will proceed...
    • School Staff
      522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56998/23]
    • Home Schooling
      523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding available to parents who home school their children in cases in which there is a knowledge gap and external assistance may be needed...
    • School Funding
      524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a timeline for the roll-out of the school solar panel scheme, by county; the number of schools to receive panels in each instance; and if she...
    • Energy Usage
      526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and wattage of solar panels being provided to each school under the school solar panel scheme; whether the size/energy usage of the...
    • School Staff
      527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57079/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what mechanism can be used to ensure that pupils such as a pupil (details supplied) moving from a junior national school to a senior national...
    • Education Policy
      530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what determines a school's educational profile; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57132/23]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a response to correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57161/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the development of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57170/23]
    • School Staff
      533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether a person currently employed as a nurse by the HSE is entitled to transfer years of service to the Department of Education if they take up...
    • Health and Safety
      534. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she aware of the health and safety issues in relation to the standard of a school building (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will expedite the provision of a much-needed new school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Data
      539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a schedule of the personal and-or person-specific datasets her Department holds that have been provided and-or shared with...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a Teaching Council application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57226/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      541. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she can expedite the provision of the three-schools project at Hazelhatch and Celbridge, County Kildare, known as Project...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will review correspondence (details supplied); when her Department will contact the principal of this school to offer...
    • Schools Building Projects
      543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will prioritise the construction of a school (details supplied) within its bundle, in light of the severe pressures on school places in...
    • School Enrolments
      546. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has examined the need for an additional secondary school in the Greystones, Kilcoole and Newtownmountkennedy area, in light of the...
    • School Staff
      547. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on salary and pensions for caretakers in school settings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57240/23]
    • School Funding
      548. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools, by county, that applied for the STEM grant; the number of applications received by the closing date and after the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in line with Action 30 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, she currently provides, or has plans to provide, funding and guidelines...
    • School Transport
      574. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the case of a child (details supplied) who was approved for school transport in July 2023. [57323/23]
    • Education Schemes
      575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria for the STEM awards; if there is an appeal process; to detail the reason that no DEIS schools in Galway city received the awards;...
    • School Textbooks
      576. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of introducing free school books to fifth and sixth year students, in tabular form. [57350/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      577. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of where the funding allocated for SEN in Budget 2024 is being spent, in tabular form. [57352/23]
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing the number of educational psychologists by 40%. [57357/23]
    • School Staff
      581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of employing a full-time guidance counsellor in every secondary school and an additional position for schools over 500 pupils....
    • School Funding
      583. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria used to allocate funding under the STEM grants for schools; if funding will be allocated again in 2024; if a school application...
    • Special Educational Needs
      585. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an ASD class in a secondary school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57383/23]
    • School Funding
      586. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will increase funding for STEM grants for schools, given the number of schools (details supplied) that applied versus those that were...
    • Schools Building Projects
      587. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the provision of the new build school for a school (details supplied). [1014/24]
    • School Funding
      588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1022/24]
    • Schools Building Projects
      590. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she can confirm that provision for a new school campus (details supplied) on a new greenfield site will be included in the school capital...
    • School Enrolments
      591. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 91 of 30 November 2023, if her Department has published its new set of enrolment projections for primary...
    • School Funding
      592. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to explain the rationale/process in awarding the recent round of STEM grant funding; the total funding allocated; if a lottery system was used,...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will be approved incremental credits in respect of relevant non-teaching experience; and if she will make a...
    • School Enrolments
      594. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools in Ireland that have an enrolment figure of 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 students or more, in tabular form. [1091/24]
    • Building Energy Rating
      595. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of the BER ratings of publicly funded primary and secondary schools in Ireland respectively; when the last audit of the...
    • School Staff
      596. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason temporary SNAs are not paid for Easter, Christmas or summer holidays, given that they are doing the same work as other SNAs; and...
    • School Funding
      597. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to explain in detail how the allocation of STEM funding for schools was conducted and decided; and if a school's application (details supplied)...
    • School Transport
      600. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will meet with a delegation of parents from Swords, in regard to the provision of a bus to a school (details supplied); and if she will...
    • School Funding
      601. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how much funding was provided to schools in County Meath by her Department under the emergency works scheme and the additional accommodation...
    • Schools Building Projects
      602. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if resurfacing and or remarking works on school playground or school car parks qualify under either the minor works scheme or summer works...
    • School Staff
      603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of home school liaison support workers in County Meath in 2023; and the number in 2019, in tabular form. [1165/24]
    • School Funding
      604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a response will issue to concerns raised on the application of the STEM grants nationwide (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • School Transport
      606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school bus transport will be provided for a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1190/24]
    • School Accommodation
      607. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the approved project for additional accommodation at a school (details supplied). [1237/24]
    • School Funding
      609. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be a further opportunity in 2024 for post-primary schools to apply for STEM grant funding from her Department, particularly schools...
    • School Curriculum
      611. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to introduce the Brain Calm Programme to the curriculum in primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1319/24]
    • School Funding
      612. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if STEM grants are awarded on a lottery basis; and the reason schools are required to submit a comprehensive, time-consuming application, that is...
    • Schools Building Projects
      618. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a review being undertaken by her Department in respect of a Stage 2B submission will be finalised and the school (details supplied)...
    • School Facilities
      619. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider developing new school playground guidelines and undertake an analysis of spaces and funds for schools to create different...
    • School Funding
      621. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proportion of DEIS schools primary and post-primary that had successful applications in the recent STEM grant round; if a quota for DEIS...
    • Departmental Properties
      622. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline her Department’s responsibility for a building (details supplied) which was subject of a fire on 3 January 2024; the progress...
    • National Council for Special Education
      623. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost in 2024 to recruit three extra WTE Behaviour Practitioners for National Council for Special Education. [1352/24]
    • School Funding
      624. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the number of schools in County Wicklow that have initiated applications for solar panel funding under the free national...
    • School Staff
      625. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 205 of 10 October 2023, if she will respond to the issues raised as regards an improved pension (details...
    • School Transport
      626. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of efforts that have been put in place by her Department to increase the number of bus drivers available in order that the issues...
    • Education Schemes
      636. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the Youth Encounter Project operated by the Tipperary ETB has to be relocated from Ferryhouse where it has been located for years; if...
    • Schools Building Projects
      637. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a new school project (details supplied); the timeframe for when this project will move to stage2B; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      639. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of spaces by ASD units in primary schools in Sligo, by school, in tabular form. [1465/24]
    • School Staff
      640. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers on the substitute supply panel in Cavan at present; and the number in 2020, in tabular form. [1466/24]
    • School Funding
      641. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of ICT grants awarded to post primary schools in County Kerry. [1467/24]
    • Schools Building Projects
      642. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the construction works at a school (details supplied) will be completed. [1468/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      643. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what supports are in place for neurodivergent students who will sit their Leaving Certificate oral examinations over the Easter holiday period;...
    • School Transport
      644. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for school transport which was made in July 2023. [1474/24]
    • Schools Building Projects
      645. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a proposed variation to a building project will be approved (details supplied) [1478/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      646. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what supports have been put in place for students who require the support of an SNA during oral examinations; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Transport
      648. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the school bus transport application for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1482/24]
    • School Admissions
      649. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a school place for a child (details supplied); the family’s options when their school place has not been provided;...
    • School Patronage
      650. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she has and or will take to ensure that young pupils at a school in Naas, County Kildare, can continue their primary education at a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      651. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an exemption will be provided to a person (details supplied) who is unable to secure a special school placement suited to their needs; if...
    • Schools Building Projects
      652. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the review of the second tender report for a school (details supplied); when the school can expect to be contacted on this...
    • School Funding
      654. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to list all of the schools awarded STEM grants in 2023, by county and school type, that is rural, urban and DEIS; the reason she feels a lottery...
    • School Staff
      655. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 614 of 21 March 2023, the status of the work referred to relating to school caretakers; and when this work...
    • School Admissions
      658. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a local school place in Naas will be provided to a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1582/24]
    • School Curriculum
      659. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of second level education institutions aided by her Department, that did not provide applied mathematics for the Leaving...
    • Residential Institutions
      660. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a survivor (details supplied) will receive housing supports and the owed services as promised; if she can provide an update on this...
    • School Staff
      662. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the position of administration school principal will be retained at a school (details supplied) in Kilkenny until such time as the building...
    • School Accommodation
      663. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update regarding the temporary accommodation committed to for a school (details supplied) in Blessington; the estimated...
    • Schools Building Projects
      664. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the permanent school building for a school (details supplied); the timeline for the start date for construction; and if...
    • School Funding
      665. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide supports for STEM projects to DEIS schools that were not successful in applying for the €4.7 million STEM grants...
    • School Enrolments
      667. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an up-to-date map, in pdf form, of the school catchment areas for Dublin Bay north; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      668. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the additional ASD classroom project for a school in County Tipperary (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Administrative Arrangements
      669. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason an education company (details supplied) has not yet received payment from her Department for a summer programme scheme which it...
    • Site Acquisitions
      670. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 321 of 27 June 2023, to provide an update on her Department’s engagement with Dublin City Council...
    • Departmental Data
      671. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full cost of issuing physical payslips to teachers and other staff by her Department in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Examinations
      672. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can advise regarding a payment (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1661/24]
    • School Accommodation
      673. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to advise when a decision will be made on an application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1669/24]
    • School Funding
      674. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has plans to fund applications received for ICT support where said applications met the criteria outlined by her Department, given these...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      675. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) can be included in the DEIS scheme owing to the extra demand on school resources arising from accommodating...
    • School Funding
      676. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she accepts that the STEM funding for schools was not allocated according to published specific criteria, and that the use of a lottery system...
    • School Staff
      677. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered providing better pay and conditions for bus escort employees of special education schools to include remuneration during...
    • School Curriculum
      679. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there have been changes to the Irish curriculum for senior cycle students of Irish (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Funding
      680. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason STEM grants were allocated on a lottery basis; the reason no preference was given towards DEIS schools over fee paying schools; the...
    • School Transport
      682. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will rescind the ban on school bus drivers driving school buses when they reach 70 years of age; her views on whether fitness to drive a...
    • School Staff
      683. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 194 of 7 December 2023, when arrears in pay will be made to secretaries who are now retired, given payment...
    • School Transport
      684. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a new bus route will be approved for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1933/24]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      685. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the expenditure on new school buildings and refurbishment of existing buildings since 27 June 2020, by county, in tabular form;...
    • Scrúduithe Stáit
      686. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an gcoinneofar an t-athrú atá déanta ar an méid sraitheanna pictiúr i scrúdú Gaeilge na...
    • Departmental Data
      687. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of all fee-paying schools; the number of registered pupils per school, the fees associated with attending each school,...
    • Special Educational Needs
      688. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a proposal to establish a special school in County Monaghan; the current status of any such proposal; and if she will make a...
    • School Curriculum
      690. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can address the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2008/24]
    • School Enrolments
      691. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail what measures are or will be put in place to provide for secondary school places for schools (details supplied). [2076/24]
    • School Funding
      692. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proposals, if any, there are to award funding to more primary schools under the STEM grant scheme; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      693. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason an additional specific new-build autism classroom will not be developed at a school (details supplied) for four to five years; the...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Sports Funding
      694. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an application will be approved (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56325/23]
    • Broadcasting Sector
      695. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will ensure that the two funding schemes to support local radio stations will be in place in early 2023 to ensure local...
    • State Bodies
      696. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total number of persons employed by Fáilte Ireland in each of the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; and if she will...
    • Departmental Funding
      697. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total amount of funding allocated by her Department to each of the tourism-related bodies that received State support in each...
    • Broadcasting Sector
      698. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding TG4 received from the Exchequer in 2022 and 2023. [56601/23]
    • Sports Funding
      700. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a grant application by a club (details supplied) will be successful; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56840/23]
    • Research and Development
      701. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will list the ongoing research commissioned under the remit of her Department through the North-South Ministerial Council,...
