Written answers

Tuesday, 23 January 2024

  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces
      57. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the key challenges he has identified with regard to Defence Forces retention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2725/24]
    • Naval Service
      61. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide an update on his Department’s efforts to increase accommodation for Naval personnel; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Defence Forces
      63. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide an update on his Department’s efforts to increase gender balance within the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on...
    • National Security
      67. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on the acquisition of primary radar; the proposed timeframe in which a contract will be agreed; and the proposed timeline in...
    • Defence Forces
      68. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence what progress has been made to date in respect of the establishment of an independent external complaints system for serving members in the Irish...
    • State Properties
      77. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he is aware that the original gates of the former Marlborough Barracks, now known as McKee Barracks off Blackhorse Avenue, are being kept in...
    • Defence Forces
      79. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which ongoing changes identified in recent reviews of the Defence Forces including pay, gender respect and bullying and/or other...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      82. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence which overseas embassies are included in his Department’s plans to establish military attaches in overseas embassies; and if he will make...
    • Defence Forces
      86. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence what measures are being taken to ensure safety of our peacekeeping troops stationed in Lebanon and in particular their monitoring of the Blue...
    • State Properties
      92. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the transfer of Columb Barracks, Mullingar to the LDA; if he will consider withholding final transfer until such time as he is...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Data
      94. To ask the Taoiseach the churn rate, the business entry and exit rates, for Irish firms for each of the following years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. [2818/24]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      96. To ask the Taoiseach when the terms of reference for the inquiry into Covid-19 will be produced. [1840/24]
    • Cabinet Committees
      97. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will meet next. [1812/24]
    • Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla
      98. To ask the Taoiseach cén céatadán de bhuiséad fógraíochta a Roinne do 2023 atá caite go dtí seo i mbliana ar fhógraíocht a dhéanamh i...
    • Official Travel
      102. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of official flights and costs of same taken by him in 2023; if a schedule will be provided of all hotels he stayed in in 2023, including...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Official Engagements
      103. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he last spoke with the US National Security Advisor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2353/24]
    • Question Heading for question(s) 104
      104. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish passport applications that were made via the Irish embassies in Singapore and Malaysia in 2023, in tabular form; and if...
    • Question Heading for question(s) 105
      105. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on the status of a passport application (details supplied) as the applicant’s travel date is imminent; and if he...
    • Question Heading for question(s) 106
      106. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the running costs of the Irish Embassy in Washington DC, Paris and London in the years of 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [2485/24]
    • Question Heading for question(s) 107
      107. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade what steps are being taken to address the consequences of individuals whose communications were lost in the Johannesburg consulate in 1986...
    • Official Travel
      108. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a schedule of official flights, and costs of same, taken by him in 2023; if a schedule will be provided of all hotels he...
    • Birth Certificates
      109. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will look into a case (details supplied) whereby a person cannot apply for a certificate of freedom to marry abroad due to not having...
    • Human Rights
      111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he could ensure that issues around human rights in Western Sahara and the ongoing illegal occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco will be...
    • Middle East
      112. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of reports that a number of Irish citizens are serving in the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), in light of Government statements...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      113. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will consider opening an Irish embassy in Algeria in order to enhance the relationship and strengthen the economic, social and...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      114. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of children of Irish citizens that were refused entry in the foreign births register in 2023 as a result of the ABC judgement;...
    • Official Engagements
      115. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the visit of Chinese premier Li Qiang to Ireland, including the itinerary of the visit, the engagements Government held...
    • Missing Persons
      116. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department is aware of a case (details supplied); what is being done by his Department to assist the family in this case; and if he...
    • Departmental Data
      117. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will clarify whether the transfer of data and/or records from his Department that is transferred to other departments, State bodies...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Energy Conservation
      118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on the new low-cost home energy upgrade loan scheme that was announced in October 2023; when homeowners...
    • Maritime Jurisdiction
      119. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on progress, if any, on the west coast designated maritime area map; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Energy Conservation
      120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of concerns (details supplied) regarding the warmer home scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Postal Services
      122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to put in place an Ombudsman, or independent oversight body for post offices and An Post workers. [2535/24]
    • Inland Fisheries
      123. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he can advise as to the exact date that several fishery rights was granted to the Inland Fisheries on a specified...
    • Electricity Grid
      125. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will investigate a potential anomaly around a person’s (details supplied) ineligibility for current...
    • Waste Management
      126. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what action his Department is taking to fund and promote community scale composting initiatives in urban areas in view...
    • Official Travel
      129. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a schedule of official flights and costs of same taken by him in 2023; if a schedule will be...
    • Energy Conservation
      130. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to increase the SEAI better homes grant in order to allow for more substantial energy upgrades of homes, the...
    • Invasive Species Policy
      131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he and his Departmental officials support the legislative conservation of invasive perch in Lough Shindilla under...
    • Departmental Schemes
      137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the report into the warmth and wellbeing scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Recycling Policy
      138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether any consideration has been given to the deposit re-turn scheme having a negative impact on those persons who...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      139. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding for the National Cyber Security Centre; how this is being delivered, and for a year-by-year breakdown of...
    • Business Supports
      141. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total amount of funding provided to businesses for support decarbonisation over the past five years; and the...
    • Recycling Policy
      142. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration has been given to a mobile app which will streamline the process in relation to the deposit return...
    • Energy Conservation
      144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of grants issued by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland to homeowners for external wall insulation...
    • Departmental Reports
      146. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the research independently produced by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on the warmth and...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on the rollout of highspeed broadband in counties Cavan and Monaghan. [3063/24]
    • Departmental Data
      148. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will clarify whether the transfer of data and/or records from his Department that is transferred to other...
  • Department of Defence
    • Official Travel
      150. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence what the policy is regarding the usage of private aeroplanes for official travel for his Department; and if he will report on his recent...
    • Defence Forces
      152. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans for the Defence Forces to participate in any overseas missions currently precluded by the neutrality protection provided by the triple...
    • Air Corps
      153. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if, in light of the French and Jordanian delivery of aid to Gaza using military aircraft, and in light of the fact that it is unconfirmed...