    • Commemorative Events
      702. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the two locations for the National Famine Commemoration Day have been set that is, the Leinster location and twinning location...
    • Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge
      703. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an dtabharfaidh sí sonraí maidir leis na tionscnaimh atá glactha ag an Roinn agus maidir leis na tionscnaimh ar...
    • Tourism Policy
      704. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding the feasibility study on the infrastructure required to be able to travel and tour Ireland's experience...
    • Sports Funding
      705. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on a sports capital application for (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57100/23]
    • Departmental Data
      707. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a schedule of the personal and/or person-specific data sets her Department holds that have been provided...
    • Sports Funding
      708. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of an application by an organisation (details supplied) for funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Functions
      709. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if each of the night time economy advisors are fully accountable to her Department. [1078/24]
    • Swimming Pools
      710. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 336 of 23 May 2023, and following the ongoing interest in providing a full-time, permanent...
    • State Bodies
      711. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the estimated cost in 2024 if the number of Global Internship Programme for Tourism Ireland was doubled. [1133/24]
    • Sports Funding
      714. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the present status of an application under the large scale sports infrastructure fund (details supplied); whether a further...
    • Swimming Pools
      717. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will examine a funding line for the construction and enhancement of swimming pools in local authority areas. [1254/24]
    • Sports Facilities
      718. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the up-to-date position regarding the construction of a new state of the art national velodrome and badminton centre; and when her...
    • Irish Language
      719. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an update on the work of the Irish Language Services Advisory Committee; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Sports Funding
      721. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will ensure a club (details supplied) is awarded a suitable sports capital grant. [1584/24]
    • Tourism Industry
      722. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the percentage and number of bed spaces currently not available for use out of the total number due to same being used to...
    • Business Supports
      723. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on the recently announced Failte Ireland business support scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tourism Promotion
      724. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if Failte Ireland plans to provide a new food and drink strategy for 2024-2028 period. [1635/24]
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • International Protection
      725. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to address concerns regarding extensive changes made to a building (details supplied) in preparation for use as an...
    • Housing Provision
      726. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government a list of affordable housing fund approvals by his Department broken down by local authority and detailing the number of units...
    • Housing Schemes
      727. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of applications for the social housing tenant-in-situ scheme to date in 2023; the number of applications...
    • Departmental Schemes
      728. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether the income thresholds for housing adaptation grants for older people and people with a disability will be increased;...
    • Fire Service
      729. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the agreed additional benefits, pay and improvements to the working conditions of retained firefighters will be implemented...
    • National Monuments
      731. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an assessment will be carried out of a recorded archaeological monument (details supplied) in County Cork to assess if the...
    • Flood Risk Management
      732. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will support plans by Cork County Council to put in place flood mitigation measures in Castlemartyr in east Cork; and if...
    • Housing Schemes
      733. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it has been drawn to his attention that two local authority tenants (details supplied) applied to purchase their home under...
    • International Protection
      736. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 287 of 13 December 2022, if he will report on his further engagement with Dublin City...
    • Departmental Policies
      737. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has plans to issue guidance to local authorities on the issue of removing civic honours previously bestowed...
    • Departmental Reports
      739. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a report (details supplied) will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56497/23]
    • Departmental Policies
      740. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review a policy (details supplied) which is seen as a barrier to housing developments; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Schemes
      742. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend the croí cónaithe scheme to include properties where a portion of the property has been in use...
    • Defective Building Materials
      744. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will amend the enhanced defective concrete block grant scheme to allow for the testing of concrete foundations,...
    • Housing Schemes
      745. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the FHS property price ceilings are being reviewed; if they have changes since their inception; if they are likely to...
    • Housing Provision
      746. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new homes delivered in 2023; and the breakdown in terms of cost rental, social, affordable, build to rent...
    • Departmental Funding
      747. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details of the amount of funding allocated to local authorities for the integration of IPAS and BOTP; what the...
    • Departmental Policies
      748. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans to remedy the adverse effects made to households by vegetation from public and private lands, including the...
    • Departmental Priorities
      749. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ring fence dedicated funding for the creation of a homeless prevention budget; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Data
      750. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total national budget for rightsizing schemes for private homeowners, how many homes were purchased under this initiative...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      751. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the need for an ombudsman for homeless persons. [56686/23]
    • Compulsory Purchase Orders
      752. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current typical time for An Bord Pleanála to complete a Compulsory Purchase Order required by a local authority for...
    • Departmental Communications
      753. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement he has had with Irish Water, the Environmental Protection Agency and activist groups, respectively in respect...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      754. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on his Department’s work to fulfil the Programme for Government commitment in respect of the capital...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      755. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied). [56776/23]
    • Water Services
      756. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will publish the framework for the new multi-annual rural water programme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Vacant Properties
      757. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details on the vacant tax levy for a person (details supplied). [56794/23]
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      758. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost to install solar PV on 10% of social housing stock. [56848/23]
    • Rental Sector
      765. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Tuam LEA in County Galway will be considered an RPZ, given increasing rents in the area; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Research and Development
      766. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will list the ongoing research commissioned under the remit of his Department through the North-South Ministerial...
    • Housing Provision
      767. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports that can be offered to a person and their child (details supplied) facing eviction who is currently ineligible to...
    • Fire Safety
      769. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what action will be taken with respect to the sale of homes with fire safety defects by vulture funds to buyers unaware of...
    • Grant Payments
      770. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications and the amount of funding applied for by each local authority the disabled persons grant scheme...
    • Septic Tanks
      773. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on grants for biocycle; the details of the eligibility criteria for these grants; when they will open to...
    • Housing Provision
      774. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the house building allocation targets for counties Kildare, Fingal, Wicklow, Meath and Louth, respectively as per...
    • Departmental Policies
      775. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the use of decoy crows for the purpose of protecting crops and animal feed by farmers has not been approved by him...
    • Housing Schemes
      776. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to allow applications under the croí cónaithe vacant property grant for the refurbishment of...
    • Departmental Data
      777. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets his Department holds that have been provided...
    • State Bodies
      778. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the details of the Cabinet agreement of 20 December 2023 on the recapitalisation of the Land Development Agency,...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      779. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 392 and 393 of 12 December 2023, if he will confirm that Dublin City Council has...
    • Departmental Data
      780. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated full-year cost of increasing the local government fund by 10%, 15% and 20%, respectively. [57324/23]
    • Housing Policy
      781. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in line with Action 98 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report (details supplied) if he has plans to review the...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      794. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of land purchased by the National Park and Wildlife Service for conservation purposes since 2020 to...
    • Invasive Species Policy
      795. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to put a timeline on the phasing out of, and eventual ban of, the sale of invasive species, such as cherry laurel;...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      796. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons who have exited homelessness accommodation and were funded by his Department in each month from January...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      797. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of single house private wastewater systems in the country; the expenditure by his Department, through local...
    • Planning Issues
      798. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of change-of-use planning applications for short-term lets received by each local authority since the beginning of...
    • Housing Provision
      799. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount spent on HAP, RAS and leasing programmes in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1068/24]
    • Departmental Bodies
      800. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government about the workforce plan for An Bord Pleanála; the full year cost to employ one FTE per staffing level; the number of...
    • Planning Issues
      802. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify whether further submissions can be made regarding residential zoned land tax once the new draft map is...
    • Water Services
      803. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the promised referendum on the public ownership of water services will be held (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Defective Building Materials
      805. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that Donegal County Council recently tendered for the repair of a tranche of social houses damaged by defective...
    • Housing Policy
      806. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to use modular housing to tackle the housing crisis, or to change the planning rules around this type of housing....
    • Allotments Provision
      807. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what action his Department is taking in conjunction with local authorities in the research and development of a national...
    • Housing Provision
      811. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to consider using the Old Cork Prison site for affordable and social housing as well as a community hub that supports the arts...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      812. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what types of evaluations were carried out before authorising the purchase of Dowth Hall. [1312/24]
    • Housing Policy
      814. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1317/24]
    • Housing Schemes
      816. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason there is no appeals process in relation to a request for an increase to a payment (details supplied) for persons...
    • Legislative Measures
      818. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm which entities including public bodies under his remit are included in and required to implement the Wildlife...
    • Departmental Policies
      819. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm which entities including public bodies and Government Departments in and required to implement the All-Ireland...
    • Community Development Projects
      820. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that a community centre is included in the plans for the redevelopment of the Oliver Bond complex in Dublin...
    • International Agreements
      821. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 79 of 1 December 2022, if an inter-departmental group has been formed to evaluate...
    • Local Authorities
      822. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he received the final submission on additional costs associated with a project (details supplied); and if he will publish...
    • Housing Provision
      825. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing units that are being bought by foreign private rental firms in Ireland each year. [1539/24]
    • Housing Schemes
      831. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to further expand the croí cónaithe vacant dwelling scheme in 2024 to include more eligible properties...
    • Electoral Process
      834. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will issue guidance to returning officers stating that election candidates do not need to list their full home address...
    • Fire Stations
      835. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the new fire station in Dunleer, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1760/24]
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      836. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a NPWS farm plan scheme annual payment for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will issue; and if he will make...
    • Housing Provision
      838. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1842/24]
    • Homeless Accommodation
      840. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the recent increase in homelessness, with particular reference to child homelessness; the measures he will take...
    • Housing Schemes
      841. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when housing schemes will be funded (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1845/24]
    • Homeless Accommodation
      842. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what measures he is taking to improve the standard of homeless hostel accommodation for rough sleepers, in light of the...
    • Housing Schemes
      845. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that banks will not issue mortgages in the case of a tenant purchase, due to the operation of the clawback...
    • Housing Provision
      847. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing units by local authority and the total numbers of each nationalities tenanting these properties,...
    • Housing Schemes
      848. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2045/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      850. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what provisions/funding have been allocated for the St. Brigid 1500 celebrations in County Kildare, for February 2024; and if...
    • Housing Provision
      851. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address and clarify a situation of multiple and repeated failures with regard to the air and water home heating/hot...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      852. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how many applications for aid have been received by the State for aid in east Cork since the flooding on 18 October 2023; and...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      853. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a claim was cancelled after ten years, when the child (details supplied) in question still has the same diagnoses...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      854. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be reached on an application for the one-parent family payment for a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      855. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) has sufficient contributions to qualify for a non-means tested illness benefit. [56311/23]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      857. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal will be finalised for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      858. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a review (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56413/23]
    • School Meals Programme
      859. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to clarify the position regarding the hot school meals programme for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      860. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal by a person (details supplied) will be supported. [56435/23]
    • Departmental Data
      861. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a breakdown of the monies provided to people in receipt of temporary protection, in total and per month, since...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      862. 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. [56480/23]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      863. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the review of an application (details supplied); what documents are being requested and are outstanding for...
    • Departmental Data
      865. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 544 of 14 July 2022, the number of persons currently in receipt of a disability-related...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      866. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of plans to extend child benefit for those continuing in secondary education but who have turned 18 years; and if...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      871. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider introducing a cost of disability payment in addition to those in receipt of a disability related...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      873. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the carer’s benefit payment is not considered a qualifying payment for the household benefits package...
    • Departmental Data
      874. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people on disability allowance and invalidity pension who to date in 2023 have lost their entitlement to these...
    • Employment Schemes
      879. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a referral for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal to EmployAbility Northwest will be expedited; the reason for...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      880. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the target times that apply to the processing of jobseeker payments; and if she will report on the achievement of these...
    • Departmental Data
      881. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of the data sets she provides to the forward planning unit of the Department of Education on...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      882. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the circumstances of the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined to ascertain if more persons are affected,...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      883. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider launching an awareness campaign for the household benefit package targeted towards persons over 70 years...
    • State Pensions
      884. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Cork has an entitlement to the State pension (non-contributory). [56772/23]
    • Social Welfare Code
      885. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in light of the new pension deferral scheme, workers who defer their pension will be eligible for certain benefits, for...
    • Employment Schemes
      886. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how jobs funded through the WorkAbility: Inclusive Pathways to Employment Programme would be advertised; and if she will make...
    • School Meals Programme
      887. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No.148 of 13 December 2023, if there is an appeal process through which a school (details...
    • Social Welfare Code
      888. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what plans are being considered to allow unmarried partners to qualify for the widow's pension upon the death of their...
    • Public Sector Pay
      889. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware that apart from some long service incremental increases for long-serving staff in 2017, staff in the Citizens...
    • State Pensions
      891. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application (details supplied) for the State pension (non-contributory). [56884/23]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      892. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether retrospective applications can be granted for a carer’s allowance (details supplied). [56905/23]
    • Research and Development
      893. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will list the ongoing research commissioned under the remit of her Department through the North-South Ministerial...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      894. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what supports are available in a situation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56943/23]
    • Social Welfare Code
      895. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review jobseeker's benefit in order to ensure those in receipt of it, who are also working, can benefit from...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      896. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if financial supports are available for self-employed people with disabilities, similar to the wage subsidy scheme for people...
    • Departmental Data
      901. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for a breakdown of the number of DCA applications rejected by her Department, in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 and per condition...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      902. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in the case of 80-year-olds, she will consider the widening of the income brackets to qualify for fuel allowance; and if...
    • Departmental Data
      904. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how much has been expended on, or for, clothing provided to international protection applicants by way of financial allowance...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      906. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the daily expenses allowance is provided to any persons who have been granted international protection or a leave to...
    • Departmental Data
      907. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how many persons who have been granted international protection or a leave to remain and continue to reside in accommodation...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      908. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an invalidity pension application in the case of a person (details supplied);...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      909. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an appeal for carers allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      911. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the financial assistance, for maintenance and care related costs and so on, available to those who are vision impaired and...
    • Departmental Data
      912. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets her Department holds that have been provided...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      913. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal for carer’s allowance (details supplied) will be processed and a decision made on it; the reason for...
    • Employment Schemes
      914. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in line with Action 80 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, if she has plans to establish a State-run public...
    • Departmental Schemes
      919. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in line with Action 85 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, she has plans to remove the minimum work hours to...
    • Departmental Policies
      920. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in line with Action 62 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, she has plans to introduce a non-means tested,...
    • Departmental Consultations
      927. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in line with Action 69 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, she has plans to undertake consultation with the...
    • Departmental Reviews
      928. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in line with Action 70 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, she has plans to undertake a review of the...
    • Departmental Policies
      930. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in line with Action 72 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, she has plans to allow those who were previously in...
    • Departmental Data
      932. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of providing school meals to every primary school where there is established deprivation but no DEIS...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      939. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the category of insurance contributions made by a person (details supplied) for the period they worked in the HSE...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      940. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for invalidity pension, now under appeal (details supplied), will be expedited and approved. [1031/24]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      941. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 288 of 12 December 2023, regarding the European Commission Recommendation (EU)...
    • Departmental Data
      942. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total amount spent on rent supplement in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1067/24]
    • Departmental Meetings
      943. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she spoke formally with her United States counterpart in 2023. [1092/24]
    • Departmental Policies
      944. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the cost-of-living measures applied to certain social welfare payments, as announced in Budget 2024, were not...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      946. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) qualifies for a full State pension (contributory) as currently they are in receipt of a part...
    • School Meals Programme
      947. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a school (details supplied) can be considered for the hot meals programme due to roll-out shortly; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Data
      948. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of beneficiaries of temporary protection issued with PPSN's in 2023; the number of these now in employment; and if...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      949. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for a carers support grant by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      950. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an oral hearing can be facilitated regarding the recently submitted appeal for invalidity pension in the case of a person...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      951. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether a full review can be undertaken into the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Data
      953. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount expended on hearing aid grants under the treatment benefit scheme in 2023. [1357/24]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      954. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a proposed change to a social welfare payment (details supplied) is expected to take effect; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      957. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the terms for a welfare scheme (details supplied) will be expanded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1378/24]
    • Departmental Policies
      958. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware of a so-called ‘Coming Clean Policy’ being implemented by her Department, whereby a person who...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      959. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied);...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      960. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for carers allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      962. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on a child benefit application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1436/24]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      963. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an appeal for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      965. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for carers allowance and domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person...
    • Departmental Data
      967. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who applied for job seekers allowance/job seekers benefit, who identified themselves as former farmers...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      968. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an invalidity pension for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1551/24]
    • Departmental Policies
      969. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to increase the home benefits package for over 70s; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1572/24]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      970. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a PPS number will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1581/24]
    • Departmental Policies
      971. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify the criteria for the additional two weeks parental leave as announced in Budget 2024 (details supplied);...
    • Departmental Data
      972. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people in receipt of jobseekers allowance payments for 12 months or longer, for two years or longer, three...
    • Departmental Policies
      975. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps her Department intends to take in 2024 to ensure that long-term unemployed persons are encouraged to take up...
    • Departmental Data
      976. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the savings achieved by her Department arising from control work in respect of jobseekers allowance payments for each year...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      977. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on a disability allowance review for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      978. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for clarity around eligibility of fuel allowance for over 70s if they still have children over 18 years living with them due...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      979. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware of the delays in the social welfare appeals office, with the time for registration of an appeal currently...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      981. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who were refused the disability allowance, in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [1798/24]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      982. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who, having been refused the carer’s allowance, were successful in their appeals of her...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      983. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who were refused the carer’s allowance, in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [1800/24]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      986. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a disability allowance appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      987. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a directive will be implemented to ensure that recipients of non-contributory pensions in Ireland who have temporary...
    • Social Welfare Code
      988. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what checks are being carried out to ensure that recipients of social welfare payments who have temporary protection status...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      989. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); when a decision is likely to be received, as this has been pending...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      990. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is possible to expedite an application for invalidity benefit for a person (details supplied). [2065/24]
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Direct Provision System
      991. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the official status by group of the residents at the Richmond Street direct provision centre in County Longford as of 31...
    • An Garda Síochána
      992. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the time it takes for suitability background checks on Garda recruits to be completed. [56296/23]
    • Legislative Reviews
      993. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the review of legislation regarding owner management companies; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Fire Safety
      995. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if owners of units covered by the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011 are entitled under legislation to access fire safety...
    • Immigration Policy
      996. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many prosecutions have been initiated in respect of alleged offences under section 11 of the Immigration Act 2004; the...
    • International Protection
      997. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide details of the number of persons applying for temporary protection in Ireland, who already applied under the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      998. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost to the Exchequer to provide ten additional Garda youth diversion programmes; and if she will make a...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1000. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the work of developing new guidelines in relation to the requirements for Irish association applications...
    • Prison Service
      1003. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if quality assurance and or compliance audits in respect of performance review ratings in the Irish Prison Service have been...
    • Visa Applications
      1006. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of a visa application in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1007. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which An Garda Síochána and the PSNI co-operate on joint training exercises and systems; if both...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1008. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application for a person (details supplied); to account for the repeated requests for Garda...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1009. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she, in conjunction with the Garda Commissioner, will revisit the current policing model (details supplied); and if she...
    • Refugee Appeals Tribunal
      1010. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how a person can apply for the position of adjudicator on the Refugee Appeals Tribunal. [56513/23]
    • Deportation Orders
      1011. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people from a country designated as a safe country; the number of people from all other countries, respectively,...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1015. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a citizenship application for a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • International Protection
      1016. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for refugee status and international protection refused each year from 2015 to 2023, in tabular...
    • Residency Permits
      1017. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 430 of 26 September 2023, to provide an update on the matter following this...
    • Visa Applications
      1018. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a delayed visa (details supplied) will be urgently assessed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56609/23]
    • An Garda Síochána
      1019. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of hate crime and hate incident reports to gardaí broken down, by month for the past 24 months. [56617/23]
    • Departmental Data
      1020. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of charges and convictions under section 5 of the Protections for Persons Reporting Child Abuse Act 1998 in the...
    • Legislative Programme
      1021. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she expects the Gambling Regulation Bill 2022 to be signed into law; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Data
      1022. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of instances in 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023 in which bombs, grenades or improvised explosive devices have been...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1023. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of Garda personnel, by rank, in the Clare-Tipperary Garda division (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Courts Service
      1029. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on her Department's engagement with An Garda Síochána on the court presenter allowance; and if...
    • Work Permits
      1030. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current processing times for first-time labour market access permissions; the steps being taken to improve the processing...
    • Nuclear Plants
      1032. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the visit by members of An Garda Síochána to the Sellafield nuclear facility in 2004; their...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1033. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) will be eligible for citizenship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56826/23]
    • Student Visas
      1034. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current processing times for applications for the extension of student conditions applications. [56836/23]
    • An Garda Síochána
      1035. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí assigned to Gaeltacht regions; how many are assigned to each Garda station; how many are fluent in...
    • Crime Prevention
      1036. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what plans are in place to build a whole-of-Government approach to deliver community safety. [56858/23]
    • Scéimeanna Rannacha
      1037. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality an dtabharfaidh sí sonraí faoi líon na dtionscadal a bhaineann leis an nGaeilge faoin gClár...
    • Research and Development
      1040. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will list the ongoing research commissioned under the remit of her Department through the North-South Ministerial...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1041. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress being made with a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); if a decision is expected in the near...
    • Immigration Policy
      1042. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many persons' fingerprints were checked against Eurodac to date in 2023. [56976/23]
    • Deportation Orders
      1044. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many deportation orders were made to date in 2023. [56978/23]
    • Departmental Consultations
      1046. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consultation has taken place with disabled persons representative organisations in relation to the Criminal Justice...
    • Residency Permits
      1047. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether she is aware of the situation whereby bus and lorry drivers coming from South Africa to take up employment with...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      1048. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what measures she has undertaken to comply with the Istanbul Convention; the cost of these measures; and the breakdown of the...
    • International Protection
      1049. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department notifies IPAS when an applicant is no longer in the international protection application process, having...
    • Departmental Data
      1052. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the average and median length of time between the tribunal affirmation of a recommendation referred to in...
    • Residency Permits
      1053. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many Irish residence permit cards were issued in 2023. [57099/23]
    • International Protection
      1054. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will expedite an application for international protection (details supplied). [57102/23]
    • Legislative Reviews
      1055. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to give an update on the operation of the Sex Offenders (Amendment) Act 2023 and what impact she believes it is having on...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      1056. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown of the costs of the new Domestic, Sexual and Gender Based Violence Agency; the spend it will be responsible for...
    • International Protection
      1058. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have been granted labour market access permission who reside in accommodation provided by IPAS....
    • Family Reunification
      1060. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a family reunification application will be approved in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Residency Permits
      1061. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      1062. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to clarify what role, if any, the new Domestic, Sexual and Gender Based Violence Agency will have in the allocation of capital...
    • Departmental Data
      1063. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets her Department holds that have been provided...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1064. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the requirements related to BMI (body mass index) in the Garda recruitment process; and if she will make a...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1065. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of foreign nationals who successfully applied for and received Irish citizenship, who are now permanently living...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1066. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when applications by a group (details supplied) will be finalised and permission granted; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1067. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cases notified by An Garda Síochána to Tusla under the joint working protocol, broken down by Garda...
    • EU Directives
      1069. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the issues considered by Ireland in deciding to be bound by the EU Asylum Procedures Directive (2005/85/EC); if opting out of...