    • State Properties
      154. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the up-to-date position with the promised re appointment of derelict houses in the Curragh Camp in County Kildare into family homes; the number...
    • Defence Forces
      156. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which issues relating to pay and conditions with the Defence Forces have now been resolved; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Budgets
      166. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which the budget available to his Department remains sufficient to meet requirements in the course of the coming year; and if he...
    • Departmental Data
      167. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which the Air Corps and the Naval Service continue to cooperate in air/sea rescue missions; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Defence Forces
      168. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will clarify whether the transfer of data and/or records from his Department that is transferred to other departments, State bodies and...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Bus Éireann
      169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of buses in the Bus Eireann PSO fleet as of 31 December 2021, 31 December 2022 and 31 December 2023, in tabular form; and if...
    • Road Safety Authority
      170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of buses, coaches and HGVs that were inspected by Road Safety Authority in 2023; the number of those vehicles that were...
    • Driver Test
      171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what action his Department is taking to reduce the lengthy waiting times for driving test appointments at a test centre (details...
    • Tax Code
      172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of increased motor tax cost for some individuals (details supplied); if this has been examined, given the effect it has;...
    • Public Transport
      173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a 2023 end-of-year report on the Connecting Ireland Plan for County Tipperary; the funding that was allocated and...
    • Driver Licences
      174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason it is not possible to exchange a driving licence issued by the Canadian Province of Nova Scotia and be issued with an Irish...
    • Bus Éireann
      175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will advise why the once a week Bus Éireann service, Route 460 Sligo to Castlerea which served local communities (details...
    • Road Projects
      176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the Southern Relief Road in Carlow and the relief road for Tullow (details supplied). [2617/24]
    • Official Travel
      177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a schedule of official flights and costs of same taken by him in 2023; if a schedule will be provided of all hotels he...
    • Road Safety
      178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made in respect of the safe routes to school scheme, the completed and in-progress projects by end-2023; the associated...
    • Driver Test
      180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport an meán, atá ar thástáil tiomána i láthair na huaire; cad iad na céimeanna atá á nglacadh...
    • Road Safety Authority
      182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a full update from the Road Safety Authority on the need to progress a new temporary or permanent driving test centre for...
    • Road Projects
      183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to explain the significant delay in completing the Athenry Ring Road; to give an accurate timeline for completion; and if he will make a...
    • Bus Services
      184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a bus service (details supplied) will be reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2827/24]
    • Driver Test
      185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to review correspondence (details supplied); if he will address the issues outlined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2843/24]
    • Airport Policy
      186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the authority responsible for private aircraft flying throughout the State, is there a record of those flights, the flightpaths they...
    • National Car Test
      187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to comment on his awareness of the provisional of additional NCT centres in County Clare (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Taxi Licences
      188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider extending the ten-year rule for taxis not covered by the existing extension, starting with 151-registered vehicles,...
    • Driver Test
      189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of learner drivers per week, by county, in 2023 that failed to turn up for their scheduled driving test appointment; the...
    • National Transport Authority
      190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated full-year cost to recruit 15 additional full-time taxi enforcement officers for the National Transport Authority. [2943/24]
    • Rail Network
      191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on talks with Irish Rail regarding a matter (details supplied). [2969/24]
    • Road Safety
      193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 180 of 13 January 2021, if he is aware of the RAC study in Britain into problems with headlight...
    • Driver Test
      194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the RSA stated that an individual (details supplied) had not completed stage 1 CPC theory test, which they had actually passed...
    • Departmental Data
      195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify whether the transfer of data and/or records from his Department that is transferred to other departments, State bodies...
  • Department of Finance
    • Official Engagements
      196. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to invite his Canadian counterpart to Dublin for a bilateral meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2366/24]
    • Tax Collection
      197. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the vehicle registration tax enforcement statistics for November and December 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Yield
      198. To ask the Minister for Finance the total revenue generated from VAT and excise duties on alcoholic beverages sold in off licences in each year from 2010 to date; and if he will make a...
    • Film Industry
      201. To ask the Minister for Finance what input his Department and the Revenue Commissioners will have in the film industry stakeholders' forum planned for early 2024, given their involvement in...
    • Financial Irregularities
      202. To ask the Minister for Finance arising from the published reports into secrecy surrounding financial transactions in Cyprus (details supplied), if he will instruct the Revenue Commissioners...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      204. To ask the Minister for Finance the total public monies invested in munitions companies in each year 2008 to 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2518/24]
    • Tax Appeals Commission
      207. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of a VRT appeal by a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2530/24]
    • Tax Yield
      208. To ask the Minister for Finance if, given the fact that revenue raised by the increase in the carbon tax in 2024, estimated at €117 million and €152 million in first and...
    • Tax Reliefs
      209. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the need for taxpayers to file a tax return in order to avail of mortgage interest relief; if he is concerned that said requirement could act as...
    • Tax Exemptions
      210. To ask the Minister for Finance whether the amendment on further clarification to the 2023 concrete levy to exclude the value of pouring concrete used in precast products from the scope of...
    • Insurance Coverage
      211. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the practice of insurance companies refusing to provide building/property insurance to anyone with previous convictions who has an interest...
    • Tax Rebates
      212. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied), whose one parent family payment ceased on 23 December 2023, is still paying emergency tax in their current employment; if any...
    • Official Travel
      213. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of official flights and costs of same, taken by him in 2023; if a schedule will be provided of all hotels he stayed in in 2023,...
    • Tax Reliefs
      214. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will indicate how many people have claimed tax relief on their rental payment, and how this number compares to the estimate which his Department made of...
    • Tax Rebates
      215. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will indicate the total value of claims for the refund of income tax on out-of-pocket medical expenses and if he has made any estimate of the likely...
    • Tax Credits
      216. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will indicate the number of persons who claim incapacitated child tax credit and if the Revenue Commissioners have undertaken any assessment as to...
    • Tax Collection
      218. To ask the Minister for Finance to review an article (detail supplied); if he will outline what his Department is doing on this matter to help prevent closures; and if he will make a...