    • National Car Test
      1070. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vehicles seized by gardaí for having no valid NCT certificate within DMR region, Kildare and Wicklow in...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1071. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank attached to Garda mounted unit as of 3 January 2024. [1087/24]
    • Alcohol Sales
      1072. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of alcohol test purchase inspections by gardaí within the R district of DMR carried out in supermarkets, bars...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1073. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding has been provided in 2024 to purchase additional vehicles for Garda armed support units. [1089/24]
    • Citizenship Applications
      1075. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the citizenship application by a person (details supplied). [1112/24]
    • International Protection
      1076. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of labour market access permission applications received by her Department from international protection...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1077. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of loudspeakers currently owned by An Garda Síochána; and if funding is available in 2024 to increase...
    • Policing Authority
      1078. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she expects to receive the report from the Policing Authority on Public Order Policing and related issues; and if this...
    • Policing Co-operation
      1079. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if all district neighbourhood watch scheme meetings have resumed within DMR; and if not, the districts within DMR that...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1080. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank on each Public Order Unit Team within DMR; the number of Public Order Unit Teams that are...
    • Asylum Seekers
      1084. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are plans to open a special humanitarian pathway for residents of Gaza who have family residing in Ireland; if visa...
    • Immigration Status
      1086. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made with the appeal of stamp 4 visas being cancelled on two applicants who moved to Ireland from...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1087. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a detailed breakdown of drink driving convictions, by county over the most recent year for which data is available,...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1089. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps now being taken to finalise the application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); when it is...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1090. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a breakdown of each cohort of newly attested recruits for 2022-2023 and the Garda divisions to which they have been...
    • Prison Service
      1091. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of senior psychologist and staff grade psychologist that were recruited into Irish Prison Service in 2023; and the...
    • Family Reunification
      1092. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the income requirement of €40,000 for family reunification will be reviewed to allow individuals in full-time...
    • Undefined
      1093. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1371/24]
    • Asylum Seekers
      1094. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what action her Department is taking to reduce waiting times for an appointment for registration renewal of a GNIB card, given...
    • Legislative Measures
      1098. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether the Family Courts Bill 2022 can be amended to include provisions that compel banks to honour court orders related to...
    • Prison Service
      1102. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 357 of 21 November 2023, if she has received the necessary information from the Garda...
    • International Protection
      1103. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to address the following matters (details supplied) with respect to finger printing, cross-checking and verification processes...
    • Asylum Applications
      1105. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • An Garda Síochána
      1106. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons recruited to An Garda Síochána in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [1512/24]
    • Crime Prevention
      1112. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of burglaries reported to gardaí, per county, in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [1518/24]
    • Road Traffic Offences
      1114. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of speeding fines issued in each county, in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [1520/24]
    • Drug Dealing
      1115. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drug seizures made by gardaí in each of the past ten years, by county, in tabular form. [1522/24]
    • Victim Support Services
      1116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the review of the current two year allowable timeframe for making a claim to the Criminal Injuries Board compensation...
    • Domestic Violence
      1117. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if engagement has occurred between her Department and the Garda Commissioner in relation to the Sale of Alcohol Bill 2022, in...
    • Crime Prevention
      1118. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there any plans to review the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act 1990, in particular in relation to legislation surrounding...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1119. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to reduce the time taken for vetting and processing of applications for the naturalisation of minors, currently at...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1121. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda mountain bikes attached to each Garda district within Meath division as of 9 January 2024. [1631/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      1123. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the implementation of the short-term recommendations of the high level task force to consider the...
    • Ports Policy
      1124. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to detail the number of security personnel that are employed at Rosslare Europort and all other ports and airports in Ireland...
    • Immigration Policy
      1125. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many people have been found to have illegally travelled to Ireland in containers or illegally stowed away on ships for...
    • Programme for Government
      1126. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the Programme for Government commitment to establish a Penal Policy Consultative Council to advise on...
    • Prison Service
      1127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the Mountjoy Prison Museum; when it is open to members of the general public; and if she will make a statement...
    • Visa Applications
      1128. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an application (details supplied) will be finalised and pre-clearance granted, if she will review the circumstances...
    • Deportation Orders
      1129. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of notifications of intention to deport issued under section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended) for each...
    • Immigration Status
      1132. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of 'leave to remain' applications received by her Department from 2001 to date, under section 3 of the Immigration...
    • Departmental Staff
      1133. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide details on the staff composition of the arrangements unit and the voluntary return unit within her Department; and...
    • Drug Dealing
      1134. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of incidents of drug-related intimidation reported to gardaí in 2023, by county. [1706/24]
    • Visa Applications
      1136. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of a visa application in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1137. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a citizenship certificate will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Immigration Status
      1140. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average turnaround for a spouse of an Irish national application currently; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1141. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has commissioned any survey work with regard to obstacles to recruitment into An Garda Síochána;...
    • International Protection
      1142. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who applied for international protection in Ireland in 2022 and 2023 broken down, by country of origin;...
    • Deportation Orders
      1143. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a breakdown of the total number of deportations in 2023, including a breakdown of enforced deportations and assisted...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1146. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when applications for naturalisation of two minors of the same family (details supplied) will be finalised; if she will review...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1148. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí stationed in Irish diplomatic missions abroad, by rank and mission; and if she will make a statement...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1150. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a citizenship application by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Courts Service
      1151. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update from the Courts Service on the progress of the e-probate project under the Courts Modernisation...
    • Legislative Reviews
      1152. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the appointment of a new lead researcher for the review of Part 4 of the Sexual Offences Act...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Food Industry
      1153. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what action his Department is taking to ensure the development of community-based local food growing strategies, given strategies...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1154. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on delays in ACRES payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56222/23]
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      1157. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to address the concerns of a person (details supplied), given that they have not been provided with any compensation following...
    • Animal Carcase Disposal
      1158. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to rectify a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56319/23]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1159. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the budget for TAMS in 2023; the number of applications received to date in 2023; the number of applications approved and rejected;...
    • Departmental Data
      1160. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount that has been requested to be carried over under the Appropriation Bill for 2023 and 10% allowance for each Department;...
    • Animal Carcase Disposal
      1162. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with the increasing volume of fallen animals on farms and the lack of places to render the carcases, if he will commit to direct...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1163. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he intends to launch the revised ash dieback reconstitution scheme; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this is a...
    • Animal Welfare
      1167. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will urgently move to appoint an authorised officer for animal welfare in each local authority area; and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1168. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the ACRES payment will be issued (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56419/23]
    • Live Exports
      1170. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will advise on the implementation of animal welfare standards as part of the rules in relation to live exports; the process of...
    • Assisted Animal Reproduction
      1171. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will be in the position to sanction the use of multi-breed artificial insemination straws from 1 January 2024; and...
    • Forestry Sector
      1172. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quantity of bark that is being imported into the country for use by nurseries and horticulture, per month in 2023, in tabular...
    • Weather Events
      1176. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 406 of 21 November 2023, if there are plans to expand the scheme to include sectors such as...
    • Live Exports
      1177. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of live cattle exported monthly; the mode of transportation used; and their ultimate destination from 2021 to date, in...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1180. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers affected by delays to the ACRES payment; the number of farmers affected by delays to the ACRES co-operation...
    • Departmental Appointments
      1182. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current makeup of the Teagasc board; the process for appointment; and if his Department has considered expanding the board in...
    • Beef Sector
      1183. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what consultations took place with suckler farmers when formulating the changes to the beef index; and what information has been...
    • Animal Welfare
      1186. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the work his Department is conducting in relation to the welfare of unwanted bull calves which will be born next year; and if he...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      1188. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the annual accounts for Horse Racing Ireland and for the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board will be presented. [56503/23]
    • Greyhound Industry
      1189. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an investigation is taking place into the export of an Irish greyhound (details supplied) to Hebei Province, China; if Greyhound...
    • Fishing Industry
      1190. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a fishery (details supplied) has been closed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56508/23]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1193. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of ACRES recipients in each county; the number within each county who received their payments in November and December...
    • Live Exports
      1197. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the footage posted by an organisation (details supplied) in relation to a livestock vessel which left Greenore...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1199. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive their ACRES payment.; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      1201. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total CAP 2023-2027 allocation for agriculture in Ireland; the breakdown of how much CAP funding has been spent in 2023 and...
    • Animal Carcase Disposal
      1202. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that are being taken by his Department to address the current difficulties and costs for knackeries trying to get outlets...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1203. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications to date in grant aid for cattle underpasses under the TAMS grants scheme; if he will review the technical...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1210. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the next tranche of ACRES will open, and for how long; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56832/23]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1211. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the soil sampling submission will begin again, and for how long it will be open; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Agriculture Industry
      1212. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if amendments to phytosanitary certification for fresh plant and plant products subject to Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 of 28 November...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1213. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider reviewing his Department's recent decision to award ACRES-CP payments to farmers in the scheme in February 2024...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1217. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what action his Department is taking with regards to the development of agreed validation protocols between agtech innovators and...
    • Agriculture Supports
      1218. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if due consideration will be given to the inclusion of marginal agricultural sectors in support policies and schemes, given that...
    • Departmental Data
      1219. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will list the ongoing research commissioned under the remit of his Department through the North-South Ministerial Council,...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      1220. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his Department’s plans to upgrade its IT infrastructure and improve the online application process for all payment schemes;...
    • Harbours and Piers
      1223. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has undertaken a recent review of siltation in Howth Harbour; and whether he believes that a major scheme is now necessary for...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1224. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the list of eligible measures under TAMS to include new agtech equipment and innovations which can improve animal...
    • Work Permits
      1226. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what engagement he has had with the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment on the Employment Permits Bill 2022 given the...
    • Agriculture Supports
      1228. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 447 of 5 December 2023, with regard to the eligibility timeframe for the proposed solution for...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1229. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will advise on his intended next steps regarding the recent publication of the report on the market potential of Irish sheep...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1230. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an application for ACRES will be approved for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57145/23]
    • Agriculture Industry
      1233. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered the recent Bord Bia study “Market Potential for Irish Sheep Milk”; if he plans to act upon any of...
    • Fishing Industry
      1234. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the regulation of pair trawling by pelagic trawlers within the six-mile limit; if there are plans to re-initiate a...
    • Departmental Data
      1236. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets his Department holds that have been provided and/or...
    • Live Exports
      1237. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the acceptable weather conditions for a livestock vessel to be permitted to leave Ireland; to ensure that no vessel...
    • Tax Code
      1238. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what negotiations were had with the Minister for Finance regarding the recent VAT changes on excluding farm equipment on the VAT...
    • Invasive Species Policy
      1239. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on measures to address issues with an invasive species (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Live Exports
      1240. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an investigation (details supplied) into the transport of live animals from Ireland to Israel has been completed; and if, as a...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1242. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2023 organics scheme payment will issue to a farmer in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Food Industry
      1243. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on recent progress with the Food Vision Strategy. [1080/24]
    • Calafoirt agus Céanna
      1244. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén uair a thosófar ar an obair ar mhuiríne ag Ros a' Mhíl, Co. na Gaillimhe a bhfuil €2m ceadaithe di;...
    • Departmental Data
      1245. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the feasibility study on the proposed development works at a stadium (details supplied) has been carried out; and if so, if this...
    • Animal Slaughtering
      1246. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of engagement that has occurred between his Department and meat processing operatives in view that currently only one meat...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      1248. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to seek advice from his officials as to whether there are any suitable sites that they may be aware of under their remit that could...
    • Departmental Data
      1249. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of containers inspected by his Departmental officials following arrival into Dublin Airport and Dublin Port from 1...
    • Greyhound Industry
      1250. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how four greyhounds which are still registered in Ireland (details supplied) were exported to Spain; and the action he will take to...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1251. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will issue a BISS payment to a person (details supplied). [1243/24]
    • Fishing Industry
      1253. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if camper vans are allowed park at fishery port car parks as long as they are not used as accommodation while parked there; and if...
    • Departmental Data
      1254. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review a proposal (details supplied) and have his Department contact the promoter; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      1255. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of WTE laboratory analysts in biology employed by his Department as of 1 September 2022 and 31 December 2023, in tabular...
    • Departmental Data
      1256. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether Teagasc was consulted about operating a research farm at Dowth. [1311/24]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1257. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive their ACRES payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Bord Bia
      1258. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date on which he and or his officials are next due to meet the CEO of Bord Bia. [1359/24]
    • Harbours and Piers
      1259. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he received a report on the consultation conducted regarding licensing additional boats for visitor boat trips from Howth...
    • Departmental Data
      1260. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will advise on any engagement he has had with an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Beef Sector
      1261. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of beef exported from Ireland in each of the past ten years. [1540/24]
    • Departmental Data
      1263. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Office for Fairness and Transparency in the Agri Food Supply Chain is operational; what staff are currently employed; and to...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1265. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farms in Ireland in each of the past ten years; how many people have been working in farming full time in each of the...
    • Live Exports
      1266. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will advise on a matter with regard to live exports (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1552/24]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1267. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the issues relating to the records of cattle owned by a person (details supplied) will be resolved as a matter of urgency as all...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1268. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has engaged with the Minister for Finance on issues arising in relation to VAT refunds for farmers; if he has engaged with...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1269. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the number of complementary income support for young farmers applications his Department received in 2023; the number of...
    • Forestry Sector
      1270. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what action his Department is taking to ensure that there is an increase in the overall number of afforestation licences issued for...
    • Greyhound Industry
      1274. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the greyhound track attendance figures for each of the Shelbourne Park, Enniscorthy and Limerick tracks, on 2, 9...
    • Fishing Industry
      1278. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of reported/recorded lost fishing pots; the number of recovered fishing pots that had been reported/recorded lost on the...
    • Tax Exemptions
      1279. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to review a case (details supplied); and if he can clarify updates on mentioned VAT exemption; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Forestry Sector
      1280. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the 20% additional broadleaves required in the new forestry programme under the new forest types can be only one broadleaf...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      1284. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide the racecourse track deaths for 2023; and the total number of thoroughbreds sent to slaughter for the same period. [1751/24]
    • Animal Welfare
      1285. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what steps have been taken to ensure the safety of the calves at the two control posts in Cherbourg-Pignet and Tollevast, for...
    • Tax Code
      1287. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1769/24]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1288. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how many farmers are awaiting ACRES co-operation payments; the date farmers awaiting payment under ACRES co-operation scheme will be...
    • Beef Sector
      1289. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the contractual arrangements between a company (details supplied) and an organisation. [1966/24]
    • Fishing Industry
      1295. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine prior to the announcement of the benefits you brought back to Ireland in terms of increased mackerel quotas from Denmark, if the...
    • Departmental Data
      1297. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to detail the amount of foreign peat-based products been sold in Ireland in each of the past five years. [2155/24]
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Disability Services
      1298. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in line with Action 96 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report (details supplied) if he has plans to...
    • Departmental Policies
      1302. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures, outside of constitutional amendments, his Government is taking to implement the Report of the...
    • Departmental Data
      1303. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children from counties Cavan and Monaghan that were referred to a service (details supplied) for...
    • Departmental Policies
      1304. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the reconfiguration of an industrial unit (details supplied) earmarked for refugee...
    • International Protection
      1305. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of households occupying international protection applicants in accommodation; and if he will...
    • Departmental Funding
      1306. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when his Department will provide the funding to allow for the payment of the 8% pay increase to Section 39,...
    • Equality Issues
      1307. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current timeline to fulfil the Programme for Government commitment to legislate to ban conversion therapy;...
    • Disability Services
      1308. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of children currently on the waiting list to access a children’s disability network...
    • Direct Provision System
      1309. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to use a building (details supplied) as a direct provision centre; and if he will make a...
    • Childcare Services
      1310. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if funding is available from his Department to provide modular accommodation for a stand-alone childcare...
    • Departmental Data
      1312. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many times each of the children's disability network teams have met, for each local authority area each...
    • International Protection
      1315. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department or any Government agency have plans to use Castlemacgarrett, Claremorris as accommodation for...
    • Departmental Reports
      1316. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the results of the financial report survey carried out by his Department in pre-schools will be published;...
    • Departmental Funding
      1317. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will fund mandatory training for the pre-school sector, such as FAR or training for the new...
    • Disability Services
      1319. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to support a matter (details supplied). [56433/23]
    • International Protection
      1321. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has assessed the feasibility of converting a former hotel (details supplied) in Ballsbridge,...
    • Disability Services
      1322. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to address lengthy waiting lists and staffing issues for child disability services, such as speech...
    • International Protection
      1323. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how much was expended, per month, since February 2022 on accommodation for people in receipt of temporary...
    • After-School Support Services
      1326. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to increase supports for the provision of after school services; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Service Executive
      1327. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the HSE community healthcare east’s decision to not fund a programme...
    • After-School Support Services
      1328. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the case of a child (detail supplied) will be reviewed; if a similar funding application can be made in...
    • Ukraine War
      1329. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of an application by an accommodation provider (details supplied) to provide accommodation for...
    • International Protection
      1330. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details of the amount of funding allocated to local authorities for the integration of IPAS and...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1331. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a payment will be expedited for a person (details supplied) under the mother and baby home redress scheme....
    • Childcare Services
      1332. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide free access to childcare to families in receipt of a medical card; and if he will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1333. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide the necessary funding to increase the capacity of early intervention in school aged teams to...
    • Departmental Funding
      1334. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration could be given for funding from the recently announced 'Building Blocks - Capacity Grant' for...
    • International Protection
      1335. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of vulnerable international protection applicants who had an appointment with an IPAS social worker...
    • Childcare Services
      1336. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason why inspections of childcare facilities are not managed by one agency and how much extra costs does...
    • International Protection
      1340. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a list of all IPAS centres providing accommodation to beneficiaries of temporary protection; the breakdown...
    • Departmental Data
      1342. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a schedule of the data sets he provides to the Department of Education on an annual basis;...
    • Disability Services
      1343. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of residential places for people with a disability currently being provided as of 1 December 2023 or...
    • Pension Provisions
      1347. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to increase the pension contributions or pay increases per child for foster carers who are...
    • International Protection
      1348. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of residents at a location (details supplied), broken down by gender, relationship status and the...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1349. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on when applications for compensation for mother and baby homes in Tuam will be opened....
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1350. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of young people who have had reassessments for autism spectrum disorder in children's disability...
    • Disability Services
      1351. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update in respect of an application (details supplied); when a decision will be reached; and if...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1352. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of any engagement he has had with survivors’ groups since the announcement of the mother and...
    • Disability Services
      1353. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a child (details supplied) in County Donegal will recommence physiotherapy; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1354. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to review correspondence (details supplied); his Department’s plans to help in these cases; and if he...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1356. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of separated or unaccompanied children who underwent an eligibility assessment for Tusla services to...
    • Disability Services
      1358. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children with disabilities in each CHO requiring an emergency/crisis residence and package of...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1368. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if any relevant criteria were considered ahead of the purchase of a property (details supplied) purchased by...
    • Research and Development
      1369. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will list the ongoing research commissioned under the remit of his Department through the North-South...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1370. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he could provide an update for ASD and speech and language assessment for a person (details supplied); and...
    • Childcare Services
      1371. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department can help assign a creche place to a person (details supplied) living in Dublin 12. [56958/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      1372. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the delays in releasing approved funding to a gym (details supplied) created to provide a safe...
    • Disability Services
      1373. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a child (details supplied) is waiting on speech and language therapy in County Cavan; and if he will...
    • Children in Care
      1374. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the difference in annual cost to the State per child for foster care versus residential; and if he will make a...
    • International Protection
      1375. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many persons in respect of whom a deportation order is in force are being provided accommodation by the...
    • Disability Services
      1377. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the establishment and operation of neuro-rehabilitations teams to be set up in every CHO; and...
    • Children in Care
      1380. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth who bears responsibility for the Garda vetting of foster carers. [57142/23]
    • Direct Provision System
      1381. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 716 of 12 December 2023, if those numbers relate to permanent IPAS...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1382. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail the way in which the qualifications of psychologists employed by organisations that have been...
    • Disability Services
      1385. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the case of a child (details supplied); and when their therapy will recommence. [57168/23]
    • International Protection
      1386. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the breakdown of the number of international protection applicants, by area in each local electoral area in...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1387. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a child (details supplied) will receive an assessment for speech and language treatment; and if he will...
    • Departmental Data
      1388. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets his Department holds that have...
    • Ukraine War
      1389. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many beneficiaries of temporary protection (BOTPs) to date have been permitted by the Ukraine crisis...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1391. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of resourcing supports for students with SEN, including proper access to therapeutic...
    • Disability Services
      1392. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of establishing an initial panel of 200 speech and language therapists for schools as a...
    • Childcare Services
      1394. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has any proposals to assist children providers who have difficulty in delivering the carer to child...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1395. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of cases notified by Tusla to An Garda Síochána under the joint working protocol, broken...
    • Children in Care
      1398. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of senior management liaison forums meetings held as per the joint working protocol between Tusla...
    • Child Protection
      1400. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of social workers who have done training in relation to specialist interviewing relating to Section...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      1403. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many beneficiaries of temporary protection (BOTPs) were in receipt of State-funded accommodation on 31...
    • Disability Services
      1406. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current and capital funding required to provide 40 extra planned residential places. [1094/24]
    • Legislative Measures
      1408. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will make a statement on the scope of healthcare professionals, which is intended to be regulated by...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1409. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will make a statement on the efficacy of the core funding agreement in relation to the freezing of fees...
    • Disability Services
      1410. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children with disabilities on waiting lists for overnight respite care in County Meath; and the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1411. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE psychologists available to children in County Meath within the CDNTs, in tabular form. [1173/24]
    • International Protection
      1412. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current occupancy number of all IPAS accommodation for international protection applicants; the current...
    • Health Services Staff
      1415. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a list of all vacancies for intellectual disability nursing positions within CHO2; and the locations...
    • Disability Services
      1416. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is any legal obligation on large retailers to provide disability trolleys in their stores; and if he...
    • Departmental Funding
      1417. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an allocation under the new youth employability scheme will be made to an organisation (details supplied),...
    • Health Services Staff
      1418. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of full-time filial therapists and child art psychotherapists directly employed by TUSLA, by TUSLA...
    • International Protection
      1419. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Services
      1421. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration is being given to a site (details supplied) in the greater Castleisland area for a residential...
    • International Protection
      1422. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will state that he will not entertain the housing of refugees in a property (details supplied) whilst an...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1423. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if children attending ASD preschools are not eligible for an overage ECCE exemption; if ASD preschools are...
    • Disability Services
      1424. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when funding will be provided for support staff to enable an adult with special needs to live independently...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1427. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of afterschool places that have ceased operations, by county in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1428. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what restrictions are currently in place in respect of employees of the Child and Family Agency running in...
    • Ukraine War
      1429. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Ukrainians who sought refuge in Ireland in 2022 and 2023; the number that have returned home or...
    • Direct Provision System
      1430. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons that have been placed in direct provision centres; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • International Protection
      1431. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons at present who have applied for international protection and sought accommodation under...
    • Disability Services
      1432. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can provide an update on a review (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1852/24]
    • International Protection
      1433. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a property is being considered as an IPAS accommodation centre (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Disability Services
      1434. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a child (details supplied) will receive an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • International Protection
      1439. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department is examining a property (details supplied) as a location for the accommodation of refugees or...
    • Health Services
      1440. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the hydrotherapy pool in Cavan is still without clinical staff trained to deliver hydrotherapy in a...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1441. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will revise the terms of the mother and baby homes redress scheme for adoptees to include those who were...
    • Disability Services
      1442. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when crucial supports and interventions will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1444. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of vacant posts at Tusla, by role and grade and geographic division on 1 January 2024, in tabular...