    • Insurance Industry
      219. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures his Department will take to regulate insurance prices that, according to reports (details supplied), are rising rapidly; and if he will make a...
    • Site Acquisitions
      220. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 332 of 17 January 2024, if he will provide a timeline in respect of the sales process of a site from when the site was...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      221. To ask the Minister for Finance to review the correspondence from a person (details supplied); if he will provide clarification on the interpretation by the Revenue Commissioners of section...
    • Departmental Data
      222. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify whether the transfer of data and-or records from his Department that is transferred to other Departments, State bodies and local...
    • Tax Data
      223. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 359 of 17 January 2024, the number of residential units subject to the 10% rate of stamp duty with respect to the...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Office of Government Procurement
      224. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform how the tender process operates for the Office of Government Procurement; if he will specifically outline how the Office of Government...
    • Flood Risk Management
      225. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when funding will be provided to Donegal County Council for works for a sea wall which is to be built in County Donegal (details...
    • Office of Public Works
      226. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW would consider selling the former Garda station in Broadford, County Clare, to the Broadford Parish Council; and if he will...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      227. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 246 of 14 December 2023, to detail the practical implications of retired members attempting to...
    • Official Travel
      228. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a schedule of official flights and costs of same taken by him in 2023; if a schedule will be provided of all hotels...
    • Archaeological Sites
      229. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will carry out an assessment of a recorded archaeological monument in County Cork (details supplied); if this structure is...
    • Flood Risk Management
      230. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when funding will be provided to Donegal County Council through the OPW for works for a sea wall which is to be built in County Donegal...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      231. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform on the situation confronting gardaí enlisted post-1995 who are required to retire at age 60 years but are ineligible for their full...
    • Departmental Data
      232. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will clarify whether the transfer of data and/or records from his Department that is transferred to other departments, State...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Mining Industry
      233. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on correspondence (details supplied) from a union in relation to a company (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Co-operative Sector
      234. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has considered the re-establishment of the co-operative development unit within his Department to provide training support and...
    • Work Permits
      235. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update in relation to the extension of work permits to the equine industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Business Supports
      236. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for details of the business support schemes introduced to support SMEs in relation to the cost of doing business; and if he will make...
    • Industrial Disputes
      237. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of the ongoing industrial action at the emergency call answering service in Navan; if he is aware that they have...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      238. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is considering supporting owners of business properties who were not operational and not covered by flood insurance at the time...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      240. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of an application from Carlow County Council for an enterprise campus in Carlow town (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Official Travel
      241. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment he will provide a schedule of official flights and costs of same taken by him in 2023; if a schedule will be provided of all hotels...
    • Export Controls
      243. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 250 of 28 November 2023, to which no reply has been provided to date, the details of all export...
    • Enterprise Policy
      244. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment where Ireland currently ranks on the World Bank 'ease of doing business' index; what plans his Department has to improve this; and if...
    • Departmental Data
      250. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the business start-up rates among men, women, young people and migrants for each of the years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023,...
    • Work Permits
      251. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the Government's approach in accessing and approving employment permits in Ireland, specifically the current...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      252. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the funding for the National AI Strategy and how this is being delivered; and for a year-by-year breakdown of funding. [2828/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      254. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total amount of funding provided to businesses for support decarbonisation over the past five years; and the funding allocated to...
    • Departmental Data
      255. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of FDI investments won by IDA Ireland over the past five years, by year, in tabular form. [2834/24]
    • Official Engagements
      262. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he last met the Director General of the Corporate Enforcement Authority; and when he is next scheduled to meet the Director...
    • Departmental Data
      263. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will clarify whether the transfer of data and/or records from his Department that is transferred to other departments, State...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Departmental Schemes
      264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider including the counties Sligo and Leitrim in the pilot voluntary redeployment scheme, given that this scheme has not been...
    • Schools Building Projects
      265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the planned improvement works and extension to a school (details supplied) [2349/24]
    • School Funding
      266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the IT funding for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2370/24]
    • Flexible Work Practices
      267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school principals and deputy principals are permitted to work from home; to outline in general terms her Department's policy on this issue...
    • School Transport
      268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to facilitate a school (details supplied) with the school bus they were promised to aid students travelling to a location from areas in the...
    • Question Heading for question(s) 269
      269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she and or her officials have developed a central register of school enrolments; and if she will provide the metrics that are captured by the...
    • School Enrolments
      270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have temporary class accommodation on their site by school enrolment division; and the duration that each school has...
    • Schools Building Projects
      272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of active and paused new school building projects as of 15 January 2024, by location. [2393/24]
    • Departmental Data
      273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide, in tabular form, a list of second level education institutions aided by her Department whose fee status has changed from fee-charging...
    • Special Educational Needs
      277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any plans to add ASD units and also approve an additional ASD class to a school (details supplied) to meet the significantly...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can address the query raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2511/24]
    • School Facilities
      279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what she is doing to assist with the shrinking play area at a school (details supplied) due to extensions and a growing school population in the...
    • School Accommodation
      280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the conditions of a school (details supplied); what steps she is taking to address this; when the school can expect progress...
    • Schools Building Projects
      281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a detailed timeline for the development, construction and delivery of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school transport route number F2050 will be reinstated to transport children to a school (details supplied) County Galway; the need for this...
    • School Staff
      288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why the number of resource teachers assigned to a school (details supplied) has been reduced from seven down to one; if she will reverse this...
    • Official Travel
      289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a schedule of official flights and costs of same taken by her in 2023; if a schedule will be provided of all hotels she...
    • School Staff
      290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration can be giving to enabling SNAs make contributions to an AVC pension scheme directly from their salary; and if she will make a...
    • Residential Institutions
      291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to a formal announcement made by her in mid-2023 (details supplied), to outline the health, education, and advocacy supports and services...
    • State Examinations
      292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to matters raised in a correspondence (details supplied) from a teacher regarding the teaching of sraithpictiúir as part...