    • International Protection
      1446. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position in relation to a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2007/24]
    • Ukraine War
      1448. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Ukrainians provided emergency accommodation in County Longford at 31 December 2023. [2035/24]
    • Direct Provision System
      1451. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of residents at the Richmond Street, DP centre in County Longford as of 31 December 2023. [2038/24]
    • Disability Services
      1452. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a collaborative approach involving stakeholder organisations (details supplied) will be used in planning...
  • Department of Health
    • Medicinal Products
      1453. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the instructions he gave to the HSE regarding the reimbursement of medicines in 2024 as per the letter of determination, whether patient access to...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1454. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that an existing premises (details supplied) which is planned to be adapted for use as a primary care centre is sufficient in size to...
    • Dental Services
      1455. To ask the Minister for Health if assistance is available for a person (details supplied). [56283/23]
    • Nursing Homes
      1457. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of fair deal recipients who have availed of the new scheme allowing them to rent out their home. [56289/23]
    • Industrial Disputes
      1458. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on his work to resolve the industrial action currently underway by HSE staff who are members of a union (details supplied), including their...
    • Health Services
      1459. 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. [56300/23]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1460. To ask the Minister for Health which recommendations from the 2015 Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children Report on the Cost of Medical Indemnity Insurance have been implemented;...
    • Mental Health Services
      1461. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on developments in mental health services in County Wexford in 2023 in comparison with the existing services in 2022; the planned...
    • Hospice Services
      1462. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospice care/palliative care beds in CHO5; the location of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56352/23]
    • Ambulance Service
      1463. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the spend on ambulance services across Wexford between 2017 and 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1464. To ask the Minister for Health if a company (details supplied) has made a claim for the pandemic bonus payment for all its employees who qualified for the pandemic bonus payment scheme; and...
    • Medical Records
      1467. To ask the Minister for Health the progress and investment being made in the area of electronic health records across the health service, since 2020; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Emergency Departments
      1468. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the full details of the escalation protocol at the emergency department of UHL; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56397/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      1473. To ask the Minister for Health the number of missing staff in each profession, grade, section and CHO location in the HSE, for example how many ward nurses are needed to achieve the correct...
    • Mental Health Services
      1478. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a clinical nurse manager in place at Carrickmacross Adult Mental Health Services or if it is a position shared across centres; if there was...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1482. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for an air mattress for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56418/23]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1483. To ask the Minister for Health if a reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56439/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      1484. To ask the Minister for Health the number of face-to-face clinical appointments offered by each senior clinical psychologist in the north Lee child and adolescent primary care psychology...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1488. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56449/23]
    • Health Services
      1489. To ask the Minister for Health when an increase to the fees payable to contractors for a standard eye examination under the community ophthalmic services scheme will be implemented, given a...
    • Dental Services
      1490. To ask the Minister for Health when a school dental service (details supplied) will be approved for children in 2nd, 3rd and 4th class; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56461/23]
    • Nursing Homes
      1491. To ask the Minister for Health if all outstanding matters relating to the fair deal scheme affecting the estate of a person (details supplied) have now been finalised, given probate cannot...
    • Medical Cards
      1492. To ask the Minister for Health how many medical cards were provided to people in receipt of temporary protection; the total cost of medical care provided pursuant to the said medical cards...
    • Abortion Services
      1493. To ask the Minister for Health to provide, in tabular form, the number of GPs reimbursed under the primary care reimbursement service for the years 2019 and to date in 2023 for first and...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1495. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will consider the roll-out of a RSV immunisation programme as has been done in Galicia, Spain; the projected costs for a roll-out of this...
    • Health Service Executive
      1496. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently re-examine the boundary re-alignments of primary and disability services nationally, given it has caused serious issues in some parts of...
    • Dental Services
      1497. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists in County Leitrim who are available to treat patients under the dental treatment services scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Services Staff
      1498. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a proposal for a vote of no confidence in the CHI executive (details supplied); if he still has confidence in the executive as a result of...
    • Misuse of Drugs
      1499. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE is aware of the presence of the semi-synthetic cannabinoid, HHC or hexahydrocannabinol, in Ireland; if so, when the HSE was first made aware of its...
    • Hospital Staff
      1500. To ask the Minister for Health when a Parkinson's nurse specialist will be assigned to the south Tipperary area and Tipperary University Hospital; and if any submissions were made regarding...
    • Period Poverty
      1501. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the work of the inter-departmental Period Poverty Implementation Group established two and a half years ago and chaired by his...
    • Departmental Funding
      1505. To ask the Minister for Health to ensure funding is put in place for meals services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56568/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      1506. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria for a medicine reimbursement application to be considered by the HSE’s products committee for reimbursement; the criteria for a medicine...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1509. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of public hospitals refusing GP referrals for DEXA scans (details supplied); the reason for this policy in a number of hospitals; the steps...
    • Health Services Staff
      1510. To ask the Minister for Health the amount that was paid by the HSE to recruitment companies in each month in 2023; the specific areas for which these companies were recruiting in the health...
    • Sexually Transmitted Infections
      1511. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the significant rise in sexually transmitted diseases (details supplied); if he intends to launch a new public health...
    • Health Services Staff
      1512. To ask the Minister for Health if he has approved staff for the HSE and the NCPE to work on the reimbursement system; the number of staff approved; if he can provide any additional...
    • Medicinal Products
      1513. To ask the Minister for Health if the additional €92 million allocated to health as part of the revised estimates volume will include funding for new drugs in 2024; how much of that...
    • Mental Health Services
      1514. To ask the Minister for Health if he will increase investment in mental health, including children’s mental health, to ensure that the overall annual allocation for mental health is...
    • Health Services
      1521. To ask the Minister for Health if will consider establishing a national heart failure registry to equip planners and healthcare professionals with the necessary information for the purposes...
    • Veterinary Services
      1526. To ask the Minister for Health if a matter in relation to veterinarians (details supplied) will be addressed considering the impact this will have on approved slaughterhouse establishments...
    • Health Service Executive
      1527. To ask the Minister for Health the current plans for a building (details supplied) which is currently vacant and owned by HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56664/23]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1528. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 189 of 6 December 2023, if he is aware that the National Gender Service is actively advising GPs not to provide blood...
    • Health Service Executive
      1533. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the National Gender Service has a model of care which did not go through any clinical design approval or governance structure in the HSE,...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1535. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of a clinic (details supplied); and when the new location will begin operation. [56676/23]
    • Health Services
      1536. To ask the Minister for Health what consultation was performed with the trans community before approving the funding for a service (details supplied). [56677/23]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1537. To ask the Minister for Health what reduction from the current over ten-year waiting list for the National Gender Service he expects to result from a new clinic (details supplied). [56678/23]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1538. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 617 of 24 October 2023, to outline the rationale to exclude operations carried out on adults at Cappagh Hospital from...
    • State Claims Agency
      1539. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of adverse incidents reported to the State Claims Agency which related to the Health Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy Act 2018 in each...
    • Abortion Services
      1541. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of adverse incidents reported to the national incident management system which related to termination of pregnancy in each of the past five...
    • Departmental Data
      1542. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule of the data sets he and the HSE provides to the Department of Education on an annual basis; and if he will clarify if the data...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1543. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56735/23]
    • Health Services
      1544. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56737/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      1545. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider providing financial support/ funding to a foundation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56739/23]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1546. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the new Commission on Social Connection to address loneliness as a pressing health threat; if resources will be allocated to the development of...
    • Health Promotion
      1547. To ask the Minister for Health if the Hello Again World campaign will be expanded to ensure information about resources reaches older people without internet access; and if he will make a...
    • Medicinal Products
      1548. To ask the Minister for Health what additional amount has been allocated to orphan/new drugs for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56756/23]
    • Hospital Services
      1549. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide accurate resources for genetic testing for rare diseases at Our Lady’s Children's Hospital, Crumlin; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Services Staff
      1550. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the number of doctors in HSE consultant posts that are not on the Irish Medical Council specialist register for the specialty they are practising...
    • Health Services
      1551. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have a procedure carried out; and if they can avail of the cross-Border directive, given the circumstances. [56781/23]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1552. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expand the regulation to permit pharmacists to administer RSV vaccines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56793/23]
    • Home Help Service
      1553. To ask the Minister for Health if a home help application will be prioritised for a person (details supplied) in order that they can be discharged home from a residential care facility; and...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1554. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details on a proposed health centre (details supplied). [56822/23]
    • Health Services
      1555. To ask the Minister for Health whether his Department has articulated a policy on the roll-out of pulmonary rehabilitation for those patients suffering with lung fibrosis; and if he will...
    • Dental Services
      1556. To ask the Minister for Health if orthodontic treatment can be offered to the son of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56829/23]
    • Ambulance Service
      1557. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) who is a quadriplegic, living at home and needs to attend hospital regularly via ambulance, cannot source an ambulance....
    • Health Services
      1558. To ask the Minister for Health to reclassify the condition XXY, Klinefelter syndrome in order that it can fall under the HSE’s long-term sickness protocol (details supplied); and if...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1560. To ask the Minister for Health to review correspondence from a person (details supplied) and seek advice on what supports might be available for them in this difficult situation; and if he...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1561. To ask the Minister for Health if he can provide details of the bed capacity on the ground floor east of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda prior to renovation works carried out in...
    • Mental Health Services
      1562. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the key recommendations set out in an online submission by an organisation (details supplied) to CORU; and if he will make a...
    • Research and Development
      1568. To ask the Minister for Health if he will list the ongoing research commissioned under the remit of his Department through the North-South Ministerial Council, Shared Island Initiative or...
    • Abortion Services
      1569. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the implementation of the recommendations of the Independent Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1570. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a diagnoses from a colonoscopy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56968/23]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1571. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to introduce a free shingles vaccination scheme for older adults to protect them from what can be a debilitating illness; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Deaths
      1572. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the outcome to an inquiry into a death (details supplied); if he will reveal who the commissioner into this inquiry is; what actions were...
    • Hospital Services
      1574. To ask the Minister for Health if he proposes to reduce or abolish the charges applicable to patients who directly present to minor injuries units; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Ambulance Service
      1575. To ask the Minister for Health the circumstances in which ambulances are permitted to take patients to the minor injuries unit at Monaghan Hospital, rather than an emergency department in...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1577. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 507 of 5 December 2023, the number of patients that received a CT scan in 2023 at Cavan Hospital with addresses in each...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1578. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people awaiting appointments to secure a CT scan at Cavan Hospital; the number awaiting appointments to secure an MRI scan at Cavan Hospital;...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1580. To ask the Minister for Health if he expects ozempic to be added to the GMS list for weight loss; the reason the drug is not available under the drug payments, considering the considerable...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1588. To ask the Minister for Health when payment will issue from the HSE to a person's former employer (details supplied) considering that they were fully eligible to receive the pandemic...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1589. To ask the Minister for Health the stage of approval the drug tabrecta is at; the timeline for approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57081/23]
    • Pharmacy Services
      1590. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay for pharmacies in County Donegal not receiving ipramol at the same time as other pharmacies in the South of Ireland; and if he will...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1591. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to control access to vaping products for children under the age of 18 years to restrict the sale of highly flavoured vapes which are...
    • Primary Care Services
      1593. To ask the Minister for Health the reason letters are being sent to parents informing them that their child will be removed from primary care waiting lists unless they return a form within...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1594. To ask the Minister for Health when family members (details supplied) will get an appointment for early intervention, occupational therapy and speech and language therapy; their current...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1595. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 574 of 28 November 2023, which he claimed only part of which related to operational matters, will be answered; and if he...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1596. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the shortfall in reimbursement for treatment abroad in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Data
      1597. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of terminations carried out under ss. 9-12 of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018, by the Ireland East Hospital...
    • Tax Code
      1598. To ask the Minister for Health to review the taxation treatment of GP group practises (details supplied) with respect to the specific queries raised in correspondence; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      1599. To ask the Minister for Health the number of posts removed from profile as a result of the memorandums CEO ref 09954 and 10166 of 2023, by grade for Cavan General Hospital; the number of...
    • Ambulance Service
      1601. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the provision of a 24-hour, 7-days-per-week ambulance service for Arklow and Baltinglass; if this service will be operational in 2024; and if...
    • Health Services Staff
      1602. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a copy of staffing levels at the Arklow primary health centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57185/23]
    • Primary Care Services
      1603. To ask the Minister for Health for a list of services that are currently available in the primary health facility in Arklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57186/23]
    • Health Services
      1604. To ask the Minister for Health what services are available for people who are in their late 50’s who require the majority of services for people with dementia/Alzheimer’s such...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1605. To ask the Minister for Health for an update and detailed timeline for the publication of the HSE review of the cariban reimbursement scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Data
      1608. To ask the Minister for Health how many patients presented at hospital emergency rooms suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum between the period of 1 January 2022 and 1 January 2023 and for...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1609. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55825/23]
    • Food Waste
      1610. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the efforts being made by the HSE to reduce and reuse food waste, generated by leftover meals prepared for patients, in both public and voluntary...
    • Departmental Data
      1611. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets his Department holds that have been provided and/or shared with other...
    • Medical Cards
      1612. To ask the Minister for Health for clarification on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57228/23]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1613. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the latest draft of the WHO pandemic preparedness treaty that the Government is dealing with; if the WHO pandemic preparedness treaty draft...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1614. To ask the Minister for Health when a hospital appointment and appropriate care will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1615. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting for an appointment for surgery in the Mater Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57234/23]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1616. To ask the Minister for Health if, in line with Action 87 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, he has plans to introduce mandatory autism training for all health and social care...
    • Health Services
      1625. To ask the Minister for Health if discretionary funding will be provided for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57385/23]
    • Departmental Data
      1626. To ask the Minister for Health the number of unexplained deaths registered in each county in each of the past five years. [1006/24]
    • Hospital Equipment
      1629. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost, capital and current, required to bring a CT scanner to Monaghan Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1035/24]
    • Health Services
      1631. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a comfort chair that is needed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1039/24]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1632. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the provision of a primary care centre in Swords; the expected date for its completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1633. To ask the Minister for Health if a surgery date (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1048/24]
    • Departmental Data
      1634. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prescriptions issued for fentanyl as part of a public drug scheme or in a HSE hospital, psychiatric facility or primary care setting and by a...
    • Medicinal Products
      1636. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the review carried out by the Health Products Regulatory Authority on the sale of codeine containing medicinal products; and when that review...
    • Misuse of Drugs
      1638. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports of increasing the misuse of fentanyl (details supplied); the measures that the Department is taking to tackle...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1639. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend eligibility to the long-term illness scheme for reimbursement of blood glucose test strips (insulin and metformin) to all women who develop...
    • Departmental Data
      1640. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the number of women who develop gestational diabetes during pregnancy in each of the years 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1641. To ask the Minister for Health the number of neck fusion surgeries performed at Beaumont Hospital in 2023, in tabular form. [1081/24]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1642. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time to see a consultant paediatric neurosurgeon at CHI Temple Street. [1082/24]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1643. To ask the Minister for Health if the new Children's Hospital will have the capabilities and necessary staffing to perform heart transplants and pancreas transplants. [1083/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      1644. To ask the Minister for Health if consultant cardiologists or cardiologist registrars are on call in Beaumont Hospital on a 24/7 basis. [1084/24]
    • Misuse of Drugs
      1645. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to alerts issued by the HSE on ketamine (details supplied); the measures that his Department is taking to tackle ketamine...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1646. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1113/24]
    • Substance Misuse
      1647. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE posts provided for the Substance Misuse Team in Clonmel, County Tipperary; the number of vacancies at the service; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      1648. To ask the Minister for Health if CHI has the capacity to provide chest bracing service for children in the public health system as of December 2023. [1128/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      1649. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant ENT surgeons attached to Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown in 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [1129/24]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1650. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for bone density scans for patients at each hospital in the RCSI Group. [1130/24]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1651. To ask the Minister for Health if he can advise regarding correspondence and the pandemic recognition payment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1146/24]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1652. To ask the Minister for Health what surveillance activity programme is taking place with respect to monitoring wastewater for Covid; the number of treatment plants that are being monitored...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1653. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost to increase the number of GP training places in 2024 to 375; the number of GP training places provided in 2023; and the number of...
    • Hospital Services
      1654. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that visited the tertiary neurocognitive clinic at St. James's Hospital in 2023, in tabular form. [1162/24]
    • Nursing Homes
      1655. To ask the Minister for Health when the review of the fair deal scheme will be published. [1174/24]
    • Abortion Services
      1656. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a copy of the implementation action plan, drafted to implement operational recommendations contained in the termination of pregnancy review; and if...
    • Hospital Services
      1658. To ask the Minister for Health the inpatient services and inpatient surgical services currently at Bantry General Hospital. [1192/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      1659. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of persons awaiting a psychologist report for MHID services in each of the CHO 6 areas; the current expected waiting time for an assessment;...
    • Hospital Services
      1660. To ask the Minister for Health the treatments available at the minor injuries unit at Roscommon hospital. [1194/24]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1661. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults in County Wexford awaiting an appointment for vascular surgery, by wait times, in tabular form. [1195/24]
    • Emergency Departments
      1662. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who attended the accident and emergency department at CHI Temple Street on 24, 25 and 26 December 2023, in tabular form. [1196/24]
    • Hospital Equipment
      1663. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ultrasound machines at Tullamore Regional Hospital as of 1 January 2024; and if he will provide same figures as of 1 January 2020, in tabular...
    • Nursing Homes
      1664. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme as of 4 January 2024 in CHO 7. [1198/24]
    • Emergency Departments
      1665. To ask the Minister for Health the number of resuscitation suites in the accident and emergency department of University Hospital Limerick. [1199/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      1666. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultants in reproductive medicine at the Coombe Maternity Hospital in 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [1200/24]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1668. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the average emergency department waiting times at Sligo University Hospital. [1202/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      1669. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant oncologists at Beaumont Hospital in 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [1203/24]
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      1670. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE addiction counsellors employed by the HSE in CHO8 in 2023. [1204/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      1671. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE senior pharmaceutical technicians working in Naas General Hospital in 2023. [1205/24]
    • Primary Care Services
      1673. To ask the Minister for Health the services currently being provided at Wicklow town and Bray primary care centres. [1208/24]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1674. To ask the Minister for Health when a date for an operation in CHI Crumlin will be given for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      1676. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Parliamentary Questions yet to be answered by the HSE. [1275/24]
    • Dental Services
      1677. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults and children, respectively in Cork waiting for orthodontic treatment in six-month time intervals, from 0-6 months to 7+ years, in tabular...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1678. To ask the Minister for Health if he has recent papers that have analysed data sets by a company (details supplied) that indicate that the initial Covid vaccine offered no better protection...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      1679. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time it normally takes between the registration of an application with CORU for professional recognition as an occupational therapist and the...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      1680. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider banning smoking/vaping in cars in line with many EU states considering the negative health impacts it has on additional passengers and the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1681. To ask the Minister for Health when a registration with CORU for a qualified occupational therapist (details supplied) will be determined; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1682. To ask the Minister for Health the reason frontline employees of an organisation (details supplied) who were drivers and regularly collected essential care workers and service users from...
    • Hospital Staff
      1683. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE paediatric otolaryngologist at CHI Crumlin in 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [1353/24]
    • Hospital Charges
      1685. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the recommended cap on hospital parking charges; and the basis for any delays to date. [1360/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      1686. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the SRU unit, Old Convent Road, Carndonagh, County Donegal has been closed; and how patients and their families will access mental health support...
    • Hospital Services
      1687. To ask the Minister for Health where management for hospitals formerly in the Ireland East Group will come from; if Our Lady’s Hospital Navan will have a representative on the board...
    • Care of the Elderly
      1688. To ask the Minister for Health the reason HSE-funded home care providers have stopped taking physically well older people for walks; and if a risk assessment has been undertaken by him in...
    • Health Service Executive
      1689. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No.150 of 15 November 2023, whether the Health Service Executive pensions section in Manorhamilton is now fully staffed and...
    • Mental Health Services
      1690. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) cannot get an appointment with CAHMS in Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1373/24]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1691. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the waiting list times for access to MRI scans for children in the public health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Primary Care Services
      1692. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated to Traveller primary health care projects in each of the years 2019 to date; for breakdown of funding given to peer-led...
    • Traveller Community
      1693. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated to examine the distinct needs of young members of the Traveller community who are vulnerable to suicide; if any initiatives to train...
    • Mental Health Services
      1698. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the establishment of a mental health advocacy service for Traveller mental health; the estimated cost of this service; and if he will make a...
    • Traveller Community
      1700. To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department has taken to encourage Traveller employment within primary and specialist community services; what training is available for...
    • Mental Health Services
      1703. To ask the Minister for Health to give an update on the implementation of culturally sensitive mental health services, as recommended in A Vision for Change; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Admissions
      1704. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) who suffers from severe eczema and allergies will have their case referred to University Hospital Galway. [1422/24]
    • Medical Cards
      1705. To ask the Minister for Health what transport is available to patients with medical cards who regularly have to travel to appointments outside their own county; and if he will make a...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1706. To ask the Minister for Health how a child (details supplied) can access a general practitioner to receive care, and for their parents to have the medical section on an application for...
    • Departmental Staff
      1707. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE nurses working in the accident and emergency department of Mullingar Regional Hospital as of 5 January 2024; and if he will provide same...
    • Child Protection
      1708. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who had presented at Children's Health Ireland emergency departments in 2023, by hospital, who were subsequently discharged to no fixed...
    • Health Services Staff
      1709. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on counselling and psychotherapy registration through CORU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1489/24]
    • Home Help Service
      1711. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the provision of home help services for a person (details supplied). [1503/24]
    • Ambulance Service
      1712. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of ambulances that were over one hour awaiting handover in hospital, including percentage, in each of the past ten years. [1523/24]
    • Cancer Services
      1719. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to any differential in survival rates for cancer, between persons diagnosed in a public hospital/clinic and those diagnosed in...
    • Ambulance Service
      1720. To ask the Minister for Health the number persons who have retired from the National Ambulance Service in each of the past five years; and the number of new persons employed by the National...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      1721. To ask the Minister for Health the number of babies born with addiction to drugs or alcohol in each of the past ten years. [1532/24]
    • Health Services
      1723. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1534/24]
    • Departmental Schemes
      1724. To ask the Minister for Health further to the publication of the report carried out by the Economic and Social Research Institute (details supplied) if further consideration has been given...
    • Health Services
      1725. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the details of the total number of primary school pupils who are currently awaiting to have their in-school eye, hearing and dental checks,...
    • Departmental Staff
      1726. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant public health nurse posts in each county and area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1566/24]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1727. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment for a hospital procedure for a person (details supplied) is likely to be rescheduled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1575/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      1728. To ask the Minister for Health what funding is available to support an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1580/24]
    • Health Services
      1729. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1587/24]
    • Departmental Schemes
      1730. To ask the Minister for Health if he will indicate the proportion of nursing costs paid by the State and by residents and their families under the fair deal scheme, distinguishing payments...
    • Ambulance Service
      1731. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the National Ambulance Service fleet for the period 2019-2024, inclusive, in tabular form; and the number of vehicles, by type. [1611/24]
    • Health Services
      1733. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will provide age-appropriate products (details supplied). [1617/24]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1734. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital intensive care unit (ICU) beds in the State on the 31 December in each of the years 2013 to 2023; the number of hospital ICU beds in...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1735. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend eligibility for the long-term illness scheme for reimbursement of blood glucose test strips (insulin and metformin) to all women who develop...