    • Schools Building Projects
      293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on school building projects (details supplied). [2715/24]
    • School Textbooks
      294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the allocation of free school books will start to roll out to schools for the Junior Certificate cycle; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Special Educational Needs
      295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school place in second-level education for a child with special needs will be confirmed (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, as a matter of urgency, a finish date for completed works at a location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Special Educational Needs
      298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the recent ruling in the High Court which challenged the legality of the of the devolution of the NCSE's legislative responsibility...
    • School Staff
      300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on teacher shortages; how many positions remain unfilled; what measures she is taking to address this; and if she will make a statement...
    • School Facilities
      301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to reassess a school's application (details supplied) for a weather porch at their front door, given a senior architect from the buildings unit...
    • Schools Building Projects
      302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) will be completed [2942/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to increase the number of ASD units in Dublin 5, 13 and 17, respectively for the academic year beginning September 2024; and...
    • Schools Building Projects
      306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school project (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will clarify whether responsibility has been devolved to the...
    • School Funding
      308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there any plans to provide similar funding to all schools who applied to develop projects to engage pupils in science, technology, engineering...
    • Teacher Training
      309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to extend teacher training in the Technological University of the Shannon, Athlone. [2991/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether north Kildare schools have their full complement of ASD units, given the distress of families who are searching right to the borders of...
    • School Funding
      311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm that under Project Ireland 2040, her Department is investing in excess of €5 billion over the period 2021 to 2025, to add...
    • Schools Building Projects
      312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the development of a new school building (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3058/24]
    • Departmental Data
      313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide, in tabular form, a list of second level education institutions aided by her Department, indicating the school roll number and school...
    • Schools Building Projects
      316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 590 of 17 January 2024, if she will urgently review the decision by her Department not to include a school...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Tourism Policy
      317. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans for the UK tourism market in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2369/24]
    • Film Industry
      318. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 89 of 5 December 2023, to provide a further progress update on the convening of the film...
    • Media Sector
      319. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if content which promotes or hosts fraudulent ads or scams is defined as harmful online content under the Online Safety and Media...
    • Official Travel
      320. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a schedule of official flights and costs of same taken by her in 2023; if a schedule will be provided of all...
    • Sports Funding
      321. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding will be provided for an event (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2763/24]
    • Commemorative Events
      322. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether she agrees that one-year's advance notice should be provided for the location of both the home and overseas National...
    • Television Licence Fee
      325. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2973/24]
    • Swimming Pools
      326. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether he is aware of the issues in Edenderry where the public swimming pool was recently badly damaged in a fire, whether there...
    • Tourism Industry
      327. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of hotels across the country that closed between 2014 and 2024, by county and by year. [3024/24]
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Departmental Funding
      329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of all projects that required capital funding in progression through the emergency refurbishment (Ukraine)...
    • Housing Policy
      330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how a developer (details supplied) was able to bulk buy homes, despite Section 28 of Guidelines for Planning Authorities...
    • Housing Schemes
      331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if guardianship payments are assessable income for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2887/24]
    • Wildlife Conservation
      332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the first meeting of the 'Sustainable Hunting of Wild Birds Stakeholder Forum' will take place; the details of the forum...
    • Waterways Ireland
      333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason Waterways Ireland does not supply electricity to boats moored in Lough Derg over the winter months; if there are...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will undertake a review of the high-status objective catchment area and area for action in accordance with the River...
    • Housing Schemes
      336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the first home shared equity loan can be combined with a local authority mortgage for the purchase of a new build property...
    • Rental Sector
      337. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of private rented accommodation inspections that were carried out by all local authorities in 2023; the number of...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a person is required to provide a PPS number for the voting register; how this information is processed; and...
    • Defective Building Materials
      339. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will advise on the availability of financial supports for homeowners with asbestos in their roof; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Policy
      340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment to embed ageing in place options for older people into the...
    • Land Issues
      341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he is aware of the backlog of applications within the Land Registry Office; whether he can engage with Tailte...
    • Housing Schemes
      344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what provision is made for divorced or separated couples in the Fresh Start initiative. [2516/24]
    • Defective Building Materials
      345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out in tabular form the number of new applications to the enhanced defective block redress scheme; the number of...
    • National Standards Authority of Ireland
      346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the NSAI review of IS 465. [2524/24]
    • Departmental Schemes
      347. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the review of the qualifying criteria for well-water grants administered through local authorities; if...
    • Official Travel
      350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a schedule of official flights and costs of same taken by him in 2023; if a schedule will be provided of...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a planning permission application is required where a windfarm owner seeks to renew wind turbines and extend the life of...
    • Housing Schemes
      352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider extending the grant scheme for refurbishment of houses to include voluntary organisations such as GAA...
    • Housing Provision
      354. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an approved housing body (details supplied) or Dublin City Council has been in communication with his Department regarding...
    • Housing Schemes
      356. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for housing the up-to-date position with the housing aid and adaptation grants; the plans for reforming the grant; when will...
    • Rental Sector
      357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is any update of relief for those currently living in cost rental accommodation and paying up to 50% of their income...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the full complement of emergency accommodation centres in use by local authorities, by county, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Defective Building Materials
      361. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a summary of the defective concrete block sub-group on mortgage related matters meeting that took place in...
    • Housing Provision
      362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what lands are presently owned by Kerry County Council in the Corca Dhuibhne LEA, that could be used subject to planning...
    • Transport Policy
      363. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding his Departments study on Transit-oriented Development on Waterford, Galway, Limerick and Cork, its...
    • Environmental Policy
      365. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the policies he is putting in place to decarbonise Ireland’s built environment; whether he supports the objectives of...
    • Local Authorities
      366. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local suppliers of white goods can be used to furnish local authority homes; if so, how this works; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Policy
      367. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on plans to introduce right-sizing for homeowners; if this will include options for private homeowners...
    • Departmental Data
      369. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify whether the transfer of data and/or records from his Department that is transferred to other departments,...
    • Housing Policy
      370. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many counties have established a housing forum in their counties; whether his Department recommends the establishment of a...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Payments
      371. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to request her Department to offer a solution to the issue outlined (details supplied), ensuring that this person is given...