    • Departmental Records
      1736. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women who developed gestational diabetes during pregnancy in each of the years 2018 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1620/24]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1737. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the new St. Marys Hospital in Drogheda to be fully operational; if the HSE moratorium has impacted on the progress of the facility; and if he...
    • Disability Services
      1738. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be approved for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in order that they can live independently in a council house; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Funding
      1739. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding his Department and the HSE have provided to an organisation (details supplied) in 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [1628/24]
    • Departmental Projects
      1740. To ask the Minister for Health the current status and work of the Public Health Alcohol Research Group; when a report will issue from the group; if he intends to publish the group’s...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1742. To ask the Minister for Health how much has been paid since 2021 by SouthDoc or the HSE for the rental of the SouthDoc premises in Listowel. [1639/24]
    • Nursing Homes
      1743. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1909 of 11 September 2023, if there is any further development in the provision of a pathway for a person to claim...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1744. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to adding motor neurone disease (MND) and Kennedy's disease, which is rare but very similar to MND, to the list of medical...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1745. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the National Service Plan 2024; if the HSE has submitted the NSP to him for approval; the timeline he is working towards in approving...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1746. To ask the Minister for Health if, given the reduction in services provided by SouthDoc, the contract for the service with the HSE has been altered, or if the amount being paid to SouthDoc...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1747. To ask the Minister for Health if a person on the drugs payment scheme gets two sets of 28-day medication in the one calendar month, if they are obliged to the pay the €80 a second...
    • Dental Services
      1748. To ask the Minister for Health if he can confirm what adult dental treatment is offered by the HSE to adults in County Wexford in need of dental treatment, caused by medications/medical...
    • Home Care Packages
      1749. To ask the Minister for Health if a home care package will be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1712/24]
    • Ambulance Service
      1750. To ask the Minister for Health the number of call-outs by the National Ambulance Service to patients located in County Monaghan during 2023, in tabular form; the number therein whereby an...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1751. To ask the Minister for Health the public hospitals that currently provide wi-fi access for patients and visitors and his proposals to ensure that all public hospitals offer this service;...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      1754. To ask the Minister for Health if antigen tests that test for both Covid and flu will be made available to members of the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1727/24]
    • Departmental Reviews
      1755. To ask the Minister for Health when the independent clinical care review into neo-natal subgaleal haemorrhage in UHG in 2002 will be published; the reason for the delay in its publication;...
    • Health Services
      1761. To ask the Minister for Health to provide information on the current state of genetic services in Ireland, including the waiting times for genetic testing and the resources available to...
    • Nursing Homes
      1762. To ask the Minister for Health if she will carry out a review of a fair deal application (details supplied). [1743/24]
    • Medical Cards
      1763. To ask the Minister for Health if he will add motor neuron (covering various types) and Kennedy's disease to the list of conditions/ illnesses that qualify for the long-term illness medical...
    • Hospital Equipment
      1764. To ask the Minister for Health how many hospital trolleys were purchased and/or discarded in 2023; how many will be purchased in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1754/24]
    • Gender Recognition
      1765. To ask the Minister for Health what practices are in place to ensure that autistic people are not being discriminated against when it comes to receiving healthcare through the National...
    • Home Help Service
      1766. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people that have been approved for home help services in County Clare but are still waiting to be allocated the service; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      1767. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1774/24]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1768. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details in relation to what is involved in the six new surgical hubs announced; and where they will be located. [1782/24]
    • Departmental Budgets
      1769. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details in relation to his digital health budget for 2024 which has been increased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1783/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      1770. To ask the Minister for Health to provide some details in relation to recovery colleges announced as part of the CAMHS approach to mental health; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1772. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect a date for a cataract operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1795/24]
    • Departmental Schemes
      1774. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women who developed gestational diabetes during pregnancy in each of the years 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Staff
      1775. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric histopathologists at Cork University Hospital in 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [1822/24]
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      1785. To ask the Minister for Health whether the process of being approved for the MCAP differs depending on the type of eligible condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1846/24]
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      1788. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that e-cigarette and vaping products are currently being sold across a very wide range of retail settings in Ireland; if he intends using the...
    • Medicinal Products
      1791. To ask the Minister for Health when adjuvant abemaciclib will be approved to reduce the risk of breast cancer for patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1861/24]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1792. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022, particularly in relation to international surrogacy; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Transfers
      1793. To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent transfer can be arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo to the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dún Laoghaire; and if he...
    • Medicinal Products
      1794. To ask the Minister for Health if the decision to refuse a person (details supplied) in County Meath reimbursement for an increased dose of ustekinumab/stelara can be reviewed in light of...
    • Traveller Community
      1795. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the situation in relation to funding for a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1867/24]
    • Home Care Packages
      1796. To ask the Minister for Health the number of homecare support hours for older people provided in each LHO area in 2023, in tabular from; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1871/24]
    • Gender Recognition
      1797. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct HIQA to carry out research relating to gender affirming care in Ireland comparing it to international best practice as the body previously...
    • Home Care Packages
      1798. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will provide home support for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1873/24]
    • Disease Management
      1799. To ask the Minister for Health his Department’s plans to provide essential colonoscopy examinations for persons with Crohn’s disease (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      1800. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive required medical treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1914/24]
    • Home Care Packages
      1801. To ask the Minister for Health if every effort will be made to put in place the nine additional homecare package hours allocated to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      1802. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the complaint lodged (details supplied); the options open to a person in such cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1948/24]
    • Hospital Services
      1803. To ask the Minister for Health if he can confirm that all neurological services at Naas General Hospital are fully open, functioning to optimum level and are staffed appropriately including...
    • Community Care
      1804. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 51 of 9 November 2023, the details of any recruitment process underway to increase staffing levels in the áras Mhic...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1805. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 72 of 9 November 2023, if the SAR/PBC for the new emergency department, women and children’s block at University...
    • Care Services
      1806. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been brought to a report (details supplied); his plans to address regional inequalities in access to long-term residential care; the...
    • Departmental Policies
      1807. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 504 of 14 December 2023, the breakdown of the additional 1,125 acute hospital beds opened since 2020, by hospital, in...
    • Primary Care Services
      1808. To ask the Minister for Health the primary care wait lists in Meath in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, by area in, tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1996/24]
    • Health Service Executive
      1809. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2009/24]
    • Health Strategies
      1810. To ask the Minister for Health the plans, if any, to establish a social prescribing service in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2042/24]
    • Hospital Services
      1811. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on adequate services and resources for genetic testing services in Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin. [2074/24]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Education and Training Boards
      1813. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when increments were last paid to casual workers employed by Donegal ETB at an educational setting (details supplied); the reason no increments...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1815. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department’s processes that consider the value for money question understanding that in 2017 a project build (details supplied) was...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1816. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider a review of the requirement for certain apprenticeship applicants to pass the Ishihara colour vision test without the use of...
    • Period Poverty
      1817. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual budgetary amount allocated to the provision of a range of free, adequate, safe and suitable period products in all educational...
    • Grant Payments
      1820. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider extending the SUSI grant scheme to part-time students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56648/23]
    • Further and Higher Education
      1822. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if recipients of the Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Scheme Postgraduate Award will receive the same increase in their stipends as...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1825. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason motor mechanic apprentices can wear corrective lenses to compensate for colour blindness but electrical engineers cannot, despite the...
    • Research and Development
      1826. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will list the ongoing research commissioned under the remit of his Department through the North-South Ministerial Council, Shared Island...
    • Budget 2024
      1827. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of additional core funding that was allocated in Budget 2024 to the higher education sector. [57014/23]
    • Third Level Education
      1828. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in line with Action 54 of the Final Report by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Autism, if his Department has, or if he has plans to, liaise...
    • Departmental Data
      1832. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets his Department holds that have been provided and/or shared with...
    • Grant Payments
      1833. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail the nature of documents previously accepted by SUSI as proof of estrangement or irreconcilable estrange of an applicant from their...
    • Technological Universities
      1834. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to explain the delay in responding substantively to Parliamentary Question Nos. 148 and 149 of 27 September 2023; and to confirm when they will...
    • Third Level Education
      1835. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in responding substantively to Parliamentary Question No. 871 of 11 July 2023; and to confirm when it will be...
    • Departmental Data
      1836. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff working on a full- and part-time basis, the number of posts in recruitment and number of vacant positions in each of the...
    • Technological Universities
      1837. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in relation to September 2021 when TU Dublin appointed ten new secretary/financial controller grade II positions, where eight of these were...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1838. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if TU Dublin will run the commis chef apprenticeship programme on TU Dublin’s Tallaght campus in the coming academic year. [57249/23]
    • Technological Universities
      1839. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the National Strategy for Higher Education to 2030 proposed consolidation and mergers of institutes of technology to...
    • Third Level Fees
      1843. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if TU Dublin increased student fees for international students and part-time students without Governing Body approval; and if students were...
    • Technological Universities
      1844. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the President of TU Dublin sought approval from the governing body for the proposed organisation design and were the consultants’...
    • Departmental Data
      1846. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in relation to the HEA published student number data by mode of study full-time or part-time, the number of full-time students includes...
    • Technological Universities
      1847. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in relation to the role of President of TU Dublin which was advertised on the basis of it being a seven-year appointment with the option for...
    • Third Level Education
      1850. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in line with Action 88 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, he has plans to ensure that understanding autism training is a...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1851. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprentices currently in the construction trades, broken down by trade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1069/24]
    • Research and Development
      1854. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he proposes to develop a research agreement with Taiwan, similar to that agreed by Lithuania; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Third Level Fees
      1855. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student (details supplied) will be afforded the reduction in fees given to other students. [1274/24]
    • Departmental Data
      1856. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the chairpersons of HEA-funded Irish higher education institutions; the terms of office of each; the number of terms served by each; and the...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1857. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what action he is taking to provide the same level of financial support to apprentices undertaking construction metal fabrication and...
    • Budget 2024
      1858. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the achievements to date with respect to making third level easier for medical graduates to succeed in Ireland following Budget 2024;...
    • Third Level Education
      1859. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will engage with an institute on behalf of a person (details supplied); and if he will clarify whether he and or his Department have...
    • Third Level Fees
      1860. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures undertaken by his Department to assist students accessing graduate-entry medicine courses with the costs of fees; and if he will...
    • Student Accommodation
      1861. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views in relation to student accommodation providers that are only offering year-long contracts; if he will consider intervention in the...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1862. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to his recent comments (details supplied) that he has “created all-island apprenticeships”, he can explain what this...
    • Technological Universities
      1863. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the development of a 'borrowing framework' for technological universities and a timeline for this framework, given that...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Rural Schemes
      1864. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she is aware of an alleged €3.5 million euro deficit in the Barrow Blue Ways Fund, as per Kildare County Council Oireachtas...
    • Departmental Funding
      1865. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development whether there will be a second round of community recognition funding; if so, when the round will open; and the amount that will be...
    • Research and Development
      1867. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will list the ongoing research commissioned under the remit of her Department through the North-South Ministerial Council,...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      1868. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the decision on the tender of local development strategy for the delivery LEADER 2023 to 2027 for the Connemara Municipal...
    • Grant Payments
      1869. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the 2023 community centre investment fund grants will be announced. [57203/23]
    • Departmental Data
      1870. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets her Department holds that have been provided and/or...
    • Road Projects
      1872. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development how many dead-end private lanes across all local authorities, which have applied for the local improvement scheme and have been...
    • Departmental Funding
      1873. 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...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1874. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a fund is available to assist in the procurement of C02 alarms for vulnerable people and people in isolated areas. [1672/24]
    • Rural Schemes
      1875. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will seek an update on the long-awaited and much-delayed Ardee Castle redevelopment, funded through the rural regeneration and...
    • Departmental Data
      1876. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the total amount of funding allocated to respective local authorities in 2023 for all rural schemes provided by her Department,...

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