    • Equality Issues
      372. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the unemployment levels amongst social groups, that is, men, women, young people, people with disabilities, and migrants;...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      373. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what percentage of people on partial capacity benefit are in receipt of the benefit at 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%, respectively;...
    • Departmental Staff
      375. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of WTE network cyber security- ICT specialist at the grade of executive officer working in her Department as of 15...
    • Social Insurance
      376. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated revenue which will be generated in 2024 and 2025 by the increases in PRSI which were announced as part of...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      377. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on a domiciliary care allowance appeal for a person (details supplied). [2379/24]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      378. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the process through which a person (details supplied) can defer their pension and extend their employment. [2388/24]
    • Civil Marriages
      379. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how a person can become registered as a marriage solemniser; if such positions are open to non-Departmental staff; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      380. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the history of contributions made by a person (details supplied) is sufficient to qualify the person for invalidity...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      381. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a working family payment application submitted by a person (details supplied) in September...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      383. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) had their rent allowance withdrawn and if she can make arrangements for the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      385. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a domiciliary care allowance review in respect of a person (details supplied) a in County...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      386. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in determination of appeal for carers allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      387. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the working family payment application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Data
      390. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a history of contributions will be provided for a person (details supplied). [2583/24]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      391. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Departmental Policies
      392. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what arrangements, if any, she has made with private bus operators such as CityLink to ensure that there are no charges, such...
    • Official Travel
      393. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of official flights and costs of same taken by her in 2023; if a schedule will be provided of...
    • School Meals Programme
      394. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the rollout of hot school meals to all DEIS schools; the percentage of DEIS schools that have applied...
    • Departmental Staff
      396. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review correspondence (details supplied); if she will provide an update on this case and ensure parking is provided for...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      397. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has undertaken any assessment of the number of families who may be eligible for the working family payment, but who...
    • Departmental Data
      398. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will indicate the number of people who qualify for the carer’s support grant and how many of these receive it...
    • Waste Management
      405. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered providing a reduction or payment assistance in relation to domestic waste charges for disabled people...
    • Departmental Data
      406. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on the review of an invalidity pension application in respect of a person in County Kerry...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Alcohol Sales
      409. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department intends commissioning a health impact assessment in respect of the Government's proposed extended opening...
    • Departmental Staff
      410. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of WTE network cyber security- ICT specialists at the grade of executive officer working in her Department as of 15...
    • An Garda Síochána
      411. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of incidents that Garda air support unit were requested to attend in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in...
    • Ukraine War
      413. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of Ukrainian citizens who also hold Hungarian passports as a result of the 2010 Hungarian Citizenship Act and who...
    • Legal Services Regulation
      414. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to make a statement on any reforms to conveyancing law she has planned.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2394/24]
    • Legal Aid
      416. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the 10% increase in the criminal legal aid payment will be introduced, as committed to in Budget 2024; and if she will...
    • Asylum Applications
      418. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline the procedure for managing the application of persons applying for asylum who have no documentation when...
    • Legal Services Regulation
      419. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she will take to address the cost of litigation through the Irish courts; if she accepts that this cost is denying...
    • Prison Service
      420. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of physical family visits to prisons that took place in 2023, by the number of visits per prison and the number of...
    • Asylum Seekers
      421. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the supports available to enable international protection applicants, long-time resident in direct provision centres, to...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      422. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current and expected position in relation to his application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied);...
    • An Garda Síochána
      423. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vetting applications processed by the Garda National Vetting Bureau in 2023. [2482/24]
    • Departmental Data
      424. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 559 of 12 December 2023, if she has received the necessary information from the Garda...
    • An Garda Síochána
      425. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vehicles reported stolen to gardaí within the Tipperary division in 2023. [2484/24]
    • Court Orders
      439. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to difficulties with the application of court orders in divorce cases by banks where issues...
    • Parole Boards
      440. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce regulations to allow for persons serving determinate sentences to become eligible for parole review by...
    • Departmental Policies
      442. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for clarification on concerns raised by an organisation (details supplied) in relation to recommendations by the Firearms...
    • An Garda Síochána
      443. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí stationed in Finglas for past five years broken down per unit, in tabular form; and if she will make...
    • Immigration Policy
      446. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current status of IIP applications that were submitted in advance of the February 2023 deadline; and the timeline for...
    • Official Travel
      447. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a schedule of official flights and costs of same taken by her in 2023; if a schedule will be provided of...
    • Visa Applications
      448. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a visa appeal lodged almost two years by a person (details supplied) who has been granted a work permit will be expedited;...
    • Departmental Data
      449. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline in tabular form the number of fixed penalty notices for speeding that were issued per county in the years 2019,...
    • Penalty Points System
      452. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline in tabular form the number of fixed penalty notices for speeding that went to summons stage and were served per...
    • An Garda Síochána
      453. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of CBD Level 3 Training courses held for gardaí within the Tipperary division in 2022 and 2023, in tabular...
    • Prison Service
      455. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of occasions on which prisoners slept on mattresses, by prison, during Q4 2022; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Data
      458. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will clarify whether the transfer of data and/or records from her Department that is transferred to other departments,...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Animal Welfare
      459. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a proposal (details supplied) to ban electric dog collars; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2398/24]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      460. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a copy of the satellite images used by his Department in making the decision that a person (details supplied) was not...
    • Organic Farming
      466. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the name and location of all salmon farm sites in Ireland currently certified as organic; if any salmon farm sites either lost their...
    • Greyhound Industry
      467. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he considers the position of a person (details supplied) to be any longer tenable, given that the organisation over which they...
    • Harbours and Piers
      468. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is going to allocate funding to a pier which is widely used for fishing and water sports by the local community...
    • Trade Missions
      469. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the food trade mission to Malaysia during November 2023; and the meetings he had during this visit. [2486/24]
    • Fishing Industry
      470. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline, as of 15 January 2024, the capital work projects under the 2023 fishery harbours and coastal infrastructure...
    • Grant Payments
      471. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) has not received their ACRES scheme payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Forestry Sector
      472. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will detail, in tabular form, the net area of Sitka Spruce afforestation in Ireland each year from 2010 to 2023 inclusive; and...
    • Departmental Policies
      474. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify his Departments intentions regarding an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Greyhound Industry
      475. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he believes that the current method of replacing owners names with the wording 'GRI-SALES' on a greyhound's page on the Greyhound...
    • Official Travel
      478. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine he will provide a schedule of official flights and costs of same taken by him in 2023; if a schedule will be provided of all hotels...
    • Grant Payments
      479. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he would consider starting the process again to contact fishers directly when grants become available as fishers may not see the...
    • Departmental Meetings
      481. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will convene a meeting of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Bord Bia, BIM, the fishing producer organisations...
    • Grant Payments
      482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the exact date he will pay all outstanding ACRES and ACRES co-operation payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2864/24]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) has had such a significant reduction in their farm payments this year. [2891/24]
    • Agriculture Industry
      486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps his Department will take domestically and internationally to meet the commitments outlined in the UAE Declaration on...
    • Greyhound Industry
      487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether he has read the preferred results response to a report by a person (details supplied) about the greyhound industry; and...
    • Agriculture Industry
      488. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what steps are taken to ensure that the required storage facilities for chicken litter are in fact built after chicken farms are...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      489. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of hectares under water covered by the Shannon Callows flooding scheme; the percentage number of hectares that has...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      491. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with regard to Shannon Callows flooding scheme, if this is only covering the Shannon Callows special area of conservation; the reason...
    • Departmental Data
      495. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify whether the transfer of data and/or records from his Department that is transferred to other departments, State...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Health Services
      496. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on plans to provide a community neurorehabilitation team in all nine CHOs; the timeline he...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      497. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting on an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      498. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if any plans are in place to replace, or to find a temporary replacement for, the psychologist currently on...
    • Health Services
      499. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to set up a community neuro-rehabilitation team in CHO9; if he could provide a timeline for...
    • Ukraine War
      501. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the procedures in place relative to the oversight of services being provided by property...
    • Disability Services
      502. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when Ireland will ratify the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with...
    • International Protection
      503. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a clear account of the measures taken to ascertain the services available locally in Roscrea to...
    • Disability Services
      506. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to ensure the full range of therapies and community care treatments are available to...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      507. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to review correspondence (details supplied); if she can provide an update on this appointment; and if he will...
    • International Protection
      509. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number and capacity of buildings that were identified as not suitable for accommodating persons that are...
    • Departmental Properties
      513. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department carries leased property by his Department on its risk register; and the contingent liability...
    • International Protection
      514. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are any plans for the relocation of people seeking international protection to a building (details...
    • Care Services
      516. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a person (details supplied) is unable to receive respite care; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Official Travel
      517. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth he will provide a schedule of official flights and costs of same taken by him in 2023; if a schedule will be...
    • Care Services
      518. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when transport to a rehab day service will be restored in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disability Services
      519. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider funding the use of therapy pools for individuals that suffer a disability and require this...
    • Asylum Seekers
      520. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many asylum seekers have been asked to leave IPAS accommodation since the beginning of 2022, broken down by...
    • Disability Services
      522. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to examine the issue of disability supports in Kildare North (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • International Protection
      523. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on plans relating to a building (details supplied) earmarked for accommodation for...
    • Disability Services
      524. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the lack of services available in the CDNT7 area in 2024 due to the shortage of staff and...
    • Legislative Process
      525. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will commence the provisions of the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023; and if he...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      526. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 135 of 14 December 2023 and 65 of 7 November 2023, when the mother and...
    • Childcare Services
      527. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the closure of child-care facilities (details supplied) will be examined and addressed; and if he will make a...
    • Child Protection
      528. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps taken and planned following the publication of a report (details supplied); if a report has issued...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      529. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a child will receive an assessment of needs (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Child and Family Agency
      532. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if TUSLA can make representations on social housing applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Services
      533. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a person (details supplied) will receive the urgent overnight respite care they and their family need; and...
    • Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children
      534. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of unaccompanied minors or separated children currently seeking asylum in the State; and the types of...
    • Children in Care
      535. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons currently in State care who are in special emergency accommodation; the number who were in...
    • Child and Family Agency
      537. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children referred to Tusla in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [2885/24]
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      539. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason funding was cut to an organisation (details supplied) recently; if he is aware that this means that...
    • Community Care
      540. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on proposed closure plans for a service (details supplied) which operates across Donegal providing...
    • Children in Care
      541. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current number of Tusla beds occupied in residential centres; for a breakdown on this figure, to show the...
    • Disability Services
      542. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of therapists working in children's disability network teams who are responsible for undertaking of...
    • Question Heading for question(s) 543
      543. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to review the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3017/24]
    • Departmental Data
      544. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a breakdown by local election area (LEA) across the country on the number of Ukrainian refugees and...
    • Mental Health Services
      547. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will he provide funding for a campaign to raise awareness of parental mental health, the impact on...
    • Departmental Reports
      552. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the report and survey by a group (details supplied) on pregnancy loss at the workplace will be published;...
    • Departmental Data
      553. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will clarify whether the transfer of data and-or records from his Department, that is transferred to other...
  • Department of Health
    • Programme for Government
      554. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the programme for Government commitment to ensure that older people who are at greater risk of fuel poverty and the respiratory...
    • Departmental Data
      555. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric endocrinologists at University Hospital Waterford in 2022 and 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Services
      556. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE now charges public patients a fee for an MRI scan following a referral; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2361/24]
    • Health Promotion
      558. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the Breastfeeding in a Healthy Ireland Action Plan, the framework for progressing help and assistance for breastfeeding in Ireland; if...
    • Ambulance Service
      559. To ask the Minister for Health the average ambulance turnaround time at the emergency department of St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny, in each month of 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make...
    • Medical Records
      560. To ask the Minister for Health if a report can be made available to a person urgently (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2385/24]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      561. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated timeline for delivery of each of the six surgical hubs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2386/24]
    • Vaccination Programme
      562. To ask the Minister for Health the aftercare provided to people who received the incorrect formulation of a vaccine (details supplied); the information provided to those impacted; if any...
    • Health Services
      563. To ask the Minister for Health why access to withdrawal of funding for vital diabetic services by the HSE was suddenly withdrawn for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Medical Cards
      564. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for a full medical card by a person (details supplied) can be fully re-examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2405/24]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      565. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be given an urgent date for surgery. [2408/24]
    • Waste Management
      566. To ask the Minister for Health how do Ireland's hospitals, public and private, deal with radioactive waste; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2423/24]
    • Health Services
      567. To ask the Minister for Health if plans for the proposed ADHD clinic in the CHO7 area are progressing and the date by which they expect operation to commence. [2428/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      568. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) was denied a place on the CAMHS waiting list and was instead referred to charitable organisations; and the reason...
    • Hospital Services
      569. To ask the Minister for Health the new services that are available at the surgical hub at Mount Carmel Hospital, Churchtown Dublin 14 which he recently opened; and if he will make a...
    • Care of the Elderly
      570. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the progression and the timeline for the establishment of a commission on care for older people and the establishment of a...
    • Healthcare Policy
      571. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the expansion of community-based care, bringing it closer to home, in line with the Sláintecare Implementation plan since the...
    • Mental Health Policy
      572. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment to develop and increase access to talk therapies and improve access to specialist expertise,...
    • Social Isolation
      573. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment to develop a plan aimed at tackling loneliness and isolation, particularly among older people,...
    • Nursing Homes
      574. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment to further support the nursing homes support scheme (the fair deal) to provide assistance when...
    • Nursing Education
      575. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment to ensure that no nursing homes support scheme resident is charged for services they do not...
    • Nursing Homes
      576. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment to ensure that the best possible safeguards are in place to protect our friends and family in...
    • Health Services
      577. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment to increase the number of specialist palliative care beds countrywide over the five years of...
    • Home Care Packages
      581. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the expected timelines on the establishment of a new statutory home support scheme; how he plans to scope and plan for such a...
    • Hospital Admissions
      582. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a progress update on the expansion of community intervention teams to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and to support the timely discharge of...
    • Care of the Elderly
      583. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment on the target of community services assigning a case manager for older people with chronic...
    • Health Services
      585. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment on the development and targeted expansion and availability of step-down facilities across each...
    • Programme for Government
      587. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment to develop and deliver a ‘carers guarantee’ proposal that will provide a core...
    • Hospital Staff
      588. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE Staff by grade working in the pharmacy department of Nenagh General Hospital as of 12 January 2024; and if he will provide same figures as of...
    • Health Strategies
      590. To ask the Minister for Health if an implementation budget has been earmarked for the recommendations that will come from the Rare Disease Strategy Steering Group; and if he will make a...
    • Healthcare Policy
      591. To ask the Minister for Health for an updated on the implementation of Electronic Health Records in Ireland; and if he will clarify why Ireland is so far behind its European counterparts in...
    • Health Services
      592. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be a rare disease clinic at the new National Children’s Hospital. [2492/24]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      596. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or any of the other relevant bodies will issue a formal authoritative request to a representative body to issue a notification to its members...
    • Hospital Transfers
      597. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2537/24]
    • Nursing Homes
      598. To ask the Minister for Health whether the former Baggot Street Hospital could be used as a State owned nursing home for elderly people in the vicinity; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Services
      599. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2549/24]
    • Medicinal Products
      600. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to approve skyclarys (omaveloxolone) for Friedreich's ataxia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2552/24]
    • Health Service Executive
      601. To ask the Minister for Health if a commitment will be given by the HSE for the key requirements that were committed to within the SIA report to be fully and immediately funded for services...
    • General Practitioner Services
      602. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can be allocated a GP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2592/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      603. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the only child and adolescent counselling service in Donegal is to close in March; if he is aware of how important this facility is for...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      604. 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. [2594/24]
    • Health Services
      605. To ask the Minister for Health if repairs will be expedited on hearing aids for a person (details supplied) given the circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2602/24]
    • Disability Services
      606. To ask the Minister for Health the level of collaboration between his Department and the HSE to streamline the process whereby aids and appliances provided through HSE resource allocation...
    • Health Services
      607. To ask the Minister for Health who the notified body is for medical devices in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2612/24]
    • General Practitioner Services
      608. To ask the Minister for Health if it is a requirement for a doctor who is seeking to be issued with a GMS registration that he/she must agree to an allocation of (public) patients; and if he...
    • Mental Health Services
      609. To ask the Minister for Health if funding is available for families who have to go private to see a psychologist when no services are available to them with CAHMS (details supplied); and if...
    • Health Services
      610. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive treatment for their condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2628/24]
    • Official Travel
      611. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule of official flights and costs of same taken by him in 2023; if a schedule will be provided of all hotels he stayed in in 2023,...
    • Health Service Executive
      612. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the possible acquisition of a parcel of land (owned by the HSE) adjacent to a location (details supplied). [2658/24]
    • Animal Welfare
      613. To ask the Minister for Health what progress is being made to introduce animal testing replacements in favour of non-animal methods; what transparency exists in animal testing under the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      614. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to a person (details supplied) who is waiting for a hospital bed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2663/24]
    • General Practitioner Services
      615. To ask the Minister for Health the expected uptake for the GP visit cards after the increase in income limits and the actual uptake as of January 2024; his plans to promote the uptake of GP...
    • Nursing Homes
      617. To ask the Minister for Health if he will indicate the date from which the rental earnings on the home of a person receiving support under fair deal will cease to be assessed for the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      618. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money reimbursed to GPs under the PCRS for performance of abortions in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2712/24]
    • Abortion Services
      619. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money spent on abortion provision in 2023, broken down by category; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2713/24]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      620. To ask the Minister for Health when a person in County Cork who was referred on 22 December 2022 will have a date for cataract surgery assigned to their (details supplied). [2717/24]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      621. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for rehab; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2782/24]
    • Health Services
      622. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the model of care for dual diagnosis; the funding given to the model of care; the rollout plan for the model of care; and if he will make a...
    • General Practitioner Services
      623. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider a request (details supplied) regarding a GP service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2849/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      624. To ask the Minister for Health how he intends to implement the 49 recommendations identified in a report (details supplied) in respect of child and adolescent mental health services; and if...
    • Emergency Departments
      625. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people under 18 years of age who have presented to accident and emergency at University Hospital Limerick with mental health issues and-or at...
    • Mental Health Services
      626. To ask the Minister for Health if he will comment on the increase in recent years of children with medical referrals being refused support from child and adolescent mental health services;...
    • Primary Care Services
      627. To ask the Minister for Health if all primary care eye teams, PCETs, are in full operation nationally; to set out in tabular form all PCETs that are in operation and all PCETs that are not...
    • Health Services Staff
      629. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will engage with the HSE to review the current position where there are no psychotherapists employed by them, in view of the fact it is well...
    • Medical Qualifications
      630. To ask the Minister for Health what action his Department is taking to ensure the minimum qualification threshold for entry to the register for psychotherapists is set at a level which meets...
    • Hospital Services
      632. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric emergency beds currently available in Cork; and the number that will be available after facilities have moved to CUH. [2892/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      634. To ask the Minister for Health whether paediatric staff in Mercy University Hospital have been reallocated within the same hospital pending the move to CUH; whether this will happen; and if...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      635. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long for a hip replacement in Cappagh hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2901/24]
    • Hospital Facilities
      636. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the plans to close the paediatric unit in Mercy University Hospital which would leave Cork University Hospital as the only hospital in the area...
    • Emergency Departments
      639. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if accident and emergency care will still be provided to under-16 year-olds at Mercy University Hospital after the conclusion of the plan to move...
    • Health Service Executive
      645. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent staff currently working in the pricing and reimbursement system across the NCPE, HSE's corporate pharmaceutical unit and...
    • Medicinal Products
      646. To ask the Minister for Health the level of funding spent on new medicines in 2023 and new uses of existing medicines in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2918/24]
    • Health Services
      647. To ask the Minister for Health to report on the services and access so far provided by the new mobile health unit run by the social inclusion team from CHO Dublin north city and county. [2920/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      649. To ask the Minister for Health for a report on the staff vacancies in the Clondalkin mental health services, efforts to fill vacancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2924/24]
    • Pharmacy Services
      651. To ask the Minister for Health whether the group considering expanding the role of community pharmacists has reported to him; and if he is considering increasing the fees for existing work...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      652. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting to see a consultant vascular surgeon at Cork University Hospital. [2947/24]
    • Ambulance Service
      653. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of Clinical Status 1 ECHO and Clinical Status 1 Delta incidents responded by a patient carrying ambulance in 18 minutes and 59 seconds or less...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      654. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the procurement and oversight process which was used by his Department/HSE when renting or leasing hotels for use during Covid; if he is...
    • Hospital Facilities
      655. To ask the Minister for Health the plans to upgrade facilities at St. Dympna's Hospital, Carlow; if a contractor has been appointed; the expected start date for refurbishment; the impact on...
    • Home Help Service
      658. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the allocation of home help hours for a person (details supplied). [2986/24]
    • Nursing Homes
      659. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the fair deal application of a person (details supplied). [2987/24]
    • Hospital Facilities
      660. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a full update regarding the development of the 42 bed unit extension to Sligo University Hospital; the timelines around tender closing dates...
    • Hospital Services
      661. To ask the Minister for Health to provide information on why the public fertility treatment system does not provide for male fertility specialists, despite the fact that infertility affects...
    • Departmental Reports
      664. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1740 of 17 January 2024, when he will publish ‘Monitoring and Evaluating the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018: A...
    • Home Care Packages
      665. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a current policy document or procedure outlining the HSE’s stance on feeding in the community with regard to an elderly individual in receipt...
    • Health Services
      667. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give due consideration to setting up a diabetes task force composed of healthcare professionals, researchers and patient advocates for the purposes...
    • Dental Services
      669. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the policy of the National Oral Health Office that funding provided for orthodontic treatment for under-18s categorised at the highest category 5...
    • Medicinal Products
      670. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the number of new medicines reimbursed in 2023; the number of extended uses of existing medicines in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      672. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the roll-out of fertility treatment; what is the waiting time for an appointment; how many people are on the waiting list for an appointment;...
    • Departmental Data
      673. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify whether the transfer of data and/or records from his Department that is transferred to other departments, State bodies and local authorities...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Departmental Policies
      674. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the need to review his Department’s policies in relation to animal-free research and testing; and if he will make a...
    • Official Travel
      675. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills he will provide a schedule of official flights and costs of same taken by him in 2023; if a schedule will be provided of all hotels he stayed in...
    • Research and Development
      676. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the Horizon Europe consortia linkages between Irish universities and Israeli institutions, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Education and Training Boards
      677. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how many instructors are employed by the Tipperary Education and Training Board to conduct commis chef apprenticeship training in 2022 and 2023,...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      678. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2975/24]
    • Further and Higher Education
      679. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider extending the SUSI grant scheme to recipients of the back-to-work education allowance; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Data
      680. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify whether the transfer of data and/or records from his Department that is transferred to other departments, State bodies and...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Departmental Projects
      681. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the up-to-date position with the delivery of an infrastructure project in south Kildare (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Library Services
      682. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the current progress and eventual timeline for the provision of an extension for Carlow library (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Community Development Projects
      683. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the plans for the provision of a community hub in Carlow on the Tullow Road (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Rural Schemes
      684. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for a status update on the provision of a water activity hub in Carlow town; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2615/24]
    • Community Development Projects
      686. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 362 of 23 November 2023, in respect of the drawdown of a grant for a project in Kerry, the...
    • Departmental Programmes
      687. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 1868 of 17 January 2024, if she will provide the date that she expects the process to select the...
    • Departmental Data
      688. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will clarify whether the transfer of data and/or records from her Department that is transferred to other departments, State...

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